Best Of Web And Design In April 2012

April 30th, 2012
News

This monthly roundup is another great one. The post includes a great collection of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials, which I’m sure you will enjoy. Along side some excellent freebies certainly worth downloading. I hope you enjoy the post, and i would love to hear your thoughts upon it.

Photoshop Tutorials

Enigmatic Black and White Flyer Design Tutorial with Photoshop

How to create a club flyer design that was not your typical “scantily clad” affair that appeals to the more discerning club goers. So, with a few easy Photoshop and Illustrator effects, and my preference for black and white elegance, I created this enigmatic and outer space type design.

Create a Light Bulb Inspired Text Effect in Photoshop

Layer styles are a powerful and time saving feature that can help you apply amazing effects to your designs. In this tutorial you will use layer styles to create a light bulb inspired text effect in Photoshop.

How to design a chatroom iPhone UI

In this tutorial you’re going to be designing an iPhone user interface for a forum and chat based mobile application.

How to Design a Modern Style Ski Poster in Photoshop

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie departement in the Rhone-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics. In this step-by-step Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to create a vintage style ski poster design. You will combine stock photos, textures and brushes with blend mode techniques and filters on our way to achive the final design.

Illustrator

Create a simple compass icon

In the following tutorial I will show you how to create a simple compass icon. We’ll start with a bunch of simple shape and some pixel perfect vector shape building techniques. Next, using the Pathfinder options along with several effects we’ll create the highlights. Finally, using some basic blending techniques and stroke tricks we’ll add the final touches for our icon.

Learn How to Create a Garbage Bin Illustration in Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a garbage bin illustration. Use a complete Illustrator CS5 workflow, vector shape building techniques, gradient and opacity shading, as well as various vector effects.

How to Illustrate a Button Sewed into a Cloth

While reading this tutorial and creating your own artwork, you will learn the important techniques of Adobe Illustrator. It will undoubtedly lead you to improving your skills in making illustrations and designs. Here you’ll learn how to create a button sewed into a piece of cloth.

How To Create a Grainy Abstract Lines Poster Design

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a cool abstract lines design with awesome vibrant lighting effects. We’ll use Illustrator’s easy tools to create the vector linework then add a range of glows, colours and effects in Photoshop to finish the design with a cool grainy but luminous style.

Freebies

Free Set of Photography Icons

Our friends at Iconshock have designed a beautiful set of photography icons for you, the readers of the Vandelay Design blog! The set includes 10 high-quality icons that are perfect for use in photography-related web projects. Each icon comes in .png format (256 px x 256 px).