Best Of Web And Design In May 2013

June 3rd, 2013
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Another rapid month has passed us by full with a great collection of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials to push and excel your design skills. As usual we have kept our ears close to the latest trends and latest news relating to the online web and design community. I hope you enjoy another edition of our monthly roundup, and would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.

Photoshop

Create a Mailbox Icon Using Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a simple mailbox icon in Photoshop.

Create a 3D Typographic Illustration

Modern artists often use more than one application to create their work. This often means working outside of Photoshop much of the time. In this tutorial, João Oliveira will create a 3D typographic illustration using Cinema 4D to build the 3D and Photoshop for the post-production.

Create a Fantastically Textured Flaming Portrait

You will learn how to convert a regular portrait photo into a heavily textured, fantasy outcome. Within the lesson you’ll master skin retouching, painting custom hair, advanced image blending, filter application and lighting effects.

Create smoother skin textures with basic Photoshop filters

Blotchiness on skin is very common in studio-shot images, especially under harsh studio lights with contrasty processing and after long days spent standing in awkward poses. When correcting blotchiness, it’s best to use the Healing, Clone Stamp, Dodge and Burn tools first, to deal with the most glaring blotches. After that, a subtle skin-smoothing process can be applied to perfect the image. If the results are too unsubtle, it’s easy to tone down and tailor the effect.

Illustrator

Create a Detailed Coffee Beans Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In the following steps you will learn how to create a detailed coffee beans text effect in Adobe Illustrator. For starters you will learn how to create a scatter brush and a simple art brush. Using these brushes along with some basic tools, effects and blending techniques plus the Round Any Corner script you will learn how to create a detailed coffee bean illustration and how to easily turn them into symbols.

Create a Semi-Realistic MacBook Pro Illustration in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Coffee Cup Mock Up in Adobe Illustrator Using the 3D Revolve Effect

Adobe Illustrator’s 3D effects can be a used to create quick, yet realistic product mock-ups. While not a full ray-tracing 3D application, Illustrator’s 3D feature is quite sophisticated, and it has some advantages over its more expensive counterparts. For starters, vector objects and effects can be scaled to any size without loss of quality. It’s easy to re-purpose vector art you’ve already created, plus you don’t have to leave the friendly confines of Illustrator. And as you’ll see in the following steps, the learning curve is not nearly as steep.

How to Deform Objects Using Envelope Distort with Warp in Adobe Illustrator

In today’s tutorial we’ll talk about all the methods of deformation of objects with the help of the Envelope Distort feature. Hopefully, this tutorial will broaden your options and will save you plenty of time in the future.

Web And Design Articles

25 Step SEO Master Blueprint

f you’re like most SEOs, you spend a lot of time reading. Over the past several years, I’ve spent 100s of hours studying blogs, guides, and Google patents. Not long ago, I realized that 90% of what I read each doesn’t changewhat I actually do – that is, the basic work of ranking a web page higher on Google.

How To Create an iOS App Icon for Your Website

Did you know you can give your website its very own app icon for iPhones and iPads? It only takes a few seconds and it makes your site look really smart when it’s saved on a user’s home screen, or when viewed in popular apps such as Reeder.

How To Contribute To WordPress

WordPress is built by volunteers. People from all over the world collaborate to create the core software, write the documentation, provide support, translate WordPress, organize events and generally keep the project running. Individuals work on WordPress in their free time, and companies ask their employees to get involved.

13 Common Photoshop Mistakes and Malpractices with Remedies

The Right Way to Retinafy Your Websites

Making your website ready for Retina display doesn’t have to be a hassle. Whether you are building a new website or upgrading an existing one, this guide is designed to help you get the job done smoothly.