I’ll admit, Ive been slacking off. I try to get you a new something to read every week and haven’t done so.
My buddy Luke and I were discussing some techniques that make photos look real…bu unreal. And this is what we came up with. I love the effect. It can be coupled with a low saturation to give a great dooms day feel. If you find anything else, leave a comment below and let us know about it. Read more…
Well, so much for the Halloween theme. we’ll head right into Christmas….kinda.
This tutorial will show you how to create intricate patterns in Illustrator super quickly. Stuff that would take you hours to draw manually with the Pen Tool takes just seconds when you use this technique. Read more…
I wish I could take credit for this one. This was actually done by my friend Ryan over at vectips.com.
See, working for an agency, he actually has the time to dink around and create stuff like this.
While you won’t be designing any new lightsabers for any upcoming Star Wars movies, but you will get an idea how gradients work to simulate reflective metals, the glow effect, some bits off the pathfinder pallet and other cool path effects. Read more…
Discussing median incomes of this field, I had read that the median income of a starting graphic designer has barely changed sine the early 1990s. Mostly attributed to the computer, anybody can do design work whether or not they understand the principles. This fills the world with just plain bad design.
According to this list, it really hasn’t changed with the rising cost of living. Read more…
Here, we will put several principles of Illustrator together to get this realistic looking book. There are a few more steps to making it look photo realistic, but lets keep it simple. I assume most reading this have some experience with Adobe Illustrator. This is done in CS3 and can be done in as far back as CS with little variation (if any) to the steps.
Realizing most are more proficient in Photoshop, realize that while photoshop and illustrator are not only very similar, but have totally different methods of rendering. Read more…
In this series of tutorials about Photo Manipulation, you can’t miss this one where you will learn how to create a Cute Green Apple by manipulating some photos. Following some really easy steps of this tutorial you can create a cute apple.
Yes, that’s right my friends, Adobe Creative Suite 5! Anybody can show you CS4, but only here will you get the scoop on CS5. We have obtained super secret plans from our moles within the Adobe empire, revealing a radical new direction for the Creative Suite. Read more…
