Create a Dark Grunge 3D Text Scene in Photoshop
Check out my latest tutorial from Design Instruct In this Photoshop tutorial, you are going to learn how to create some 3D text using only Photoshop. The mood we will strive to incorporate in our piece is dark and grungy. We are going to use consistent lighting, layer styles to create shadows for our type, Photoshop filters, and more. We will finish off our scene by adding a dark textured background that seems to fade out as it approaches the edge of the canvas — a popular design technique. continue…
Giveaway: unlimited licenses of web photo gallery software
Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory is an easy-to-use flash gallery software for web designers to turn digital photos into stunning flash photo gallery, web flash slideshow, business flash banner, flash image album and cool 3D flash gallery, etc.
Add Water Bubbles to any image in Illustrator
In this tutorial we are going to make a wet looking text with water drops in Adobe Illustrator. After we create our water drops we are going to use symbols to spread the bubbles out throughout the document. continue…
Retro Video Game Designs
It is amazing to see how much technology has changed form the 1980 until now. Now with CSS sprites, pixelated art and retro 80′s design coming back in style, I thought we would take a look at some retro games from the past. In this article we are going to look at some retro video game from the 80′s and 90′s of some games I played when I was younger.
Be sure to comment on some retro games you used to/still play.
Marketing Yourself: What tools to use
So you have just graduated from school and want to get your name out in the design community? Even if you have been a designer and just want to get your name out there, here are some website and tips on what to do to become more well known.
A Guide to Creating 3D Text in Adobe Illustrator
Check out my latest tutorial from Design Instruct: A Guide to Creating 3D Text in Adobe Illustrator
It isn’t always necessary to use a 3D program to create 3D text — they’re expensive and overkill if you just occasionally use 3D elements. Adobe Illustrator is more than adequate in allowing us to create some 3D objects with some basic shading for our text. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to make some 3D text using Adobe Illustrator, and also discuss techniques of shading the text to give it a clean, consistent, and stylized look.
Amazing Traditional Art Painting Tutorial
WARNING: There is artistically tasteful nudity for the purpose of this tutorial.
Creating designs and graphics always produces attractive results. There may be digital painters who have never gone back to basics, who haven’t picked up a paintbrush or touched a canvas. The feel, texture and craftsmanship of creating an actual painting has been lost in this day and age, so for this post we have an award winning artist who describes in detail how it’s all done.
Weekly Roundup #9 06/17/10
This week’s roundup features some really awesome print and illustration articles and tutorials.
If you have something that you have created, be it a design piece or article that you would like me to take a look at, let me know (email me at info@denisdesigns.com) and it could make into one of the roundups.
Enjoy! continue…
Create a Retro Metal Text poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to create a retro/grunge looking metal text using some basic Photoshop techniques as well as a texture. We are going to then finish off the image using another texture and a few other techniques to bring the whole image together.
Weekly Roundup #8 06/10/10
This week’s roundups are web design themed, with some inspirational articles, a list of google doodles, as well as a web design tutorial.
If you have something that you have created, be it a design piece or article that you would like me to take a look at, let me know (email me at info@denisdesigns.com) and it could make into one of the roundups.
Enjoy! continue…
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