Tutorial: How to Make a Stylish Glowing Box in Photoshop
Check out my latest tutorial over at Six Revisions. You will learn to create a magical, stylish glowing box in Photoshop. Enjoy!
Top 5 Laptops for Designers
If you’re a designer, you have a few primary needs for a laptop. It has to display colors accurately. It has to have a large enough resolution for you to be able to work without constant scrolling. It has to have enough power to run your applications without slowing down. And if it could look good while doing it, that wouldn’t hurt either. The following is a list of the top 5 laptops for designers that fit these needs.
5. Dell Studio XPS 16
The First Post
It’s always cool to see things evolve, whether it be a logo, website, or in this case content. Everyone has to start somewhere so we are going to look at some design blogs out there and see how it all started for them, and see how they evolved with experience. Let’s look at some first posts.
Note: There may be some websites that for whatever reason does not currently have their first post online, if that was the case, we have included the earliest one.
PSD Tuts +
Create a Retro Photo and Background
In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.
Business Card Giveaway: Winners
Congratulations to the winners of our first giveaway. Thanks to everyone for participating.
Inspiration: Concert Posters
Here we have a collection of concert posters. Whether you are just having fun or for a client, posters are a great way to experiment with different kinds of design. It’s a big space and there are no folds. If it is for a client, you are usually designing for someone that want something different and edgy. So lets take a look at how some people have designed some posters for concerts and bands. Enjoy!
If I missed any that you found or have done, put a link to it in the comments below!
Giveaway: 1000 business cards!
Create a grungy background using patterns: Part 2
I’ve been asked to do a tutorial on how to do my end result for the previous tutorial, so the end of the week article will be a continuation of the pattern tutorial. There is a lot of different ways you can play with this to make it grungy and dirty, this tutorial shows you what I did.
If you haven’t done the first half of this tutorial, check it out!
