Create Fantastic Stone Textures in Photoshop
September 13th, 2009
Creating a Typographic Wallpaper in Photoshop
September 13th, 2009
What is Typography?
In order to create a typographic wallpaper, it would make sense to know a bit about Typography in the first place. Typography is the art and technique of arranging movable type. What does this mean? It means that text itself portrays a message all of its own. Its location, font-family, font-style, color and [...]
Create a Trendy Galactic Poster Design in Photoshop
September 13th, 2009
Galactic space scenes are a popular theme for digital art, they’re packed full of texture and vibrant colour, which are two ingredients of an awesome design! Using Photoshop’s blending modes along with a mix of textures and brushes, let’s get lost in space and create an abstract cosmos poster design.
Create a Fun Illustrated Toy Site Design in Photoshop
September 13th, 2009
The complete build off challenge can be found in issue 193 of NET magazine, be sure to check it out!
The aim of the challenge was to develop a website that promotes a children’s toy to the appropriate target audience age, while taking into consideration best practices and ethics. My design features a range of bright [...]
alyaspk Categories: Adobe PhotoShop Tutorials, Web Building design, fun site, fun tutorial, funny site design, illustrated, illustrated photoshop, illustrated tutor, illustrater tips, photo design, photoshop, photoshop design, photoshop tutor, photoshop tutorial, toy site, toy site design, toy site design in photoshop
How to Create Inset Typography in Photoshop
September 13th, 2009
In this beginning-level design tutorial, I’ll show you how to apply a beautiful and super-easy text treatment in Photoshop: the inset text effect. It’s also often called the letterpress effect because it looks similar to text created by a Letterpress printer.
Creating the Photoshop document
1) Let’s start with the basics: setting up the Photoshop document. Open [...]
Using Layer Comps For Design In Photoshop
September 13th, 2009
Introduction
In web design, it can be tricky to decide how to present your layout to a client. There are some designers who believe you should skip Photoshop and go straight to coding. I disagree. At the very least you should sketch out your ideas with a pencil and pad before ever opening up a text [...]
Wordpress Plugins For Increasing Traffic
September 12th, 2009
Introduction
A blog/website is driven by the number of people you can reach. In this article you’ll learn more about some Wordpress plugins that can help increase the number of visitors to your site. Let’s take a look at some plugins that do automatic search engine optimization tasks, learn more about your visitors, and allow your [...]
alyaspk Categories: CMS & Forums, Wordpress increase, increase traffic, increase wordpress, increase wordpress traffic, plugins, post ratings, post ratings plugin, SEO, social media, social media in wordpress, traffic, wordpress, wordpress plugins, wordpress plugins for traffic, wordpress post ratings, wordpress traffic, wp plugin, wp traffic
Create a Dark and Grungy Poster in Photoshop
September 12th, 2009
Overview of the Tutorial
Today we’re going to be creating the dark and grungy poster you see below. You will also find links to the stock images we will be using in this tutorial. This tutorial focuses heavily on blending images together to achieve a desired effect
Step 1
10 Awesome Free Handwritten Fonts
September 12th, 2009
Introduction
It’s no secret in the MyInkBlog community that hand drawn websites are a growing trend, and one that I rather enjoy. This post will showcase ten such free handwritten style fonts that are sure to add a touch of personality to you next design. In no particular order, my ten faves are as follows…
1. Christopher [...]
Social Media Expertise – Designing the Myth
September 12th, 2009
You see the label everywhere cropping up all over the cyberspace landscape these days as people pridefully rush to establish their dominance and touting themselves as a Social Media Expert. The media mavens meandering through the different social circuits donning their self proclaimed titles and crowns of credible competency in these burgeoning markets that have [...]