Swirls – A Growing Trend? Swirls are not particularly new in design, but seem to be becoming increasingly popular lately. I keep noticing a design technique of replacing regular photos with swirls, but the swirls holding the data of the photo. You can see what I mean from two images recently included in our latest [...]
Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Step 1 Start off my selecting some of your designs, and open them all up in Photoshop. Then create a new document (200X120px) in size. Paste one of your designs into this new document and fit a nice looking area of the design into [...]
Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating. We’re aiming to create some christmas wrapped text. Step 1 Open up a new document (600X300px) and create a new layer called ‘background. Then drag a radial gradient ranging from D2EAFF to 9DCFFB from the center of your canvas towards the edge. Step 2 [...]
Images Used These are the photos that I’ve used for this tutorial. http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1107722http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1124484Burnt Paperhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/501004http://www.sxc.hu/photo/106059http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1133977http://www.sxc.hu/photo/731511 Final Image This is the final that we’ll be creating: Step 1 Create a new document (600X600px) and paste in an image of an old paper texture. Call this layer ‘paper texture’. Step 2 Now go to image>adjustments>hue/saturation and reduce the [...]
Images Used Here is a list of images used in this tutorial: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1009616 http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1129413 Final Image This is the final image that will be achieved through following this tutorial: Step 1 Open up an image of a woman. Try to find an image with a plain background, as it will make things easier. However, if [...]
Photos Used The following images were used in the creation of this piece: Woman PhotoTypewriter PhotoOld Paper TextureSunburst Graphic Final Image This is the final image we’ll be creating: Step 1 Open up a new document (600X650px) and fill your canvas with a light cream color (EBE2D3). Step 2 Now paste in a photo of [...]
‘Clean Grunge’ as a Trend I’m not really sure whether ‘clean grunge’ is an official trend of web design, but in my eyes it’s definitely an important one. For me, clean grunge websites are a combination of the grungy with the functional, the messy with the ordered. The results of this are some of my [...]
Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Images Used These are the images used in this tutorial: Different Format For the purposes of this tutorial I’ll be explaining things in a slightly different format. I’ll be running you through the basic steps like usual, but will also be dividing the tutorial [...]
Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Images Used The following images are used in this tutorial: Man’s FaceFree Vector SetFree Cosmic Age Font Step 1 Open up a document (1000X1000px) and create a new layer called ‘t-shirt shape’. Use your lasso tool and elliptical marquee tool to draw out a [...]
Final Image This is the final image that we’ll be creating: Images Used This following images will be used in this tutorial: Woman SittingBackdropButterflyRock Step 1 Open up a new document, and paste in your backdrop image, calling this layer ‘backdrop’. In this case I went for a close up of a forest floor. It’s [...]
