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Street Dance Illustration

Author: Vincent | Category: Photoshop Tutorials

(Source:photoshoptutorials)

street-dance-illustration Apply effects to photos and create a contemporary pattern using a brush. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will practice several techniques to create this Photoshop illustration. This tutorial is recommended for experienced Photoshop users because it uses a wide variety of filters and tool. [......]

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Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans

Author: Vincent | Category: Dreamweaver, Fonts

(Source:smashingmagazine)

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Every now and again we take a look around, select ?fresh? high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

This month we are glad to present 5 free high-quality fonts and collections of grunge and handwritten fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.

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50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography

Author: Vincent | Category: Fonts

(Source:smashingmagazine)

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Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type: some use images or sIFR to produce very beautiful typography, while others prefer CSS alone to get the typography just right.

Today, we will look at 50 most useful typographic tools, techniques and resources for creating effective and expressive designs. We will also look at some hands-on typography tools that help designers and developers learn how to style their Web content, test it interactively and see the changes instantly. These tools are great for experimenting with different font types for your website.

Below we cover typographic tools, useful typographic references, font browsers, typographic CSS- and JavaScript-techniques, hyphenation techniques, sIFR tools and resources, grids and related tools, free and commercial fonts, a guide to Web typography, examples of great Web typography.

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20 Awesome Examples of Craig Shields’ Work

Author: Vincent | Category: Articles

(Source:psdfan)

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Explore 20 mind-blowingly creative designs from UK designer Craig Shields. This guy has some serious talent!
Craig Shields
Also known as ?Surpy’, Craig Shields is a young and very talented designer from the UK that has incredible illustration, typography and doodle works.

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3D text effect – 2009

Author: Vincent | Category: Photoshop Tutorials

(Source: adobetutorialz )

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In this tutorial you are gonna learn how to create a Colorful 3D Text effect in Photoshop CS3

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Seeing Colors: Grapheme-Color Synesthesia

Author: Vincent | Category: Articles

(Source:colourlovers)

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While we might all be familiar with the condition of color blindness, it’s not the only condition related to color. Another, and maybe less familiar, or at least, more complicated, is a form of Synesthesia where your brain associates certain colors with letters and numbers called Grapheme-color Synesthesia.

One of our very own COLOUR lovers, deedee914, has this very condition, and as an artist & designer the condition has given her a unique perspective on color and it’s uses in her work. I got a chance to talk with deedee about her personal snyesthesia map, her struggle to stick with brand standards, and how this conditions impacts her and her work on a daily basis.

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Create a 3D Glossy Box Logo in Photoshop

Author: Vincent | Category: Portfolio

(Source:tutorial9)

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Ever wanted to know how to create a sleek looking glossy 3D box? This tutorial will show you how to do just that.

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Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop

Author: Vincent | Category: Photoshop Tutorials, Portfolio

(Source: psdtuts)

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In this tutorial, you are going to create a story scene using photo manipulation and a lot of color adjustments.

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