Handle color changes and variations with ease by following this intermediate level tutorial. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS range Illustrator Pugins. We’ll work with Phantasm’s color shifting tools: Hue/Saturation and and Shift to Color, while we learn to contrast shapes when composing natural, vector scenes! For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com Final Image Preview Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Illustrator [...]

Adobe Illustrator is the most powerful vector software on the planet, and whether you’re using it alone, or in a workflow with other tools such as a 3D program, Photoshop, InDesign, or something else, it can be a great asset to any designer’s arsenal. However, Illustrator is also one of the most daunting programs to learn how to use, with a vast array of tools and features at your fingertips.  Some high quality tutorials will [...]

Daniel Reese or how he calls himself “Sneaker Freaker” is 21 years old designer of these unusual and unique sneakers. He is taking plain Nike shoes and turning them into playful part of your outfit. The themes that he is using are web, video games, music, movies, comics and many other pop culture designs. If you want to own one of these sneakers or any other with custom made designs, you can order them from [...]

If you are searching for free stock photo databases, there are quite a few sites on the web that do that, and even at high quality: there are sites that are made by artists or designers for other artists and promote sharing their creations, there are also others which have a double policy, offering both photos for sale and for free, in distinct sections, and there are also sites which offer exposure to new talented [...]

This time we are bringing you a lot of Photoshop tutorials on all sorts of topics. It’s meant to be a good collection for those who aren’t quite pro yet, but want to be. From making amazing business cards to bringing a stone statue to life, these take us through hours and hours of practicing those skills. These tutorials are some of the best and varied out there. If you learn to master some of [...]

How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor? Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. Note: this post is an [...]

Free Photoshop resources and files can accelerate your design process, whether you’re a web designer or graphic and print designer.  From PSD icons to 3D renders, free PSD files can save you valuable time (and sometimes can be better than you could ordinarily create on your own). In our continuing series of places where you can download free stuff, we’ve gathered up the top 20 places to download free Photoshop resources that you can use [...]

Free 3d models can be incredibly useful, whether you’re rushed on a project and don’t have time to develop your own models, or you’re looking to learn some techniques and see the structure of a model to help guide your own creations.  Whatever the reason, there is a huge demand for 3d models, and a large number of websites have sprung up to provide some models. However, not all are the same quality, so in [...]

Social media icons are incredibly important for web designers these days, with the large amounts of communication that take place on social networks.  It’s important to have ways to share posts from your website, and social media icons can help create a usable and intuitive way to do this. To help you with your websites, we’ve gathered up 1000+ social media icons for you to use.  Whether you’re looking for a glossy social network icon [...]

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