Need a font to compliment your retro style designs? Below you will find a collection of 40 free fonts perfect for the job. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com Vintage and retro style designs can be a beautiful thing. By using a combination of rough textures, grungy patterns and brushes meant to add a scratched or used appearance, designers can easily pull of the antique look. To compliment this aged appearance, it [...]

The goal of packaging is to make a first, quick and lasting impression. More than most other areas of design, we are surrounded by this on a regular basis, but pay the least attention to how items are wrapped and presented.  Whether it is wine, tissues, home goods or food, we rarely take a second look and appreciate the time that has gone into its initial presentation.  From the logo and layout of colors and [...]

So by now you have seen a ton of people spit out photomanipulations of themselves as a Na’vi character. Some have been very well done… while others… could use a little guidance. Well it has been requested that I provide a thorough tutorial on how to turn someone into a more realistic looking Na’vi. Hopefully the information I provide will encourage some to go back and re-work their Na’vi’ed selves, or maybe inspire those of [...]

Hey everyone! I’m back with the second half of this two part series about using Photoshop as a means of extracting a subject from its background, and am very sorry that it took this long to get it done. In Part 1, we undertook a basic review of what channels are, and how they work. If you haven’t read that article already, I suggest that you review it before proceeding here. Part 2 is (as [...]

As scratched, stretched, rusty and dirty, grunge is one of the popular web design/graphics styles these days. Here i have made a collection of 60 awesome grunge backgrounds which you can download for free. But you need to create a free account at SXC to download these grunge backgrounds. These grunge backgrounds fit beautifully and can work on any website. I really like to thank the guys at sxc.hu for getting these together! Below are [...]

In this intermediate-level graphic design tutorial, you’ll learn how to realistically superimpose a beautiful three-dimensional text object onto a living room scene with the help of Illustrator and Photoshop. Final result Below, you’ll see the preview of the photo manipulation scene that we’ll be creating together – you can click on it to see the full-scale version. Let’s get this thing rolling, shall we? Opening the stock photo in Illustrator 1 We are going to [...]

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a stunning and high-impact retro-style typography poster that’s out of this world (literally). I will walk you through the steps for creating 3D text by combining the power of Photoshop and Cinema 4D. You’ll also learn how to create unique and detailed light streaks that give the typography poster its signature look. Finally, we will add some great textures that will give the composition an [...]

Advertising is one of the primary markets for graphic designers.  Companies around the world rely on the talented and creative minds of designers to create visually impactful and memorable product advertisements.  Advertising differs from other forms of design, as you often have to incorporate a product, a logo, a company image and other details to meet the client needs.  Therefore, being able to manipulate results to match the color scheme, subject matter and target market [...]

In this tutorial, we’re going to teach you how to replicate Apple’s iPod Nano. Not only will we recreate it’s signature body form, but also the headphones and put them in a unique setting that makes it pop. This an easy to follow step-by-step tutorial, and altering the final appearance should be a piece of cake. Changing the appearance is only a metter of picking a few different colors or adding your own textures as [...]

I really love this kind of style, so I thought just I’d share another tutorial with you guys (and girls, of course) on how to design something like what I’ve shown below, a kind of glossy, carbon fiber navigation set 1. Grungy Background Creation I know this navigation set will most likely be going on a clan website design or something like that, but I really love designing really cool, grungy backgrounds for my tutorials [...]