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How To Create a Lomography Photo Effect in Photoshop
Jun 3rd
Lomography and the lomo effect is massively popular in Photography circles. The origins of the lomo effect come from a budget Russian camera called the Lomo LC-A, but we can recreate the imagery produced by this little cheap camera on our own digital photos with the help of Photoshop. Follow this step by step Photoshop tutorial to easily give your photos the vibrant characteristics of lomography. The Lomo photo effect The poor construction of the Lomo LC-A and similar budget cameras meant that photos would often feature unusually high contrast, obscure colour reproduction, intense saturation and would sometimes be extremely blurry. Usually this would be classed as an absolute failure in terms of typical analogue photography, but with the Lomo it all added to the charm and character of the camera and the unusual images it produced. Lomography effect in Photoshop Open up an image of your choice to apply your Lomography photo effect in Photoshop. I’ve picked out an image of a rusty old truck from ThinkStock . Lomo images often have unusual blue, …
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Quick Tip: How to Make Longcat Truly Infinitely Long in Adobe Illustrator
Apr 1st
The Internet has been taken over by cats and one of the Internet’s famous characters and memes is Longcat . He’s known for his incredibly long length and is subject to many Photoshop graphics. However don’t you think, out of all the cat memes, this one should be in vector? In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a Longcat Pattern Brush in Adobe Illustrator. 1. Planning Your Pattern Brush from a Photo Step 1 Whenever you consider creating a Pattern Brush, the basic theory is to consider the subject in multiple parts. Firstly, the center of the Pattern Brush will be the repeating element. Then if you’re going more in depth, consider the ends of the brush and perhaps the inner and outer corners. For Longcat, I’m going to be breaking him down into two ends (head and feet/tail) and his abdomen center. Use the Line Segment Tool () to create clear boundaries which break up you subject and then Select All (Ctrl + A) and create a Compound Path (Ctrl + 
. Step 2 Draw a Rectangle (M) around the overall subject and then use your lines with the Pathfinder panel to Divide the rectangle. As all the elements which make the brush won’t be central (for instance the tummy isn’t central), then you’ll need these three rectangles set to Opacity 0% to create invisible boundaries for your brush later on in the process. For now, they’ll be acting as a guide. Take this opportunity to enable Smart Guides (Ctrl + U) to help snap your objects and lines to your brush boundaries. Step 3 So let’s…
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Create a Trendy Retro Landscape Design in Photoshop
Mar 4th
My number one most popular tutorial from last year described the process of creating a trendy retro cityscape in Photoshop. I’ve noticed the retro and vintage styles are still in vogue, so today let’s take a look at creating another design that captures the abstract theme of old album art. Follow this step by step Photoshop tutorial to manipulate a landscape photo with various color adjustments and lay out a typographic quote to create a retro style landscape design. The design we’ll be creating is based on the theme of a mountain and uses a landscape photo to create an abstract layout that would work perfectly as a retro style album cover. Clippings of the original photo are used to make up the layout of the design, then a range of color adjustments and textures are added to give the artwork that classic retro style. View the final abstract retro landscape design The whole design relies on a landscape photo of some …
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Retro Moderinist Artowrk in Illustrator and Photoshop | Abduzeedo …
Mar 4th
So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a Retro Futuristic Illustration using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I won't add … I always paste vectors as Smart Objects, so I can always tweak them without destroying everything. So the first … Featured Tutorial . Quick Tips: Instagram your images using Photoshop. Instagram reinvented the photo sharing on our social media structure. It's a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your pictures to friends and family. And what I …
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Best of Tuts+ in January 2013
Feb 5th
Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network . Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start! Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials Create a Battlefield Scene Using Stock Photography in Photoshop By combining the right photography in Photoshop you can create just about any scene that you want. In this tutorial, we will create a battlefield using several stock photographs. Let’s get started! Visit Article Quick Tip: How to Draw Realistic Eyes in Photoshop The eyes are one of the most important elements in any character or portrait illustration. In this tutorial, we will show you how to quickly draw realistic eyes in Photoshop using digital painting techniques. Let’s get started! Visit Article Create a Humorous Photo Manipulation Using Animal Photography – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial How does a hippo take a bath? In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, Stephen Petrany will show you how to create a humorous photo manipulation using a handful of stock photographs. The result will depict a hippo taking a bath in an unexpected and funny way. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your illustration skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now to get started! Visit Article Nettuts+ — Web Development Tutorials Visual Studio: Web Dev Bliss Developers are a picky bunch, almost to the point of superstition and voodoo magic, when it comes to their…
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Amazing Vector Portrait Illustrator Tutorial | PSDDude
Jan 30th
Because Illustrator is a vector graphics program, shapes can be swiftly and easily formed to produce portraits that are striking and fresh yet still have a great likeness to the photo reference. Such portraiture skills are often …
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The Making of My New Twitter Background Design
Jan 21st
I recently posted an article over on my Line25 blog giving some handy tips on Twitter background design , so I thought it was about time I updated my own profile with a fresh new background. In this post I share my step by step design process and explain how I went about creating the background and Twitter header designs to revamp my profile. I’ve had a fair few backgrounds over the years, back in 2009 one of my most popular posts was Twitter Background Design How-To and Best Practices . In this post I gave a thorough overview of the techniques used back in the day and shared my process for creating a cool background design. In 2010 I was invited to create a tutorial for MacUser magazine, which led to my…
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Blog.SpoonGraphics Design Tutorials Greatest Hits 2012
Dec 31st
It’s that time of year when I reflect on another year’s worth of design tutorials here on Blog.SpoonGraphics and check over the stats to see which posts ended up proving the most popular. Here’s a roundup of the most popular tutorial posts from 2012 based on the number of StumbleUpon ‘thumbs up’ votes. Last year saw figures of around 14,000 likes for some of the popular posts of 2011, so it’s a big surprise to see this year’s most popular tutorial only come in with just over 1000 likes, with the average being around 500. It definitely looks like social media traffic as a whole has dramatically dropped with each post only having a hand full of shares on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. As always I’m keen to hear your thoughts on my content. Which tutorial from the list was your favourite? Or was there a post I haven’t included that you found particularly useful? Create a Trendy Retro Cityscape Design in Photoshop View the tutorial 1056 likes Super Easy Pewter Style Metal Text Effect in Photoshop View the tutorial 936 likes Fun Vector Monster Character Illustrator Tutorial View the tutorial 896 likes How To Create a Cool Vector Yeti Character in Illustrator View the tutorial 827 likes Create an Aged Vintage Style Logo…
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How to Create a Realistic Reindeer with Gradient Mesh in Adobe Illustrator
Dec 18th
Did you know Rudolph was a female? Only reindeer ladies have their horns in winter. But, it’s not why I’m here. The reason is I’d like to show you how to draw a realistic reindeer with fluffy fur, using Gradient Mesh and more, in Adobe Illustrator. Moreover, you don’t need to be a professional to learn it! Ready to try? Step 1 To draw anything realistic you need to either be a genius, or use a good reference. A genius wouldn’t need a tutorial tho, so… let’s look for a good photo of thing you want to draw. You can use some free stocks to find one, like alaskastock – this is where my reference comes from. When you find your perfect reference, you need to prepare your workspace for future actions. Paste your photo to a new file, then select the layer with it and choose “Duplicate layer” from Layer menu. Step 2 You should now have two copies of the photo. Select the first layer (the lowest one) and choose “Template” from Layer menu. When you do this, this layer will be visible in Outlines Mode (Ctrl+ Y). So, this layer will make template for shapes, and the other one – for colors. Step 3 Before you draw anything, you should imagine what parts it will be built of. It will let you save some time later. Look at the concept sketch of my idea – you’re going to build one head, one mouth…
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30 Very Useful Illustrator CS6 Tutorials | designrfix.com
Aug 26th
In this post, you'll find everything from Creating a Stylish Vector Hair Typography Illustration to Designing a Vector Space Composition in Illustrator . If you are … Turning a Photo into Lichtenstein Style Pop Art with Illustrator …
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