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40 Excellent Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials

In this Illustrator tutorial round-up, there are over 40 text effects, or if you prefer typographic effects, to help you learn new techniques and expand your typographic repertoire.

Of course, as any good graphic designer knows, being knowledgeable in one graphic editor limits your creativity. To accomodate this, we have included some tutorials that will require the additional knowledge of Photoshop and even some 3D software to give your text that added awesomeness.

 Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials

Smokin’ Western Type Treatment

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10 Free High Resolution Leaf Brushes

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With fall upon us, I thought that it would be great to share an autumn-themed freebie.

Leaf’d is a set of free Photoshop leaf brushes. The brushes are big – giving you flexibility in usage (they’re between 1,900 – 2,400+ pixels wide). They’re available for you to download under the Creative Commons license and you’re free to use them for any purpose, commercial or otherwise. Read the rest of this entry »

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40 Excellent Free Photoshop Brush Directories

There are hundreds & thousands of Photoshop brushes available for free to download. Were do you start looking for them? How do you find that particular brush that you need to complete your latest design project? And most importantly, were are all the the high quality or even hi-res brushes? In this design resource round-up we have compiled a list of the best Photoshop directory resource sites and also compiled a list of the best Photoshop brush collections.

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How to Create Stunning 3D Text in Photoshop

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In this quick and easy graphic design tutorial, you’ll discover a handy process for generating eye-grabbing three-dimensional typography with the help of Photoshop and some creative techniques.

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20 Photoshop Tips for a Faster Workflow

We all use Photoshop on an almost daily basis but there is at least one tip in this post that will give you the old ‘Why didn’t I know of this before’ moment! It’s tips like these that make the most common of tasks quicker and easier than ever to help speed up your Photoshop workflow.

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7 Things Web Designers Hate Hearing from Clients

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One of the most difficult aspects of being a web designer is dealing with clients that “just don’t get it”. In this article, we’ll discuss seven things that often make the job of web designers difficult when dealing with unreasonable demands from clients. The goal in this article is not only to identify these common situations, but also to share with you some ways to avoid them and explain to your clients why their demands can’t or won’t be met.

 

“I’m on a really tight budget and I need this done as inexpensively as possible.”

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5 Web Applications for Designers

Webapps–compared to their desktop counterparts–have the distinct advantage of being flexible in terms of the environment they have to run in; if you have a web browser and an internet connection, you’re good to go. This allows designers who work in a variety of locations, from office cubicles to the neighborhood coffee shop, to do what they need to do without being bound to a single spot.

5. FreshBooks

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This Week’s Favorites | October 16

In this week’s roundup of creative stuff we have a collection of fab Illustrator tutorials; a showcase of a popular logo design trend; a roundup of inspiring ambigram logos; links to some great character design tutorials; and a tutorial documenting the process of creating an awesome visual illusion…

 

Noupe

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Looking to learn Illustrator? Noupe hosts this extensive collection of 55 Adobe Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials.

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Comparison of Major Web Browser Performance

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The latest versions of the five major most web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome 3.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0, Opera 10.0, and Apple Safari 4.0) went head to head under six performance indicators: JavaScript speed, average CPU usage under stress, DOM selection, CSS rendering speed, page load time, and browser cache performance. Each web browser was tested three times under an unprimed cache (except for the browser cache performance), and their average value reported in the results. Read the rest of this entry »

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25 Tutorials for Creating Photoshop Brushes

Photoshop Brushes are a quick and effective way to beautify and improve a design. Though there are many Photoshop brushes available on the web free for you to download, you can also make your own to guarantee that you’ll have something truly unique.

Creating Photoshop brushes is easier than you think & if you don’t know where to start, check out these handy tutorials on Photoshop brush creation.

1. Create Photoshop Brushes for Coffee Stains and Splatters

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20 Excellent Green Web Designs

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Today is the 3rd Blog Action Day, meaning that you’ll be bombarded by articles from all over the internet on helping our environment. We took part in the first two, and of course we’ll be taking part in the bombardment today as well.

Keeping in line with our regular topic, we’ve pulled together a collection of the best designed “green” blogs and websites out there.

As web and graphic designers, one of the easiest ways we can help out a green organization is to help out with their site’s design. There are a lot of big environmental websites out there with great information which could do with a facelift!

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15 Seamless Vector Animal Print Patterns

Here is a set of 15 Seamless Animal Print Patterns for Illustrator and it was one of my favorites. There are several types of vector pattern swatches in this set including realistic looking giraffe, tiger, cougar, leopard, panther, and cheetah prints. This set of patterns is only available to Vector Plus members but it is definitely worth it. Click the link and download this set today!

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11 Blogs with Excellent Vector Backgrounds

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Create a Cool Wet Ink Typography Effect in Photoshop

Follow this Photoshop tutorial to create an awesome distorted type design. Using a range of Photoshop brushes we’ll create the appearance of printed type that has come into contact with drops of water, breaking up the text with oversaturated drips, runs and splats.

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33 Websites For Vector Image Downloads

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Vector images are a very popular style on designs these days. They don’t have a fixed resolution, instead they are flexible, which means you can still adjust any dimension without losing the quality of the image. Read the rest of this entry »

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