This week Access All Areas members are being treated to a fantastic set of premium Photoshop Brushes from Vandelay Premier. This set of paper texture brushes is a great resource for adding detailed backgrounds to your designs or roughing up a design with subtle textures. The set features 10 texture …
Posts Tagged subtle textures
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a colourful and vibrant abstract poster design. We’ll create a series of tessellating shapes using Illustrator’s Pathfinder tool, then begin adding colour swatches and gradients to bring the design to life. To finish the poster off, we’ll then import it into Photoshop to add some polish in the form of subtle textures.
Follow this step by step tutorial to create a trendy geometric poster design with a series of tessellating three dimensional cubes. We’ll be creating the colourful shapes in Adobe Illustrator, then bring everything over to Photoshop to finish off the poster with subtle textures and colour casts.
This week I’m trying something a little different in place of the usual Weekly Faves roundup. It’s a ‘totally original’ idea that’s ‘never been done before’ (yeah, right!) – You ask a question, and I answer it! This week I run through a few commonly asked questions, such as how I got started in the design industry, and some not-so-common questions.
This week’s questions
- How did you get started in the design industry?
- How do you create the subtle textures used in your website designs?
- What’s your favourite movie?
- What equipment do you use?
- If you were a superhero, which superhero would you be?
Links mentioned in this week’s News
Inspiration: Colorful and Vivid Logos
In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a super useful tip when creating print stylesheets; a great introduction to colour correction in Photoshop; some handy tips to consider for web navigation; a cool vector Illustrator tutorial; and a showcase of light texture use in web design.
The Particle Lab
If you’re confident with your CSS and HTML, it’s not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom WordPress theme. This overview shows the process of how my latest custom WordPress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into the various WordPress theme files, and discover how the simple PHP snippets can add that dynamic functionality of a blog.
The design concept
