Entries Tagged as 'Design'
How to Create a Set of Marker Brushes for Illustrator
Published February 17th, 2011 in Design, Tutorials - 8 Comments
Today we’ll be going through the process of creating a set of Adobe Illustrator brushes that will allow you to easily duplicate the look of a marker stroke. We recently released a set of marker brushes for Vandelay Premier members, and in this tutorial we’ll show how you can create your own.
21 Magazines Especially for Designers
Published February 9th, 2011 in Design - 17 Comments
There are countless blogs and community sites for web and graphic designers, with new ones popping up every day. However, there are also a number of quality print magazines for the industry, and they can serve as an excellent addition for learning new techniques, staying up-to-date, and for inspiration. In this post you’ll find 21 publications with some basic information on each.
Take some time to browse through the info on these magazines and I think you will find a few that are very interesting and helpful for you. Many of the magazines also come with tutorials and resources on CD, so the value can be very good. The descriptions shown below come directly from the websites of each publication.
.net Magazine
“.net is the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers, featuring tutorials from leading agencies, interviews with the web’s biggest names, and agenda-setting features on the hottest issues affecting the internet today. If you’re serious about web design, then .net is the magazine for you!”
50 Fresh Sets of Free Photoshop Actions
Published January 26th, 2011 in Design - 11 Comments
Photoshop Actions can be an incredible time saving tool for designers and photographers. Whether you are creating your own custom actions or using those that have been created by others, actions help by saving time through elimination of repetitive tasks.
Last year we published a collection of some of the best Photoshop Actions, and today we’d like to follow that up with 50 new and fresh sets of free actions that have been released since our original post last May. If you see something you like, click on the image or the text and you will be led to the source where it can be downloaded.
25 Outstanding Poster Design Tutorials for Photoshop
Published December 22nd, 2010 in Design - 7 Comments
Poster design provides a wonderful opportunity to practice and improve your Photoshop skills. There are a number of outstanding poster design tutorials that will take you step-by-step through the process of creating something special. In this post we’ll feature 25 tutorials for creating impressive posters in Photoshop. The tutorials featured here will show you how to design posters in a variety of different styles.
How to Create a Retro Sci-Fi Computer Game Poster
40 Cinema 4D Tutorials for Impressive Results
Published December 15th, 2010 in Design - 10 Comments
Cinema 4D is a modeling, animation, and rendering program that allows designers to create impressive 3D works. In this post we’ll present a collection of 40 of the best tutorials for working with Cinema 4D. These tutorials cover a variety of topics and will show a sample of what can be done with Cinema 4D, hopefully also opening up your own ideas.
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Stunning Photo Manipulations
Published November 29th, 2010 in Design, Photoshop Tutorials - 9 Comments
Photoshop allows talented designers to do amazing things with photo manipulation. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality tutorials available that teach a variety of techniques. In this post we’ll feature 25 tutorials from a variety of websites and blogs. If you see something you like, click through and follow the tutorial to improve your own skills.
You may also be interested in 30 Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop.
Design a Portfolio Site in Photoshop
Published November 18th, 2010 in Design, Tutorials - 24 Comments
The portfolio site is critical factor in the success of a freelance designer or a design studio. Today we’ll be going through the process of creating a homepage layout of a portfolio site in Photoshop. The design we will be creating is available for download to Vandelay Premier members. The download includes the PSD files for the homepage and 2 secondary pages in three color schemes.
Here is a look at what we will be creating (click the image to view it in full size).
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Abstract Backgrounds
Published November 17th, 2010 in Design, Photoshop Tutorials - 14 Comments
Abstract backgrounds are very common in web design and for other purposes like poster and wallpaper design. Photoshop provides plenty of potential for designing amazing abstract backgrounds, and in this post we’ll showcase 25 tutorials that show how it can be done.
Create Abstract Colorful Balls Illustrations in Photoshop CS5
Create a Grunge Texture Brush in Photoshop
Published October 27th, 2010 in Design, Tutorials - 12 Comments
Textures are commonly used in web design and other types of graphic design, and fortunately they are relatively easy to work with. You can use a photograph to create texture, but Photoshop brushes also present a simple way to add texture to your work.
While there are a lot of Photoshop brushes available for creating texture, there will be times when you’ll want to create your own. By creating your own brushes you’ll have more control over the final outcome and once you have the brushes completed you will be able to re-use them whenever you want to quickly add texture.
We recently released a set of 25 grunge texture brushes for Vandelay Premier members and in this tutorial I will go through the same process that was used to create those brushes.
50 Amazing After Effects Tutorials
Published October 21st, 2010 in Design - 16 Comments
After Effects is Adobe’s product for creating motion graphics and visual effects. It’s amazing what you can create with After Effects and some knowledge, or in this case with a little help from some tutorials. Here we’ll feature 50 of the best tutorials for creating amazing work with After Effects.
