Inspiration Typography

A type face that isnpired me for one typographic project of mine. Soon I'll post it to get some feedback. Tramyad font free for personal use from protofonts Download
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Free Vectors

I found a great website for free vectors, you can also submit your own work and recieve feedback from other vector artists. "Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best artists around the world."

Vector Convert (Suggestion)

Most of the brushes for Adobe Photoshop can be easily converted to vector objects with the help of Illustrators, the Live Trace feature .

Photoshop Brushes are actually information about grayscale shapes, all you have to is to use them once in a blank document, export them as a jpeg, gif or png file , and then load it with Illustrator (File > Place).

The final step is to select the loaded file and go Object>Live Trace.

Note: The Live Trace Feature is avalable in Adobe Illustrator CS2 and CS3. You can also take a quick look at "Producing creative drawings with Live Trace and Live Paint"

Urban Scrawl Brush set for Photoshop

Here is a good proposal if you would like to apply grungy/sketchy style to your digital artwork.

This Photoshop brush set contains 29 different hand-drawn shapes. Feel free to experiment with different colors and layer transparency.

Author - InvisibleSnow Download from here

Merry Christmas

Have A Wonderful
Christmas Season


Thank you all,  For the support!

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Adobe Illustrator Tutorial Create Vector Metal Icons Buttons

Create these nice little metal buttons that can also be used as icons. Everything we make in this video is 100% vector so it can be used virtually anywhere! Check out www.tutvid.com for more great video tutorials!

Pattern Tutorial For Adobe Illustrator

Wednesday 19 Dec 2007

Patterns are everywhere. Look around and you’ll probably see one right now. It might be a pattern on a tie, a shirt, pants, a paper cup, bathroom tiles, an umbrella, on a bag, a sofa, wrapping paper… the list goes on and on. Patterns add decoration and beauty to many consumer products. If you look closely at a true repeating pattern you can see the ‘repeat square’, the area of the image that repeats along vertical and horizontal seams where one section flows into the next.In this tutorial we will use vector elements to create a four-way repeating pattern swatch in Adobe Illustrator and then mask the pattern into several mock products. So, let’s get started! Fulltutorial

Holiday Decoration Brushes for Photoshop

Browsing www.brushes.obsidiandawn.com I found great proposal for holiday design projects. A set of 32 brushes made up of various vector designs and shapes. Most designs come in a basic shape of that brush, then another with one shape inside another - somewhat offset, another with dots or smaller versions of that same shape within it, and all kinds of variations of that. Great for making patterned paper or patterns, or for single embellishments to a design.

Includes: circles, squares, stars, hearts, triangles, swirls, flowers, brackets Download

Vector Elements Brush Set For Photoshop

Here is another vecotr set of of oval element brushes from adcor. Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS + . Download link , Enjoy !!!

Fade In and Out Action Script Tutorial

Here is a very basic but useful tutorial for Adobe Flash Action Script. Fading in and out alpha... but no timeline. A small introduction of onEnterFrame event function and its usages. You can see a preview at the final result here. Download tutorial (.fla file)

Flower Pattern for Illustrator

This pack contains 24 patterns for Illustrator CS3. Flower in 12 variations.All patterns in red and green. You can mix these patterns to get even more variations.To change the flower color, simply drag the pattern to your canvas, paint it, and then drag to the swatches pallete again. You can also resize and overlap them to get endless results.Author's profile in DA. Download link (pdf file).

Water Color Brushes for Adobe Photoshop

Here we have ... 13 High Quality Adobe Photoshop Water Color brushes. 

Originally built in Adobe Illustrator CS3 and then finished on Photoshop CS3. 

Artist profile Download link

Flash design tips: precise drawing in flash

To create precise vector graphics in Flash, it’s all about learning to use and control the tools.
The drawing tools in Macromedia Flash MS 2004 allow you to create precision vector graphics. Vector graphics are line-based graphics. In the world of mathematics, a vector is a line that has a defined starting point, a designated direction, and a specified distance. With vector graphics, vectors control the manner in which curved and straight lines are shaped between specific points. The picture is made up of these lines as well as the colors of areas enclosed by the lines.

Because of how they are created, vector graphics can be resized easily without reducing image quality. A vector graphic appears much smoother and more precise than a raster (or bitmap) image, which is made up of pixels (dots). Vector graphics also download faster than comparable raster images. View Few Article.

Power Of Type

Type is powerful and important graphic design element. Combined with artistic adjustment of type/font, balance, color and rhythm, you may design very entertaining and unique final composition. In the samples below you can notice that for each composition the designers had used no more than two different font families. From that point of view “less is more”, but the designers should also solve a problem with the effect of negative space and the focal point of the concept. Don't be afraitd to use repetition of type elements to achieve a clear and balanced work.

Samples from www.deviantart.com

Vector-based T-shirt design (Tutorial)

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US designer Joshua Smith shows you how to create a killer T-shirt design using a 3D object as a starting point in Adobe Illustrator.
In the age of clip art books and simple solutions, it’s rare to find good illustrations that someone invested some time into that will make its way on a shirt that we, the consumer, can be proud of.

However, if your favourite T-shirt is a slogan-based one, with the likes of ‘I’M WITH STUPID’ or ‘NICE RACK’ with a simple illustration of a gun-rack, then this probably isn’t for you.

This whole concept stems from the idea that we want to broadcast what we are most passionate about. Only a few brands in the industry have amazing illustrators working for them, or a brand might be a spawn of something that’s already illustration-based, such as Tokidoki & Obey Giant.

Brands like RVCA, Monarcy, Drifter, and others in the same field strive to have illustration as the message that carries their themes. This tutorial shows how I would attack a T-shirt design if someone commissioned a piece. Continue

Nighmare Before Christmas

A Photoshop Brush Set with shapes and symbols from the movie "Nightmare Before Christmas".
Download from here. More Christmas related resources coming soon.

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