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From PSD Vault – Latest Tutorial Listings For 2D Graphics –Draw a Realistic Motorbike Helmet With Photoshop and Illustrator:
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We’ll combine the pixel manipulating precision of Photoshop with Illustrator’s brilliant vector handling to create a masterpiece in this tutorial.”
From CreativePro.com –CreativePro Tip of the Week: Reduce File Size in Photoshop by Cropping or Flattening:
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Need to reduce the file size of a Photoshop document? You may be able to significantly reduce the file size by either cropping or flattening. If you have a layered file, notice the document sizes in the Status Bar below the image. The two values correspond roughly (sometimes very roughly) to the size of your image as a flattened file (on the left), and as a layered file (on the right). If you don’t need to preserve the separate layers, flatten the image by choosing either Layer > Flatten Image or Layer > Merge Visible. If you do need to preserve layers in the file, try cropping the image. Select the Crop tool and press Return or Enter. You will see a crop overlay fitting the canvas…”
From Lindsay Is Awesome.Com – Latest Tutorial Listings For Photoshop –Removing Backgrounds in Photoshop:
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Removing backgrounds in images can be a daunting task for designers. You can go all out destructive and use the eraser tool – or you can use a non-destructive approach with masks in Photoshop.”
From CreativePro.com –Creating a Postcard in Photoshop:
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The Project: to make a fun postcard image from a beach vacation in the iconic “large letter” style of Curt Teich. You can learn more about Curt Teich in Greetings From Big Letters, USA, and explore the enormous digital archive of his postcards at Newberry.org. Here’s a sneak peek of what we’re making. Along the way we’ll see how to use several important Photoshop features for improving your photos, including content-aware crop and move, straighten, and the Patch tool. Using Content-Aware Crop and Straighten To begin, I have a photo I want to use as the background. It needs to be cropped to my postcard size and straightened. In CC 2017, you can take advantage of a Content-Aware option fill in any blank spots created while cropping. In the Options bar, I set the size of my image and make sure that Content-Aware is selected. To straighten my image, I use the Straighten button in the Options bar. I simply drag a line along the horizon to level it out. Since I’m taking advantage of Content-Aware crop to fill in parts of the sky, I can extend my crop area outside the boundaries of my image. Here is the result…”
From CreativePro.com –Free Lynda.com Video: Foundations of Graphic Design History – The Bauhaus Movement:
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The majority of content here at CreativePro, including the Lynda.com videos that I write about, is focused on “the hows.” How to use a piece of software to accomplish a specific design or production task. But once in a while, it’s critically important to stop asking how, and to start asking why do we want to do a certain thing, or who was the person responsible for an idea we take for granted, or when and where did a certain practice originate. That’s why this week’s free Lynda.com video is from Sean Adams’ course on Foundations of Graphic Design History – The Bauhaus Movement. It’s hard to overstate the influence of the Bauhaus on all fields of design, not just graphic design. As Sean says in his introduction, “after watching the course you will never look at a piece of furniture, poster, lamp, or any modern object in the same way again.” Here’s the official course description: To move forward as a designer, sometimes you have to take a step back. This installment of Foundations of Graphic Design History explores one of the most influential modern design movements of all time: Bauhaus. Its revolutionary concepts – centered on simplicity, quality, truth in materials, and form…”
From Picture Correct – Latest Tutorial Listings For 2D Graphics –A Technique for Clean Sharpening in Photoshop:
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Sharpening without introducing black or white edges around a subject can be a real challenge. Here’s a demonstration of how to sharpen images without the unsavory edges.”
From PSD Vault – Latest Tutorial Listings For Photoshop –Create a Mysterious, Disintegrating Portrait With Photoshop:
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In this tutorial we’ll turn a standard female model photo into a dark, mysterious disintegrating portrait of a witch. Custom Photoshop brushes will be the main tool of this tutorial.”
From 123 RF – Latest Tutorial Listings For 2D Graphics –The Essential Guide to Creating Vintage-Style Posters With Illustrator:
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Ever wanted to recreate a vintage look for your own designs? Here’s how to capture an authentic-looking vintage travel poster design with Adobe InDesign and Illustrator!”
From CreativePro.com –Finesse Your Type with Three Great InDesign Scripts:
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Dan Rodney describes himself as a designer, instructor, web developer, and all-around nice guy. This certified Adobe Instructor/Expert is passionate about technology and has written several time-saving scripts for InDesign for both Mac and PC that will make your typesetting life faster and easier. Using the scripts is easy, and you do not have to know how they work or how to create them. Just install and run them with a simple double-click. Here are our favorite three scripts from Dan: Quotes to Foot & Inch Marks One of the many challenges when setting type is to get the quotation marks, apostrophes, and primes (inch and foot marks) set with the correct glyphs. This usually begins with making sure the quotation marks and apostrophes are typeset using typographer?s quotes (smart quotes). Some folks use Find/Change for this, but what often ends up happening is that the primes used for measurements are accidentally converted to smart quotes. The fix for this usually requires proofreading and manually converting any instances back to proper foot or inch marks, which is both time-consuming and tedious. The Quotes to Foot & Inch Marks utility makes this easy.”
From CreativePro.com –Add a Stroke to a Placed Image in Adobe Illustrator:
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Once you’ve placed a photo image in Illustrator it would seem to make sense that you could just add a stroke around the outside in the same way you do in InDesign. After all, you’d imagine that the image is inside a rectangular frame, and it’s just a matter of choosing stroke color and width, right? Well, if you’re thinking this way – you’d be wrong. Unlike InDesign, when a photographic image is placed in Illustrator, a frame is not automatically created to contain it – the image is just hanging there, kind of loose and uncontained. So, if you want to add a stroke to the image (or a colored tint for that matter), you’ll need to manually add the frame first. You could just draw a rectangular frame around the image, and add the stroke to that, but this would create problems when you want to resize or reposition the image and you discover the frame doesn’t move along with the image. The quickest solution is to select the image and click the Mask button in the Control panel. Then you can apply a stroke and adjust it just as you would in InDesign.”
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