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From Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials –Tutorial: Trendy Splitscreen Layout With CSS3 Animations:
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There is no better time than the end of the year for some fresh inspiration! One of the most popular trends this year, features splitscreen layouts, lots of white space, clean typography and subtle effects. With this playful trend in mind, I’ve created a two-part tutorial to show you how to use flexbox, 3D transforms…
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From Graphics ? CreativePro.com –From Paper to PDF: Vectorizing Hand-Drawn Artwork with Photoshop and Illustrator:
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I have a close friend, Mike Manoogian, who is a brilliant lettering and logo design artist. Every so often, we get to collaborate on a book cover or an identity program, and have way too much fun. Despite our similar tastes and sensibilities, we live in separate design worlds: I’m the computer-savvy Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator ninja; in his world, “cut and paste” involves an X-Acto knife and rubber cement, and his MacBook is strictly for email. We make a good team. A little while back, Mike got a call from the Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization?a non-profit founded by the late Lawrence Anthony, the famous “Elephant Whisperer.” They needed a logo for a new ecology-centered education program that was already on the launch pad. Could he help? Rush? Of course he could. Could I turn whatever he came up with into a multi-purpose vector file really, really fast? Of course I could. The first rough wasn’t for vector conversion, but was enough to get all concerned excited about the idea: the Vitruvian man in the negative space within a collage of living things. My work started with the first “serious” sketch. Meticulous inking wasn’t an option, given the time constraints…
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From 123RF – Latest Tutorial Listings For Photoshop –Creating a Caricature in Photoshop:
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Cartoonish and silly caricatures are a lot of fun to create and admire! You can make your own caricatures with Photoshop’s distortion and editing tools.”
From PictureCorrect – Latest Tutorial Listings For 2D Graphics –How to Remove Shadows in Photoshop:
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There are a number of ways to make pesky shadows disappear in Photoshop. We’ll teach you a few of them in this tutorial!”
From Cracked: All Posts –So You Want To Be Batman:
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By Alex Schmidt
Published: January 09th, 2017
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From Graphics – CreativePro.com –Creating a Pop Out Effect with Photoshop and InDesign:
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At the 2016 InDesign Conference in Washington, D.C., Nigel French reminded me of a classic layout effect where an image pops out of its frame to interact with other page elements. It’s simple, effective, and can be used in all kinds of situations to add some “pop” to a page. Begin in Photoshop, by creating a new layer for the part of the image you want to pop out of the frame. Silhouette that part of the image using whatever technique you like. In some cases, you don’t have to be very fussy since the rest of the image will be cropped using the frame in InDesign. In this example, the surface of the water will never show in the silhouetted version of the image, so I don’t care that’s not masked correctly. But I did want to preserve the drops of water coming off the whale’s tail. Save the layered Photoshop image with just the silhouetted layer visible, and place the image into InDesign. Copy the image and paste it in place, so you have two stacked copies. Select the top copy and choose Object > Object Layer Options. In the dialog box, turn on the visibility of the background layer. With the Selection…
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From Graphics – CreativePro.com –Free Lynda.com Video: Adobe Portfolio First Look:
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Earlier this year, Conrad Chavez wrote a pair of articles on how to get started using Adobe Portfolio, the Creative Cloud service that lets members showcase their best best photography, design, video, and other creative work. Now, there’s a new Lynda.com course by Justin Seeley to help you get the most out of this service: Adobe Portfolio First Look. Here’s the official description: Adobe Portfolio comes free with any Creative Cloud subscription and enables designers to quickly and simply build a website to showcase their creative work. No coding knowledge required! In this course, Justin Seeley provides an overview of the functionality of Adobe Portfolio, and shows how to customize your new Portfolio website so it works best for your style and clientele. Learn how to use different templates, add images, create a custom domain, and publish your site in just a few easy steps…
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From Tutorialzine –Introduction To Chatbots:
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We dive into the futuristic world of chatbots and talk about how they work, what they can be used for, and what it takes to get one up and running.
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From TrendHunter.com – Cool Websites and Internet Culture –Top 100 Internet Trends in 2016 – From Reality Show Fantasy Leagues to Strategic Marketing Platforms (TrendHunter.com):
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(TrendHunter.com) Most people spend a significant portion of their day online, and so the 2016 Internet trends have unsurprisingly been extremely diverse in their scope. Some of the more prominent patterns that can…
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From PSD Vault – Latest Tutorial Listings For 2D Graphics –Create an Erupting Lava 3D Text Effect in Photoshop:
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Here`s an explosive little tutorial! We`ll create text that simulates lava bursting out of an active volcano in Photoshop with just a few stock images, custom brush painting, and filter effects.”
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