Designious Times

Hats off to the authors of this ad. They haven’t used  any complicated graphics ,but instead they let the elevator doors send the clear message .  This is the kind of efficient simplicty that I would love to see more often.

A great ad promoting a gym in India. Just  the use of two stickers and [...]

“Yeah, how about if you change that color to green and make the logo bigger, oh and I don’t like the photo of the girl nor the background could you use something else? And could you have it ready by tomorrow?”
Sounds familiar? We’ve all heard this kind of speech. OH THE FRUSTRATION !Lots of time [...]

The artists from DESIGNIOUS strike again  and you are gonna love the new vector packs. We launched 10 brand new vector packs for all you vector lovers.
We’ve added 8 new seamless pattern vector packs : damask,  floral, abstract,  retro etc. Pretty much everything you could ever need for an  amazing design, see some bellow.
Damask vector [...]

This week we bring you a brand new set of textures. You will find here all kind of different surfaces : concrete, paint, grids etc. They have a resolution of about 1936×1296 px and you can easily download all of them from the bottom of this page.

The effect was discovered independently by many different photographers often by mistake in the days of C-22 and E-4 . It has been used a lot for fashion advertising and band photography. Photoshop offers the chance to simulate the chemical cross processing process with the help of Curves Adjustment layer. This is a great [...]

What better season than spring to be close to nature. And my intention is to get actually very very close with this collection of macro photographs.
Macro photography is actually close-up photography revealing details that can’t be seen with the naked eye. This type of photography offers  the chance to enter into the very small world [...]

Today I will guide you through this tutorial for creating this cool text effect and smooth background using Photoshop . We will be using some vectors some layer styles and quite a bit of motion blur. To download the vector for this tutorial and the final psd.  just scroll down to the bottom of this [...]

1. Thou shall use rich Black
This is a tip that every beginner should know. It  passes down on a line of wisdom from art director to junior or its learned trough trial and error. If  you choose a black text for print it is very important to   make sure  you are using  rich black [...]

So how do you get that perfect reflection? It sure does  look  great …on the web , in a commercial or in an eye -catching presentation. I actually use it myself anytime I’m trying to impress a client with the final result of my work.
Although reflection appears to be simple , you can easily go [...]

Stop motion (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique that is increasing in popularity. This technique implies that an object is moved in small amounts between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames are played as a continuous sequence. Of course, lots of work and patience is required but the [...]