Designious Times

At the end of this tutorial you will learn how to create stars in space, shades of light (not necessarily in space) and some shapes with a “space” feeling. This tutorial wants to help you learn different techniques and encourage you to play with your settings and other techniques involved in the creative process. Here’s [...]

“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 [...]

Forget the transform options like skew, distort and perspective! When it comes to getting your perspective right, Vanishing Point is the king! Be it DVD covers, gallery paintings, windows from a house, skyscrapers or pretty much anything that is made or shot in perspective, you can easily adjust, modify and transform it using this smart [...]

Art from Poland this week. Awesome!
Peter Jaworowski is an established freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Warsaw, Poland at the Ars Thanea Studio. He is a design director. Debut Art represents Jaworowski worldwide, and Mushroom in Spain.
One big thing i like about Jaworoski is that he never compromises quality. Not for timeline, or anything [...]

Background effect
1. Open a colorful image in Photoshop. I used a photo taken a few years  ago, i thought it was appropriate for this project.

2. Crop the most colorful part of the image, where’s the biggest diversity in color, and maybe a little black too.

3.  Duplicate the layer (CTRL + J) by dragging and dropping [...]

Here’s a list of ten Photoshop tutorials that manipulate, or achieve different stylized portraits, using various techniques.  Most of them are pretty easy to achieve, but have quite a powerful effect in the end! Enjoy!
1.  Creating an unique profile image

2.  How to create a grunge style illustration with stains

3.  Create a high contrast, artistic portrait

4. [...]

Shepard Fairey is the author of the famous HOPE poster, as you might know already.  His latest work is entitled “A mutt like me” and its kind of like the Obama poster, just it has a dog instead.

Now, what is he trying to say with this? Is he mocking the rebellion?
A mutt like me, or [...]

Thin, thin, thick, thin, thick, thick, thin. That’s what you get from an ordinary bar code, printed on the back of your daily nutritious whatever, from the supermarket.
Of course there is a “but”… but the design team at Design Barcode thought of using the bar codes to make something different, other than being dull on [...]

Thou shall not abuse gradient!
Gradients are always cool and fun to use. But there are limits. It’s always ok to use a subtle effect but once you stepped over the line you’re on your way to Kitsch Land and you are guaranteed to obtain that awful 90’s look that we all know and hate.
So here [...]

A droplet is an executable file generated by Photoshop that allows you to apply a set of actions just by dragging and dropping files or folders on to it. This is a great time saver when you have to apply the same action to a lot of files! If you do this manually, you’ll spend [...]