Designious Times

I woke up today earlier than usual and found some time to grab a cup of coffee. Then I had the idea of making one in Photoshop and i got something like this image below.

This is a very quick and easy mode to create stage curtains that you can use in your drawings and no exceptional Photoshop skills are required whatsoever. For this tutorial I used Photoshop CS3.
FINAL IMAGE

You can download the psd file at the end of the tutorial.
Let us begin!
STEP 1
Create a new document of a desired [...]

Bert Monroy is a digital artist pioneer, specialized in photo-realistic digital painting. He spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Pete Harrison is an UK based graphic designer and he insists on creating pieces of work  that are  completely versatile and outstanding. He plays around with light and uses incredible shapes  to create a world of his own. And what a beautiful world this is !

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 [...]