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  • Interview with Christian San Jose

    Christian San Jose is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Pasig, Philippines. By day he is a senior web designer for an internet marketing company, and by night he works as a freelance illustrator. His list of clients include Nike Phil., The Coca-Cola Company Phil., ABS-CBN Broadcasting Cor...

  • How to Create a Highly Detailed Hi-Tech Power Button – Basix

    With this tutorial we will create a hi-tech style button that can be used in splash pages, applications or Powerpoint presentations. We will use Illustrator to create complex vectors and Photoshop to develop realistic effects. Step 1 Using Illustrator we create a rectangle with the size shown. Wit...

  • Create a Retro CRT Distortion Effect Using RGB Shifting

    In this tutorial you’ll learn how to separate an image’s three different color channels to create an RGB shift effect. I’ll also show you some graphics tricks to mimic an old CRT display. Final Result Preview Here’s an example of the effect we’ll be creating: The m...

  • The 12 Basic Principles of Animation Day 2 – AE Premium

    So, what are the 12 Basic Principles of Animation and why should you care about them? The goal of the principles is to bring life and excitement to any animation – to take the mediocre and make it exceptional. This is the second half of this article. To view download the first half you need to...

  • The 12 Basic Principles of Animation Day 2 – AE Premium

    So, what are the 12 Basic Principles of Animation and why should you care about them? The goal of the principles is to bring life and excitement to any animation – to take the mediocre and make it exceptional. This is the second half of this article. To view download the first half you need to...

  • Adobe Launches Happy Birthday InDesign Site and Book!

    If you love InDesign, you must check out this excellent new, free eBook of InDesign's history!...

  • How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen – Screencast

    “In this tutorial, you’ll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusia...

  • Showcase of Textures in Print Design

    The use of textures can dramatically improve your print design work. You can (if used sensibly) add more depth to your work, whether your work be business cards, advertisements or posters. The results of using texture in your print design projects can be completely different every time, depending on...

  • How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly

    In this tutorial I will show you how to make a vector butterfly using the blending mode from transparency box and the gradient mesh. The techniques shown in this tutorial will help you make shades on objects and liquid transition of colors. Believe me it is very easy. Step 1 Let’s start with...

  • 30 Fashionable T-shirt Designs

    File Type: AI, EPS, and CDR License: Free for Personal and Commercial Use This set of professional T-shirt designs can be used in a variety of ways, with 30 different emblems to choose from you’ll be sure to find something for your next project. ...