You Suck At Photoshop #2
Posted by Jennifer Farley | January 11, 2008 | 5 Comments
Just came across this today and it really made me laugh. I love the guy’s deadpan narration - classic!
In this video he shows you how to use Photoshop to remove a cat and replace it with a … stain. Brilliant.
Photoshop Quick Tip : Bigger Font Previews
Posted by Jennifer Farley | January 10, 2008 | 6 Comments
If you find youself squinting at the previews in the list of fonts in the font drop down menu, then help is at hand. In Photoshop CS2 and CS3, you can set the font preview size to anything from Small to Huge. Choose Edit > Preferences > Type and you’ll see the dialog box below.
In the drop down menu, choose the size you want for your font preview. In the illustration below you can see the default setting of medium font preview size (on the left) and the difference when I changed the setting to large. Much easier to see.
iStockPhoto Free Images of the Week
Posted by Jennifer Farley | January 9, 2008 | Leave A Comment
You can download these high resolution images for FREE for your own and some commercial use from iStockPhoto. They are available in 4 sizes from XSmall - 284 x 423 px, 10cm x 14cm @ 28 pixels/cm up to Large - 1944 x 2904 px, 16cm x 24cm @ 118 pixels/cm. You can download the free raster images Here
You can also get this vector image for free - download it here.
Photoshop Tutorial: Using a clipping mask & blending mode to create new clothes texture
Posted by Jennifer Farley | January 8, 2008 | Leave A Comment
In this short tutorial, I’m going to take a look at using a clipping mask in Photoshop, to constrain the visibility of one layer to that of the area of the layer underneath it, and how to use a layer blending mode to add extra realism.
- I’ve opened up an image of a woman with a check style dress on.
Using the quick mask, I made a selection of just the dress.
- Copy the selection onto a new layer by pressing Ctrl + J (windows) or Cmd + J (Mac). The layers palette looks like this:
- I picked up a few textures from Image After (a great website for free images of textures) and I pasted this one - http://www.imageafter.com/image.php?image=b19metals050.jpg into my Photoshop file, so that the red garage door covered all of the dress.
- To create a clipping mask, press Ctrl + Alt + G (windows) or Cmd + Option + G (Mac). This uses the dress layer as a clipping mask for the red garage door layer at the top.
- Now, to make it a little more interesting and authentic have a play around with some of the blending modes on the Layers palette.
I liked how the linear burn looked best for this example, but it’s a good idea to run through all the blending modes as they can give very different results depending on the images used.
Design Resources : Happy Birthday Peace
Posted by Jennifer Farley | January 4, 2008 | 2 Comments
The Peace symbol is 50 years old this year and there is a great website called “Happy Birthday Peace” which celebrates the symbol.
“The symbol was first drawn on on home-made banners and badges in 1958, when CND was launched at a public meeting in London, but has since been apropriated by scores of different protest movements, from hippies in 1960s America - the first to use it to represent ‘peace’ - to feminists and anarchist punks. In 2008 just as it was 50 years earlier, the CND logo is re-created at anti-nuclear demonstrations the world over.”
You can create your own peace symbol and upload it to the growing gallery. Here’s two of my efforts:
Design Competition : Visto Brahma
Posted by Jennifer Farley | January 4, 2008 | Leave A Comment
Brahma beer is launching VISTOBRAHMA, a design competition which offers up and coming creative minds the chance to get their work seen.
There is a main cash prize of £5,000, which of course would come in very handy this time of year. The prize also includes the chance to see your design on the packaging throughout the UK. Even if you don’t win, it’s always good practice following a design brief yourself and seeing what other people come up with.
All the info and the full design brief is is available on the website: www.vistobrahma.com.
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