Whip out your favorite retro 8-track or cassette! Grab your Aquanet hair spray. Put on some neon spandex! We are diving into the 80’s! One of the most memorable part of the 80’s was the awesome retro text effects they had. It’s the rise of the digital age! The bright colors and the terrible printed […]
It’s been a quiet year from me in posting. 3 Posts in total for 2016! So why am I making a year stats review? This is a personal growth and goal for me to look at. Here I will lay out the good, the bad and the ugly of this past year.
Hipster typography has been an ongoing style trend for a while and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. These logos are considered a perfect pair up with outdoorsy, rustic style imagery. It’s seriously everywhere! For this tutorial I will show you how to make a hipster typography logo. It’s a fast and […]
This week I’ve been messing around with some new brushes a created a quick tutorial on creating a watercolor effect or any paint style you can think of in Photoshop! This will create some great effects to make your images unique and interesting. It works for most pictures and images.
Photoshop comes with a lot of pre-packaged brushed, but to any designer it isn’t complete until they have a full set of custom brushes as well. Brushes are a great tool to give that project a little extra texture or effect. To a lot of seasoned designers this tutorial will be old news, but to […]
Grungy and deteriorated fonts are available all over the internet and are great for quick jobs, but they have one major flaw in them, the same letters have the same look. In this post I will show you how to create a custom grunge textured text in Photoshop. Custom effects can give that unique feel […]
In a previous post I gave away some free long shadow icons and I thought I would share with you a tutorial on how to create these in Illustrator using the Blend Tool. With Blend in Illustrator you can create some very awesome effects for a variety of projects.
I love Illustrator! I love the nice clean and crisp vectors it produces and all of the little tips and tricks you are able to do with it! Today we are going to be making a quick and simple jellyfish using mostly simple shapes and the Arc effect.