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25 Most Recently Released Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful resource not just for graphic designers but also to everyone as it allows us to create cozy, vague, glowing, gelatinous, sleek, shimmering, vintage and groundbreaking effects. You could make scalable vector graphics such…

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January 20, 2012 at 3:03 pm Comments (0)

8 Adobe Fireworks Text Tutorials For Designers

Floral Type by Fabio Sasso   Create a Letterpress Text Effect in Fireworks Grunge Effect   Extracting Logos Sparkle in Adobe Fireworks   Text Reflection   Create a thick text outline with Adobe Fireworks   Amazing Neon Lights on Fireworks (function() {var s = document.createElement(‘SCRIPT’), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName(‘SCRIPT’)[0];s.type = ‘text/javascript’;s.async = true;s.src = ‘http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js’;s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);})();

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December 24, 2011 at 1:55 pm Comments (0)

25 of the Best Photoshop Tutorials in December

It’s 2011 and another year is over. There’s been a lot of awesome Photoshop tutorials made all around the web the last year and now we’ve had a look at what we think are some of the best ones from December. So if you’re looking for some new inspiration, wanting to polish your Photoshop skills [...]

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December 12, 2011 at 1:55 pm Comments (0)

40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials That’ll Polish Your Skills

The most popular vector drawing program nowadays is Adobe Illustrator. Vectors are great for logos, illustrations and pretty much anything where you’d like to have the chance to scale your work up and down in size without any loss of quality. Getting good at it is quite a task. Becoming familiar with the software doesn’t [...]

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December 8, 2011 at 1:31 pm Comments (0)

Create a 50s ad poster in Illustrator

It seems that the 50s are back, not just in advertising and design, but also on clothes, TV shows, and elsewhere. I honestly think this is one of the most interesting and creative eras for advertisement; some ads are really memorable and funny. So, inspired by that I decided to make a tutorial on how [...]

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November 17, 2011 at 9:35 am Comments (0)

10 Reasons Why You Should Learn Adobe Illustrator

Graphic designers work on their designs using different programs but there are some who haven’t tried using Adobe Illustrator yet. Adobe Illustrator is a popular program for designing that primarily manipulates vector graphic. It is a vector graphics…

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October 29, 2011 at 1:48 pm Comments (0)

Create a simple vector Minion in Illustrator

Hi everyone, today we’re going to learn how to create a very stylish wallpaper with a Minion from the movie Despicable Me. Just in case you’re not familiar with this character, so here’s a short movie called “Banana” where you can get an idea of these funny little buddies. Most of the techniques taught in [...]

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October 5, 2011 at 9:06 am Comments (0)

8 Powerful photo and video apps for your iPhone or Android phone

You never know when you’re going to get a client with a super tight deadline. You never know when you’ll be struck with a great idea, either. You can’t avoid it, so you need to try to stay as prepared as possible. As iPhones and Android phones sweep the cell phone market, most designers have [...]

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September 23, 2011 at 9:57 am Comments (0)

What’s new for designers – Sep. 2011

The September edition of what’s new out there for web designers and developers includes new web apps, JavaScript frameworks, a couple of fun dummy text generators, useful apps for working with clients, and a number of great new fonts. Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be [...]

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September 12, 2011 at 9:34 am Comments (0)

EDGE: A new HTML5 offering from Adobe

It used to be that if you wanted to create an animated, interactive interface for a website, you needed to use Flash. You might be able to get away with some basic animations using JavaScript, but if you made it too complicated, all you’d end up doing is bogging your visitor’s computer down and causing [...]

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August 4, 2011 at 9:14 am Comments (0)

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Beta Now Available

Today, Adobe released Flash Player 10.3 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. Version 10.3 allows you to directly modify Flash Player’s cache, privacy and other settings (such as microphone or camera) without having to visit a special web link to a w…

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May 13, 2011 at 5:25 pm Comments (0)

A more affordable Adobe CS 5.5

Adobe products have been the standard in web and print design for a number of years, particularly after they bought out Macromedia (and took over Dreamweaver and Fireworks). But Adobe products are also very, very expensive. So expensive that many new (and even experienced) designers have little choice but to use pirated copies, or turn [...]

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April 14, 2011 at 11:27 am Comments (0)

Speed up Photoshop Projects using Adobe CS Review

What’s the slowest part of a project for you? One of the biggest complaints among Photoshop users is dealing with client feedback and managing reviews. It’s one thing to be creative and go with the flow of photo editing. It’s another to stop and assemble comps for review and manage sending out a bunch of [...]

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December 29, 2010 at 8:18 pm Comments (0)

New Official Adobe CS5 Logos + Packaging

Today (12th April 2010) is the launch day of Adobe CS5 and with the new version comes a whole new set of logos and packaging. After some speculation we now can see the official logos of Adobe CS5, now with an extra colour added in.

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April 12, 2010 at 2:37 pm Comments (0)

New Adobe CS5 Logos

Adobe CS5 is being released on April 12th and to go along with the new version, comes a new logo.

I personally prefer the old one but that may just be because I’m used to seeing it every day. What do you think of the new logo?

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March 29, 2010 at 12:55 am Comments (0)