Posts in the "Tutorials" Category

• Adobe OpenType Tutorial: Simple Wine Bottle Text Wrap

  Photoshop Tutorials

  Heres’ a quick and easy tutorial on using Adobe OpenType fonts. I never knew how awesome these fonts are until I used them and discovered their features. OpenType® is a cross-platform font file format developed jointly by Adobe and Microsoft. They are superset of the existing TrueType and Adobe PostScript Type 1 font formats. Aside [...]

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• 10 Easy to Follow Adobe Illustrator Vector Tutorials

  Vector Tutorials

  I haven’t done another vector tutorial for quite some time now. Our last vector tutorial here was “Creating Your Own Vector iPhone” which I did almost two months ago. And I work on it for around two or three days I think. It’s really not that easy to create a graphic design tutorial and I [...]

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• Vector Tutorial: Creating Your Own Vector iPhone

  Vector Tutorials

  It’s been a while since I last did a tutorial here in Graphic Design Free Resources. Few weeks ago while doing a short piece about Apple’s iPhone on my technology and gadget blog. I was looking for a clean generic iPhone mock-up to superimpose different screen displays but couldn’t find one. I ended up using [...]

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• Free Assorted Hi-res Textures With Bonus Photoshop Tutorial

  Photoshop Tutorials

  Our third set contains 20 different kinds of textures like metal, concrete, cloth, fur, stone, paint, paper, wood, etc. These are high resolution texture images with 2094 x 2950 pixel size in 350 dpi. Now you might ask, where do I use these texture images anyway? One great way to use textures is to apply [...]

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• Vector Tutorial: Creating A Killer 3D Pie Chart in Illustrator

  Vector Tutorials

  I was doing some 3D charts for a project when I thought about sharing a similar tutorial here in Graphic Design Free Resources. In this tutorial we will create visually compelling 3D pie chart from raw data and explore several techniques in enriching graph design and presentation. Is Adobe Illustrator the best tool for this [...]

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• Vector Tutorial: Creating a Realistic 3D Beverage Can

  Vector Tutorials

  When designing labels for packaging, it is most effective to present your design realistically rendered rather than just on a flat layout. Your client will appreciate it more and will probably save you more time doing additional design studies. We will employ Illustrator’s 3D effects tools to create 3-dimensional rendering of a beverage can,  built [...]

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• Vector Tutorial: Creating a Colored Glass Ball

  Vector Tutorials

  A lot of people downloaded the glossy web navigation templates I posted few days ago. What was really attractive on those templates are those colored glass balls as navigation buttons. In this tutorial, I will try to demonstrate how to create one using Adobe Illustrator CS4. Here’s the final image of what we will try [...]

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• Another Political (Obama) Poster Vector Tutorial

  Vector Tutorials

  Pardon me if you have already seen similar tutorials of Sheppard Fairey’s famous Obama Hope poster. But I just can’t help it, I need to do one for this blog. I have been wanting to do this for a very long time. Until the other day, I thought about creating one for my Twitter page. [...]

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• Frog on a Glass Window – Using Photoshop

  Photoshop Tutorials

  I was trying to arrange my archive when I bumped into this very interesting Photoshop tutorial. The original tutorial was a frog on a leaf. I re-created it with Photoshop CS4 and made a variation, thus now it’s frog on a glass window. I found this nice wet glass window shot somewhere. You can also [...]

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• Photoshop Tutorial: Simple and Easy Mirror Reflection

  Photoshop Tutorials

  Many people these days are enamoured with the latest craze of photographing products on a glass surface with the product reflecting a very smooth, liquid reflection. Apple made it popular with their iPhone imagery. In the old days, we had to go to some fairly lengthy set building in order to accomplish the look, but [...]

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