Archive for the ‘Tutorials, Hints & Tips’ Category

Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS

Continuing from a recent tutorial, Create a Vibrant Blog Design in Adobe Photoshop, we’ll now look at taking the concept and implementing it into an actual webpage constructed in xhtml and css. By exporting the imagery from Photoshop and coding up the page we’ll produce a working example of the overall blog design.
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Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop

Taking a closer look into the world of web design this tutorial will cover the process of designing a vibrant and colourful modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop. Beginning with a blank canvas we’ll go through the process of creating the entire structure and effects from scratch.

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Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design

Using simple shapes can produce some great looking contemporary designs that fit well as impactful posters, a good example being the recent Trendy Geometric Lines tutorial. This time we’ll look at stripping back the tools to creating an interesting and eye-catching poster with a single typographic word.

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Designing for Print - Setting Up Crops and Bleed

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Designing for Print - Setting Up Crops and Bleed

A design destined for print requires setting up to certain specifications to ensure that the work is printed correctly by industrial lithographic or digital print firms. This often starts with the initial document upon which the design is to be created by adding the correct bleed area and crop marks. Let’s take a look at what crops and bleed actually are, why they are required and how to set them up in your favourite Adobe package.

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Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch

I guess with recent topics being based on vector illustrations and cute characters, it’s about time for another Illustrator character tutorial. Previous versions saw the creation of Captain BlackSpoon and Freddy the Fish which seemed pretty popular, not to mention the quick and simple monster series. This time follow this Adobe Illustrator walkthrough on the creation of a cute little vector monster character, beginning with a quick pencil sketch on paper.

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Illustrator Tutorial - Create a Blissful Vector Scene

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Illustrator Tutorial - Create a Blissful Vector Scene

A recent post of Blog.SpoonGraphics was a roundup of vector landscapes used in web design. Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial through the process of creating your own simple vector scene form scratch.

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