Designing Your Own Futuristic-Style Brochures in Photoshop

If you ever find yourself needing a more modern, futuristic appeal to your brochures, this is the perfect tutorial for you. This tutorial will help you design your own, techy looking brochure with included resource links so that you can see where you can find some free stuff to use on your own designs. Let’s get started.

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Quick Grunge Business Card Design in Just 10 Steps

Yes you read correctly – 10 steps to a grunge business card. Just follow the simple steps below and you can have a modern grunge design within an hour. Let’s begin.

STEP 1

First, setup your business card document. Open a new document in Adobe Photoshop and use the following settings below. These are the basic dimensions that many business card printers will use and accept. Take note that you can also ask for actually business card templates from them in Photoshop format. If they don’t then the settings below should be okay.

a.     Width: 88mm

b.     Height: 55mm

c.     Resolution 300ppi

d.     Color mode: CMYK

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How To Create an Outer-Space Themed Poster

There’s more to designing an astronomical poster than just pasting in a free image from the Hubble image archive. If you truly want your own creative space-themed poster, you have to create those space elements on your own. Here are the steps:

STEP 1

Setup your poster document correctly. To be on the safe side, it is best to use standard poster dimensions as advertised by printers. One of the smallest but widely used dimension is the 11×17 inch poster, so in this example we have set that. Also it is important to set a high resolution of 300ppi, and a color mode of CMYK for four color printing.

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Make Simple yet Stylish Business Card Using Photoshop

Business cards are used for various business transactions. It is a good tool to bridge the gap between you and your clients or business associates.

Here is an easy step by step guide in designing a simple yet sophisticated looking standard sized business card using Adobe Photoshop. If you want to make your cards but don’t have Photoshop, you can try using online design applications for your business card printing.

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9 Examples of jQuery Javascript Slideshows and Plugins

Frontend web developers have seen a huge upwards trend in jQuery. It’s an amazing JavaScript library which dramatically cuts down the amount of time required for scripting. This includes animations, hover effects, dynamic, tooltips, and so much more. Specifically I’ve collected some fantastic jQuery plugins for image gallery and slideshows. Let us know your thoughts, and share any others we may have missed!

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50 Character and Emotion Designs using Photoshop

Most of the character design tutorials are using illustrations software, like Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw. However I can’t use Illustrator, so I tried browsing and searching for character design tutorials using photoshop. And apparently there are a lot of character and emoticon designs using photoshop. In the following tutorials you will learn a lot with the new techniques contained that will improve your skill. There is also several painting techniques you will know about. So, lets see and learn the following tutorials.

1. Drawing Vector Looking Cat Illustration Using Photohop

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Create a Cool Penguin Character in Photoshop

Hello everybody, in this tutorial, we will create a little penguin character with simple technique. Mostly, we will using the Ellipse Tool, the Direct Selection Tool, the Path Selection Tool and effect on the blending options. So, you should know the basic’s of shape and path..

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40 Best-Of Featured Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

It is a difficult process mastering the art of Adobe Illustrator. The software is very convoluted, and learning each individual tool alone is also very difficult. But over the years some amazing designers have spent time cataloging their craft and writing some amazing step-by-step tutorials.

I recommend you check out our gallery of 40 best-of Adobe Illustrator tutorials. These include tips for web graphics, banners, vector shapes, icons, website layouts, and some more useful topics.

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17 Examples of Time Saving jQuery Code & Tutorials

Web developers are in love with jQuery. The team has created an extremely solid framework from which anybody can build frontend tools and web apps in just a few hours. And with the addition of free plugins and community support, almost anything is possible! Check out some of our time saving  jQuery examples below, including free code and tutorial articles from all around the web.

Vertical Ticker jQuery Plugin

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30 Useful Illustrator Tutorials

Web contains tons of great illustrator tutorials and free lessons on illustrator course for designers. Today, we will be sharing a collection of  useful illustrator tutorials arranged by category. We have tried our best to include best Illustrator tutorials from all over the web. Enjoy!

Illustrator Web Design Tutorials

Create a Simple Register Form Design

In this Quick Tip tutorial you will learn how to use Illustrator to make a simple web form design. By following a few easy techniques you will have clean and modern register form in no time!

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12 Must See Fire Effect Tutorials In Photoshop

One of the most popular and attractive effects that you can add to your photograph using Photoshop is the fire effect In this article, we’ll look at 12 Must See Fire Effect Tutorials In Photoshop. Hope you will learn something new and share your opinion in comments.

1.Flaming Hot Fire Text In Photoshop

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Create a Poster Theme Illustration in Illustrator

In the following steps I will show you how to create a poster theme illustration in Adobe Illustrator. Considering these tips can also be a great idea in poster printing designs. First, you will have to follow the previous tutorial on how to create the speaker illustration. Next, using various techniques and effects you will reach the final illustration shown in the image below.

Tutorial Details

  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Number of Steps: 27

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Create an Audio Speaker in Illustrator

In the following steps I will show you how to create a nice audio speaker in Adobe Illustrator. You will only need a simple circle. Using the Appearance panel, seventeen fills, five stroke plus numerous effects you will reach the result shown in the image below. Give it a try and you might be impressed by the power of the Appearance panel.

Tutorial Details

  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Number of Steps: 20

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