http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com Graphic Design Weblog - Photoshop, Illustrator, and beyond... Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:09:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Most of the following use only these two, and some of them only use illustrator. What they create often involves thousands of layers and tens, maybe even hundreds of hours work, to produce truly jaw-dropping images. (clicking on an image will take you to a full view of it, websites of ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/08/amazing-photorealistic-images/ Download : 666KB Here is another instalment of freebies! Some flower brushes drawn from my garden. This Brush pack is entirely free for non-commercial use, however, if you intend to use it for commercial purposes, then feel free to contact me. Anyway, enjoy the free flower Photoshop brushes! http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/08/5-free-flower-brushes/ 1. Fire up illustrator and open up a new document. 2. Now press the 'L' key on your keyboard, this should automatically select the ellipse tool, so you can start drawing some circles. 3. With the 'Shift' key held down, click and drag the mouse to make a circle, as big or ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/08/how-to-make-cool-spheres-in-illustrator/ Favicons, in case you don't know, are the little icons that appear in the side of your navigation bar, or if you use tabbed browsing, on each of your tabs. Favicons are so called because they were first used in IE 6 (I believe) and only applied to websites that you ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/06/favicon-generator/ Unless you already have a leaked version of the Beta Entitled 'Stonehenge' then you probably don't know what to expect. The biggest boast made about the upcoming release is that it will have increased support for monster graphics card accelleration But I don't have a monster GPU you might say, and of course, ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/06/photoshop-cs4-news/ I'm going to be using this picture of an elephant to make a brush, but you can use pretty much anything you like! 1. So, start with the image you want. *It's important to have as big an image as possible, the bigger the image, the bigger the brush!* 2. Make sure you ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/06/the-secret-to-making-brushes-from-photographs/ As per request, (before the comments were wiped) is a brief tutorial on making your own brushes. *Note, this guide is for images like the one below, which you've either made yourself, or you don't wish to edit.* For making brushes from a photo, or other image which needs altering first, then ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/06/how-to-make-a-brush-in-photoshop-cs3/ The color palette generator by Dagraeve ( I had to check the spelling 3 times.) is another brilliant tool which makes us wonder how we did these things before. Essentially, this brilliant tool allows you to scan any image for color schemes, it then generates two sets of colors: 'dull' and ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/06/featured-site-color-palette-generator/ Perhaps the biggest barrier to those wishing to start learning graphic design in the digital era is the hefty price-tag which comes with Photoshop, Illustrator, and all the other major commercial design software. So what options are there available to someone who wishes to get into graphic design, or has ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/06/free-graphic-design-software/ Download Here is a set of 2 Car brushes that I had left over from another project, they're simple, yet effective! Also feel free to make requests for any other freebies you might want. This Brush pack is entirely free for non-commercial use, however, if you intend to use it for commercial ... http://www.whiskey.puffinhost.com/2008/06/2-free-car-brushes/
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