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Today, we have a wonderful freebie download made by an amazing illustrator, Yukari Terakado. One look at Yukari’s illustrations and you’ll see the reason we asked her to make us a freebie download we can share with all of you. Enjoy!
We all have ideal versions of ourselves. It’s the person in your mind who has become all that we’ve wanted to be, has achieved all that we wanted to achieve, and producing the kind of work we’ve always wanted to produce. Unfortunately, it’s never as simple as that. We are never the perfect versions of the people we envision ourselves to be but that doesn’t mean we have to stop trying.
For this first installment of Design Instruct’s Artist Discovery Series, we’ll shine the spotlight on some very talented illustrators who work with vector illustration programs such as Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape.
Last weekend, we called upon you, the readers, to Tweet or submit some sketches that you found in your old sketchbooks and notepads. This is what we’ve gotten so far.
We recently ran a giveaway of 2 banners and 1 landing page design with HTML/CSS from RightBanners, a trusted online service that provides top-notch web banner and landing page designs. We had many Design Instruct readers who participated in the giveaway, and in this post, we announce the lucky winner.
We recently ran a giveaway of PSD to HTML conversion services from PSDgator, a premier web development company who specializes in HTML/CSS and WordPress coding services. We had many Design Instruct readers participate in the giveaway, and in this post, we reveal the lucky winners.
What if you could create a great looking metal text effect quickly and repeat the process even quicker? Well, with the magic of Photoshop Actions we can recreate a metal effect using a logo or text in just moments with the push of a button. In this tutorial, we are going to add a metal effect to our text while recording the commands with Photoshop Actions. When we’re done, you can recreate the metal effect by simply pressing ‘Play’ in the Actions panel.
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