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Double negatives make a positive. I was inspired to create this poster after reading a handy tutorial posted by Rames, titled 3D Typographic. I never knew Photoshop can work magic like that! After designing the 3D typographic effect, I moved on to creating the lens flare, the glowing orbs, the radiating lines and the lighting + glowing effects. It’s pretty neat when you combine the tips and skills you’ve learned from multiple online tutorials! Mine is not effectively a poster since it is in landscape format instead of in portrait… but I love it that way. I am actually glad that I didn’t join the competition because back then, my photoshop knowledge seriously sucked (it still does now, although not as bad as before).
Of course I’ll have to credit Veerle too! She held this ‘What is graphic design’ competition a couple of months back and the entries she received served as the basis for my poster. And my, the winning and selected entries are really, really awesome! Inspiration also came from Juanma Teixidó. His entries are absolutely stunning. Of course, my pick will be his winning entry, the one on the right!
Below is a collage of how the entire poster was made… groundup! Of course I veered off course for many times somewhere in the production giving me effects that I didn’t like, so it was a helluva trial-and-error when it comes to making this poster.
A little tip: in case you’re wondering how did I do the lighting effects, it’s actually just playing around with blending modes. Try using overlay, soft light, color dodge or color burn – and experiment with them. Once you know how they work, you’ll definitely love them!
p/s: My finals are within two weeks and it’s crunch time!
Whoa this will make an interesting T-shirt design :shock:
Very neat and minimalist website too, love the color wheel logo.
*marks website for regular visits*
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Thanks for dropping by Rin! You’re just being too generous with your compliments *laughs* anyway, regarding the colour wheel logo, it’s actually an asterisk of a font called Anivers. You can see how I’ve created the logo from scratch in this tutorial. Have fun poking around!
And thanks for bookmarking ;) if you don’t mind, I’ll be linking you and Wendy’s shared blog. Teehee!
Hehe, your skill is really good enough to garner compliments, so don’t be shy :3
Sure thanks for linking us.
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Nice~
Perhaps you should mention a need for dummy layer for overlay. Maybe your method is different than mine.
Time to slam your head on that thick book Teddy!
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If you mean dummy layer as in having a separate layer to apply the lighting effects, yep, that’s what I did. Usually I avoid making changes permanent for editable elements (such as keeping texts as vectors and shape masks as what they are instead of rasterising them) to ensure reversibility of my actions.
If the way you do it is different, do you mind sharing with us? Thanks!
Oh mans I hate revisions! But I guess the only way out is to try my best… gee!
very nice and agree on the t-shirt idea hehehe
all the best with your coming finals alright ;)
have a great weekend ahead
so cool! it seems very cartoony like. should make a good design for a movie title of an animated films. haha.
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Just saw your comment in my guestbook…first thanks for the compliment =)
Yea, I was quite surprised to see that you are studying in NTU, esp in the post where you talked about the Korean food…believe me, I have eaten that before..cos I live in Hall 12!
Talk about really small world :lol: Maybe if I see you in the canteen 13 one day I will drop by and say hi :smile:
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You’re welcome! Oooh the world is really small… not to mention Singapore! I’ve been bumping into friend of friends over here and oh, to hell, that six degrees of separation theory! Woah you live in hall 12? I live in hall 15… my goodness!
My friends and I will eat Korean food over at your canteen every Wednesday evening! Maybe you can pop by or say hi, or join in the fun too!
Very nice typography work!Its sleek and simple,love it!
That’s a nice poster.. yeah you wouldn’t believe the things Photoshop is capable of. I thought I knew a lot about Photoshop before I went to art school for graphic design and before I got my job but I learned soooo much after that. I love Photoshop!
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Same here! I thought I had learned a lot in this short photoshop workshop in my high school – and I couldn’t believe it now that they thought us really, really basic photo-editing stuff and nothing about graphic design. They only thought us how to play with saturation and contrast, cropping and a few basic tools.
I love photoshop a lot too! It’s one of the best graphic editor/creator I’ve found! Although GIMP goes around for free, I find the GUI of Photoshop way more intuitive and handy.
p/s: Nice new theme you have over there! Awesome stuff!
@med
Thanks for your best wishes! Heh! My weekend will be really busy. I’m organising this hall supper which will occupy my whole Saturday. I hope everything will be fine.
@jason
Yea I loved the cartoony effect too! I was trying out different fonts to get the effect that I want until I stumbled upon this font. It’s just too cute!
@Edward
Thanks for your compliments!
Hey, Teddy, I’m back after months of not reading your fantastic blog! Congratulations, too, on your new phone and I think it’s very nice. I was busy studying and revising for the UPSR and guess what, I got 5As and I was chosen as Johore’s Best 2008 Student. I was so happy and all of my efforts were paid back. Anyway, yes, I like the glowing thing your DESIGN thing. I even started my blogspot again. (But this time, no copy and pastes).
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nice design lol! why don’t u put the step by step tutorial? huhu
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Oh there is a tutorial about 3D text over here and it’s short and sweet. For the lighting effects and etc, it’s actually just using several dummy layers of different shades of gray and gradients coupled with different blending modes. It’s more like a trial and error thing (and is all up to you), so writing a tutorial might be a little but pointless haha!
But of course, I’m taking that into consideration. If I have the time to write, of course I will ;)