A few days ago “IE6 Must Die” was one of the trending topics on Twitter, so popular that it trends above “Michael Jackson”. The inspiration name for this poster came from this URL: http://idroppedie6.com/and the lightbulb came on – I saw ‘die6′ in the URL. Intentional or not, it is a very interesting word combining [...]
After working a few days on the poster, and another few for the sponsorship hiccups, Vincent finally printed 60 copies of my poster for the Environmental Awareness Campaign and pasted them on notice boards across the campus. I wouldn’t say that it looks perfect, especially for the paddings that need to be more constant throughout [...]
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 [...]
I’ve been accumulating a couple of unused design prototypes around, so I thought of dumping two of the nicer ones for you to have a look at:
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Icons
The well-known rebranding move by Adobe – they ditched all the old icons and brought in new, plain, simple and colour-coded ones. I’ve always wanted [...]
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Designing is indeed fun! I’ve read several Photoshop tutorials and downloaded several fonts from Smashingmagazine.com – and I subsequently realised that there’s more that just photo manipulation work that Photoshop can do! It can be an awesome substitute for Adobe Illustrator, although it lacks quite a number of illustration-specific tools, a bit of adaptation can [...]
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I got inspired after watching so many iPod commercials! This is one of my favourite:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_nNwSmstpY[/video]
The trick behind creating this Apple-esque poster is just using Photoshop’s handy Quickmask function! Here’s a short tutorial (sorry, no screenshots!).
Open the image – Either drag the image into the workspace or go to File > Open…
Enter quickmask mode – Press [...]