Quick Tip: The Real Deal on Creating Chrome!

Vector drawing programs often supply templates for metallic finishes, but they can look like soft bands of blue and grey (silver) or yellow and brown (gold). Today I'm going to show you how to put a custom metallic finish with depth on your artwork and really turn your vector thing, into bling! Because I'm a simple kind of guy, there will be no transparency, mesh or 3D extrusion in this example, just a few cheeky tricks of the trade. Step...

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Colorful Glowing Text Effect in Photoshop

Posted by David Leggett in Photoshop Tutorials on August 18th, 2008 After seeing some recent Type work by Vicenç Fontanet (or, Drasik), in his recent project for “Miniblack“, I just had to give the effect a shot myself in Photoshop. It’s a wondeful little style that could easily be integrated into any dark graphic design where some upbeat text is needed. Step 1 – Choosing a Background For the best results with this...

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Create Dynamic Lighting Using Custom Brushes in Photoshop

Earlier today we released a free brush set called Rays of Light, and I wanted to follow up that release with a quick tutorial on how to use the brush set. Below is quick design using the brushes. Lets take a look at how this was created. First up, you’ll need to download and install the new Rays of Light free brush set. Step 1 I found this image of a skater by Robert Bejil Photography. I removed the skater from the background using Quick...

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