In this tutorial you will learn to create an awesome bokeh effect using Photoshop. Basically the Brush Tool (B) is what you need in order to create this beautifully ethereal effect, and it is very easy to do. These are the tools you will need to create your custom brush: Ellipse Tool Field Blur Gaussian [...]
This tutorial will show you how to apply a realistic sketch effect to your photos in Photoshop. Unlike other photo-to-sketch tutorials, this one makes use of Photoshop CS6′s Colored Pencil filter, and Pencil Width and Stroke Width attributes to create an image that closely resembles an organic hand-drawn sketch. You’ll also use the Shadow/Highlights and [...]
Greek visual designer Charis Tsevis has created some visually stimulating graphics for Yahoo!’s coverage of the 2012 London Olympic Games. These images are geometric styles met with brilliant color to fully show the spirit and movement of this year’s participants in 3 illustrations each for diving, gymnastics and running. Each image features Tsevis’ signature mosaic [...]
Today’s feature is a Photoshop tutorial on how you can create a smoke text effect. Tom of PSDFAN has updated his previous tutorial on creating Smokey Typography, where the effect is more realistic than before and uses an updated workflow of Photoshop’s non-destructive tools which you can edit any time. To start it up, create [...]
Here’s another awesome CSS3 tutorial that may be useful to your design projects. Andrew of Script Tutorials demonstrates how you can create optical illusions using CSS3. Below are the following codes: HTML Index.html <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang=”en”> <head> <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> <title>CSS3 Optical Illusions | Script Tutorials</title> <link href=”css/layout.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”> <link href=”css/illusions.css” type=”text/css” rel=”stylesheet”> [...]
Created by the guys at Photoshop Star, this tutorial shows you how you can make a cool unusual 3D-like text effect using some of the tools in Photoshop. It’s so simple that rookies can easily make it work. For this text, Familian font was used. The tools you’re going to need are Gradient Tool, Radial [...]
Creating a clean and simple design may look simpler to do from the outside but inside, there are so many work details to be done which people are not aware of. Here’s something I learned from Addison Duvall about his modified version of Dieter Rams’ golden rules of design. Here are Duvall’s modified 10 golden [...]
Aaron Lumsdenshares a nice tutorial on how you can create your own customized audio player using HTML5. Since Adobe may not support Flash for mobile, here’s a great alternative if you want to include an audio player to your project. Simple HTML5 Audio Add the code below to your HTML5 document <audio controls=”controls”> <source src=”track.ogg” [...]
The novel turned mega hit thriller movie Jaws was so influential that it was one of the best thrillers of all time and a cult favorite. So to relive this scary flick poster by Steven Spielberg, Uzair Nazeer shares a great tutorial on how we can create our own Jaws movie poster. Click on the [...]
There’s this simple yet brilliantly designed menu created by one Louis Remi that caught my eye while I was looking for some design inspirations to feature here on Blogfreakz and well, seeing his amazing work sure compelled me to share it with you! I admit that at first glance I didn’t notice anything special about [...]
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