first step with any design is to sketch. So grab a pad and pen and get sketching! I roughed out a few different ideas, and have decided I want to go with the bottom one, both the front and back design.
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Create a Detailed Circuit Board Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator
1. Create a New Document and Setup a Grid
Hit Control + N to create a New document. Select Pixels from the Units drop-down menu, enter 600 in the width box and 355 in the height box then click on the Advanced button. Select RGB, Screen (72ppi) and make sure that the Align New Objects to Pixel Grid box is unchecked before you click OK.
Enable the Grid (View > Show Grid) and the Snap to Grid (View > Snap to Grid). For starters you will need a grid every 5px, so simply go to Edit > Preferences > Guides > Grid, enter 5 in the Gridline every box and 1 in the Subdivisions box. You should also open the Info panel (Window > Info) for a live preview with the size and position of your shapes. Do not forget to set the unit of measurement to pixels from Edit > Preferences > Units > General. All these options will significantly increase your work speed.
Clipping Masks And Type – Placing An Image In Text With Photoshop
The main image that will be used as the background.
And if I turn on the top layer by clicking on its visibility icon in the Layers panel:
Clicking the layer visibility (“eyeball”) icon for the top layer.
We see the image I’m going to be placing inside of some text
(abstract winter background from Shutterstock):
Monday, 30 September 2013
Working With Tabbed And Floating Documents In Photoshop
default, Photoshop CS6 opens our images as tabbed documents.
To show you what I mean, here I’m using Adobe Bridge to open a folder containing
three images. I want to open all three of them at once in Photoshop, so I’ll click on the
image thumbnail on the left to select it. Then, I’ll hold down my Shift key and click on the image
thumbnail
on the right.
This selects all three images at once (including the one in the middle):
Selecting three images in Adobe Bridge.
To show you what I mean, here I’m using Adobe Bridge to open a folder containing
three images. I want to open all three of them at once in Photoshop, so I’ll click on the
image thumbnail on the left to select it. Then, I’ll hold down my Shift key and click on the image
thumbnail
thumbnail
on the right.
This selects all three images at once (including the one in the middle):
Selecting three images in Adobe Bridge.
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