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In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a microphone illustration with overlapping cable text effect. We’ll use vector shape building techniques, Opacity Masks, Gradients, Effects, Pattern Brushes, and other Adobe Illustrator tools to make this music inspired illustration. Get ready to rock this!
Tutorial Author: Andrei Marius
In this tutorial we’ll be exploring an interesting technique of creating a pattern of hexagons for the objects of any shape, which was designed by my friend Iaroslav Yemz. Beside this, we will be using 3D modeling and Gradient Meshes. The tutorial contains plenty of useful professional tips.
Tutorial Author: Iaroslav Lazunov
Do your customers buy from your Web site on a regular basis all by themselves? If you said yes, lucky you! But if you said no, you might be feeling like it’s your your Web site that’s letting you down, when really it’s you who’s letting your customers down. If you want to increase the number of qualified buyers to your store, and it’s time to start your own effective email marketing newsletter.
This workbook includes:
Includes a special 2-hour audio workshop in MP3 format as well as the complete transcript from the workshop.
Sometimes all you need to create stunning pieces of art is the right equipment and a few trusty Photoshop techniques. In this tutorial, author Wojciech Pijecki will demonstrate how to create some fluid, hand-drawn style typography. Along the way Pijecki will explain all the tools that you will need to get the job done and will also point out alternatives tools and methods that you can use.
Are you new to music production and are looking for the best way to create a rhythm track? Or are you aiming to broaden your drum programming skills? Mo Volans takes you through an overview of just about every way to program electronic drums.
If you are reasonably new to music production the world of electronic drum program maybe still be a bit of a mystery to you. The modern producer is certainly spoilt for choice when it comes to techniques and devices for programming their patterns.
Let’s take a first look at some of the software we can use to produce our first beats and the different methods we can choose from. We’ll also take a brief look at some of the essential processing that can be used to pump up the final result.
In this video tutorial, you’ll walk through the entire process of image sandwiching. This technique is commonly used for interior architecture photos, but you’re own creativity is the only limit to how it can be applied.
Image sandwiching basically fakes an increased dynamic range image. The HDR techniques that are commonly used now can yield an exaggerated and overly-processed image. With this process, you’ll find that the final look is very natural. While it does take some time to fully master, we’re sure you’ll be happy with the increased amount of control you’ll have over automated HDR programs, and we hope you find the results very pleasing.
Over the course of this 7 day series. Artist Shray Khanna will guide you through the entire process of creating a next-gen, low poly vehicle using Maya and Photoshop.
Throughout the series, Shray covers the complete next-gen pipeline in detail. Starting off with low poly modeling in parts 1 & 2, and then moving onto uv mapping, high poly modeling, baking, texture creation and finally lighting and rendering. This series is a must read for any artist interested in video game development and asset creation.
Good news: you can now get all eBooks released by Smashing Magazine in one swoop! All eBooks are available in PDF , ePUB, Mobipocket formats and are DRM -free. The Smashing eBook Super Bundle contains the following eBooks:
Professional Web Design (eBook #1)
Successful Freelancing for Web Designers (eBook #2)
Mastering Photoshop for Web Design (eBook #3)
Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad (eBook #4)
How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites (eBook #5)
Getting the Hang of Web Typography (eBook #6)
Professional Web Design Volume 2 (eBook #7)
Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Volume 2 (eBook #8)
The Smashing Book #1: Digital Edition
Now you can get the Smashing eBooks #4-8 as one bundle for just $40 instead of $50! All eBooks are available in PDF , ePUB, Mobipocket formats and are DRM -free. The Smashing eBook Bundle contains the following eBooks:
Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad (eBook #4)
How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites (eBook #5)
Getting the Hang of Web Typography (eBook #6)
Professional Web Design Volume 2 (eBook #7)
Mastering Photoshop for Web Design Volume 2 (eBook #8)
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Professional Workflow for Web Designers provides financial and legal advice as well as work related icons and vector graphics for professional Web designers. These will surely help you to improve your business workflow and help you carry out sound decisions when engaging in business with clients.
Additionally, we’ve carefully prepared samples of legal documents, along with explanations of their purpose and best use. This product also contains 26 icons and 20 vector graphics. You can use both the samples and the included graphics within the bundle for your private as well as commercial projects without any restrictions.
Formats: PDF , ePub, Mobipocket (DRM-free)
Pages: 92
Language: English
ISBN : 978-3-943075-15-1
Released: May 2011
Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH
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We’re seeing better interaction design and more aesthetically pleasing designs. And we’re seeing more personal, engaging and memorable sites, too. But what exactly is making the difference? What new directions is Web design heading in today? What new techniques, concepts and ideas are becoming important?
This eBook contains 16 articles that cover current as well as upcoming Web design trends. It also includes facts on responsive Web design, improving Web security, useful coding tips and practices for HTML5 and CSS3 , and much more! This eBook on ‘Modern Web Design and Development’ touches on what Web designers should be ready for to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities.
Due to the success of its predecessor, Smashing eBook #3, our best selling eBook, we present its second volume. As Photoshop remains the world’s most popular instrument of choice for Web designers, we have carefully selected 10 articles that cover useful techniques and tricks from experts such as retouching, cloning, compositing, obscure Photoshop timesavers and designing for iPhone.
For a limited time offer, you can purchase both eBooks as an easy-order eBook bundle for a promotional price.
Formats: PDF , ePub, Mobipocket (DRM-free)
Pages: 216
Language: English
ISBN : 978-3-943075-12-0
Released: April 2011
Publisher: Smashing Media GmbH
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Mike Elliott looks at how to create and maintain a sound palette in pre-production, recording, mixing and mastering.
Have you ever listened to each individual track in a mix and think, “Hey, they sound awesome!” only to listen to the whole mix and go “eww…”? Well my friends, that usually the result of no coherency in your mix.
Just like the colors in a painting, a mix must flow in a way that makes sense for that song. Da Vinci, Monet, and Warhol paintings are all masterpieces in their own right, but mixing their styles would most likely render something less than desirable. The same can be said for a mix in which the drums, guitars, bass, vocals, etc. all sound great on their own but don’t make sense together.
In order a mix to sound great there needs to be a palette of sound colors that all work together to create a final masterpiece. In this tutorial you will learn the techniques to sculpt and paint your own sonic masterpiece from mic selection to mastering; all the while maintaining the coherency in the mix. If you are ready, push up your fader and lets paint!
For a long time Facebook Developers have been wondering what is the best way to monetize Facebook applications. The obvious ways were to host advertisements on your application page or to develop applications for others. Luckily for us Facebook has released a new API earlier this year to allow developers to almost-seamlessly charge users with micropayments with it’s brand new online-currency “Credits”.
Learning Photoshop – For Busy People, is aimed at teaching you, over the course of 20 lessons, to go from a complete Photoshop Newbie to being able to understand and follow the most advanced tutorials out there.
A lot of teaching material for Photoshop ends up focusing on all the little details that you really don’t need to know. Do you really need to have a full understanding of the coding in Actions? Or a deep knowledge of how Batch Processing works? No, you don’t. I skip over features that are rarely used, and focus solely on the stuff that people actually use to make their work.
Everything is taught hands-on, with practical applications as we go through it all. It’s gonna happen in a relatively fast pace, so fasten your seatbelts!
As you progress through the lessons, we will keep using what you learned previously in different and more fluent ways, you’ll get accustomed to the Photoshop Shortcuts, be able to work faster, and start to get an understanding of how everything fits together.
In the end of these first 5 Photoshop Lessons, you will go from having practically no knowledge of Photoshop whatsoever, to be able to handle text, effects, layers, masks, adding textures, creating cool spacey images, and more!
The video is 1200×900, so you can see everything that’s going on (preview is widescreen).
You also get the same JPEG files used in the tutorials, including the finished looks, so you can work alongside the video and compare results!
