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In this tutorial I will explain to create simple, but realistic, tracer rounds that you can easily add into your war films using After Effects.

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My name is Jonny Wan and I am a freelance illustrator based in the UK. My style is based upon shape experimentation, patterns and textures and I draw inspiration from ancient cultures and civilizations. More recently I have rekindled my love for type and now developing a way of working with type that is congruent with my illustrative style so the two can work in tandem when applied to commissions that requires both.

Continue reading “Developing Illustrative Type to Complement Your Style”

In a previous tut I covered creating vector textures; but a common concern is that vector textures create extremely large files. In this tutorial I will outline the process of creating and using bitmap textures. This will help you cut the file sizes down without compromising your image.

Continue reading “Keep the File Size Down and Spice-up our Vectors with Bitmap Textures”

Most of us have experience using the Adobe Suite, but how much do you know about InDesign? This powerful program has an entire host of features that you wont find in Illustrator or Photoshop, it’s for this reason that it has remained one of the most popular programs for graphic design and typography. The thought of learning InDesign may seem daunting to some, but there’s some really useful functions that are easy to learn and will save you hours of work. In this tutorial you will gain experience working with the page palette and special characters to make a basic page numbering system. You will also learn a few shortcuts that will help you work faster with InDesign.

Continue reading “Quick Tip: Basic Page Numbering with InDesign CS5”

In this tutorial I am going to show you an easy and great way to record a professional electric guitar solo for your production. The tutorial is geared towards guitarists that already have some experience playing the guitar but are not so technically trained so they can play a fast guitar solo. I am going to be using Ableton Live 8.0.9 but the technique can easily be applied in other DAWs. The technique can also be applied to an acoustic guitar pass or solo.

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Step 1: Setting Up

First, we need to setup the Input Configuration of our sound card. In Ableton Live, go to Options->Preferences in the Audio tab. Click on the Input Config button in the Audio Device area. We need at least two separate pairs of mono inputs to be activated so that we can select one of them later on for the guitar input signal.

Of course, you can also select a stereo input signal if you plan to record a stereo instrument. In the screenshot, the stereo input track that I have selected can also be used as two separate mono tracks. Just click the necessary input tracks to activate them. Bear in mind that the more inputs activated the more the CPU load. Finally, plug your guitar into the physical input of your soundcard.

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Step 2: Load Up Your Reference Track

First, we need to load our drumloop into an audio channel as a reference. You can use any loop you want or just have you composition up and running and take it from there. I have created a loop myself. It’s a drum loop with an added baseline. The master tempo is set at 135 bpm and we are currently working at Ableton Live’s session view.

Listen to the drumloop:

Download audio file (drumloop.mp3)

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Step 3: Add the Guitar Track

Insert another audio channel, name it Guitar and set the first dropdown box underneath Audio From to Ext. In. Click in the dropdown box underneath to display the available sound card inputs and strum the guitar. You should see a green metering indication appearing to one of the two mono channels available. (Had a stereo pair been selected from Step 1, the indication should also appear for that input channel.)

At this stage, you should adjust your volume levels from your sound card’s hardware or software interface to avoid clipping and distorting the input signal coming from your guitar to the audio interface. Set it so that when you strum the guitar hard, the Guitar’s channel volume metering indication doesn’t go past 0 dB.

It’s better to be on the safe side, you can adjust the volume gain later on during the mixing stage. Select the mono channel corresponding to your guitar’s input. Finally, arm the track for recording by activating Arm Session Recording button.

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Step 4: Add a Guitar Effect

The guitar that I am using is an electric guitar with a clean tone, meaning I haven’t used any external distortion effect. If you have already plugged in an external distortion effect or plan to use external processing, you can skip to the next step. I used Native Instrument’s Guitar Rig 4 with the Foo Monkey Ultra preset to add a nice distorted effect always checking and adjusting my volume metering level so that it won’t clip (go beyond 0 dB) once the distorted effect has been added.

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Step 5: Slow the Tempo Down

We are ready for recording. Fire the drum clip in loop mode. The loop plays too fast, doesn’t it? Especially for a beginner guitarist like you!

Set the master tempo to about half of it’s original value, around 70 bpm. The default Beats Warping Mode value that is currently being applied to the drumloop makes it play in half its speed without changing its pitch but it sounds terrible. Just set the Warping Mode to Complex Pro or Complex for best results.

Depending on the composition you use as a reference, you might not need to adjust any Warping Mode settings. The goal here is to make the song play much slower so that we can start experimenting with the guitar.

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Step 6: Recording

We are still in Session View. Activate the Arm Session Recording button for the Guitar track if you haven’t done already. By now, you must have an idea of what you want to record. It could be different parts of a solo you have in your mind or various passes that you can consolidate later on.

As the playback progresses with half the speed, hit the Record button in one of the slots inside the Guitar channel to start recording. It’s better to start playing something when the drum loop hits a beat of a bar, since that will help you later on when you are editing. Activate the Metronome if it helps.

Play slowly different parts of what could later one be edited into a complete solo. Don’t worry if you make any mistakes. Just start again in sync with the metronome or the drumloop.

Your resulting pass is going to be edited and played back in double the speed. Be aware that for instance any tremolo finger picking effect you execute will have to be performed slower since we will increase the playback speed afterwards.

You can hear my resulting unedited audio clip here:

Download audio file (guitar-edit1.mp3)

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Step 7: Preparing the Recording

Leave the guitar track’s Warping Mode to the default (Beats), or set it to Beats if your default Warping Mode is different. At this point, we can further clean up the guitar track if we feel that the signal we recorded is not clean enough by using an external editor.

To set a default external audio editor go to Options->Preferences in the File/Folder tab, click Browse next to the Sample Editor and choose the executable file of your desired audio editor. The way we would go about doing it is to click on the guitar clip, switch to the Sample Editor from the bottom right of the application and click Edit in the Show Sample Display to launch the Sample Editor of our choice thus being able to edit the audio file externally.

After processing the file to an editor of your choice, clicking save will also update the file in Live’s Sample Display window.

Now, we need to switch to the Arrangement view by hitting tab key on your keyboard. First, though, while in Session view, click and hold the clip you just recorded, then hit tab and drop it to the Guitar audio track in the Arrangement view.

Unless you already use your arrangement as your reference track, do the same thing with the drumloop, move it over the Arrangement view and activate the loop function for that clip if it’s not already activated. Extend the drumloop clip to the right occupying the same length as the guitar track you just recorded.

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Step 8: Editing the Recording

Work on the guitar loop. Start chopping and deleting areas that you don’t want to keep or that contain silent areas. With the Guitar track unfolded so you can see the waveform, you can select a portion of the clip then once highlighted drag that portion anywhere you want. Hit Del to delete it or CTRL (or CMD for Mac) + E to split the clip.

Continue as such, chopping the audio clip and moving around the recorded guitar phrazes. You can also individually adjust the volume of each clip you create this way. For instance, I realized that during a legato passage, the volume needed to be increased to match the previous passage.

Since each recording phraze was played at the beginning of a beat, it should be easy to move phrazes around as they would snap to the grid easily. You can also consolidate parts of the main clip by SHIFT selecting the parts and going to Edit->Consolidate or hit CTRL (CMD) + J.

Once you are done editing, select all the chopped up clips by selecting the first, holding SHIFT then selecting the last one. Go to Edit->Consolidate or hit CTRL (CMD) + J. Now all your changes are consolidated into one clip. Rename the resulting clip guitar by right clicking and choosing Rename or alternatively hit CTRL (CMD) + R.

Bear in mind that Consolidating clips in the Arrangement View creates new audio files, which are non-neutral in comparison to the original audio data. Specifically, the new files will be normalized, with their clip volumes adjusted to play back at the same volume as heard prior to consolidation. Also, the new files will be created at the sample rate and bit depth set in Live’s Preferences window, which may differ from those in the original audio files.

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Step 9: Warping the Recording

Still in the arrangement window, we may need to quantise parts of the guitar part to correct any timing issues. We may keep some uncorrected parts as is since it’s a good idea to keep the human feeling in the performance but some other parts might need correcting.

Click on the guitar part and go into the Sample Display Editor and create warp markers accordingly to correct any timing issues.

It may be necessary to re-chop parts of the clip and correct timing that way or treat them individually if you want, for instance, to adjust the volume of individual clips. Once you are done, consolidate all clips again and rename the resulting track to guitar.

Set the master tempo back to 135 bpm. Set the drumloop’s Warp method to Beats again and listen to your recording.

Here is the file so far.

Download audio file (guitar-edit2.mp3)

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Step 10: Control the Dynamics

It’s a good idea to add a compressor to the guitar track to balance the dynamics so that it will be easier to mix in to our arrangement and compress any unnecessary volume spikes. I have added Live’s native Compressor device. Take a look at the setting on the screenshot below. Your setting might differ, though, according to your style of playing.

I have also flattened the compressed result and dropped it in a new created audio channel so that I can show you the effect the compressor had on the resulting waveform.

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Step 11: Adding Effects

The guitar sounds a bit sterile so I added a native Ping Pong delay device on the guitar track to add a bit more interest and movement. I also dropped a native Reverb device with the default setting to add depth and atmosphere.

Finally, I automated the Ping Pong delay’s Dry/Wet control to create a dreamy and psychedelic effect. I activated the Global Record button, hit play and recorded the automation as the arrangement was playing. Throwing a native Limiter device with the default values in the Master channel can take care of any peaks that might clip our signal.

Listen to the complete file:

Download audio file (drum-guitar-complete.mp3)

I hope this tutorial was clear and that you found it useful. It should give you a basic idea on how you go about recording a guitar solo following some basic steps.

As you can see the key concept here is that we are working in half the tempo so that we will be able to add more control to our performance, edit it as we like then use our DAWs audio warping algorithms to bring the tempo up to it’s original value. You can also extend what we did here by adding more effects or rearrange and recomposing the guitar loop creating more original and unheard sounds.

Thank you for your time and if you have any question, I would be happy to help.

Photoshop is a fantastic app to use to manipulate photos but it is also a great app to use to illustrate still life objects. In today’s tutorial we revisit a written tutorial by Childesign and demonstrate how to create a semi-photo-realistic knife in Photoshop using vector drawing tools, layer styles, textures, and effects.

Here is a link to the written version of the tutorial Create a Knife in Photoshop

For whatever reason it is always fun to create composite images that use star fields as a backdrop. Star fields have a unique ability to make a composition look mysterious and even magical. In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a 4-piece stardust composition using textures and masks. Let’s get started!

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Resources

The following resources were used during the production of the tutorial:

• Girl 1
• Girl 2
• Girl 3
• Moonchilde Ries Nebula
• Moonchilde Cosmos Nebula
• Moonchilde Fuego Nebula
• Hameed Nebula

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Step 1

Let’s begin by making a 1000×900 document. Place the first image, Girl 1 into your document. We’ll be resizing this photo slightly, so press CMD+T and type in 90% for the width and height. To keep track of our layers (because there will be 4 photos), rename the layer to “Girl 1″.

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Step 2

Now take Girl 2 and place it into your document. We’re going to be using this image twice so press CMD+J to duplicate it. Press CMD+T on the newest image and resize that to 60%. Rename the regular sized image “Girl2″ and the newly resized image (the one we just resized to 60%) to “Girl 2 Resized”.

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Step 3

For our last picture place Girl 3 into your document. Once again press CMD+T and resize it to 50%. Rename this layer to “Girl 3″.

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Step 4

Make sure your pictures are all correctly named, then we’ll begin to assemble them. I like to move pictures around and have a variety of smaller and bigger pictures to balance the blend. Assemble your blend according to the picture below, or if you can think of something better go for it! But if it ends up looking better than mine, let’s just keep that on the downlow

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Step 5

Before we begin fill the background of your document with black.

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Step 6

Because we’re using a black background, setting the layers to “Lighten” will help us blend better because they show through. Set all of the image layers to “Lighten”.

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Step 7

Select “Girl 3″ and press CMD+T. Then change the angle of the image to -6.4. Once you’re done, move “Girl 2″ a few pixels to the left so it’s closer to all the other images.

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Step 8

We’ll now begin the base of this graphic by blending. You can blend in a variety of ways, but the best way to do it is to use masks. This way, if you make a mistake or feel the need to change something in the picture, you can easily do so. Since we used lighten, it’s a bit easier to blend because we can see where everything comes together, but we need to refine some things. So go ahead and make a mask first on "Girl 2" by clicking the Vector Mask button on the bottom of the layer palette.

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Step 9

Select the mask, and then you should see your color palette change to black and white. Black erases your photo, and white adds it back on. Go to your brush tool and select a default 200px diameter round brush, 0% hardness. We want a nice soft brush so blend everything in nicely. Begin to erase away the edges of “Girl 2″ so it blends smoothly with the rest (use black). I’ve marked the places in red you should erase. Erase the areas marked in red.

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Step 10

Now repeat this step for the rest of the images until they’ve been blended together well. On "Girl 1" create a mask once again, and then erase the areas shown.

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Step 11

On "Girl 2 Resized" create a mask once again, and then erase the areas shown.

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Step 12

On "Girl 3" create a mask once again, and then erase the areas shown.

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Step 13

Now we’ll make some revisions. Go back to the “Girl 1″ mask and delete the bottom part of the picture as marked. It’s good to go back and make sure everything blends well, sometimes you might miss things!

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Step 14

Now we’ll make our final revisions. Go back to "Girl 1" and delete the bottom part of the picture as marked. In addition to this, select layer "Girl 1", press CMD+T and rotate the image at -13.6.

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Step 15

I just noticed that “Girl 2 Revised” now has a sharp edge because we rotated the photo, so go back to your mask and erase that part so it’s blended.

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Step 16

Now that the base of the blend is finished, we can now begin adding textures to it. Now in these steps you can make masks and erase that way, but I’m just going to go ahead and erase with the eraser tool. Take this Moonchilde Ries Nebula and place it onto your document. Press CMD+T and resize the image to 50% and rotate it at -33.0.

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Step 17

Set this nebula layer to Lighten, and then using a 200px 0% hardness round brush (in your defaults) erase away the highlighted red areas.

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Step 18

Place this Moonchilde Nebula Stock 2 onto your document. Set the layer to Lighten and begin erasing around the edges and the areas highlighted.

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Step 19

Place this Moonchilde CosNebula Stock 2 onto your document. Set the layer to Lighten and begin erasing around the edges and the areas highlighted.

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Step 20

Place this Hameed Nebula onto your document. Set the layer to Lighten and move it around to your liking.

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Step 21

Place this Moonchilde Fuego Nebula onto your document. Set the layer to Lighten and erase the highlighted areas with your round brush.

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Step 22

Now we will need to adjust the color and brightness/contrast levels. The way you colorize your graphic can make a huge difference in the final result. There are quite a few colorizing layers in this, but all of them are necessary for the final outcome – so let’s begin! Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map and select a black to white gradient. Then set that to Soft Light at 100%.

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Step 23

After this, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels. Match your settings to mine.

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Step 24

Now, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer. Match your settings to mine, and then once you’re done change this layer setting to Lighten at 51%.

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Step 25

Almost there! Now we’re going to add a nice color scheme to this. I like to use gradient maps because they’re good for just that. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. Create a gradient going from colors #d11c72 to #dd4e1a. Once you’re done change this layer setting to Hue.

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Step 26

Nearly done (I really mean it this time!) Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer. Match your settings to mine, and then once you’re done change this layer setting to Overlay at 41%.

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Step 27

Now Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation and simply change the Saturation to +18.

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Step 28

To further enhance your image (this step is optional) you may flatten your image, duplicate the layer (CMD+J) and then go to Filter > Other > High pass. Set the High Pass at 1.2 (you can play with this number) and then set that layer to Overlay and it should be nicely sharpened

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Final Image

Your final image should look similar to the one below.

While some jobs need absolute, total custom design, there are also plenty of jobs where you need to get something done in a hurry. And that’s why our sister site GraphicRiver exists! Since we launched a year and a half ago, the site has grown to a massive library of graphic files that can dramatically speed up the time it takes to make some graphic awesomeness! Today across Tuts+ we’re rounding up and showcasing the great work our marketplace authors have on sale in a blatant bit of cross marketing designed to entice our readers over to buy, buy, buy! So without further ado, here’s our selection of great Layer Styles, Design Elements and Templates!

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1. Design Elements

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Mixed Web Elements

Mixed Web Elements. Buttons, fields, icons, boxes ribbons and more! All are made with smart shapes 1 PSD Layered, organized in groups. Easy to modify and change colors, you can resize at any size.

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Rating Elements

This file includes a fully layered Photoshop PSD with all layers and shape layers.

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New Pricing Tables with Bonus Elements

New and fresh web 2.0 style pricing table, very useful for designers and developers.

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Clean Notification Boxes

5 notification messages in 4 different designs. Perfect for blog, admin skin, cms etc. Would fit any website and background.

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Web Elements – Ultra Shiny, Ultra Sexy

A mega pack of stylish web elements for use in your projects – all fully editable and clearly labeled in folders.

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Black&White WEB Elements

This pack include clean web 2.0 elements at 2 styles: Black and White, all layers named and organized in groups. Special for clean lovers)

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Modern and Stylish Web Elements

This is a set of stylish web elements for you to use in your projects. It’s layered, properly named and organized in groups for your convenience.

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RGB Colorizor Top Web Elements Collection

This is a RGB – Red Green and Blue color web elements collection. Each color set contains a pricing table, web banners and download now buttons. All the web elements are made to a modern glassy theme that will guarantee to catch your audiences eye.

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Web Form Elements v1.0 by VO

Easy to use and customize. All shapes are done in Photoshop and fully editable in size, color, style and everything else that you need to adjust it for your own needs / website.

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Slick Horizontal Navigation Bar

The navigation has hover and active states as well as a hover-over sub-navigation. The whole thing is styled in blue, but the colour comes entirely from the style on each layer and all elements are fully customisable shapes, so experiment with whatever colours suit your needs.

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24 Clean Download Buttons

Quickly and easily edit the colors of the buttons via Layer Styles in Photoshop – Set comes with 3 sets of 8 buttons. Blue, Red, and Yellow themed – Comprehensive neatly arranged Layers for easy navigation – Fonts used are Helevtica Neue Regular, and Helvetica Neue Bold Condensed.

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Clean Buy & Download buttons

Useful asorted buttons, clean look and well aranged layers. Easy to change color and customise.

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Golden Header and Menu

This is ideal design [header and menu] to be used for a personal or a company website.

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Search Box Set

12 Search Box & Bonus: 1 Magnifier Icon

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Pastel Color Web Buckets

Very Clean Pastel color web buckets. useful for business, women and children themes.

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2. Design Templates

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Flyer / Postcard Template

The files are easy to customise and I have set up files so that you can change color easy.

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Black Business Card

This business card is print ready, CMYK , 300DPI with bleed lines and guides included and enabled. To switch the guides on and off just hit ctrl+; (MAC: command+; ). The card is a soft textured dark business card designed with function in mind.

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4 Page Corporate Brochure A4

4 page corporate brochure, press ready, CMYK with trims and bleed. Paragraph styles and layers used. Size is A4 (210mm wide x 297mm high) flat size is (420mm wide x 297mm high).

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Impact Business Card

Impact Business Card, a simple and nice design. Strong contrasting colours, and modern style. It’s an eye-catching design especially for a design studio or any type of business.

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Design Studio Business Card V2

Business cards, especially for a design studio or for any other type of business easy to modify.

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Resume Booklet (8 pages)

Want to impress with your resume? This very clean and creative booklet-style resume is the right choice. Drop in your own text and pictures and you’re ready to go. With just a bit more effort you could turn it into a template with any other purpose.

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6 Page Modern Brochure

Brochure, modern, 6 page, cmyk, press-ready, bleed and trims. Brochure designed in CS3 indesign, special icon also supplied (created in photoshop) all elements are easily editable, layers used.

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Leather Style Business Card

These business cards are print ready, CMYK , 300DPI and are designed by very cool background style with very realistic titles.

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Blackish Business Card

2 Sided Blackish business card, excellent for any type of business or personal usage.

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Identity System

High quality print ready identity system. Add your own business name and text and you can be ready to go to print with this professionally designed suite of materials.

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Typography Flyer/Poster

Bold, Vibrant, Colorful & Fun, can be used and applied for just about any purpose!

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Gray Blue A5 Flyer

This flyer is indicated for all kind of business. You can customize the layout flyer and fill with your personal informations.

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Simple Newsletter Design

A simple newsletter design created in Adobe Photoshop CS3 . The file size 2550×3300 pixels or 8.5×11 document size. The resolution is 300 dpi in CMYK . All layers are intact and are fully editable by groups that are named.

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Newspaper

Want to impress with your next newsletter? Try this stylish black/white newsletter A4’s!

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Elegant Spa Newsletter

Keep your clients updated with a newsletter! This design is created in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

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Moderna Magazine

This magazine is built on a fictive subject – the wilderness and all about it, but can be used for any purposes, subjects or businesses. It can also be easily adapted to make it a newsletter.

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Daydreamer Twitter Background

A fun casual Twitter background in Photoshop with sticker styled clouds and soft fluffy grass. Profile pic fits into a curved pocket ‘freshly cut’ from the sky.

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High quality Print Ready Corporate Identity 7 pack

A clean, High quality print ready corporate identity Stationery package templates.

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Stylish Brushed Metal Business Card Template

Here’s a set of business card templates that’s simple, professional but stylish. It’s got your name looking like it’s engraved on brushed metal! All graphical elements are vectorized and effects are in re-usable layer styles.

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CIRCLES – Business Card

This sleek and stylist design is perfect for any company or person with plenty of room to add a company logo. 4 different colors included.

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3. Layer Styles

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Elegant Glass Text Effects & Styles

8 Transparent Layer Styles & 3 Elegant Glass Text effects created by using them in combination. Works great for Icons and Buttons too!

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Pressed – Letterpress Photoshop Styles

Save time by using pre-built great looking styles in Photoshop! This is a set of 5 letterpress Photoshop styles – they will make your text look as though it’s been pressed into any color background

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16 Quality Styles (Gold, Chrome, Glass and more)

This is a pack of 16 quality styles for Photoshop. Use the gold, chrome, stone, copper, metal styles and all the others for your web or print work!

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Glowing Light Text Effect and Styles

9 glowing light layer styles combined to create the three glowing text effects you see in the preview. Many of the styles look great alone though and there are many other nice combinations you can easily create.

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Premium Text Styles

6 high detailed text styles – clear glass #1, #2, metal, gold, tin and chrome. Works with thin and bold fonts. Some text effects used two piled up layers.

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Window Styles I

A pack of three layer styles that can be applied to any shape or object to give it an application window appearance. Includes HUD , Glass, and Textured window styles.

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16 Premium Photoshop Styles

This set includes 16 premium photoshop text styles for your projects! Use them however you like to give your projects a professional look and feel!

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30 Clean Gradient Photoshop Styles

This ASL file contains 30 Layer Styles created to use with buttons, forms, text, logos, icons and windows. These styles will help you create good compositions with dark and light color backgrounds with just one click.

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10 Quality Texture Text Styles

This is a pack of 8 quality styles for Photoshop (stone styles, dinosaurs style, wood texture styles, marble style, bursted metal style and rusted metal style ).

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Metal Grille Styles

Layer Style Set with 36 variations.

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1 Pixel Menu Styles

Save time designing menu bars or buttons with these 12 Photoshop layer styles which give your text or shapes a letterpressed or embossed look with a single click.

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8 Amazing Layer Styles

8 Photoshop Styles to enhance your text.

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Automobile Layer Styles 2

A set of 42 Photoshop layer styles based on materials found on cars and motorcycles. Including metal grilles, textured plastic, leather, tyres, lights and paintwork.

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Lighting Effect Kit

The Lighting Effect Kit is a collection of 5 styles that are applied to duplicate layers to add Light, Glitter and Glow to your text.

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Superhero Text Effect

Here are 5 text layer styles. Best works with bold fonts. All Text layers and layer styles are editable.

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