Photoshop is one of most well-liked application software to design anything you want as it support both vector-base design and raster-base designs. However it doesn’t pack everything you need to use in your design and this is the reason a lot of people love to invent third-party elements to use in various designs, the summer season is just around the corner where people love to celebrate so many events with different posters, cards, tee shirts, etc. Even most of us prefer Tee Shirts than casual shirts, in order to design a T-Shirt, website header, website footer, facebook timeline, twitter background, wordpress theme designs or anything else you want to more realistic and catchy, you need third party elements for your designs such as pattern, brushes, gradients and more. How to create a third party custom Photoshop element?
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Learn How to Create Custom Photoshop Brushes - 30 Brush Tutorials
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
30 Beautifully Made Hand Lettering Illustrations
I love illustrations based on typography because they not only look great but also because they are very expensive...
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Custom Lettering with Eric Waetzig
Eric Waetzig is a designer from Venice Beach specialized in typography and custom lettering. Eric spent the past few years building and developing a new streetwear brand called Rukru. The simple message behind the brand is "Respect the Trade". Respect the people who have created the cultures we love. This means you.
Monday, December 17, 2012
31+ Gorgeous Custom Lettering Logos for Inspiration
One way to make an absolutely unique logo is to draw the writing manually, in contrast to selecting already made typeface. Custom lettering starts by sketching out your ideas on paper (grid paper is best) – when the desired lettering is drawn you then scan it into your computer and trace over it using a Vector program (eg.Adobe Illustrator). Custom Lettering allows the designer to make the perfect logo with their own customized ligatures, tails and circles.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
500+ Ultimate Photoshop Custom Shapes
Photoshop custom shapes are great time savers for graphic designers and they are extremely useful in the right situations for beginners too, custom shapes are easy to use and edit if you’re familiar to pen tool. When you don’t have the right brush or need the effect with a higher resolution and quality Photoshop custom shapes can come in handy. In this post I am going to showcase some best and absolutely free Photoshop Custom Shape packs which contains approximately 1000+ custom shapes for graphic designers. Check them out!
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The Coolest Ways To Customize Your Android Phone
The biggest difference between Android smartphones and iPhones is freedom -- Android users have it and iPhone users are stuck in Apple's walled garden.
While iOS users might be content changing the backgrounds on their phones, Android allows for total customization and control over how your phone looks and works.
Here are the coolest ways to change the look of your Android phone.
Friday, July 6, 2012
How to Create Custom Personalized Maps in Google Maps [Video]
Though the custom maps feature has been out for a bit, you may have forgotten about it or it may all be new for you. Either way this wonderful video shows you how to create your own custom maps and enjoy an awesome feature of this popular Google service.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Which Custom Fonts are Top Web Designers Using?
Since we were granted the ability to make font choices beyond Helvetica and Georgia thanks to the @font-face rule and the various webfonts services we’ve seen an explosion of custom webfonts in website designs. Nowadays we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to web typography, but which fonts and custom webfont services are the top web designers using? Let’s take a look behind a collection of well crafted typographic designs and see which fonts and techniques are the most popular.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Custom Theming now Available in Gmail
This past November Google unveiled a new look for Gmail with HD themes, but you could not set up custom themes until now. Set up your new custom theme with a Light or Dark look to match up nicely with your chosen background and enjoy a more personalized experience in your inbox.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
How to Customize Ubuntu with Ubuntu Tweak
Ubuntu’s default configuration tools don’t expose a lot of options for customizing your Ubuntu desktop. Ubuntu Tweak fills the gap, exposing a wide variety of settings unavailable in the default interface.
Want to tweak the way Unity works, customize the login screen, or even change the desktop icon theme independently from the main theme? Ubuntu Tweak can help. Unity does have a few exposed settings in Ubuntu 12.04, but not many.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
How Do You Customize Your Computer? - Web Poll
Whether you spend your energy customizing via case mods or leave the box stock and re-skin the OS, we’re interested in hearing all about how you customize your computing experience and make the machine yours.
This week we want to hear about the OS tweaks, skins, modifications, and other tweaks you’ve applied to your computer to personalize it. Whether it’s minor tweaks at work because IT has the machines locked down or massive custom-built boxes at home that show off your love for your favorite Sci-Fi show, it’s time to share your favorite tools, tricks, and tips for customizing your computing experience–even better, share some screenshots or photos in the comments below.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Here's How To Customize Your iPad With These 9 Quick Tricks
There are a lot of settings that will help you to customize and extend the use of your iPad that you may have missed.
That's why we created this list of a few quick tips to help you ensure you get the most out of your device.
Warning, you may want to follow along with your iPad for this one.
Create Your Own Custom Brushes in Photoshop
Brushes are one of the fundamental features in Photoshop. With brushes, you can blend masks, create effects, add textures, and create lighting. There are thousands of brushes available online that you can download for your projects, but sometimes it can take hours to find the right brushes to get the specific look that you want. It can save you a lot of time if you just create your own brushes. You can use literally anything to create a custom brush. You just have to know how to convert your images or objects into the right format to define them as brushes.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
How to Create Photoshop Custom Shapes from Images
Working with custom shapes can save you a lot of time. What if you need an object and don`t know from where to get it or how to build it? It`s simple. Get it from an image. In this tutorial, I want to show you how to create Photoshop custom shapes, straight from images. Don`t worry, it`s not rocket science. There are only a few steps to cover and the only things you need to know is how to cut out objects using either the Pen Tool or Magic Wand Tool.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
How To Determine What Your Clients Really Want
The world of freelancing is host to many complicated skillsets. Artists and graphic designers are constantly trying to match their talents with the numerous demands pouring out from clients. Project work can be exhilarating, yet also very stressful if you aren’t prepared.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
40+ Epic Examples of Custom Car Designs & Posters From Famous Classic Movies
I don’t know about you guys, but when I was little I used to love movies about Cars. It seemed like the 70′s 80′s and 90′s were full of awesome car movies like mad max! wraith! etc. loved these movies as a kid, so let’t take a trip down memory lane and enjoy this list of badass cars from badass movies (and some badass posters too) (included wiki links for the movies to suck your life away today, sorry haha). Also these are in no particular order. Hope this brings back your childhood, or inspires you in some way with the awesome design of the cars, or the nostalgic design of the original classic movie posters!!
Monday, January 16, 2012
Apple Store Customer Service - Strange Stories
Apple Store employees are trained to hold customer service paramount to nearly everything else.
But what about the customers that make it really difficult?
We reached out to a source who used to work at an Apple Store location, and he shared a few stories of customer service gone awry.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Build your own iPhone case
LAS VEGAS--It's been my experience that when there's a large crowd gathered around a booth at CES, it's either because of the booth babes or because a company is giving away free stuff. In Case-Mate's, err, case, it was the latter.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Logo Templates: 90 Custom Logo Template Design
This is my second post on Logo Templates, in this post you can find Logo Templates : 90 Custom Logo Templates Design. Logo designs is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar market. Awesome and Creative Logos Designs are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Your custom robot army is here - Tech Article
My Robot Nation is aiming to make it possible for almost anyone to design their own 3D robot model--and have it delivered to their door. Eventually, the company wants to expand to a wide variety of products but is using robots as a way to establish itself.