By alex|Graphic Design, Photoshop|Be the first to comment!
This is the effect we are aiming for: Step 1 Let’s get this started, so first create a new document. For the example I’m using a 500x500px document which I will then fill with black. With a dark tone of purple/pink create a radial gradient around the center. It should look like this: Step 2 [...]
Continue Reading →This is what you will achieve at the end of the tutorial: Click to enlarge The Tutorial To start things up you’ll need several things, first of course Photoshop, then look for a picture of yourself or a friend looking “GTA-style”. I found this one in a friends’ profile: Click for full-res photo Starting up [...]
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A very beautiful resource for web designers is drawing grass, although it is usually hard. I’ve come up with this great tutorial on how to create grass, of any size, color, or anything. This is the result you can get: Grassy field: Grass in a website header (This is actually a design I’ve done to [...]
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I normally write to those web developers/programmers who are already good, experienced, and thus the articles are somewhat advanced. But today I got up feeling nostalgic I guess, or I just felt like remembering back on my www birth, on my first impression of the Internet, my first site online, my first steps in w3c [...]
Continue Reading →By alex|General talk, Graphic Design, Layout/Styling, Photoshop, SEO, Web-related, WordPress|14 Comments
Here is a (huge) compilation of the best free Photoshop brushes out there. They are the ones I use, and the ones it took me a very long time to find over the web. I’ve selected the best of them, and along with a preview and a description, I’ve made a zip file that contains [...]
Continue Reading →I am Alex, a software and communications engeneering student. I currently live in the north of Spain.
For the past years I have been working on software and application development, as well as sharing tips and tricks I find useful.