Have you ever wished that you were some kind of a superhero, with the ability to bend the element of fire to your very will? I bet you’re thinking about it now!
Well, in this article I’m going to show you how to use Photoshop to transform yourself into a digital superhero! We’re going to take a simple image of a small and muted campfire and transform it into a bold and powerful ring of flames! Then we’ll integrate that ring into a cool looking poster.
If you’ve been reading SpyreStudios lately I’m sure you’ve read about MediaLoot, a brand new site I’m working on with Mason Hipp.
MediaLoot will be a membership site offering premium resources for designers. With your membership you’ll have access to things like icon sets, brushes, vectors, textures, web elements, templates and lots of other cool stuff.
We’re pretty busy with wireframing and building the website right now, and collaborating with some awesome designers to create resources for the site, but we thought it would be nice to give you guys a little something :)
Designing an awesome minimalist web design can great, but adding in the textured elements to it can turn it into a visually stunning piece of artwork.
Today’s article will showcase some of the coolest designs that utilize textures and will also link you to some tutorials that will show you how to turn your website designs into a textured masterpiece :)
Being able to select the right colors is key in designing an effective and intriguing design, whether for the web or for print. If you’re able to achieve a good balance within your design, then it’ll communicate a stronger message much more easily to the users or readers because certain colors “activate” certain types of emotions.
In this post we’ve compiled a list containing 20 Color Combination Tools for Designers. You can use this list to chose the tool that better fits your needs or that you’re most comfortable using.
The shopping list for a new home office gets bigger and bigger every year, with more technology invading our desks and forcing us to divide our attention even further. From new phones to do-all PC applications, the average design office is absolutely packed with technology, most of it largely unnecessary.
However, despite the wave of endless technology a lot of entrepreneurs, designers, and programmers are seeing the light, quite literally. Minimalist offices aren’t about making things more difficult – although they occasionally can – but about changing the dynamics around work. From eliminating needless comforts to boosting overall work output, investing in a minimalist office can have a number of interesting, inspiring, and unusual effects for your business.
We’re seeing superb lighting effects being used in design and media popping up everywhere nowadays; in print design, web design and even TV commercials – and it’s only getting more popular (good or bad thing?).
You could of course create your own lighting effects – but for those of us that are a little more time restricted, there are hundreds of free brushes out there. This post compiles a whopping collection of over 600 light effect Photoshop brushes!
