Awesome Freebies: 300+ Illustrator Brushes

May 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment | Posted in Graphics, Resources, Various

Being a designer you usually want to spend time doing what you’re best at. When making a logo, a website header or a brochure, – you often run into situations where you should have had a certain type of brush for that little extra to add to the design. It’s quite likely someone have already made it, so why take a lot of time to have to do it when you’d rather be designing?

This time we’ve made a collection for you with a great variety of free brushes for Adobe Illustrator. Finding Photoshop brushes is usually a bit easier than the Illustrator ones, so hopefully this roundup will help you save some time on that!

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The Gloss Effect in Photoshop

May 16th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Various

Why are people attracted to shiny objects? Why are there so many gloss effect tutorials on the internet? Alex Walker says the effect is getting a little long in the tooth and his article at SitePoint needs to be the jump-off for this posting. Nonetheless, people are attracted to shiny objects and even though it has been overused and is often cliché, we will continue to use it because sometimes graphics need something shiny to attract the viewer’s eyes.
Let us start simple with glossy text and an easy video tutorial. Next, this tutorial by Anthony is by far the easiest way to grasp how quickly you can add the gloss effect to buttons. Push it a little further and work on this beginner’s guide to create the glossy effect tutorial. After that tutorial study one that works on any freeform shape. You might want to progress by learning how to make realistic glass and plastic pill buttons.
Now that you mastered the basics of gloss effects in Photoshop here are links to collections of tutorials to take it to the next level:

55 Photoshop Glass Tutorials

22 Turotials To Create Shiny Effect Using Photoshop

40 Icon Tutorials for Photoshop

8 Web 2.0 Generators For The Lazy Designer

May 15th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Various

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3d Box Generator

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