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Panoramic FX using Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop must the best graphic and photo editor software ever made. With this amazing tool, you can create a panorama photo from series of scenery shots within few minutes automatically. Creating Panoramic FX to your photos should be much easier than before after you read this tutorial ;)
Give a try to find out how easy this wonderful trick is!

08.01.08 | Comment? |
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Photoshoping a Corporate Teaser Graphic

What does it take to create a great graphic design that has corporate-look actually? Well what a great thing because today’s tutorial will show you how to create that professional corporate design which consist in 3 series of tutorials.

NobsTutorials.blogspot.com has picked a design object to create a corporate teaser graphic from scratch, which is a phone card product. It is started from adding pattern effect to the background, then combining some pictures to fit the product’s theme. You will also learn how to bring this pictures into some realistic objects before finally get set for the finishing touch.

If you are a newbie or a professional designer and searching reference of new techniques to create corporate teaser for a website or off-line advertising graphic design, have a moment to read this wonderful tutorial now or save this post in your favorite bookmark websites :) Enjoy!

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GreyBox - New Smart Window

GreyBox is actually a showcase box tool that works almost similar to pop-up window. Pop up window always distracting and most of us just hate it :D. So, what is so special about GreyBox?
GreyBox display many kinds of content at the same window in a very smart way, because it does not conflict with pop-up blockers. It has a nice pre-loader before displaying the content in a box. There is a simple nav-bar that sticks above the box showing the content title, arrow buttons to browse the contents, and exit button. You can easily alter the style as it is controlled through CSS.

GreyBox is useful to show:
- external pages
- AJAX uploading of files
- internal pages (login, user preference, properties, contact formulas etc.)
- a video or a flash animation
- images
- product information
- Admin sections
- and much more….

An advance usage set up is also available for a quick overview and kindly visit some of websites that use GreyBox to enhance your ideas when you decide to use this cool smart window!

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Function Grunge Brush Set

Another freebies from WeFunction.com, as they have released their very first photoshop brush set to download just for you! These brushes are exclusively designed to create subtle grunge effects within your designs. Captured from various dirty textures, surfaces and fabrics images, these 33 brushes are categorized as medium size range at 204px to 496px.

What makes the brush set special is because all of the brushes have faded edges, so they are perfect for creating edges, masking, and and organic patterns & backgrounds without any straight lines in them. There still be more effect can be done simply by using them, so check out the resource post and don’t forget to bookmark this article review for future use!

07.31.08 | 1 Comment |
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Paint Explosion Image Effect

Wonder how to create a cool paint explosion image? Learn the basic techniques in this quick tutorial. You will need ink splatter images and lots of transforming steps to add more impressive effect.
Check out this tutorial now to master this technique!

07.30.08 | Comment? |
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Braintalk with Antonio Carusone - aisleone.net

1. Hi , who are you and what do you do?
My name is Antonio Carusone and I’m a Senior Art Director at an advertising agency in New York City. I also author aisleone.net, a graphic design blog and am obsessed with grid systems and sneakers. Here are some examples of my work:


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07.29.08 | 8 Comments |
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50 Movie Posters for your graphical Inspiration

Almost everyone loves movies, and going for a walk to the cinema theater on the weekend is always fun. If you are a designer, you would also be fond of watching movie posters artworks displayed on every corners of the theater. What makes it a kick-ass movie poster? Why they appear astonish in some sort of?

A Movie poster is actually made to support marketing campaign during the build up to its release. Every design aspect needs to be handled in creative manners for this campaign. A movie poster always looks stunning in particular, as it should be able to deliver the story behind the movie. The design concept often highlights its ultimate scene-shot graphic to show a bit of drama. Movie characters, typography and graphics are key elements composed into amazing teaser design using graphic effects that outlines exactly what the movie is about.
Here are 50 movie posters from the last years cover up different design theme and effects. Happy watching guys ;) !

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07.28.08 | 5 Comments |
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CSS Type Set - Letter Press for the Digital Age

CSS Type Set is a simple web tool to help you with CSS type customization. In order to use this web tool, you must enable JavaScript. Copy and paste or type in your desired text in the left box, then you can use the control tools (below the box) to instantly changes the style of your copy.
After entering text in the box to the left and adjusting the style controls, you can copy the generated CSS to use on your own website.
This CSS Type Set is pretty handy because every type style customization can be checked instantly together with the CSS codes. CSS Type Set also performs very well for a paragraph text.
Beside the regular type formatting controls, you can see three sliders with different functions to set the style of types and paragraph. They are: letter spacing slider, word spacing slider and line height sliders.

Give a try of this cool CSS Type Set and let us know what you think! ;)

07.25.08 | 1 Comment |
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