How to Make a Full-Featured Font using Custom Letterforms from Illustrator
This tutorial is a follow up to one of my older posts on how to create custom letterforms in Illustrator, this time showing you how to take vector letterforms from Illustrator and convert them into a full font that you can use in your designs....Read more
How to Add Hand Drawn Vector Arrows to Your Website
This tutorial will show you how to add our recently released free hand drawn vector arrows to an existing website. This is a great technique for drawing the attention of your visitors to a specific element on your page, such as a call to action button or a special offer...Read more
Create Legible White on White Text with Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to create a long shadow and use subtle lighting techniques in Photoshop to make white on white text that is not only visible but also legible (at a decent enough size of course)....Read more
Create Confetti Shapes Quickly and Easily in Illustrator
In this tutorial we will create a scattered confetti effect. This effect could potentially be very time consuming to draw, resize, rotate and rearrange each shape manually, so we will use Scatter Brushes to simplify the whole process and make it much more fun!...Read more
Use Photoshop to Smooth Skin and Make Eyes Pop
This tutorial will teach you a simple technique for subtly enhancing portrait photos with Photoshop. We will gently smooth the skin to improve the overall tone and help reduce unwanted blemishes, then draw focus to the eyes by increasing their contrast and saturation....Read more
How to Create Text Made out of Pencils in Illustrator
This fun effect is great for 'back to school' type graphics and also a good learning experience for using Art Brushes in Illustrator to manipulate and bend vector graphics around shapes such as text....Read more
How to Create an Infinite Loop Symbol with Illustrator
This tutorial will teach you how to take a basic circle shape and use Illustrator to manipulate, duplicate and layer it step by step to build a perfect infinite loop and also create the illusion of depth....Read more
What is Card-Based Design and Should you be Using it?
It may seem like every website you visit lately is migrating to card-based layouts over their traditional layouts. Taking cues from social media platforms, this trend has become hugely popular across all types of websites. The question is why, and should you be doing th...Read more