How to Make Op Art in Illustrator
The Optical Art, also known as "Op Art", is an artistic movement and trend born in the United States back in the late 50's. Op Art uses optical phenomena to produce abstract pictorial images and create a sensation of movement on two-dimensional surfaces. Making this typ...Read more
How to Make a Geometric Halftone Effect in Illustrator
In its original form, Halftone was a printing technique that used small dots of CMYK colors to simulate a solid ink, varying the size and the spacing of those dots to generate a gradient effect or a smooth color. Today, rather than showing you how to make a color halfto...Read more
How to Mock Up Your Own Album Cover
We always say that in Photoshop there are many ways to achieve the same result; sometimes it takes more, sometimes less, work, depending on the final quality you're looking for. But, there are times when a simple square and some layer styles can make a quick mockup for ...Read more
Create a Sparkling Gold Glitter Background
Sparkling gold glitter texture is the kicky cousin of elegance — stylish and tasteful, but with a sense of humor about it. If someday you need to make a background for a cosmetics company, a make-up blog or even wedding invitations, then this is the texture for you. Yo...Read more
Create Your Own Gorgeous Poster Mockup for Free!
Making a good first impression when presenting your designs to a client or even for a personal project that you plan to show on your social media channels might be *the most* important. As a designer, you may face a situation when you only have the design but not the ph...Read more
How to Add a Vintage Texture to a Portrait
Adding a vintage texture to any picture in Photoshop is a super easy task if you use the right layer blending modes. But don't get complcanet, you can punch up your image even more; don't worry, it's easy. There are ways to improve the final image look & feel by using a...Read more
How to Make an Isometric Grid in Photoshop
A popular mockup method to show different kind of projects (eg. an app screen) in different formats (eg. a mobile phone) is to display them projected over an isometric grid. An isometric layout is a type of orthogonal projection where elements are drawn in the same prop...Read more
How to Create Rain Droplets for Petals in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how a quick and easy technique to create rain droplets in Photoshop, which can then be added to petals or even other objects such as cold aluminium drink cans and glass surfaces....Read more