In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to make a trendy grunge style illustration/design in Photoshop. These techniques and this type of design can be used in a multitude of ways: advertising posters, CD covers, band design merch, etc. The possibilities are only limited by your creativity and how much time you want to put in to it. Let’s begin….
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In Photoshop, make a new document with a white background, size 500px wide and 350px high. Make a new layer, and set your foreground color to #f66eac and your background color to white. Now select the gradient tool, or hit G. Set the style to foreground to background. You’re gradient editor bar should look like this.
On your new layer, click and drag from the bottom left corner to the top right, to make a pink to white gradient effect. Take the opacity of this layer down to 20%. This is the background setup.
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Here are six of my favorite, almost must have tools that I use for every web design project. The end results is always better when I use some or, a lot of the time, all of them.
1. Handy Dandy Notebook For Sketches
Nothing is more useful to me than my Moleskine. I carry it with me pretty much everywhere I go, and it’s full of logo concepts and site mock-ups. I’d definitely recommend getting one. I get mine at Borders. It really doesn’t matter what brand you choose, any simple notebook will work.
I just like using a Moleskine because of the hardback cover, elastic band around the whole thing, pocket in the back, and the awesome caliber of paper they use.
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2. Color Scheme Generator
More…The use of color is perhaps one of the most important aspects of web design, but also one of the hardest to nail. I use Color Schemer to help out, and their free gallery is very valuable for inspiration.
Color Schemer
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This photoshop tutorial will show you how you can create a vector style poster design. Yep, it includes that spiffy “sun ray” element that’s hot right now. So, fire up Photoshop and let’s get started.
The first thing you’ll need to do is get some brushes, and find a good stock picture. Here’s a ZIP file with the brushes you’ll need, as well as the stock picture I used.
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Install the brush files in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS2\Presets\Brushes\Photoshop Only, or wherever your photoshop is installed to.
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