This latest premium resource for Access All Areas members to download is a comprehensive kit for Adobe Illustrator from GuerillaCraft. It’s a unique combination of graphic styles, textures and actions for making beautiful distressed typography, logos or lettering. Easily create the hand made look with 24 different grain an speckle effects such as ‘stamp’, ‘photocopy’ and ‘rolled ink’, each one giving you full control over the density, intensity, size and rotation of the effect.
Have you been struggling to find the perfect typeface for your designs or are you becoming bored of using the same old go-to fonts? A great opportunity to extend your font library has just arisen with the Professional Grade Font Families Bundle from Design Cuts. This deal contains over 220 individual fonts spread throughout 20 font families, providing you with the highest quality typefaces to take your designs to new heights. A massive 98% discount off the total value of $1,786 means you can get hold of this superb collection for just $29.
Today we’re going to have some fun mimicking the distortion effect of VHS tapes in Adobe Photoshop. This is quite an unusual topic, but hopefully it will come in handy for those rare projects where you might need to replicate such a style. We’ll take a photograph and distort it with a variety of techniques to simulate the warping associated with old analog film footage, then we’ll apply some OSD text as a finishing touch to give it the appearance of a home movie being played on a VCR.
There’s some great new goodies for Lightroom users to download this week if you’re an Access All Areas member. This collection of Royal Black & White Lightroom Presets has been donated by DesignMont for members to enjoy. It contains 20 premium presets that speed up your workflow and bring high calibre creative looks to your photography. Effects range from subtle to dramatic and cover most photographic styles. Each Lightroom preset has been crafted with care to look great with a wide variety of images.
In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going back to the 1980s to create a rad text effect based on those 80s style chrome logos we used to see for games, movies, TV shows and more. The overall design incorporates the classic bold chrome text effect with a hot pink script font. It’s all done in Photoshop using a mix of layer styles and colour overlays to reproduce the shiny metal effects and vibrant colours.
Some of my readers might know I ride my own custom bike and love the design style surrounding the motorcycle culture. I’ve been busy illustrating and constructing a bunch of vector graphics to create a free motorcycle themed logo template kit. It contains 4 retro/vintage style logo designs with editable text, which can be personalised for your own projects; 6 typographic illustrations of motorcycle helmets, again with customisable text; and a series of vector illustrations that can be used as assets in your own designs. Easily build logos, emblems, badges and t-shirt designs for custom garages, bike clubs and more!
