Tutorials
I have just completed a personal website project producing a Social Networking site to allow for learner drivers to sign up on the site, create a personal user profile, update their personal blog and communicate with other users through commenting, friend systems and private messaging.
To begin the project I set out testing out a variety of Open Source content management systems to find the best solution, and before I knew it, I'd looked into a huge range of potential systems and thought it would be great to summarise my findings on the best contenders…
For those who already know about Automate Batch, this article may not be of much interest, but to those who don't, reading on could possibly be the best moment of your life (or at least this week!).
By firstly using the power of pen and paper a character design is created, which is then scanned into the computer to use as a base for tracing with Adobe Illustrator. The final outcome is a colourful cartoon character in vector format!
This simple effect in Photoshop effectively increases the luminosity range of an ordinary photograph, giving a wide spectrum of tones and contrast. The effect was originally discovered whilst I was trying to replicate the style of HDR photography in Adobe Photoshop. Whilst the outcome doesn’t quite compare to HDR, the resulting effect is still pretty cool!
Probably one of the most popular and recognisable icons in the web universe; the RSS icon is displayed on many website to indicate the availability of a subscription feed. There are pre-made icons you can download and place on your website, however this tutorial cover the process of creating your own custom vector RSS icon in Illustrator.
Since the icon is to be created in vector format, it can be scaled up or down in size for implementation on future websites you may work on, unlike a raster version which would have to be remade in larger dimensions to prevent pixelation.
Create a low-cost, low-tech T-shirt using a digitally designed stencil.
