May 21, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Playing with Timeline in Photoshop CS6

Photoshop CS6 has some great features, one of them is the new timeline for basic animations and this time Photoshop

May 14, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Big Up Cover Illustration by Saad Moosajee

Monday is our tutorial day. We try to post tutorials every Monday showing how to create some nice effects or

May 07, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Hipster Text Effect in Photoshop CS6

A few weeks ago we posted a tutorial showing how to create a hipster text effect using Pixelmator. Now we

April 30, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Icon Design in 5 Steps - Free Icon Set…

Icon design is a craft that requires some incredible amount of skills. It's all about creating simple representation of actions,

April 23, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Hipster Text Effect in Pixelmator

Every time I checked Dribbble I see a bunch of posts with this sort of vintage typography style. It's a

April 16, 2012 marcos333's blog

Happy Tree Friends in Illustrator

I should have done this tutorial sometime ago as Happy Tree Friends is already a old animation series (it was

April 02, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Wrath of the Titans in Photoshop CS6

We always try to publish tutorials based on effects we like especially from movies, posters and other sources of inspiration.

April 01, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Video Tutorial: Battleship Poster in Photoshop CS6

The coolest thing about writing tutorials is that I have the chance to try to recreate effects I see in

March 26, 2012 marcos333's blog

Create Plants Vs. Zombie Type in Illustrator

Nowadays it seems that the good video-games era is coming back. Super fancy and graphic elaborated games dominated the early

March 22, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

LCD Style Effect in Pixelmator

Digital LCD effects are very common but they still impress me especially in terms of light effects. The way the

March 19, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

Starting a Design Project

We have been posting tutorials pretty much every week for the past 6 years. We believe tutorials are an amazing

March 12, 2012 abduzeedo's blog

The Artist Inspiring Design in Illustrator and Photoshop

A few weeks ago I watched The Artist. Since the first time I saw and read about the movie I

Featured Tutorial

Stunning Dragons Attack in Photoshop with 3D FeaturesStunning Dragons Attack in Photoshop with 3D Features
Stunning Dragons Attack in Photoshop with 3D Features
Last year I was learning how to use the 3D features in Photoshop and I did an image mixing a 3D robot with a photography and some dragons in vector. After quite sometime I was checking my images and found it, so I decided to write a tutorial showing how I did that. And, also play a bit more with the new 3D features in Adobe CS4. In this tutorial I will show you how to create an sort of video-game style image with dragons, fire, smoke, robots and other crazy things.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #63 - saltshaker911
Wallpaper of the Week #63 - saltshaker911
The wallpaper of this week is a really nice 3D image created by Ali Rahmoun, also known as Saltshaker911 at DeviantArt. The 3D concept was done while he was playing in 3DSMax. As we always encourage you to play with the tools, nothing better than feature some images from those who do that :)

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Designing Brand Identity - An Essential Guide for the Whole Bra
Book Suggestion: Designing Brand Identity
The book suggestion of this week is about branding and it's a recommendation from one of our favorite graphic designers out there, Roger Oddone. The book is called Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team and it covers everything you need to know about branding, from its definition to how come up with the most efficient strategy.