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

Reader Tutorial: 16bits Vector Style Illustration
Mario! everyday he saves the princess! Between some enthusiasts he is a great hero, outside and inside the gamers world, he is one of my favorite characters, so I decided to show how to vectorize a Mario from super nes with illustrator. The same process can be used for any other game or character. What you will need? - A Super Nintendo emulator called Snes9x - Download it here - A rom from Super Mario World - Download it here

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #88 - Alex Varanese
Wallpaper of the Week #88 - Alex Varanese
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Alex Varanese, a graphic designer and creative director from San Francisco, USA. Alex has some really cool Typeface designs and an impressive portfolio with a beautiful retro feel. For more information visit Alex's website at http://www.alexvaranese.com/ Desktop Version

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
Book Suggestion: Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age
The book suggestion of this week is a very inspiring one for those in love with vintage typography, it's called Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age. It's definitely a book for when you need some extra motivation and inspiration. About the book Elegant, quirky, fluid, brutish, ostentatious— a visual resource of cursives and other typefaces that resemble handwriting.