In the design world, presentation is everything. Whether you are making templates to sell to other designers, or creating something custom for a client, the way in which you present it can give it the perfect touch of...
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This tutorial will teach you how to take a photograph of an existing business card and use it to create a digital mockup with the Vanishing Point filter within Photoshop.
With some basic shading using Photoshop layer styles we...
Posted on Jan 29, 2011 in 3D, Text Effects, Tutorials
This tutorial will teach you how to use the 3D tools in Illustrator along with some simple but clever shadow techniques to create some awesome looking grungy 3D text.
It is a perfect text effect for websites and advertising...
Posted on Jan 11, 2011 in Text Effects, Tutorials
The animation tools within Photoshop are often overlooked. They may not be as powerful as dedicated animation software suites, but there are a few tricks that you can pick up to give your web graphics a little more flare.
In...
One of the easiest ways to make your designs pop is to add some texture and depth to the background. As with many things in Photoshop, there are multiple ways to do this, but by combining a few simple techniques and exercising...
Posted on Dec 20, 2010 in Articles
One of the constantly evolving obstacles that every web designer/developer comes across is getting a website to show up on the first page of search results, or even in the top position.
Search engine optimization can be a...
Posted on Dec 09, 2010 in Articles
Many people have had some kind of experience using Photoshop and a small number of those people grow to excel in graphic design. An even more minute group understands the principles of design and can tell you the reasons behind...
This tutorial will teach you how to use Illustrator and Photoshop to create a sleek car stereo interface that can be adapted to many different uses.
This tutorial assumes that you know how to use the basic tools within...
Posted on Nov 30, 2010 in News
Well, it was only a matter of time but Design Panoply can now be found on Facebook.
You'll notice a new Like button next to the Tweet button on all of our blog posts as well as the Facebook icon linking to our page in the...
Today we're going to create a realistic torn paper note on a wood background.
The purpose of this tutorial is to learn a few different lighting and shading techniques and how to work with patterns and textures to give your...