Archives for the ‘Tutorials’ Category

Logo Design Tips and Insight

By Brandy Widner • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Design and Layout, Illustrator and Vector

Logo Design Tips
Three Steps to Designing Brands (logos):
Shapes:
The brain sees and remembers shapes first. Distinctive shapes imprint faster and better into the memory. Be different and unique nut stay simple in your shapes as well.
Colors:
Colors play a large part in corporate identity. They can trigger emotions and evoke an immediate brand association. Colors must be [...]



Photoshop links & tutorials

By David Wildish • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Features, Photoshop

As we at THEGDFC try to cater for your tutorial needs on a request basis sometime its good to find inspiration when you are lost for a topic to try your hand at fun tasks in photoshop.
we have scoured the web and have brought you a list of of Fun and educational tutorials from [...]



Illustration Tutorial - Halfbuiltrobot style

By David Wildish • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Features, Photoshop, Tutorials

I would like to share my style with you and give an insite into my style of illustration. I generally use a mix of vector artwork and raster work in photoshop for layout and colour effects. There are no rules to the process you choose to make your elements with, although I recommend a Vector [...]



Disjointed Rollover - Dreamweaver

By David Wildish • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Tutorials, Web Design and Development

Following from my Tutorial in how to make a rollover in Dreamweaver the next step is to create a Disjointed roll over.
The aim of this is to use a button or text area that effects an image else where on your web page. For example you have a link button on your page which when [...]



Create a Rollover image in Dreamweaver

By David Wildish • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Tutorials, Uncategorized, Web Design and Development

This tutorial is classed as beginners guide to some of the features in Dreamweaver, It is a very simple set of steps so to complete this you must have Dreamweaver of some level. I was inspired to make this tutorial after reading a post from another graphics site requesting knowledge on how to preform this [...]



Text effects in Photoshop

By David Wildish • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

Although Photoshop isn’t a natural choice for those wishing to pull off amazing effects with text sometimes we need to be able to as a time saver. Its also good to understand some of the basic features held with in Photoshop and what it can do. These simple techniques can be applied to objects and [...]