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15 Brilliant Tutorials On How To Design A Logo
Posted by Eric Shafer on January 26, 2012 · 0 Comment
Many people think that they know how to design a logo, but the process is actually much more in depth than many people give it credit for. As such, many clients believe
Create a Flash Website using MotoCMS
Today it seems that almost everyone has a website, including business companies, photographers, governmental organizations, even just married couples. All these website owners differ from each other greatly: they have different profit levels and abilities to pay, knowledge and skills in web design and development. It becomes very easy to say which websites were created by advanced developers and [...]
7 Epic Tips for Getting More Clients
Posted by mitchoconner on September 27, 2011 · 0 Comment
Whether you are an entrepreneur or freelancer, one thing is for sure: your common goal is to get more clients. How to achieve this, though, is where things can get a bit sticky. How aggressive should you be? How do you make a lasting impression? What is the best way to turn a potential client into a client? Thankfully, you don’t have to consider these questions alone. The following list will help [...]
The Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Beginners
Posted by Ken Hattori on August 30, 2011 · 0 Comment
Adobe Illustrator is an amazing tool. With its user-friendly interface yet astonishingly complex capabilities, it is an ideal program for professional and recreational illustrators alike. Still, to an individual who has never utilized this program before, opening up Adobe Illustrator for the first time is understandably intimidating. Much of it may look straightforward, but there’s only so [...]
20 Epic Business Card Design Ideas and Tips
Establishing yourself as a blogger isn’t just about constantly putting up good and sticky content, getting comments from readers, and making money out of your posts. Aside from promoting online, it’s indispensably necessary to tap your existing and potential readers offline.It’s true that it takes a lot of effort connecting to people outside the online community, but don’t you know that having [...]
A Beginners Guide to Typography
Posted by printerinks on August 4, 2011 · 0 Comment
Typography is the study and application of type and font and how these styles affect the presentation and reception of the message conveyed through text. And if you have any aspirations of making it in graphic design, web design or even in advertising, you need to have a solid grasp of these principles. In short, how the text is presented from font, to letter spacing to orientation, will determine [...]
HTML5 CSS3 Forms: 30 Tutorials to Design HTML5 Forms with CSS3
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 14, 2011 · 0 Comment
HTML5 CSS3 forms let you take your contact form designs to the next level. Web forms are crucial for interaction between a website and the user, and you’d be hard pressed to find a website these days that didn’t have a form somewhere on it. Even here on CreativeFan, we have a contact form and a comment form.HTML5 forms allow for cleaner, more semantic code, and CSS3 forms allow for [...]
How to Design for a Browser Theme
Posted by Patrick Murphy on June 16, 2011 · 0 Comment
Over the past few weeks, we’ve covered a few topics relating to custom browser theme design, including A Deeper Look at Custom Browser Theme Design and Creation and Design Decisions for Google Chrome Browser Themes. Also, if you’re lucky, there might still be an invite available from our giveaway: Giveaway: 25 Invites to BT-Engage Custom Browser Theme CreatorIn this article, we’ll [...]
5 Creative Exercises for Photographers
Posted by Lauren Bailey on June 14, 2011 · 0 Comment
As a creative writer, nearly every day I make use of creative writing exercises in order to keep my inspiration and creativity alive and well. I’ve found that many of these creative writing exercises are incredibly helpful when I deal with creative block, and I’ve also found that the results of many of these exercises somehow find their way into longer stories or other projects that I’m [...]
Using Your Blog to Promote Your Business
Posted by Brenda Coxe on June 2, 2011 · 0 Comment
The entry into the 21st century brought about many changes, and as we move forward toward the second decade we can expect to see even more in the way of promotional technology. Business owners no longer have to rely on expensive newspaper and magazine advertising nor are they limited to promoting a website that does nothing more than act as “show and tell” for the products and services [...]
Design Decisions for Google Chrome Browser Themes
Posted by Patrick Murphy on May 18, 2011 · 0 Comment
It’s no wonder, Chrome is the current hotbed for designers to turn their creative attention. The Internet browser is the most frequently used application on a computer and Google Chrome is the fastest growing browser. Chrome has a minimalistic interface and boasts a variety of add-ons similar to Firefox, while attempting to maintain a smaller overhead and also integrating with other Google services.Despite [...]
How to Become a Better Self-Marketing Graphic Designer
Posted by Whitney Cox on April 29, 2011 · 0 Comment
So you’re a freelance graphic designer. A really good freelance graphic designer, as a matter of fact. But for some reason you just aren’t getting the business you want. You do everything you think you’re supposed to in terms of marketing, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Is it possible that while you are hitting all the right marketing buttons, you just aren’t hitting them the [...]
30 Mudbox Tutorials for Beginners and Professionals
Posted by Eric Shafer on April 27, 2011 · 0 Comment
Mudbox is a 3D sculpting and painting tool that is commonly used for character design for movies and games. First used in Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Mudbox has been rapidly gaining popularity and was acquired by Autodesk, Inc. in 2007, where it has been refined into a powerful competitor to software such as zBrush.In this post, we’ve scoured around the web to find the 30 best Mudbox [...]
A Deeper Look at Custom Browser Theme Design and Creation
Posted by Patrick Murphy on April 26, 2011 · 0 Comment
When it comes to frequently used computer programs, browsers lead the pack. It’s far more likely that a person will open their web browser and surf the Internet than do anything else on their personal computer. It makes sense when you think about it – to do anything online, you have to use a browser as your gateway.In the past, that meant suffering with a boring, plain, utilitarian interface [...]
The Most Ridiculous Way To Clean Your Lens
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on April 15, 2011 · 0 Comment
This video has been hitting the blogs recently, but I didn't really watch it until it wound up in our inbox a half a dozen times. I guess I should say that this is probably the absolute textbook way to clean a lens but does anyone actually own all these rocket blowers, cleaning brushes, and cleaning supplies? I guess since I've never scratched a lens, I've always found one of these to be acceptable. [...]
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20 Illustrator Tutorials that Will Make You a Better Designer
Posted by Eric Shafer on April 14, 2011 · 0 Comment
Illustrator is an essential part of a designer’s workflow, but for those of us who learned Photoshop and rely heavily on it, Illustrator can seem confusing, and at times, unwieldy. However, once you learn Illustrator, you can integrate it into your workflow and drastically increase the number of creative effects in your design arsenal.Here you’ll find 20 high quality Adobe Illustrator [...]
The Best Photoshop Tutorials of March 2011
Posted by Eric Shafer on April 7, 2011 · 0 Comment
It has become a monthly tradition here at CreativeFan to post a series of the best Photoshop tutorials from across the web for any given month, as well as a massive roundup at the end of the year. By going through the tutorials in these lists, you’ll be exposed to a variety of different digital art styles, as well as vastly expand your Photoshop knowledge.This month, there were some great [...]
10 Digital Painting Video Tutorials for Beginners
Posted by Eric Shafer on March 31, 2011 · 0 Comment
When it comes to digital painting tutorials, text-based tutorials don’t quite cut it for most people. It’s difficult to get an intuitive feel for digital painting by just reading how others work, instead, it helps to see what they are actually doing. When it comes to digital painting video tutorials, there are two main types: Time-lapsed and real-time. In a time lapsed video, the [...]
How NASA Photoshopped A Galaxy
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 27, 2011 · 0 Comment
Did you know that every time you look at one of those amazing images captured by Hubble cameras you are actually looking at a composite image made up by as many as 1400 still shots? Did you also know that the colors you are seeing in those images are completely faked and added by scientists in order to show off specific details within the scene? This interesting timelapse video released by NASA shows [...]
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The Dark Side Of The Lens
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 27, 2011 · 0 Comment
I remember seeing this video a long time ago and really enjoyed it. Maybe we thought it was not educational enough to post it but after watching it again I think it's worth sharing. For those of you who have not already seen this short story, the Dark Side Of The Lens is a poetic journey into mind of surf photographer Mickey Smith. The cinematography is outstanding and the locations are breathtaking. [...]
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The NBA Films Commercials From The Past
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 26, 2011 · 0 Comment
Have you ever seen those commercials where old footage appears to come back to life with added scenes or impossible revelations are revealed years after the initial filming? The NBA commercials "Where Amazing Happens" feature high school footage of some of their hottest players practicing with another high school player "from the future" who encourages them with accomplishments from their own future [...]
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Surfing Video Goes Super Slow Motion
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 26, 2011 · 0 Comment
Lately there has been a trend of showing super slow motion videos slowed beyond the native frames per second the original footage was shot on. We love the results of Twixter but nothing can compare to seeing the real thing especially when combined with an extreme sport. The BBC has a great DVD on the South Pacific which features some amazing underwater slomo camera work of waves crashin, and this [...]
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Brian Smith Talks About Making Your Own Photo Breaks
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 24, 2011 · 0 Comment
I can't tell you how many photographers I encounter think being successful has to do with being at the right place at the right time. Sure a bit of luck on your side always helps, but if you are looking to quit your day job to become a professional photographer, increase your photography income over last year's earnings, or catapult your career as one of the industry leaders then you need to work [...]
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The Aurora Borealis As You’ve Never Seen It
Posted by Patrick Hall Admin on March 23, 2011 · 0 Comment
When I tell people that I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, everyone always asks me what it's like to see the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). I always try to explain how it looks by relating it to a laser show or smoke streams but I've never found a way to describe it to someone who hasn't seen it for themselves. Two days ago Terje Sorgjerd created the best visual representation of the Aurora Borealis [...]
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30 Digital Art Painting Tutorials and Techniques
Posted by Eric Shafer on March 22, 2011 · 0 Comment
Digital painting can be one of the harder techniques to master, but it also offers the widest range of creative possibilities, as you are not restrained by photographs or 3D software limitations. When it comes to digital art tutorials, digital painting tutorials are the hardest to create, because it is nearly impossible to capture every brush stroke and explain it, even with digital painting video [...]
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