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| Posted: 28 Dec 2011 07:04 AM PST  Check this list of the latest cool business card designs for 2012! Our previous article on premium business card designs was quite well received so this follow up article highlights some of the best business card designs for 2012. Is it time to give your business card a facelift? Elegant business card designSometimes, simple and elegant designs can convey a better message than a complicated and fanciful design. The following business card design for a wine company shows this concept brilliantly. An elegant logo plus a wine corkage background is enough to tell people what the company is all about. Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Vineria-Logo-Corporate-Identity/2745779 Elegance design can also be achieved with the use of beautiful fonts and simple contrast. The following pulls off this concept very well. Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Sport-2b/2734641 Creative business card designsCorporate business card designs tend to be within a certain boundary. This is understandable as most corporate customers are risk adverse. Hence, when we want to see creative business card designs, the best is to look at personal business cards. These designs are typically done with flair and creativity. Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Personal-Business-Card/2746607 I always like designs that think beyond just fonts, colors and visual art. When we start to play around with materials, that is when things can get really creative and interesting. Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/identity-design/2730229 Hairstylist business card designsYou would think that business card for hairstylist should be boring and uncreative. Well, the example below shows what can be done if you focus on bringing out the subject area in a non typical way. I love the use of the black and white color tone on a simple and yet captivating image. Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Christoforos-Plakas/2749671 Photography business card designsExpects lots of nice design from the business cards of photographers. Most of such designs typically have a nice photo to show the skills of the photographer. Below are some my favorite photography business card design. Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/KHall-Photography/2745055 In the following photography business card design, it deviates from the use of photographs as background image for the cards. Instead, a cute and vintage design is being employed. It looks nice and stands out from the rest of the photographer business card designs. Source: http://www.behance.net/gallery/LogoBusiness-Card/2737453 Real estate business card designsIf you have seen real estate business card designs, you know they can be pretty ugly. Here are some real estate business card designs that will make you stand out if you are a real estate agent handling out these cards. Source: unknown
Source: http://taimur.in/some-awsome-business-card-designs/ Hope you like these cool business card designs. Enjoy the last days of 2011!       | ||
| Creating an Ecological Fairy Tale Wallpaper Posted: 25 Dec 2011 09:06 PM PST  This tutorial will show how to create pebbles covering with grasses from scratch in Photoshop. You shall display your own creativity on what things should be placed on them to form your own ecological wallpaper! Preview of Final Image
Create a document with size 1200×800 pixels. Fill the background with a linear top-down gradient with color from #CCCCCC to #FFFFFF. Select the Pen tool, set it to Shape Layers mode at the top menu and draw a simple shape for the pebble that you want it to be. You can fill the shape with any color for now. Repeat the same process for more pebbles. The placings is all up to your creativity. There is no rules on how to do this step. Now find a Sand Texture to your personal liking, otherwise you can download the one I used here from Texturise.com. Position the texture so that it covers the whole pebble. Right-click on the pebble layer to load its selection, then click on the Add Vector Mask button. This way, you will get the sand texture masked within the shape. Hide your pebble layer for now. Repeat the same process for the grass texture. You can download the one I am using here, made from FrozenStocks. Select the grass layer and go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen to bring out more details. Select the Brush tool open up the Brush Preset Picker panel. Look for the brush named Chalk 60 pixels. Set the Foreground Color to #000000. Now click on the black and white mask on the Grass layer and start paint around the border of the pebble shape. This is to make the border less regular like those tips of grasses. Remember the black is used for opaque areas, if you want to unhide the transparent areas, use white color. When you are done with the border, apply a Drop Shadow layer style to the grass. Set the angle to 90 degrees. This is roughly what you will get. Let us now work on the sand texture. Create a new layer in between the Sand and Grasses layers. Name this layer as Tones and set its Blend Mode to Soft Light. Using the Paint Brush tool (in Soft-Rounded mode) with size around 100px and color #000000, paint around the bottom area of the pebble. You will get a soft shadow there. Repeat this process a few more times, considering the light source coming from top left. Unhide the earlier pebble shape layer you drawn. Right-click on the layer and choose Rasterize. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Set the Radius to 5 pixels then the layer Opacity to 40%. Select Edit > Free Transform and scale it vertically downwards as shown in the diagram below. Hit OK once you are done. You have the basic shadow for your pebble already but we also need to enhance the shadow where the pebble is actually touching the floor. Zoom in so we can get a better view. Using the black paint brush with a smaller size this time, paint at the part where you want the pebble to touch the floor. And there you have your first pebble! Make more pebbles in various shapes and sizes to fill up the document. Now you have several empty lands to fill things with. There are many stuffs that you can do with them, it all depends on your preferences and imagination. I want to make it more fantasy-like and there is a beautiful stock gallery provided by Shoofly Stock. The high quality items inside is able to fill up your pebbles in a variety of themes. I start off with filling in the trees and plants. Then I made a layer below them and paint in shadows using the Soft-Rounded Paint Brush tool. This is an overview of how it is like after filling in the greens. Remember to leave spaces for theme objects. Lastly, I inserted a few fantasy-themed objects like the shoe house, walking tree and stone hut. That is all and I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you. Download high-resolution wallpaper here. Message from our online supporter     | ||
| Create Detailed Letters of Gold and Diamond Posted: 22 Dec 2011 04:52 PM PST This tutorial will show how we can create a set of detailed letters with gold and diamond. We will learn how to use the Polygonal tool to make a simple diamond and also introduce a convenient way to duplicate layers with minimal efforts. Preview of Final Image
Create a new document of size 1000×700 pixels. Pick the Polygonal tool, set it to Shape Layers mode, sides to 18 and foreground color to #CECECE. Make a polygon on the document like what I did below. Make another smaller polygon above the earlier one with foreground color #A8A8A8. Align the smaller polygon to the center of the larger one. Select the Pen tool, set it to Shape Layers mode and foreground color #676767. Create a shape by setting the anchor points according to the sequence shown below. Then set the Blend mode of this shape layer to Overlay. Repeat the same steps to cover the entire polygon. Then group all of them into a Group folder. Rename this folder as Diamond. Hide the Diamond folder temporary. Pick the Text tool and set the font to Myriad Pro. Type a letter at the center of the document. Right-click on the text layer and choose Blending Options. Select Gradient Overlay, set the Angle to 90 and Gradient to the colors shown below. CTRL+left click on the text layer to load a selection of it. Go to Select > Modify > Contract. Set the Radius to 4 pixels. Create a new layer and fill this selection with any color. Right-click on the new layer and choose Blending Options. Select Gradient Overlay, set its Angle to 90 and Gradient to the colors shown below. Repeat a similar step as the earlier but with a contraction of 10 pixels this time. Use the gradient colors as shown. Repeat a similar step as the earlier but with a contraction of 4 pixels this time. Use the gradient colors as shown. Unhide the Diamond folder. Right-click on the folder layer and choose Merge Group. Go to Edit > Transform > Free Transform to scale down the diamond so its diameter is close to the width of the gold border. Right-click on the Diamond layer and choose Blending Options. Select Drop Shadow, set the Angle to -50, Distance to 2, Size to 1 and leave the rest as default settings. Now you need to place more diamonds so it fill up along the gold border of the letter. TIPS: Select the Diamond layer and pick Move tool. Press and hold ALT key then start to drag the diamond away from its original position. You will realise a new diamond layer is created. This is a much faster way to duplicated layers. Use the Pen tool to create a shape with white color like I did below. Duplicate the shape and go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 CW. Merge these two shapes as a single layer. Duplicate the cross shape layer, scale it down slightly and rotate it by 45 degrees. Position the smaller cross to the center of bigger one. Merge these two crosses as a single layer. Rename this layer as Glitter. Resize the Glitter so it fits nicely to size of the diamond. Right-click on the Glitter layer and choose Blending Option. Select Outer Glow and key in the settings shown below. Repeat the same step for more glitter layers and place them around the letter border. Now you have got the first letter of gold and diamond. Repeat the same for more letterings. After you are done, merge all the letters as a single layer. Right-click on the Letters layer and choose Blending Options. Select Outer Glow and fill in the settings as shown below. Download the Glitter Background from ShutterStock. Place the image as background behind all layers. Create a Level Adjustment layer and key in the settings as shown. Create a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer and key in the settings as shown. Create a Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer and key in the settings as shown. And there you have it! We have come to the end of the tutorial. I hope this will be useful for your future projects. Message from our online supporter     |
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