A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 17

by Lisa Casson on September 10, 2011

Simple Infographic Design in Photoshop Part 2

Today I continued with my inforgraphic design for “The Website Design Process”. Yesterday I did the first ‘step’ in the infographic and today I added a second step. Here is the the complete design so far:

Infographic Design in Photoshop
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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 16

by Lisa Casson on September 9, 2011

Simple Infographic Design in Photoshop

Yesterday I stumbled on an infographic by Skype. I was immediately inspired and I’ve been wanting to do one myself for a while. An entire infographic would take too long for my daily challenge, so I decided to do a step a day until I have completed one.

What is an Infographic?
An infographic is a way of presenting processes/data in visuals.

Here is step one in “The Website Design Process”:

Infographic Design in Photoshop
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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 15

September 8, 2011

Gold Text in Photoshop Today I decided to try a gold text tutorial, in line with my text effects theme. Gold, in my opinion, is hard to achieve realistically. It usually looks heavy and fake. I found a tutorial which was very simple and very elegant. Here is my final result:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 14

September 7, 2011

3D Molten Text in Photoshop Following my theme of text effects, today I found a cool-looking fire and ice 3D text tutorial. The tutorial wasn’t very clear and I overdid it slighly, but I loved the layer effects in the tutorial and it also gave some nice resources to some awesome Photoshop brushes. Here is [...]

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 13

September 6, 2011

Light & Shade Text Effects in Photoshop Today, in continuing my theme of text effects, I decided to try a really nice one that played with lighting effects. Here is the final result:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 12

September 5, 2011

Western Logo in Illustrator & Photoshop Today I searched online for some more text effect tutorials. I found a really nice Western text tutorial, and thought I could use it for idea’s for a new logo for my husband’s blog. Halfway through I decided I didn’t like the tutorial any longer and improvised. Here is [...]

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 11

September 4, 2011

3D Text Effect in Illustrator & Photoshop Today I decided to do another text effect tutorial (I really enjoy these and they’re quick). It was another combined work of Photoshop and Illustrator, and I loved the final result. Here it is:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 10

September 3, 2011

3D Text in Illustrator & Photoshop I’m enjoying creating text effects, so today I found a beautiful 3D text effect I wanted to try. It’s also so fitting since we’re heading into Spring. Here is my final artwork:

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