A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 9

September 2, 2011

Grunge Banner in Photoshop I enjoyed the grunge buttons I created yesterday, so I decided to do another grunge tutorial, this time a banner with combined text effects. My husband needed a new Adwords banner, and since our company website is sort of grungy, I could kill two birds with one stone. Here is his [...]

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 8

September 1, 2011

Grunge Social Media Icons in Photoshop Today I decided to design another set of Social Media icons. We need new one’s for our company website, namely a Google+ icon, but because I originally used a premade set, I couldn’t recreate mine to look the same. So I decided to create a brand new set of [...]

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 7

August 31, 2011

Fabric Alphabet in Photoshop I had a lot of fun with yesterday’s “Stitched Text” so today I decided to try another Text Effect tutorial by the same author. I chose a very cool “Scrapbook Alphabet” and this was my final result:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 6

August 30, 2011

Stitched Text in Photoshop Today I took a while to complete a tutorial. I started one but the tutorial was too vague, so I had to find another. I found a cool looking text effects tutorial on how to created stitched text in Photoshop. Here is the final result:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 5

August 29, 2011

Disco Ball in Illustrator Today, I looked through a long list of Illustrator guides, and came upon a disco ball tutorial. I scanned over the tutorial and found it had a lot of useful techniques I could learn from. Here is my final design:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 3

August 27, 2011

Glowing Website Menu in Photoshop Today I decided to design a quick menu in Photoshop, using different layer styles, such as Gradient Overlays, Outer Glows and Inner Shadows. Using a mix of colours and styles can create stunning items, but I need to be careful not to overdo it. Here is the final result:

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A Design-A-Day Challenge: Day 2

August 26, 2011

Simple Social Media Icons in Photoshop Today I decided to create 3 simple icons. I played around with Photoshop Layer Styles and the Social Media colours and basically came up with these soft, round icons.

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