Typography plays a key part in many kinds of design. Some would even say it’s the most important element of web design, in order to correctly portray your message you have to invite the user to read what you have to say. So how do you make your type stand out? In today’s tutorial I want to cover some of the basics of modifying text using Layer Styles in Photoshop. We’ll learn how to create the “letterpress” look, how to overlay textures and patterns, and how to use tools like Stroke and Bevel. Let’s get things started.
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For our inaugural “Freebie Friday”, I’ve got some useful Photoshop Custom Shapes for everyone’s downloading pleasure. These should save you time if you need them, as you won’t have to go into Illustrator to make your own sunbursts on the fly. Just use the custom shape tool, in PS and blam, sunburst. Sunbursts can make I nice background element in a variety of ways. :) (Download after the jump)
I’ve got a highly useful set of blue grungy textures for you guys today. I created these in Photoshop by combining paper and grunge textures in various blending layers to achieve the final effect. Let me know if you guys like them and enjoy!
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Everyone welcome Caleb Kimbrough! He’s coming on board as the new BittBox Editor. Caleb is the creator of Lost & Taken (among others), a blog full of high quality textures that many of you are probably familiar with. Caleb and I have been collaborating for quite some time now but we’re stepping it up a notch. He will be running the site from now on and will be joined by some other guest writers as well. I’ll still be around with the occasional post, but managing FontDeals.com, and my software, Brush Pilot™ will be where most of my time goes.
Hey everyone, I just launched FontDeals.com, the world’s first font bundle site. For the inaugural bundle, we are selling 15 font families (29 fonts total) for only $49. That’s $506 worth of fonts at a whopping 90% discount ($1.68 per font), and it will only be on the market for 15 days. The first 2000 customers will receive a free Giga Vector Pack 3 from Designious.com. You can see a brief preview of the fonts in the bundle after the jump.
Today we’ve got a set of highly useful concrete textures for you. These textures were taken from the inside of a fountain at the local zoo a couple of days before they filled it with water. I hope you find some rad uses for the,. Enjoy!
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Today I’ll be showing you how to design a neat little textured button in Photoshop. This is a basic level tutorial that will help you learn more about layer styles, texture and pattern overlays, and gradients. If you find this walkthrough useful and would like to see more like this please leave me a comment. Enjoy!
Resources Used:
- Paper texture from Lost & Taken
- Pixel pattern from Premium Pixels
- Seamless wood texture from Graphic River
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