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COREL DRAW X4 trick | IPOD NANO maker TUTORIAL

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:16:00 +0000

Now, let we create ipod nano using corel draw x4. This is a very cool gadget and simple design but we will create it eye catching, maybe next time you will need this trick to make your own advertising brochure about gadget. :)

Let's start the lesson !

1. Draw rectangle using rectangle tool, then fill it with gray colour

2. With object still selected, click outline tool in toolbar, select none, to remove the outline

3. Click shape tool in toolbar, then drag inside a little in the rectangle, to make the corner more smooth

4. Make again one rectangle on the top

5. Click fill then fountain fill, change the property like in the picture below

6. Select none again to remove the outline

7. Now, create a ellipse using ellipse tool, remove the fill colour, and change the outline width to 0.4 pt

8. Click ctrl c + ctrl v to ellipse tool, then using shift and scrool, make mini ellipse

9. Now, make more ellipse to decorate i pod

10. Copy paste the ellipse, you can easily copy paste after group it (arrange- group)
11. Decorate it, you can use arrange- shaping intersect menu too.

Happy designing :)

how to make water bubble using photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:00:00 +0000

Ever see the banner with floating water bubble like the image on the left before?

This tutorial will teach how to make water bubble popping out from water. It will also create ridge's on the water below the bubble. It's using step by step tutorial, so it'll easier for you to learn.

Follow the step's :
1. Create 2 new layer

2. On the toolbar, activate the ellipse tool and change the colour to blue

3. Create circle on layer 1, and ellipse on layer 2 (using the ellipse tool)

4. Activate rectangular marquee tool on toolbox

5. Select layer 2, use rectangular marquee by drag it on ellipse

6. While rectangular marquee tool still activated, click menu filter-distort-polar coordinates. Choose rectangular to polar and click OK

7. Click menu filter-distort-zigzag. Change the number like the pic, then click OK

8. now click add a layer style-inner glow (to give colour effect)

9. Change the number like on the pic, then click OK

10. Now, select layer 1. Use move tool if you think that your circle is not on the appropriate position

11. Click add a layer style-bevel and emboss

12. Change the number like on the pic, then click OK

Now, your bubble ready to use. Don't forget to save it =3

Creating Image Text Using PHOTOSHOP

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:36:00 +0000

Now we want to learn how making image in a text in Photoshop.

This will be like like this:

Lets just start the step to make it
1. Open the image in photoshop (default photoshop size)

2. Create new layer

3. Open notepad, and start to type, then copy it

4. Move layer 2 in the top of layer 1

5. Set the font properties, colour: white, size:12, and u pick text style

6. Create block using horizontal type tool (to make text area), then paste the text from notepad

7. Copy paste the text, set the size (ctrl + t), make it comfortable in eye. You can also make new text using horizontal type tool

8. Merge all the text in layer 2 (using ctrl + e)

9. Activate layer 1, then hold ctrl + left click on layer 2 to make selection

10.Click add layer mask, then click the visibility on layer 1

11.This is the result

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Cloth design for sale

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:36:00 +0000

T-shirt with my own design for sale!

Click the thumbnail above for detail. I only design, but about the payment etc u will meet my mediator.

Redbubble.com ( the quality of print, cloth, is good)

Our main office is in Melbourne:
Unit 2, 192 Argyle St, Fitzroy, Melbourne, VIC, 3065, Australia
In the US you can send any mail (e.g. home baked cookies) to:
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MAKE SPOTLIGHT ON CITY IN THE NIGHT USING FLASH

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:05:00 +0000

Now, we want to make spotlight on city in the night.

We will use FLASH to complete this tutorial.
The example is like this:

The spotlight will cover the city building, shine on the dark...so make the city live. Let's start to learn the tutor now

Step 1
Make new document on Flash

Step 2
This is the work field we will be use

Step 3
Click rectangle tool on toolbox and change fill color and stroke color into black

Step 4
Minimize the work field using ctrl and - (hold together)
Make the rectangle fill all the work field (drag it to make rectangle)

Step 5
Make new layer

Step 6
Activate brush tool, change color into white and change the brush size and brush shape

Step 7
Make sure activate the new layer (in mine is layer 3), and using brush tool draw the city like the example below

Step 8
-Make new layer again and named it layer 4 (double click on the text beside layer to change the name)
-Activate oval tool

Step 9
Draw oval tool outside left beside the work field on layer 4 (new layer we created before)

Step 10
-on the frame number 25 (look at the image), hold left click and drag till the 3 frame vertically selected
-Then, while the frame selected, right click and select insert frame.

Step 11
If step 10 done correctly, the timeline will look like this (notes: the frame allocated in timeline, based on second, the number above frame)

Step 12
-Activate selection tool
-Now on the frame 13 (between 10 and 15), left click then right click and select insert key frame
note: key frame used to make the different frame from before, different frame can use to make different image.

Step 13
Then make key frame again like in step 12, but now make key frame on frame 25

Step 14
Activate layer 4 and choose frame 13 (first keyframe), then using move tool, move the circle to the workfield by hold left click and drag it, like in the example below.

Step 15
Just like in step 14, now in frame 25 layer 4, move again the circle to left side of workfield.

Step 16
-on layer 4, hold left click and select frame 1 till frame 25 to select it. Then, right click and select create motion tween.
-It will look like the example

Step 17
Now, let's give it a try, control-test movie

Step 18
It will look like the white circle moving through the city

Step 19
Close the movie, then click layer 4, then right click and select mask
note :make sure the exact position, layer 4(top),layer3(middle),layer2(bottom)
if not, it will not work correctly.

Step 20
if you did step 1-19 correctly, it should like this

Step 21
Test it again, control-test movie

Step 22
To export itu, u can use many different file types, but for now i used gif.
file- export movie- select file type (gif)

This will look like this:

Enjoy, and use your creativity to improve this trick!

make Typo shape using PHOTOSHOP

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:38:00 +0000

Now we want learn how to create typo shape using photoshop.It's look like woman body made with word's

The example like the picture below :

How to make it?
Step 1
Open the image (u can user ur own pic) on photoshop

Step 2
Filter - extract
To take only the woman picture

Step 3
Click the highlighter tool then use that tool around the woman body

Step 4
Then fill it with fill tool, click ok

Step 5
When its right, the pic should be like this

Step 6
On the toolbox, select eraser

Step 7
Using eraser tool, erase the part that don't need on side of the image

Step 8
Select menu image-adjustments-level

Step 9
Change the output level into 0 ; 0

Step 10
Now, the image should look like this

Step 11
Click file-new (make font to cover area)

Step 12
Click the horizontal type tool

Step 13
Type like in the picture below, you can use your favourite font

Step 14
Activate move tool (top right), then click the font layer and hold alt + drag with mouse, and there is copy of the font. Do it till the font cover all layer.

Step 15
Click layer - flatten image

Step 16
Double click on layer "background" and click ok

Step 17
Now move the font layer (new) drag into the black woman we create before, by hold left click and drag.

Step 18
Look at the layer properties, layer 1 (new) is first, and black woman layer is second. The image should look like this:

Step 19
Activate layer 0 (black woman), hold ctrl + left click on that layer, it's will make a selection. Then, activate layer 1 and click layer mask. Layer mask is onthe bottom of the layer palette, third from left, look like cube with circle on it. Then, click the eye on layer 0 and click so the eye gone (visibility of layer 0 is turned off)

Step 20
Last, make new layer then fill it with black color, and place the layer on third postion. This is the final result.

TIPS: U also can use image not just font to cover the body.
The layer palette should look like this.

CHANGE LOGO OF PRODUCT WITH PHOTOSHOP

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 02:46:00 +0000

Look, this is the example :

How to create it?
Follow this step
1. Open file of your product

2. Create copy of layer by drag backround into copy layer

3. Delete the original background layer

4. Activate the clone stamp tool

5. Press alt and left click and point into the red one in
your picture (depend on your product picture)

6. Look, the number 1 sign plus is the target sample, while
number 2 is the target, number 2 is where we want to change
the pic to be same as number 1 (number 1 is source, by pressing alt like
in step 5)

7. Do step 5 and 6 till the pic look like this

8. Now, using horizontal type tool typre "R"

9. Click edit --> free transform

10. Move the text like in the pic

11. Activate the brush button, then on the menu bar, click
the down cursor, and choose calligraphic brushes

12. Pick the rite calligraphic brush

13. Make new layer and name it calligraphic

14. Change the foreground colour into white

15. Use your imagination to edit with the calligraphic brushes

Tips: Its depend on your imagination that the result will be good or not.
Have a try!

PLAYING WITH PRINT SCREEN..?

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:10:00 +0000

LOOK THIS IS PIC ONE !

AND BELOW IS PIC TWO

There is two type of print screen, some people use it to make a book (example like the writer of computer book), confused huh? let's go straight to the tutorial now

Step :

1. Open the photoshop and make one working layer
2. Click restore down on the top right screen of your photoshop

To make like pic one

1. Hold print screen on keyboard
2. FIle-->new, click paste

To make like pic two

1. Still on the same working layer like in pic one (the pic where u hold print screen)
2. Now hold ctrl + alt + shift + print screen
3. File-->new, click paste

See the different? Yes in pic two by using ctrl + alt + shift + print screen, you make the print screen based on
the software you used, while if you only pressing print screen only, all images on monitor will follow to be pasted.

Coloring anime with photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:02:00 +0000

Look, this week i'll teach you how to coloring anime using photoshop. Confused with what im said?
Just look at this example :

How to make it..?
Let's start from scratch:
1. Open your scanned image into photoshop
2. Change the level from scanned image, so it will
be more clear to see.Image->adjustment->level

3. Move the input levels 0 ; 0.30 ; 255 ( or just move the slider just like the image below)

4. Make new layer, why? because usually the file from scanned image so big, so we will make the new file with lower memory. File->new->(choose default photoshop size)->ok

5. Activate the move tool from toolbar

6. Now from first layer, move the scanned image into our new layer that we create in step 4, by using move tool.

7. See, now we have layer 1 in our new layer.

8. After that, still activate in layer 1, we have problem, the scanned image that we moved is too big, we have to minimize it, click edit->free transform (ctrl + t)

9. After minimize, click CROP TOOL in toolbar. We will cut the image that not used in our new layer.

10.Look, the image that we crop showed in gray area. The gray area will cropped.

11.Now, the image ready to get colored

12.We will use selection tool to help us color the image, activate the wand tool in toolbar.

13.Zoom the image, its make us easly select the area. Click ctrl + (control and click plus mark).

14.Make new layer again above layer 1, named it hat coloring, this layer will we us only for hat coloring. (its need because we don't want damage our image)

15.Activate again layer 1 (to select the area using selection tool).

16.Now using the wand tool, left click on the hat, till the area around the hat selected just like in the screenshoot below.

17.Activate brush tool in toolbar.

18.Click the set foreground color, and choose the colour u like.

19.Now, set up the brush, while the brush tool activated, click drop down menu just like in screenshoot below, and choose basic brushes.

20.Choose the circle brushes shape, its make us easier to coloring.

21.Now, activate the layer hat coloring (left click on hat coloring layer), while the hat in layer 1
still selected.

22.Using brush tool, fill the hat with color.

23.Back again to layer properties, see the normal text..? There is drop down arrow, click it and change to multiply, to the pencil scratch will visible.

24.Pick the foreground colour again, but now choose the colour with lighter colour.

25.Remember, before coloring activate the hat coloring layer before! and fill the hat with lighter colour again on the hat just like in the screenshoot. Better huh?

26.Click ctrl + d -> to release the selection from image.

27.Repeat step 4 till step 26 for coloring another part from the image.

TIPS Today for this trick :

1. U can use Pollygonal lasso tool too to select the area

2. Look screenshoot below

2 --> is the colored face
3 --> the hand that u want to coloring it
U wanna coloring the 3 with the same colour in 2, just using 1 (color picker tool), select colour picker and left click on
2 area, so the foreground colour will automatically change the same as colour in number 2, and u can start coloring the hand (number 3).

Good luck to try ^^,

Making carved text on jeans using photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:32:00 +0000

How to Making carved text on jeans

This tutorial now will try to make the text
like written on a jeans.
The sample like this :

wanna learn how to make it? lets learn together
this is the step to create it:

1. Make new file on photoshop (i used cs 2)
2. Type "text on a jeans" by using type tool, and renamed the
layer with "text"

3. click the layer background

4. Activate the paint bucket tool, then on the top menu change from foreground to pattern (in drop down menu), then change the pattern into "woven" like in the image below (woven look like blue pattern).

toolbox paint bucket

pattern drop down menu

pattern selection

5. Fill the background with woven pattern. How? still activate the paint bucket tool and then left click on the background working layer.

6. Now, select the text layer in layer palette.

7. Point at magic wand tool in toolbox

8. With magic wand activate, hold the shift key + left click to the text in working layer to make all text fill with a moving dot like in the screenshoot.

9. Then, select the background layer on layer palette.

10.Click ctrl + j to make new layer named layer 1, with the text area filled in that layer.

11.Delete the text layer because we don't need that layer again.

12. Select the layer 1 on working layer

13. Click on the menu: image --> adjustment --> level

14. Change the levels : output:rgb ; input levels:0,2.08,255 and ouput levels:25 and 255

15. On the layer menu, click layer style --> bevel and emboss

16. Change the bevel and emboss properties :
style: emboss
technique: chisel hard
depth : 181
direction :down
size : 7
soften : 3
angle :135
then click OK

17. This is the sample of finished of ur work.

Let's wait for next tips from me.

Making shadow effect on photoshop

noreply@blogger.com (one place for design tips and tricks) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:52:00 +0000

How to make shadow using photoshop:

Do u ever see the add in internet or on banner that show
something with the shadow below its? If u dont understand
the example that i wanna teach u its like this one:

Lets learn together the step to make it
This is the step:

1. Open photoshop (i used cs2)
2. Click file - new
3. Watch to the work layer
4. First make new layer and named it human 1

5. On "human 1 layer" make human carricature like this
using brush tool

6. Then, point on move tool on toolbox

7. Left click on the human 1 layer, hold and drag into create a new layer menu
until show new layer named "human 1 copy" (this is a copy from human 1 layer)

8. Now, activate human 1 layer, then select move tool and drag the human 1 copy image
down, below the original image. So, there will be two image on working layer.

9. Next, click the human 1 layer copy, click edit -> transform -> flip vertical

10.Click add vector mask on human 1 layer copy

11.Click the layer mask thumbnail

12.Activate gradient tool and make the colour look like in the pic i provide

13.Then with the gradient tool, drag from up to below

14.This is the shadow effect tutorial..If u wanna make the shadow more blur, change
the opacity in the layer