This collection of 26 free movie fonts is mainly for the hardcore fans out there. Please don’t be mad if I didn’t include the font from YOUR favorite movie :). These 26 are from my point of view, the best free movie fonts out there. Enjoy!

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Peter Olexa is a freelance graphic designer born in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has over 15 years of experience in corporate identity and web site design.

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I don’t usually run press release articles but this website has a pretty cool idea of getting professional custom photography at a fairly reasonable price.

A well-known, high-end luxury-product photographer has come up with a way for businesses to afford his talents, despite the current economy. Mariano Pastor, best known for his work for Town & Country, W, Lancome, Givenchy and more, has launched ViaU! at viauphotography.com. ViaU! offers businesses customized, studio-quality still-life product shots of almost anything with unlimited usage rights for the flat fee of $112.

“If Isaac Mizrahi can create a successful line for Target, I thought there must be a way I can similarly extend my brand to include an affordable price point option,” said Mariano.“So, using a Netflix-esque business model, I invented ViaU! for photographing most small consumer products – toys, wine glasses, laundry detergent, chainsaws, diamond jewelry, soccer balls, lipstick; you name it.”

ViaU! is good news for entrepreneurs, start-ups and small businesses who cannot afford the costly day rates that booking a professional photography studio commands. The convenient flat fee eliminates the need for price estimates and negotiations.

The process works as follows:

Visit Viauphotography.com and create a layout choosing from background choices

No estimates, or negotiations, now you are done. Send your product to ViaU!

Within 24 hours ViaU! will photograph it, post the results for your review, and then return your product at ViaU!’s expense

Download your high resolution photo for a flat fee of $112 which includes unlimited usage rights

Additionally, ViaU! is a new option for creative art directors looking for stock photos. In lieu of licensing traditional stock photos that come with complicated restrictions, ViaU!’s $112 flat fee offers the creative control of custom photography along with unlimited usage rights.

“I am in the business of creating beautiful, hassle-free pictures for my clients,” said Mariano. “It’s your shot when you use ViaU!”

About Mariano

Mariano graduated from Pratt Institute with a degree in Fine Arts.
Early in his career, he worked extensively for Town & Country and W magazines. Over the years, he has created
photography for companies such as Lancôme, Revlon, Schick, Halston and
Givenchy. Mariano has received the Best Photography award from the Art
Director’s Club of New York. For more information visit http://www.viauphotography.com.

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Concept car drawings are a great way of starting out and getting all the bugs out of your concept before spending all the time rendering it. Even if these drawing have no intention of becoming 3D renderings, they are amazing just as they are. These concept cars use a combination of Photoshop, some vector, as well as traditional hand drawn techniques.

Be sure to head over to Six Revisions and check out my latest article about inspirational coming soon web pages.

Link to: 25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

In this tutorial we are going to use Photoshop create a jumbotron screen effect like you would see at big sporting events, with the LED lights representing each pixel. We are going to use some patterns as well as some filters to create our effect.

What you will need

Adobe Photoshop

Baseball Photo

Face photo

Step 1

Lets go get a baseball photo and open it up in Photoshop.

I am going to add in “HOME RUN!” using Migra for my font (but any bold font will work). We are going to go ahead and crop the image around the batter and the “HOME RUN!”

Step 2

We are going to change the size of the image, by going into Image>Image Size. Change the width to 1200px in the top box, the Resolution to 72 pixels/inch and make sure all the boxes are checked.

Step 3

Now, we are going to merge the text and image layers together. Click on the arrow icon on the top right of the layers palette and click on Flatten Image.

Step 4

Go into Filter>Pixelate>Mosaic and change your Cell Size to 10. This should give the image a pixilated look.

What the 10 means is that the filter is making 10px squares to make up the image. This information will be important in the following steps.

Step 5

To get a “jumbotron screen” look we are going to change all of the square pixels into circles.

Since we made the squares 10×10px we are going to make a new document the same size so we can make a 10px circle. Using the Ellipse Tool (U) create a circle starting at the top left edge and going to the bottom right edge.

Fill the circle with white (if it isn’t already) by changing the foreground to white and fill with Alt+Delete.

Step 6

Click on the eye to the left of the layer to make the layer disappear and then go to Edit>Define Pattern and call it “10px Circle”.

Step 7

Go back to our baseball document and create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N).

Select the Pattern Stamp Tool (S) then select the pattern we made from the options at the top of the screen. Make sure Aligned is checked in the options at the top of the screen, then start painting in the entire document.

Step 8

Create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N) and make sure it is the top layer.

Ctrl and click on the pattern layer to select it. Now do Ctrl+Shift+I to get the inverse selection and fill the new layer with black. Click on the eye icon on the pattern layer to make it disappear.

Now you should end up with each circle having a single solid color, which makes up our photo.

Step 9

Click on the background layer that has the image, and then go to Image>Adjustments>Posterize. Change the levels to 10.

This will drop down the amount of colors being used to give it a lower quality “jumbo-tron” feel.

(Alternate Version)

Step 10

We can also create an old jumbo tron (a simplified version of the left screen in the photo) look by following roughly the same steps as 1-9.

We are going to need a higher contrast photo for this to work, so we will use a close up face photo.

Steps 1-6 will be the same. After step 6, before we add in our pattern we want to go to Image>Adjustments>Threshold. This will change our image from color to just black and white.

If we did the Threshold before pixelating the image, we would have had gray pixels along with the black and white, which we don’t want.

Step 11

Repeat steps 7 and 8 to get the jumbotron look. Finally we are going to add some color, to give it a yellow look. Create a new layer at the top of the layers and fill it with a yellow color, something like #FFD964.

Change the Blend Mode to Multiply.

Final

With a few finishing touches, here is what I came up with, and here is the full version.

Alternative Version

Here is the full size version.

Here is a text version

On Friday February 12th the 2010 Winter Olympics opened in Vancouver. In case you haven’t been following it, or it hasn’t caught your attention yet, here are some Olympic inspired works from the past as well as this year to get you in the spirit. Go (insert your country here)!

vancouver

Journey throught the Olympics

Olympics Rings Vancouver 2010

3D Olympics Logo

Bejing Olympics 2008

Beijing 2008 Poster Design

2010 Winter Olympics Mascots

2010 Olympics

2 – feburary – Olympic games in Vancouver / calendar 2010 MMX

3D Miga!

Quatchi 3d

Sumi 3d

happy birthday!

2010 Olympic Ad 2

2010 Olympic Ad 1

Olympic Rings

Love Beijing 2008 Poster

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Check out my latest Photoshop tutorial from Design Instruct. You will learn to create a wavy text effect, using masks, the pen tool as well as many other techniques.

Link to: Create a Funky Retro Wavy Text Effect in Photoshop

Check out my latest tutorial, featured on Design Instruct. In case you haven’t checked it out yet, Design Instruct is the newest tutorial website. They have some great tutorials up already and I’m sure they will be plenty more, so be sure to check them out!

Link to: Create a Realistic Space Landscape Photo Manipulation

With Valentine’s Day coming up, I thought I’d bring you something with a similar theme. In this tutorial we are going to create a vector/icon heart with an arrow going through it, using Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial will teach you to take simple shapes and use them to create more complex objects, as well as several other techniques.

Step 1

Create a new 1000 x1000px document in Illustrator. Using the Rectangle Tool (M) create a long thin vertical box, something like I have.

Step 2

This box will become the shaft of our arrow. To give it some color we are going to create a gradient. First we want to select web colors from our color options, so we can just type in our color codes. Click on the arrow on the top right side of our Color palette (F6) and click on Web Safe RGB.

Ok, now lets click on the box we make. Select our first color, which will be a light brown color (#BB946D). Take the color and click and drag it from the Color palette (F6) to the Gradient palette (F9). This color should go on the left and right sides of the gradient. Now we are going to select a lighter color (#E7CA9D), this color will go in the middle of the gradient.

Step 3

To create the arrowhead, we are going to click on the Start tool, the holding Shift, click and drag a star. Before you let go, use the down arrow until you get 3 points that will make our triangle.

Change the color to #746F77.

Step 4

Now to start shaping the arrowhead we are going to click on the Pen Tool (P). Click on the anchor points on the left and right sides of the arrow, to make them disappear.

We want the bottom middle anchor point to go up into the triangle, so hold down Alt and click on the point. Hold down shift and move up the point a few spaces so it looks something like what I have.

Step 5

Half of our arrowhead is going to be dark and the other half is going to be light. To create lighter half we are going to first duplicate the triangle with Ctrl+C then Ctrl+F (to paste in place).

We are going to go to View>Smart Guides (Ctrl+U), this will help us line up our shapes better. Now using the Rectangle Tool (M) click and drag a box so it covers the left side of the arrowhead and you end at the top point. It should just snap into place because of the Smart Guides.

Step 6

Make sure you click on the box we made, and the duplicate copy of the arrowhead. Use your Pathfinder palette (Shift+F9) and, click on “Subtract from shape area” and then click expand. This should leave the area left that wasn’t covered by the box. Change the color to #BCBBC3.

Step 7

I am going to thin out the head a little bit so I am just going to select the dark and light parts of the head then, holding Alt, bring the left side in a little bit.

Now, we are going to place the arrowhead on top of the shaft, so we have something like I have below.

Step 8

To start on the feather part of the arrow we are first going to copy (Ctrl+C) and paste in place (Ctrl+F)
the arrow and move it over to the left.

Click on the lighter part of the arrowhead and delete it. Take the dark arrowhead and while holding down shift rotate the shape so the point is facing down. Also move the arrowhead down a little bit so the top of the arrow shaft is showing.

Step 9

Copy (Ctrl+C) and paste in place (Ctrl+F) the arrowhead; move it down and reduce the size with Alt and Shift to keep the proportions the same and so the center point doesn’t move.

Click on the top, larger arrowhead and then click on the Pen Tool (P). Click on the sides of the arrowhead to add anchor two anchor points (one for each side). Hold down Ctrl and move the side points we created to the points of the smaller arrowhead, and move the middle point into the smaller arrowhead.

Step 10

Click on your Selection Tool (V) and then click on the larger arrowhead. Hold Shift and click on the smaller arrowhead, so that you have both selected.

Click on “Subtract from shape area” in your Pathfinder palette (Shift+F9). This should get rid of the smaller arrowhead and leave an arrow feather looking shape. Stretch out the shape so it is a little longer.

Step 11

Hold down Ctrl+Shift+[ to move the feather behind the arrow shaft.

Using the Pen Tool (P), start making some small triangles going into both sides of the feather like I have done.

Hold down shift and click on all of the triangles you made, as well as the feather. Click on “Subtract from shape area” in your Pathfinder palette (Shift+F9). This should remove some chunks of the feathers to give it more of a used look.

Step 12

The last thing we want to do with the arrow is give the shaft above the feathers a rounded top. Click on the Pen Tool (P) and add a point to the top of the shaft. Using the up arrow, move the point up a few spaces. Hold down Alt, click and drag the point to the left to round out the top.

Step 13

To make the heart we are going to use our Ellipse Tool (L) to make a circle (holding down shift to make it a perfect circle).

Make a square with Rectangle Tool (M) and make a square the same width and height as the circle.

Step 14

Move the square up so the top of it lines up with the middle of the circle. Select both of the shapes and in your Pathfinder palette (Shift+F9) click Add to shape area, and expand.

This is half of our heart shape. To get the other half duplicate the shape we just created with Ctrl+C, Ctrl+F. Hold down shift and rotate the shape 90˚.

If you have your Smart Guides (Ctrl+U) selected still then you can just intersect the left and bottom edges. Select both of the shapes and in your Pathfinder palette (Shift+F9) click Add to shape area, and expand.

Step 15

Hold down Shift and rotate the heart to the left so it is standing upright.

Before we attach the arrow to the heart, we want to line up the two sides of the arrow, so it lines up in the heart. Select the arrowhead side and click on the top edge and line it up with the top edge of the feather side. Now hold down shift and move the arrowhead side to the right so there is a large gap that we can fit the heart into.

Step 16

We are going to add some finishing touches to the arrow, first the feather side. Lets add a shadow around the shaft. Duplicate the shaft (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+F) and hold down Alt, then click and drag the top anchor point up.

Step 17

Duplicate the feathers, then click on the duplicated feathers and shaft, then click on “Intersect shape area”, click on expand.

Step 18

Change the color of the shape we just made to black, and while we are at it we are going to change the color of the feathers to #906127.

Change the opacity of the black shape to 20%.

Step 19

Click on the feathers and Duplicate them. Now click on the black and white circle gradient and change the blend mode to Multiply, and the opacity to 30%.

Step 20

Repeat step 19 for the arrowhead.

Step 21

We are going to make a shadow on the shaft coming from the arrowhead. Click on the gradient we just made on the arrowhead and duplicate it. Move it over to the left a few spaces so it covers some of the shaft. Duplicate the shaft, then select both the duplicated layers and click on “Intersect shape areas” on the Pathfinder palette (Shift+F9), and click on expand.

Drop the opacity down to 20% and change the color to black. Click on the arrowhead layers and then do Ctrl+Shift+] to bring them in front of the shadow we just created.

Step 22

We are going to change the color of the heart to #BA0000. Repeat step 19 to add the gradient to the heart.

Step 23

To give our heart a shiny look, we are going to create a circle that covers the bottom half of the heart. Duplicate the heart gradient shape, then select that shape and the large circle. Click on “Subtract from shape area” on the Pathfinder palette. This should give you a shape on the top half of the heart.

Step 24

Use the white to black linear gradient and using the Gradient Tool (G) click and drag a gradient starting at the bottom of the shape and going up. Change the blend mode to Overlay and make sure the Opacity is at 30%.

Step 25

Now the only thing left to do is to angle the arrow and put the heart in the middle.

Final

Here is my final version with a few added features, and the full version

These websites aren’t just cool looking they also use cool colors to set a mood for their websites. Cooler colored websites usually gives the viewer a calm, relaxed feel. Calm colors, like blue can also give a corporate, professional feel to a website as well. Lets look at some examples of calming relaxed websites, as well as the corporate ones.