Stage Curtains

I’m not entirely sure what’s happened since my last post, but my Photoshop project seems to have escaped me. This summer is going by in a blur and I feel rather scatterbrained and unproductive. Not to worry, however. I have another tutorial to post today. This one is from Designious Times: it’s a simple method for creating some wonderful stage curtains.

Stage curtains can only be useful in so many ways, so this is exciting for me. Now I have to go and come up with a project that needs some good curtains.

- d.e.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5

Today’s tutorial is another one that I found on Abuzeedo. As I have CS5, I’ve been meaning to learn more about what exactly it’s capable of, and this tutorial is a wonderful introduction to the Repoussé feature. Having previously done all my 3D text in Illustrator, this is especially exciting (and convenient!) for me.

The only real difference between my end result and the one on Abuzeedo is the textures that I used for the 3D text and the clouds. The bricks I used are from Wikimedia Commons, the concrete texture is from Texturezine, and the absolutely gorgeous sky that I used, I found at this link. You don’t need Shutterstock or Photoshop superpowers to find these – you just need Google.

- d.e.

A Poster of Words

(Pun intended)

The theme for the week seems to be typography. Today’s tutorial I found on PhotoshopStar – it’s incredibly simple (the most time-consuming part of the whole tutorial is probably making the selection), but it’s a great idea for a musical poster or for any kind of poster.

And it looks fabulous, of course.

- d.e.

Lost in Space

It’s (still, I promise) Tuesday and today I’m posting a quite wonderful tutorial from Abduzeedo. It’s a tutorial about typography! Which is one of my favorite things, really. I love the tutorial, I love the font from Fontfabric, and I love how really simple things and ideas in Photoshop can be so powerful and so useful.

The end result of the tutorial on Abduzeedo is better than mine (I had some minor issues), but I think it came out pretty well in the end.

- d.e.