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Flash Effects Tutorials - Color Flash Light - Learn how to create a color flash light.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Liquify Image Effect - An
ultra-simple touch of action script can turn an otherwise-still
image or even a whole swf into a liquefied, stretchable rubbery
treat !... If you're anything like me, you just love imposing
contortions onto perfectly innocent loaded images!
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Blur Effect - An indepth
tutorial explaining and demonstrating how that blur effect
is achieved.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Steel Effect - In this Macromedia
Flash tutorial I will show you how to use layer masking to
create Steel Effect.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - 3D Text With Shine - Here
you can learn to make a flash animation with 3D metal text
and shine over.
Flash
Text Tutorials - Animated
Text - Animate Text Falling into place with a
fade in effect
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Simple Masking - Masking
is revealing a portion of your picture or graphic in the layer
below. This tutorial will teach you the basics of masking
in Flash MX 2004. The download .fla file is also included
at the end of the tutorial.
Flash Text Tutorials - Shadowed text - Create a Photoshop style Drop Shadow in Flash MX
Flash Effects Tutorials - Glowing Effect - In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with rulers and guides, use oval tool to create effects for different parts of the image, adjust vector curves, use shape tween with radial gradient fills, create motion tween in combination with advanced color style for movie clips, use instance name and arrays to randomize the animation.
Flash Text Tutorials - Morphing Text - Create Morphing Text using Shape Tweens
Flash Effects Tutorials - Creating the the Shine Effect - Since we don't have too many tutorials on how to create some cool effects for animation, here's one that I've seen sites use. The effect look amazing when you use it on a website with lots of Photoshop graphics.
Flash Effects Tutorials - Drop Shadow Text Effect - Create Drop Shadow effects in Flash that doesn't rely on plug-ins
Flash Effects Tutorials - Film Grain Effect - A very cool defect I notice on older movies and films is the film grain effect caused by the aging of the actual film reels. While most would consider that to be a flaw, I take the converse of that view and think it is a really nifty effect.
Flash
Text Tutorials - Text Warp - Warp your text using
the shape tween function in Flash
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Masking Effect - In this
step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to to work with
layers, frames and keyframes, use radial gradient fill and
alpha settings, use copy of the background and line tool to
create precise mask, use guide layer in combination with mask
layer.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Circular Ripple Effect- Learn
how to create a beautiful circular ripple effect in Flash
MX 2004. Download .fla file also included.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Flash Light Mask - In this
tutorial you will learn how to create the Color Flash Light
Effect for Flash MX.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Cool Masking Effect - In
this tutorial, you will learn how to do a cool effect, with
masking.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Logo Replication - This tutorial
will show you how to replicate the logo of your choice.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Blurring In Flash - Seen
it done before but wasn't sure how to do it yourself? This
tutorial walks you through the very simple process of creating
a blurred effect in Flash with the help of Photoshop.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Alpha Graphic Fade - An amazing
image transparenzy effect.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Grassy Field - Learn how
to create randomly duplicating, scrolling blades of grass.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Mouse Trailer - Learn how
to create a mouse trailer using nothing but actionscript!
Flash Effects - Looping Background - Create a continuously looping background. This is great for backgrounds and cartoons.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - Looping Background - Create
a continuously looping background. This is great for backgrounds
and cartoons.
Flash
Effects Tutorials - 3D Text Rotation - Fireworks
and Flash tutorial creating a great 3D text effect you can
use for logos and web graphics.
With Adobe recently launching their online version of Adobe Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop Express - you might be wondering if there are other quality image editors online. You don't have to wonder anymore. We have put together a list of more than 30 web-based picture editors that are great alternatives to Photoshop Express. I am not saying that any of these online image editing tools are better than Photoshop Express, but they are all quality tools that can be used to create great image effects.
We have set up a script to take the freelance design jobs from dozens of freelance sites, graphic design forums, web design forums, job boards, and graphic design job sites. This script is set to automatically update this job board several times a day so you can be assured that you are looking at regularly updated freelance graphic design and web design projects on this aggregator.
I get questions about fonts all the time and I wanted to write a post that would help many of you. Today I am answering many questions about fonts that will help you in your daily graphic design tasks.
You will find that a lot of these tools can automate your graphic design process by actually doing the tedious repetitive tasks that slow you down. There are a ton of tools listed here, so make sure to bookmark this page.
Logo Design Process of Inspirational Graphic Designer Jon Sandruck Do you want to learn about the logo design process from a logo designer who is going to have two of his logos to be included in the inspirational Logo Lounge 5? Then please welcome the very talented Jon Sandruck. Today Jon Sandruck is going to detail [...]
I have collected more than a dozen of the coolest shopping bags that I have ever seen. The creativity that was put into designing these bags could be put towards any graphic design project, and is not only limited to shopping bag design. These graphic designers thought outside the box (or bag in this situation) and I would love to have you submit some designs that you think showcase the same creative thinking (designing).
If you are a Photoshop guru, then you are probably always on the lookout for new free Photoshop stuff. Well, we try to do that legwork for you. On this page you will find a nice roundup of free Photoshop pattern sites. Click through to these sites and download some of those free patterns. Have fun.
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.
This part II of a never-ending series of the coolest outside ads, billboards, and public advertising.
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Where to get these type of floral elements?
i can't believe it.. i'm in.
whats the general courtesy when a client decides
Up For Grabs: Adobe CS2
I Get to Go Shopping! Large Format Printer Help
Logo and website for new initiative: Orangutan Land Trust
Logo for Orangutan-Friendly Palm Oil Required
I want to be Sedated...
"Selling" your design
how lengthen dog tail into font script ?
Wings of Compassion
Web Design Critique
My second Flash site
Help with product pricing
6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
Sep 1Huge Roundup of Typography Blogs, Resources, Articles, Galleries, & Tools
A collection of Typography blogs & resources, Typography articles, Typography showcases, and Typography tools and then categorized them for you in this article.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
Mar 7Hot in Graphic Design - A Superb Guide to Designing With Black
A Superb Guide to Designing With Black Many of the people who visit All Graphic Design are Graphic Designers and many of you are Web Designers. If you are a Graphic Designer, than you most likely know that many things can go wrong when sending your files to be printed. For one thing, colors never look [...]
Mar 6Hot in Graphic Design - Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer
Find Out if You are a Lousy, No Good Graphic Designer Hey, I bet you think you are the best Graphic Designer around, don't you?! Well, if you are brave enough, you should take a look at an article which will hit you where it hurts (if you are doing any of the 13 tell tale [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios
Examples of Good Graphic Design Portfolios This is a post on Astheria Design Blog that is in response to a previous post called "?My Last Portfolio Sucked, Yours Might Too"?. This articles includes pictures and links to Design portfolios that were designed with a goal in mind. All of these design portfolios have one thing in [...]
Mar 5Hot in Graphic Design - Some Online Printing Services I?ve Used
Some Online Printing Services I've Used - Personal Commercial Printers Review Whether you are a Graphic Designer or a Web Designer, we all need to use commercial printing services every once in a while. All freelancers, in fact, need to use printing services to print items such as business cards, printing labels, envelopes, letterhead, marketing materials, [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume?
Should Graphic Designers Use Design Elements in Their Resume? I have always been told that utilizing design within a resume is the wrong thing to do, Graphic Designer or not. So when I saw this article title, it caught my eye and I had to read more. However, the author of this article doesn't agree with [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - List of 120+ Free Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs
List of 120+ Free Adobe Photoshop Actions for Cool Designs I was excited when I found this huge list of free Adobe Photoshop actions, and I am guessing that you will be excited as well. Actions are the best way to speed up Photoshop tasks that you do on a regular basis, such as change an [...]
Feb 29Hot in Graphic Design - Logo Design Trends for 2008
Logo Design Trends for Graphic Designers in 2008 As a Graphic Designer, you might not think that trends are important when it comes to designing a logo. However, as you can see if you look at design archives, the art of Graphic Design changes. As a designer, you will need to keep on top of these [...]
Website Redesign for Real Estate Resourc
Hi all, My website needs facelifting. This is a real estate resource similar to Trulia. The purpose of redesign is to give our site the modern look and keep it up to the "international web design st? Client is in Kyiv,
Package Design for Warehouse Club Produc
We prefer to work with local Tucson, AZ resource. My Industry: Stationery Review of current package design for Warehouse Club Stationery set. Recommend and prepare design improvements. ? Client is in Tucson, AZ
Website Redesign for Vehicle Performance
Local to Houston area, please. I am look for a designer to work with to refresh and update the company website. The site is about 20 pages currently, will probably need to add more. I don't have any ? Client is in Houston, TX
Website Redesign for a Financial Service
Number of pages (approx): 5-6 pages My Industry: Financial Services We currently have somewhat of a site listed at the URL provided. However, before we advertise, we would like a more professional s? Client is in Mcdonough, GA
Redesign website and logo for Party Serv
Number of pages (approx): 6? My Industry: childrens entertainment The site is 3 years old. It was a cheap and cheerful site that served as a simple presence to highlight the birthday parties. Sin? Client is in Dublin 15,
Web Design: Residential Remodeling
I have pictures and would like a web page that customers can go to so they can view our work. Also would like information about our company and references etc. Once the web page is completed I can upd? Client is in Hayward, CA
Motion Designer After Effects Expert Nee
Hi I`m looking for an After Effects / Flash expert to give me three different quotes. Quote 1 I already have this After Effects Project, and I can send to you. But how much just to customize this p? Client is in Washington, DC
One Page Web Design for Entertainment
Number of pages (approx): 1 basic layout with reusable content for websites / possibly a logo My Industry: Entertainment I need a one page website design that can be reused for myspace as well. No f? Client is in Poplar Bluff, MO
Creative Tee Shirt Design
Number of pages (approx):1 My Industry: Promotional Products 1)2 or 3 original drawings to be proposed/presented to resturants and bars shown on spec leading to an order. 2) Finished art suitable f? Client is in Key West, FL
Logo Design for Towing Company
Looking to revamp our current logo design. We have some ideas in mind as to what direction we would like to go in. Looking to incorporate 4 colors or less (colors would be Emerald Green, Gold, White, ? Client is in Downers Grove, IL