Illustrator Quick Tip: Using the Blend Tool to Create Repeating Patterns
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Creating even the simplest repeating patterns in Illustrator can be time consuming. But knowing a couple of easy tricks can greatly reduce the time it takes. In this quick tutorial we're going to explore using the Blend Tool to quickly create a repeating pattern for background elements in Illustrato...
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5 Awesome Techniques for Using Textures in Your Designs
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
At some point in my design career I came to a realization that I can add incredible depth to my art by applying elements from the real world through scans and digital photos. Perhaps the greatest use of "real-world" elements is through the use of textures. We offer a ton of great textures here at We...
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Illustrator Quick Tip: Working With Grunge Splatters as Symbols
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
If you're used to creating grungy splatters in Photoshop because you're not familiar with the flexibility of vector symbols in Illustrator, this article may change your workflow dramatically. Not only are symbols incredibly flexible they can also reduce the file size dramatically over using standard...
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Create an Exploding Light Text Effect in Photoshop
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
In this tutorial I wanted to take a look at a couple of techniques for an exploding text effect. I knew going into this tutorial that I wanted a thick heavy font with portions that are corroding and breaking apart with various explosions, and I want some dramatic lighting to punch it up a bit. ...
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Illustrator Quick Tip: Creating a Color Spirograph
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Using the Rotate Tool in Illustrator you can create some awesome radial designs. Today we're going to look at using the tool to create a color spirograph. Spirographs are always elegant and impressive, and creating them is quite simple with just one tool in Illustrator and a little bit of simple mat...
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Painting with Fire Using Photoshop's Liquify Filter
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
Recently I was searching for a way to shape flames and change the direction of fire in a Photoshop composition. After a little experimentation, I discovered that Photoshop's Liquify Filter handles the task brilliantly. Below is the method I used to essentially paint with fire and change the directio...
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How to Create a Vintage Circus Poster with the Photoshop Puppet Warp Tool
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
I've marveled at the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop for quite some time, but I've never actually used it. Not that I didn't understand how, it was just that I never had the need. So I decided to sit down and create a concept that would utilize this tool in a cool way, that would be fun and interestin...
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A Comprehensive Guide to Designing and Printing Your First Tee-Shirt
Articlesby Nathan Brown
It seems that more and more designers are trying their hand at the t-shirt business. I've noticed this to be a growing trend over the past few years. There are so many incredible t-shirt lines out there, and so many apparel companies to compete with, it seems like an overwhelmingly daunting task for...
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How to Create Incredible Photoshop Brushes from Hand-Made Art
Tutorialsby Nathan Brown
There is a huge collection of great Photoshop brushes here at WeGraphics. But what some don't realize is that most all of our brushes are created by hand and then scanned and converted to brush sets. There are simply no Photoshop filters to reproduce what you can do by hand with brushes and paper. B...
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Illustrator Mastery: 25 Techniques Every Designer Must Know
Articlesby Nathan Brown
Like so many others, I began my design career by experimenting with Adobe Photoshop. At the time bitmap graphics were more accessible and more easy to understand. Vector graphics, Adobe Illustrator and especially bezier curves contained a shroud of mystique, and I was having too much fun with Photos...
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PNG Masking: How to Dynamically Shape Any Image on Your Website
Articlesby Nathan Brown
Since the release of Roundfolio, I've received a lot of requests in regards to the round gallery images and how they were created. The round thumbnail is really just one transparent PNG image overlaying each thumbnail in the gallery. You typically see PNG images used as subtle shadows or image borde...
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Roundfolio Video Tutorial - Free One Page Portfolio Template
Articlesby Nathan Brown
Since launching the Roundfolio One Page Portfolio Template last week, I've gotten several requests for a tutorial on how to edit the HTML. In response I've put together a quick video tutorial that runs through some of the structure to show you how easy Roundfolio can be updated and managed. ...
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