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Mindtracks tracks my interests in Web design, network literacy, digital culture and the visual arts. I am particularly how the web may be used by visual artists and how it might enhance and promote their practice.
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Tutorials discovered this week.
Bittbox has published a great tutorial on Complex Circular Design Techniques in Illustrator VectorTuts has published Seven Helpful Techniques that Every Adobe Illustrator Artist Should Know. These tip...
More Illustrator and Photoshop goodies
Obsidian Dawn has produced some new vector gear brushes for Photoshop Pixels and Icecream is another 5 free high resolution floral brushes from Brusheezy This tutorial from up240 teaches you how to cr...
More Photoshop and Illustrator freebies
Dot Pattern Art Brush in Adobe Illustrator is a illustrated tutorial on creating a brush Spoongraphics wrote this roundup of free ornamental, floral, swirly and curly graphics on the web Vector Illust...
Photoshop and Illustrator Goodies
Vectips has published a tutorial on how to create your own brushes in Illustrator Bittbox has been drawing decorative elements and released two sets of hand drawn ornaments as EPS or SVG files. Also o...
Catching up on reading
The Graphic Mac is a rediscovery of a site I used to visit regularly. It covers Mac or design related tips, tricks, and software reviews. There is a heap of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign tips o...
Sample chapters on Photoshop and Illustrator
Peachpit often provide sample chapters of their books. The site houses such items as a sample chapter on using the Bridge in CS3 and the Photoshop Reference Guide by Matt Kloskowski houses a number of...
Photoshop and Illustrator goodies
Obsidian Dawn has released some new distressed brushes and I also discovered these 26 Silhouette brushes of people for Adobe Photoshop. I came across this Photoshop tutorial on Creating A Cool Vintage...
Photoshop Express
Adobe has released a free web based image manipulation tool Photoshop Express which allows users a simple way to enhance, share, and store photos. This is a beta product so I imagine there will be mor...
More Illustrator and Photoshop goodies
Keeping up with and understanding new features in software releases is always a bit of a challenge. For those who are using Flash and Illustrator hand in hand Understanding 9-Slice Scaling explains th...
More Photoshop and Illustrator goodies
Both Photoshop and Illustrator enable you to record a series of actions that you may constantly repeat. After recording these steps you can play them back over other other images. They are extremely u...
More Photoshop and Illustrator goodies
Vector Guru has produced a tutorial on how to create a Retro styled background using Illustrator Track 6 Design has published a tutorial on how to create textures in Vector images using Illustrator Sm...
More Photoshop and Illustrator goodies
Vector Guru has produced a tutorial on how to create a Retro styled background using Illustrator Track 6 Design has published a tutorial on how to create textures in Vector images using Illustrator Sm...
More Photoshop and Illustrator goodies
Vector Guru has produced a tutorial on how to create a Retro styled background using Illustrator Track 6 Design has published a tutorial on how to create textures in Vector images using Illustrator Sm...
More Photoshop and Illustrator goodies
3DTotal has collated a collection of 100 Photoshop tutorials. Pass your cursor over the thumbnails for a full description of what the tutorial covers. Digital Arts has featured a CS3 tutorial on Expor...
More Photoshop and Illustrator goodies
Introduction to the photoshop layout is a video tutorial that is ideal for beginners to Photoshop introducing the user interface to those who are new to the program. Stephanie of Obsidian Dawn has rel...
Keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop
Key Board shortcuts not only increase your productivity as they save you time but they also save your hands from problems caused by over use of one set of muscles. Why do I say this? Any work pract...
Photoshop and Illustrator Goodies
Dezignus.com is a design centered blog that provides links to free icons, brushes and shapes, tutorials, vector graphics, patterns and the like. Bittbox has released some free vector tree Silhouette...
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Just a quick link as Stephanie Shimerdla of Obsidian Dawn has published an excellent tutorial on using paths in Photoshop. ...
2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
The annual 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards are open for submissions. The awards are open to graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer ...
More Photoshop brushes
Stephanie on Obsidian Dawn has released another set of brushes for Photoshop. This time it is Snow flake brushes I also found fractal brushes on psbrushes.net There is also a selection of free Photosh...
Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials and Brushes
Matt Davies has posted a tutorial on how to use The Twirl Tool Create Quality Twirls in 3 Steps using Illustrator. Bittbox has a new Illustrator tutorial online too. Rock-Solid Alignment using Anchor ...
Using the Liquify filter in Photoshop properly
Using the Liquify filter in Photoshop is often over done and applied with a heavy hand. This tutorial from Watch and Learn Photoshop shows you how subtle changes can be created to polish a photograph...