Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

Everyone loves Mac and everyone loves background designs so today, I thought that I would combine the two and show you how to create a slick, Mac-like background design in Photoshop. This is an intermediate Photoshop tutorial in which you will be using the Gradient Tool, the Pen Tool and the Polygonal Lasso Tool. Enjoy!

Here is the final design that we will be creating:

Due to the overwhelming success of last weeks post '12 Free Swirl Photoshop Brushes', I have decided to release another set of unique Photoshop brushes this week. Photoshop brushes are exactly what you need when you are looking to add a little something extra special to your designs. Paint splatter brushes in particular are very popular these days and I often use them in my designs. Here are some great paint splatter brushes that I have found recently. Simply click on the images to download the free brushes. Keep visiting this blog regularly as we continue to give away tons of free Photoshop brushes and tons of other free stuff each week.

Whenever I'm at a local arts and crafts fair, I usually find myself slowly drifting towards the back of the room towards the enigmatic poster section. I think my obsession with poster art began in the age old days of movie stores. I used to walk around these stores with my head cocked to the side, staring bright-eyed with amazement at all the wonderful movie posters around me as my mother rummaged through the 99 cent movie bin looking for something to entertain me if only for a few hours. In my later years, as I slowly began to discover the world of graphic design, my fascination only deepened and out of it grew a great appreciation and respect for this form of art.

I love restaurants and I love eating out. Eating out at an exquisite new restaurant is one of life's most delectable pleasures that should be thoroughly enjoyed and relished. Nothing truly compares to the savory flavours that tease your every taste bud and tantalize your mouth with every luscious burst of pleasure. But, aside from a little friendly advice,  just how do we choose the restaurants that we eat at? What influences us when we are deciding to go to one restaurant over the next?

Designers often use human skulls, skeletons, animal skulls and other bones in their designs. At this time of year especially when everyone is thinking about Halloween, designers tend to add skulls to their designs to make them more spooky and eerie. What if you want to do the same? Where exactly do these designers find good, high quality skull images to use in their designs? Well, thankfully there are plenty of designers who are willing to share their amazing high quality human skull images with us for free.