‘Graphic Design’ Articles
Written by Draqos on 25 June 2010
In our days to see swirl graphics is a very common thing. You can create swirl backgrounds with some brushes or vectors, but if you want something unique and custom you must deep search on the internet and find swirl images for inspiration and some swirl resources.
(swirl art by abduzeedo.com)
Here is a collection of some basic swirl backgrounds which include swirls designs and brushes in a variety of colors like pink, black, blue purple, green, golden and more. We have also listed some floral swirls and stars graphics for inspiration as well.
To Download the swirls brushes and graphics -> please click on the images.
Swirl Graphics/Art
Floral Swirls
by szuia
by shadow963
by SugarBreezy
Pink Swirls
by Itsmylove
by cd7grrl97
by Fitheach Stock
Blue Swirls
by reno-fan-girl
by Bozack
by DesiRocker
Black Swirls
We were not able to find the graphic files on the internet for black swirls, however I have posted the images below in (jpeg format) for your designing inspiration.
by gimini_02
Purple Swirls
by papier_puppe
by saddy
Swirls Backgrounds
(Only jpeg’s available for inspiration)
Gold Swirls
No available resources, just images for inspiration: You can find Golden Swirls images here, here, here and here.
Do let us know what you think of this post in your comments below. If you got some good swirls brushes, backgrounds or graphics do let us know. We would feature it here.
by szuia
Tags: Black Swirls, Blue Swirls, Floral Swirls, Gold Swirls, golden swirls, Green Swirls, Pink Swirls, Purple Swirls, stars and swirls, swirl, swirl backgrounds, swirl graphics, swirl images, swirl photo, swirl pictures, swirls
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Written by admin on 30 May 2010
Here are some ribbons we designed following the tutorial Ribbon Image Design – Photoshop Graphic Design Tutorial 5.
The tutorial was fairly easy to follow if you prefer to try to design your own and want to start with something simple. We designed the ribbons for use with the featured showcase slider used in the theme Showcase Blue.
The dowload package includes a copy of the ribbon in 6 colors along with the PSD file. You can modify the PSD file to suit your needs and create additional colors.
Download Ribbons
Tags: Freebies, photoshop
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Written by admin on 31 December 2009
Still working on learning to design graphics in Illustrator using the tracing technique. Will not presume to write a tutorial on how to do this. Just not skilled enough to be telling anyone how to trace with Illustrator. You can find countless tutorials on the web. The one used as a basic guide for tracing the Chanel sunglasses used for this object can be found here
We grabbed an image of a pair of Chanel sunglasses from Google images and followed Steps 1 and 2 to set it up for tracing. After that it was pretty much trial and error.
Tip: You can try using Effect->Stylize->Rounded Corners to soften the edges of your shapes; but keep in mind that this will not work for all scenarios. It works best for shapes that do not have 4 distinct corners. Feel free to share if you know a more effective way of softening edges in Illustrator.
Self grade: D+
Tags: illustrator, tracing
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Written by admin on 30 December 2009
Feel free to download our lipstick icons if you like them. They are by no means the sexiest lipstick icons ever designed. We designed them in Illustrator after learning some tracing techniques. Yes, we know there’s lots of room for improvement.
There are only three lipstick icons in this pack. You can make more in Photoshop by playing with the Hue & Saturation tool in colorize mode. If you want to create more lipstick colors use the lasso tool to create a selection around the lipstick itself then go to Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation, check the colorize checkbox and create your colors.
Click here to download the lipstick files
Tags: beauty, icons, lipstick
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Written by admin on 04 August 2009
Made these buttons following the tutorial How to Create a Slick and Clean Button in Photoshop as written by Jacob Gube. Did sort of cut out of few steps to simplify the process and have only made a one-state button. If you like the buttons feel free to download and use them. The full button looks as shown below. The gallery images are cropped so click them to see the full-sized buttons.
I’ve included the PSD button in the Download Package
so you can play with it to create your buttons in your preferred colors. You could also just adjust the hue/saturation of the png buttons to make more colors.
Thanks to sixrevisions.com for the tutorial.
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Written by admin on 10 April 2009
We came across this 3d bowl illustrator tutorial and decided to attempt it. Our finished bowl of apples looks more like a bowl of tomatoes. We’ll have to try this tutorial again. As for the tutorial it was easy to follow. The instructions were clear and thorough. We just didn’t manage to get our bowl of apples to look as nice as the example in the tutorial.
If for some reason you want to use our bowl of apples please feel free.
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Written by admin on 10 April 2009
Trying our hands at designing people icons from scratch as part of our efforts to learn illustrator. Our first sample is named Mitchell. He’s not the sexiest looking icon that was ever drawn but he’s not bad for a from scratch first attempt.
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Written by admin on 26 March 2009
We continue to practice with adobe illustrator and have completed another tutorial. This tutorial, found here, teaches how to design a coffee mug icon. At first we were daunted by the fact that 27 steps are required to make the mug, but we decided to go ahead and give the coffee mug a try. What we produced obviously has its flaws, but for a first try our coffee mug isn’t half bad. What do you think?
After we finished the red coffee mug we decided to make a white one with decorative accent. Making the white one was of course just a matter of changing the color and applying the decoration in photoshop.
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Written by admin on 25 March 2009
Giving away our first set of illustrator glass balls. We came across and tried a number of different tutorials. Seems there are a number of ways you can go about making these glass objects. Some people call them orbs, some people call them balls and some call them buttons. For most of the tutorials we tried we came to a point where we just couldn’t get it to work. It was always at the point where you create the opacity mask to achieve the glass effect. Finally we came across this tutorial and managed to get the balls done. Ours look more plastic than glass but that’s okay. It was our first try. We’ll try another set later.
There are free glass buttons all over the place that you can download. We’re adding ours to the list. Download and use them however you like. The files are in transparent PNG format.
Download Zipped glass balls
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Written by admin on 24 March 2009
We found this tutorial for designing a sleek pencil in adobe illustrator cs3. We gave it a try and managed to produce 5 pretty cool 3d pencils. Of course ours don’t look as good as the example pencil on the tutorial website; but for beginners work they’re pretty good.
One critical comment about the tutorial linked to above: it sort of left us hanging after the instructions “Now, using these colors as a guide, add gradients to each of your shapes”. We spent nearly half an hour trying to figure out how to make the gradient tool work in adobe illustrator; then it finally dawned on us to go look for another tutorial about applying gradients in illustrator. We came across Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tutorial: ‘Everything about Gradients’ and it solved the mystery for us; but aside from that the pencil icon tutorial was pretty good.
You can download our pencils and use them for any purpose. By the way the pencils come jumbo sized. You’ll need to resize them according to your preferred size.
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by papier_puppe
by saddy
