Photo manipulation is one of the digital arts that merge photography and computer graphics. While photography prefers to keep photos unedited, photo manipulation aims to deliver a message or idea by merging photos and applying computer graphic effects to the artwork. Some designers and artists confuse photo manipulation with digital painting. Unlike digital painting that paints the artwork, photo manipulation uses different resources such as photographs, 3D, and illustrations to visualize the ideas. Frequently updated softwares, such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, help artists and designers to create photo manipulation...

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Regardless of whether you’re a small indie designer looking for ways to improve and expand your current skill set or a small business wanting to wrap your brain around the process of creating a logo for yourself, the following tips and thoughts are designed so you can learn from other peoples’ errors and not get tangled up in them yourself. Your time is valuable, and you don’t want to waste it designing in an incorrect manner. Related posts: 20 Examples of Creative Logo Design Extraordinary Mono-Color Logo Examples Creative Examples...

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Automotive advertising ideas are most attractive type of commercial ads. Car advertising agencies try to attract the consumers with different concepts and ideas. Also, they try to visualize the car features through the creative concepts behind each ad. For example, the German cars such as Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen focuses on the safety factor in their cars. These concepts appear very clear in the advertising ideas below. The Land Rover focuses in their cars advertising ideas on the power of the car and its ability to move in the hard roads. Each of...

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Unlike ordinary business cards that people are handing us everywhere, custom shaped business cards can attract our attention both to the created design as well as the card’s content. The creative design can be achieved by using elements such as typeface, colors, and effects. However, these elements are framed with the rectangle shape of the business card. In custom shaped business cards, the design can extend the rectangle’s borders. This change in the card’s layout plays a great role in attracting the viewer to examine the business card and learn...

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Choosing the font for a website or design is one of the most challenging tasks for designers, and a common font that designers like to implement is the handwriting font style. Not only do they use it because it is attractive, but also because simulates the casual style of hand-written texts. When you choose this type of fonts for your design, you should consider the font glyphs and style to be user-friendly. If the font is hard to read, it will be a weak point in the design. There are...

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Most designers use Adobe Photoshop brushes in their designs, and I have noticed that many are looking for Photoshop rose brushes. Instead of drawing different flower shapes in Photoshop or Illustrator from scratch, designers like to rely on rose brushes to create floral patterns much faster and easier than by manually drawing each of them. There are many free Photoshop rose brushes out there that you can simply download, load into Photoshop and start to use from the brushes list. You can use brushes for designs, digital art and backgrounds,...

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Car advertising ideas are more attractive than any other advertising ideas in the different fields. It may be the nature of car industry itself that  attracts new creative ideas, as cars include many luxury features that inspire creative designers and directors to come up with unique ideas for their advertising campaigns. Car advertising ideas rely on marketing campaigns. For example, some advertising ideas focus on safety, while others focus on the speed of the car and comfortable driving. On the other hand, advertising campaigns vary based on the car manufacturer and the automotive marque. It has...

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Seamless patterns are very important for every graphic designer’s library, and pixel patterns are very popular these days in modern designs in web, desktop, and mobile applications. Photoshop pixel patterns can be used for creating seamless backgrounds that are repeated statically in Photoshop, or dynamically using CSS in web designs. Photoshop pixel patterns are based on arranging pixels next to each other to build lines and shapes without applying anti-aliasing technique, as you can see in the examples below. In our resource post today, I would like to share 20...

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The concept car designs are controlled by many aspects such as the economical factors, luxury factors and environmental factors. The concept cars are designs that provide inspirations and ideas on how the automative industry will look like in the future and how the streets of tomorrow will appear with the new cars’ designs. Many companies concern with the concept car designs looking for new ideas for the next wave of design trends and how people will interact with it. The following concept cars’ designs are from famous cars manufacturers such as Peugeot, Volkswagen,...

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Light painting or light graffiti is one of the interesting photography techniques. This type of photography uses a light source in front of the camera to create artwork based on moving the light source in specific way. Painting with light depends on shooting the light source movement using a steady camera with long exposure. This long exposure lets the camera lenses expose continuous information about the light movement and display it in the light painting creative way. There are many techniques for painting with light photography using different light sources such as fiber optics, light pens,...

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Twitter is a popular social media tool that helps individuals to connect with friends and family, and businesses to connect with existing and prospective clients. Most businesses today understand the power of social media and come up with different ways to market their products and services and at the same time, touch base with their clients for some valuable feedback. This powerful tool can also be used by freelance designers and designing companies to reach out to customers around the world because it cuts across geographical boundaries. It helps designers...

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