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Thursday, October 4, 2012

40 Beautiful Animal themed Logo Design examples for Inspiration

In this post we have added 40 best Animal logo designs for your inspiration. My favorite logo designs are H&C, First Steps, Plastic whale, Pink Flamingo, Yellow monkey and Hotel Cobra. Please tell us your favorite logo design.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Bikes, Greece and Splash

It's another week and it's time again to get your weekly dose of design news from around the globe. This week our topics would revolve around two design contests from two different parts of the world and a nifty gadget that I'm sure will solve one of the most common problems that we face as designers.

First on the list is a bike design contest sponsored by Uncommongoods.com. The contest's deadline for submission of entries will end on September 15, 2012 at 11:59 PM ET. The grand winner will take home $500 cash plus an UncommonGoods vendor contract. Runners up on the other hand will have their designs critiqued by the guest judges and will be provided tips for marketing and selling their design or business. The staff of UncommonGoods may also review the runners up entire portfolio in consideration for future work.

If you want to join this contest, you can submit your entry using their online form. You can use different mediums in creating your design as long as it is environment and animal friendly. Lastly, your designs should also tell a story, be intelligent and should show your individuality. For more details you can visit their website using this link.

Another on-going contest for designers to join is the "Design a Wish for Greece" poster design competition which is sponsored by the Santorini Biennale of Arts and aims to support the image of Modern Greece around the world.

The competition is open to international participants either as a solo participant or in groups of two. Participants can submit up to 5 artworks, but only a maximum of three can be considered as entries to the competition. There will also be a 40 euro registration fee which will be used to print the artworks on posters.

The selected artworks will be exhibited on different dates in 25 cities around the world and public voting will commence once the exhibition has started. Votes will be collected by the Art galleries and the results will be announced on September 30, 2012 in Santorini.

The grand prize winner/winners will receive €1,500; a tour of Greece for 30 days. The second runner up will receive €1,000 plus 20 days tour of Greece while the third runner up will receive €500 and a 10-day tour of Greece. The tour will cover expenses for air tickets and accommodation. For more information, you can visit their site using this link.

And last but not the least, our last news item for this week is regarding Logitech's K310 keyboard. If you're a designer who likes to drink coffee or any beverage while working, you've probably been one of the victims of the dreaded coffee splash.

Fortunately, Logitech has heard your prayers and gave us the K310 washable keyboard. It is submergible in up to 30cm of water and has convenient drainage holes at the back for speedy drying. The keyboard also has laser printed keys so you don't have to worry about the letters on your keys fading when you're constantly washing it. It also comes with a 3-year limited hardware warranty in case you're not that confident of its water-resistant personality.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Photoshop Tutorial on How to Retouch Skin in a Picture

Using Photoshop you can retouch your own pictures and make it better. If want to edit your image or make your face more smoother, Here’s another Photoshop tutorial where you will learn how to retouch skin in a picture. This tutorial is for beginners.
We will use Jessica Alba as our model in this tutorial. What we do in the picture is to make the skin more cleaner.

To start our tutorial follow the step below.

Step 1.
Open your picture in photoshop.simply go to File>Open

Step 2.
Choose Brush Tool (B) and adjust the Master Diameter to 14 px.

Step 3.
Press D on your keyboard to Default Foreground and Background color then click Edit in Quick Mask Mode (Q) and start fill the skin in the picture.

Step 4.
Once your done filling in the skin picture using Edit in Quick Mask Mode (Q) heres the result.

Step 5.
Click Edit Standard Mode (Q) and go to Select>Inverse.

heres the image after you select Inverse.

Step 6.
Go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur then adjust the Radius to 2.0 pixels.

Step 7.
Now go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise and adjust the Amount to 2.5%.

Step 8.
Go to Image>Adjustment>Brightness/Contrast and adjust Contrast to 8.

Now heres the final result.

I hope you learn something today..

Monday, October 1, 2012

200+ High Quality Web 2.0 Layer Styles Collection for Photoshop

You can find Layer Styles for Photoshop everywhere. Some of them are good and some are not. Layer style can be useful in making graphic designs Especially if you’re fun of glossy and elegant artworks. We look for the best Free Layer Styles which you can use in your Photoshop and showcase it in here so you can check it in one place. Here is a collection of some Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Photoshop in high quality and recommended made by few talented designers around the web. Check them all out and have fun.