Access All Areas members have a brilliant new font to download this week, courtesy of Floodfonts. Pulpo is a friendly and comfortable looking typeface inspired by Century Schoolbook and Clarendon. Longer extenders give the text more room to breathe and improves legibility at small sizes. The family is provided in Read more…
A free online Procreate event kicked off today at Design Cuts featuring live sessions with top designers and discounts of up 50% off various Procreate tools and resources. This is your chance to own some of the best Procreate brushes, drawing kits, background textures and much more at a huge Read more…
In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a WW2 aircraft ‘nose art’ inspired image, featuring the classic ‘girl-riding-a-bomb’ style pin-up. Traditionally this style of artwork was hand-painted on bombers to boost morale and to bring good luck to the planes, perhaps the Read more…
Access All Areas members have a fantastic brush set for Procreate to download this week, courtesy of Shoutbam. The ‘On The Road’ brush set is divided into 3 parts: Line brushes, Texture brushes, and Shader brushes. You’ll be able to go from sketch to a final piece with ease and Read more…
I have a new collection of textures for you to download today! It’s easy to get carried away with texturing, but sometimes just a subtle addition of grain is all that is required to give a clean digital design a tactile appearance. This collection of Subtle Grain Brushes & Patterns Read more…
In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a series of surreal ripped paper collaging effects that give the appearance of an image being ripped away to reveal a different image underneath. We’ll use a variety of fundamental tools and techniques, such as layer masks and Read more…
This literal tech talk (YouTube video embedded in there) by Zach Leatherman is a good time. The talk is sprinkled with fun trickery, so I’m just taking notes on some on it here: I have no idea how he pulled off the “bang on the keyboard and get perfect code” Read more…
We’re going to create an impressive transition effect between images that’s, dare I say, very simple to implement and apply to any site. We’ll be using the kampos library because it’s very good at doing exactly what we need. We’ll also explore a few possible ways to tweak the result Read more…
Dave and I launched a Patreon for ShopTalk Show. You get two completely priceless things for backing us: That great feeling you’re supporting the show, which has costs like editing, transcribing, developing, and hosting. Access to our backer-only Discord. I think the Discord might be my favorite thing we ever Read more…
Hello! Satarupa Chatterjee from Cloudinary. There is a big change coming from Google in May 2021 having to do with their Core Web Vitals (CWVs). It’s worth paying attention here, as this is going to be a SEO factor. I recently spoke with Tamas Piros about CWVs. The May 2021 Read more…
