Resizing an image sounds like one of the simplest things you could do in Photoshop, but there are actually some common mistakes you should avoid. In today’s digital age, you will probably want to resize an image so it fits nicely on a computer screen, however, if you’re a professional Read more…
You’ve just created the greatest logo humanity has ever seen. Your client loves it, but it’s still just one file. You’ve got to send your client zillions of files! There are different colour gamuts, logo variations and file types you need to save. It takes forever to make all the Read more…
Recently I was wandering around the stalls at a classic car show admiring a collection of vintage automotive signs, which featured various lubricant and fluid brands on old rusty metal plates. It has taken over 70s years to slowly decay those tin advertisements into vintage memorabilia, but they gave me Read more…
Access All Areas members have a colourful collection of abstract backgrounds to download this week, courtesy of Freepik. These 10 vector graphics feature a variety of organic shapes and vibrant hues that can be used to add colourful backgrounds to your designs. Each graphic is made with a beautiful colour Read more…
Can you relate to this scenario? You’re working on a design and you need a high-resolution texture to add some cool effects to your artwork, but you just don’t have the time to make it yourself! Save countless hours by equipping yourself with this versatile collection of texture and pattern Read more…
The style of ‘Old School’ tattoos is a popular aesthetic in the tattooing scene and has become an iconic illustration style in other genres of art. The stylised handmade drawings feature thick black outlines and bold colours, often depicting roses, anchors and pin-up girls from the tradition of sailor tattooing. Read more…
In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a striped text effect with a retro 70s vibe. We’ll create the effect by layering up a series of strokes and fills with Illustrator’s Appearance panel, which preserves the live text so you don’t lose the ability to edit the wording. Read more…
Access All Areas members have a great collection of vector illustrations to download this week, courtesy of Martin Malchev. These 7 superhero graphics feature powerful characters in a bold comic book style, featuring a variety of poses and backgrounds. Supplied in AI, EPS and CorelDraw file formats, these graphics can Read more…
In this week’s roundup, WebKit’s method for truncating multi-line text gets some love, a note on calculations using custom properties, and a new OpenType feature that prevents typographic logjams. Truncating mutli-line text The CSS -webkit-line-clamp property for truncating multi-line text is now widely supported (see my usage guide). If you Read more…
Say you wanted to put the CSS-Tricks website in an . You’d do that like this: Without any other styling, you’d get a rectangle that is 300×150 pixels in size. That’s not even in the User Agent stylesheet, it’s just some magical thing about iframes (and objects). That’s almost certainly Read more…
