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In today’s Photoshop video tutorial we’re going to create a sweet, delicious, tasty doughnut illustration, with the help of my new Grain Shader brushes. These brushes help you bring your flat artwork to life with depth, shading and the sought-after grainy textured appearance. I’ll show you my favourite technique for Read more…
Access All Areas members have a beautiful handwritten font to download this week, courtesy of Katsia Jazwinska. Hygge Home is a signature font with trendy flow and contrast, created by hand with a mixture of thick and thin pen strokes. It’s great for creating personal logo designs, elegant wedding stationery, Read more…
I know my readers love a good fonts bundle, so I’m excited to share the news about the latest deal from Design Cuts. This collection of 16 professional quality, hugely versatile font families contains typefaces from some of the top font foundries for just $29 after the huge 98% discount. Read more…
Many of the Photoshop Brush packs I’ve created have just been configured as single-click brushes to stamp a texture into your artwork. Recently I’ve been experimenting with more advanced brush settings that allow the brush to be painted with, using continuous motions and varying pressure with a pen tablet. My Read more…
Follow along with today’s how-to guide to create a letterpress style poster design with overprint effects. Authentic poster art of this kind would traditionally be created by hand on a letterpress print machine, where the transfer of ink from roller to paper would naturally create the texturing and overprint appearance. Read more…
A web page isn’t locked in stone just because it has rendered visually. Media assets, like images, can come in and cause the layout to shift based on their size, which typically isn’t known in fluid layouts until they do render. Or fonts can load and reflow layout. Or XHRs Read more…
Every now and then, a debate flares up about the value of typed JavaScript. “Just write more tests!” yell some opponents. “Replace unit tests with types!” scream others. Both are right in some ways, and wrong in others. Twitter affords little room for nuance. But in the space of this Read more…
You work a while on a side project. You think it’s pretty cool! You decide to release it into the world. And then… it goes well. Or it doesn’t go well. Wait, is that right? You forgot to add analytics — it just didn’t cross your mind at the time. Read more…
Zach Leatherman worked closely with Chris to figure out the font loading strategy for this very website you’re reading. Zach walks us through the design in this write-up and shares techniques that can be applied to other projects. Spoiler alert: Font loading is a complex and important part of a Read more…
The IndieWeb is a thing! They’ve got a conference coming up and everything. The New Yorker is even writing about it:
Proponents of the IndieWeb offer a fairly straightforward analysis of our current social-media crisis. They frame it in terms of a single question: Who owns the servers? The bulk of our online activity takes places on servers owned by a small number of massive companies. Servers cost money to run. If you’re using a company’s servers without paying for the privilege, then that company must be finding other ways to “extract value” from you.
As I understand it, the core concept is running your own website where you are completely in control, as opposed to publishing content you create on a third-party website. It doesn’t say don’t use third-party websites. It just says syndicate there if you want to, but make your own website the canonical source.
Don’t tweet, but instead write a short blog post and auto-post it to Twitter. Don’t blog on Medium, but instead write on your own blog and plop it over to Medium. Like that. In that way, you’re getting the value of those services without giving anything up.
