Having another designer’s PSD file is as good as owning a chef’s recipe book. The only difference is – we designers are willing share and sometimes we even distribute them ourselves so others can download and learn from our techniques. Photoshop .PSD file reveals the techniques used on a specific design, it also tells us [...]
As a designer, I’m always out there looking for more cool free fonts to expand my killer font collections. The influences of fonts are simply amazing, different font can totally change the attitude of a piece of design. Choosing the right font is very important but it not easy. We need more choices, so here [...]
Have you ever feel that traditional fonts are a little too boring and plain for your designs and artworks? Ever wanted to use fonts that are funkier, stylish and fun to look at? Cartoon and comic fonts are very popular and most people are only familiar with Comic Sans MS and that’s about it. We [...]
There are more type designers than ever and the amount of fonts to choose from nowadays is mind boggling! So I decided it would be a good idea to put together a small sampling of some of the coolest font designs I have seen recently from the great designers of the Behance community. Stay tuned [...]
One of the most important things a designer can do for his or her business is to create an attractive portfolio site that communicates effectively with visitors and draws in potential clients. In this post we will look at various resources and articles that can help you to create the right portfolio site for you. [...]
Pixelmator is a popular image editor for Mac OS X. While Photoshop is the industry standard, Pixelmator has a lot to offer for Mac users. In this post we’ll feature 45 tutorials for using Pixelmator, including a number of video tutorials. Some of the tutorials are rather basic and will help you to get familiar [...]
Tattoos, Tatoos, Tattos, Body Art, Super Cool Body Paint For Your Mom, whatever you want to call it. I embarked on a journey last week to create some tattoo inspired brushes. I sat down with some graph paper, a pencil, and some tattoo magazines. Taking cues from some of my favorites I drew several designs, [...]
Ah, the beautiful world of Photoshop brushes. With thousands of incredible sets floating around the web, and thousands more being made all the time, it can become quite a daunting task to find the perfect ones for your projects. Let me show you 75 insane high resolution Photoshop brushes that will be perfect for any [...]
We had some old picture frames in bags so I took the opportunity to take photos of them and remove the backgrounds and the actual paintings in Photoshop and create some stock .png images for you to use in you art work. Yup that’s right they have transparent backgrounds so there pretty much ready to [...]
We do like our lists here at Arbent, and we think that many of you out there will like this one as well. Designers are always looking for fresh and exciting resources to help build a bountiful cache from which to pull, and when I say designers, I mean us here at Arbenting. But if [...]
Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged, damaged, dreamy or any look you want. [...]
