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Greyscale Gorilla Tutorials
ABOUT GREYSCALE GORILLA
Hi there! My name is Nick Campbell. I currently live in Chicago and work as a motion designer, photographer, iPhone app designer and educator. I have worked for over 6 years in the motion design industry, most recently at Digital Kitchen where I worked on Dexter, Target, Blackberry, and most recently for the Tonight Show with Conan O’brien. This blog was started to help creatives and creators make cool shit. I post tutorials about my process as well as links to ideas, news, and inspiration. The idea behind the blog is “As I learn it, so do you”.
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Combining Fonts Tutorial
Is there a way to know what fonts will work together? Building a palette is an intuitive process, but expanding a typographic duet to three, four, or even five voices can be daunting. Here are four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ's Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.
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A List Apart
(CSS, HTML, Web Design)
Topics on the site include:
CODE (346 articles)
Markup, style, scripting, and server-side techniques in the service of user-centric interfaces and tools. Cross-browser XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Roll your own X using scripting or markup language Y. Producing clearer, saner, more secure code that plays well with others. The love/hate relationship between layout and markup. Workarounds for that irritating bug and why (or why not) to use them. Includes: Browsers, CSS, Flash, HTML and XHTML,Scripting, Server Side, XML, HTML5.
CONTENT (64 articles)Better writing and more effective communication on the web. Working with, and in some cases, building your own content management systems. Writing for the medium. Designing for readers. The “what”? and “why”? of audio, video, and animated content. Web narratives and design as content. Crafting content-focused digital products and brands. Includes: Brand Arts,Community, Writing, Content Strategy.
CULTURE (121 articles)This web life: emerging ideas, thoughtful topics, insights and provocations. Legal and social issues of web creation and publishing. Innovations and abuses, freedom and constraints. Patents and copyright. Trends versus tipping points. All the messy stuff that happens outside of your projects. Includes: Industry, Politics and Money, State of the Web.
DESIGN (159 articles)Visual communication, art direction. Designing systems or interfaces to help users achieve goals. Graphic design, interface design, user experience design, typography, illustration, photography, artwork. Creative and technical techniques for crafting great interfaces. Developing an appropriate look and feel. How web users respond to design. Identity systems and brand development. Visual styles, influences, and trends. Includes: Graphic Design, User Interface Design, Typography, Layout, Web Fonts.
PROCESS (108 articles)The business of business. Workflow, project management, keeping projects on target, brainstorming, scope creep, building and working with teams. The creative process. Ideas and inspiration. All the messy stuff that happens inside of your projects. Communicating with clients and colleagues. Selling. Listening. Listening, listening, listening! Includes: Creativity,Business, Project Management and Workflow.
USER SCIENCE (129 articles)What does a user want? Designing for needs. Putting the user first. Making web content accessible to more people and more kinds of internet devices. Designing and testing usable interfaces. Use-case models and model users. Scenario development, wireframes. Usability testing on the cheap. And on the not so cheap. How to spec a site people will want (and be able) to use. Includes: Accessibility, Information Architecture, Usability.
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Particle Illustration in Photoshop
“How to design an intense Particle Illustration in Photoshop”
-a step by step tutorial from Media Militia. Includes full layered PSD file.
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BOTTLE CAP ILLUSTRATOR TUTORIAL
How to make vintage-looking vector bottle caps in Adobe Illustrator.
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+60 Photoshop Action Tutorials
“Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually. Photoshop actions are powerful and great time saver when it comes to batch photo processing.
Adobe Photoshop comes with a default set of actions pre-installed that could give you a pretty good idea how thing works. In this post, we want to show you a list of 60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements.”
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Vector Character Art in Illustrator
Designing a character can apply to both personal and professional projects. The character can be a mascot that works in the context of a multi-national brand, or it can simply be inspired by a well-known character within pop culture. The later is usually referred to as “Fan Art.” The character “Mickey Rat” first appeared in the early 1970′s as a subversive underground comic that I enjoyed as a kid. Many artists over the years have taken their own approach with the character, and this article goes over my creation of this vectorized vermin.
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Vector Tuts
Illustrator tutorials.
Vectortuts+ is a blog of tutorials, articles, freebies and more on all things vector! We publish tutorials on techniques and effects to make awesome vector graphics in programs like Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape. Our authors and writers work all over the industry. Most of the content is free, but you can also grab a premium Vector Plus membership and get access to special extras as well as source files for the tutorials. And if you’re interested in writing a tutorial, then you can submit your ideas and we’ll pay $150 for any published tutorials!
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PSD tuts
Photoshop tutorials.
Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.
Adobe Photoshop is a fantastically powerful program and there are a million ways to do anything, we hope that reading Psdtuts+ will help our readers learn a few tricks, techniques and tips that they might not have seen before and help them maximize their creative potential!
Psdtuts+ is part of the Tuts+ Network.
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Aetuts
After Effects Tutorials.
Aetuts+ is a site made to house and showcase some of the best After Effects tutorials around. We publish tutorials that not only produce great effects, but explain them in a friendly, approachable manner. We also stock up links to tutorials, articles, presets and plugins from around the web to help you get the most out of After Effects.
If you’re interested in writing a tutorial for the site, you can learn about the submission process on our Write a Tutorial page.
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"Squeeze Me" Motion Tutorials
Freshly Squeezed Motion Graphic News, Tutorials, and other information from across the interweb
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"All Bets Are Off" After Effects Tutorials
Over 100 Free Adobe After Effects Tutorials. Over 45,000 Green Screen Stock Footage Clips
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Cinema 4D, After Effects, Maya, and Vue Tutorials
Here is a collection of free tutorials, covering Cinema 4D, After Effects, Maya, Vue and much more. Many include project files to help you on your way. There is also a set of beginner tutorials for those of you new to VFX and 3D. The tutorials are almost all in 720p HD and can either be watched here on the site or downloaded for viewing at your leisure. loaded for viewing at your leisure. your leisure.
We welcome feedback for our tutorials, as well as requests or ideas for future tutorials, so if you have any ideas please visit our contact page or forum and let us hear them.
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