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Photoshop 101: Create realistic Sticky Note with shadow

April 20th, 2010 Orkron 2 comments

Today I’m going to walk you through the steps to create a StickyNote paper with realistic shadow using Photoshop CS3. This tutorial will work with any version of the Creative Suite too, you’re tools may be located slightly different however. I also have the Photoshop CS3 file for download at the end if you’d prefer to work on the original.

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Free High Resolution Graffiti Photo Textures

April 14th, 2010 Orkron No comments

On the way to my kid’s school, there is an abandoned building with a really nice graffiti piece across the front. Today I decided to take some high-res photos of the graf for you to download to use as texture or stock photo.

I started by taking all the images I had taken, and used Photoshop to photo-merge them into a single panorama; the graf art is very wide.

[TIP] To Photo Merge many files into one, with all the files open inside Photoshop, click File -> Automate -> Photomerge and choose the type of layout, then click “Add open files” … The box will populate with the filenames of all open documents -> Click OK

I have the finished piece available in 300 dpi JPG image at 11,629 x 1,707 pixels, and the rest available in 3 separate sections in 2,500 pix wide, 300 dpi PNG files with transparent backgrounds.

Get Graffiti Wide JPG (106) 3MB
Get Graf 01 PNG (97) 4MB Get Graf 02 PNG (106) 3MB Get Graf 03 PNG (99) 3MB

Check out Media Militia for a great Graffiti Brushes/Texture resource.

Illustrator CS4 Q&A Round One

March 20th, 2010 Orkron No comments

I have noticed that my post a while ago about how frustrating CS4 can be has been one of my most popular articles to date. I took this as you folks have some questions about CS4 and Illustrator in general.

mmRecently, with the help of Media Militia, I put out a call for your questions to be answered here. I’d like to personally thank everyone who sent in an email with questions. If you have a question that you’d like me to answer then send me a note; I’m happy to add you to the list for Round Two in the future

Illustrator CS4 Questions/Answers Round One

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2 simple ways to reduce filesize in your Illustrator art

September 16th, 2009 Orkron 2 comments

Here are 2 simple ways you can dramatically reduce filesize of your Illustrator production files:

Step one:

Before exporting your Illustrator file to another more universal format (such as EPS), or even if you are sharing the .ai file you can remove unused swatches, brushes etc from your document; these unused components add to the size of your document!

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Freebie: Set of 10 Illustrator CS3 brushes

May 5th, 2009 Orkron 1 comment

I was playing around with some tools in Illustrator CS3 today, and found myself making some fun & interesting brush sets. So, naturally I decided to keep making more and offer them for download here!

The set comes with 10 unique brushes, each one ready for color and your creative ideas. Use the spiral tool, use the brush tool, set the fill to blank, and the stroke to any color you like. Load my brush set and start playing around!

Here’s a quick preview:
brush-set-01_preview

Installation:

  1. Download the brush set after the jump
  2. Unzip the .ai file
  3. Browse to your Illustrator Presets/Brushes folder
  4. Copy Orkron_brush-set-01.ai to this folder
  5. Reload Illustrator if already open
  6. Click Window->Brush Libraries->Orkron_brush-set-01
  7. Enjoy!

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