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Here is a quick video on how to make a simple text effect with gradientd and adding highlights to give the text a little depth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1YN9A-ws4&feature=youtube_gdata_player For more visit www.thedesignchimp.com

My YouTube Channel is The Design Chimp - www.youtube.com/thedesignchimp. You can also see more at www.thedesignchimp.com

Well I lied about "tonight" and I lied about "30 seconds." I tried doing the video and got caught up doing some other stuff design wise along with some promotional stuff at work. Anyway, I created the video, I did leave out a part of live tracing the bevel effect in corel draw. You can rock...

Just a few hours. You won't have to pen tool anything, and it literally takes maybe 30 seconds. :)

Corel is probably easier than illustrator. I haven't used Corel in ages, but I could install it and try to do a video on that as well.

This is really really easy. This I can make you a quick video tonight showing you how to do this in illustrator with 0 photoshop. There are a couple ways, so I'll show you how I would achieve the effect.

Hi all, I'm looking to get some yard signs made and wanted to find out about getting a quote. Qty - 50 18" x 24" Double sided - Doesn't need to be, may do 1 sided depending on price 3 colors Who would want to help me with this or who should I send a request to?

I posted this in the thread where someone was requesting more information, but I figured I would just start it's own thread. This video, in the beginning it shows very basic steps to creating gradients, then towards the end it goes over transparent gradients, dealing with gradients and bitmap...

Hey Guys, Sorry took me so long to get to this, have been super swamped. Here's the basic overview of gradients in illustrator video I said I was going to make. I will probably be making one here soon going over gradient meshes as well. http://brandonaldred.com/?p=632...

I'm going to make a video for you guys tonight on this. Also, how to keep the gradients from being mucky say if you go from black to red.

I'm amused.

Natedawg, I agree. I always shoot raw, just for the editing capabilities after. It's not always the option though. Sometimes I use stock photography in some of the things I create. I sometimes also even apply the HDR effect I showed to some drawings/colors for a different look in what I...

That luminance HDR is what you can do in Photoshop already. Since it just stacks the images of different exposures. The reason I showed what I did is because it works with Photoshop versions earlier than CS4 and doesn't require a separate program to open RAW files - since most of the time...

I put together this quick tutorial to show how to make an HDR effect in Photoshop. Not sure how many people here are into photography, but I use this effect on a lot of images when I'm creating different pieces just to enhance details. Also, this gives a quick overview of how to create an...

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lol my last post. Yes, sign shops do graphic design, but a graphic designer can do more than signs. That was what I was getting at. Logos - people that are good at logos are necessarily good at layouts. Print ads, identities, signs and more. Old Paint - I agree with you 100%, that doesn't...

I don't have debts, nor $12 an hour. I do more than just sign shop. I get this is Signs 101 - but I was thinking grander scale. More than sign shops, more than signs.

James - Exactly. When cameras came out, they took the portrait jobs away from people that used pens/pencils/brushes but no one complains about that anymore. It free'd up those artists to create more things, different things and experiment. A camera was a different way to do it. Almost...

lol, Old Paint, the point you are arguing really just makes me laugh. I do like the honest feed back you are giving tho. I have thick skin so I take it as is and can only try to get better from it. But you are blending the term artist and graphic designer. Pablo Picasso may have not made a...

Old paint, I think you are looking at the term all wrong. A graphic designer doesn't have to be able to draw. If you wanted a sign, that read legible, got people in your door, it doesn't necessarily need to be drawn. If the designer has good color theory and layout practices, he is choosing...