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This has very little to do with GIFs.
Firstly you need to create the face-morph effect. There are apps that do it for you but it isn't a one-click process.
Secondly ther is a transition effect to blend between stages. It includes tiles, waves and a gradient mask.
Either way, this video (which it was at one point) isn't an easy process if video editing ...
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I'm 99.999999% sure the example you posted is just a typeface that's like that. If you want to achieve a rough approximation in Photoshop, it's possible using the Bevel and Emboss Layer Style. The key is the custom contour.
The best way to do something like that would be to use a font with the effect baked in, or draw custom shapes... probably in ...
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In Photoshop, you can manually create a blur effect in everything surrounding your image using the Blur Tool.
For example:
Rasterize your text so you have a bitmap image of your text.
Duplicate your layer (to keep the original safe!)
Select the Blur Tool, choose an opacity of 30% or so, and a brush size of 40px.
Start blurring your image from the ...
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I don't know about a template. You'd need to
select an image or texture for your surface
drop your art in at the desired angle
overlay the setting with a gradient and add shadows for a lighting angle
add soft-focus for effect
judiciously apply film grain to temper that overly-smooth cgi look
Get one setting working the way you like, then create a few ...
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It is simply a white drop shadow applied to the text.
In this case, it is achieved with the CSS code:
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 white;
Works best on bold text.
The icons would probably have been done in Photoshop in a similar style to match. In Photoshop, you could get the same effect by duplicating the text, moving the duplicate down one pixel, dropping it ...
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This looks like a photo, so I'll treat is as one.
You are doing few things wrong here.
You should've used plain white paper instead of one that has
lines.
You should've used proper/better lighting, perhaps a light directed right into the paper, but the more sunlight, the better it is.
It doesn't take more than common sense to know that less lines ...
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Using Strokes
This does alter the original shape. If that bothers you, this isn't for you, but it's a much easier solution than doing it manually.
Change the black stroke to the same color as the fill:
Up the stroke a bit and then give it a "Round Join" corner in the Stroke palette:
Outline the stroke:
Merge the stroke and the fill in the ...
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So it's just two adjustment layers you need to add? I'd create an action to add them, then use a batch (File → Automate → Batch) to process all the original files. You can include a Save For Web command in the Action to save them to a known location, as well.
Should be a fairly quick job to set up, and it also shouldn't take long to stomp through 138 or ...
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I suppose someone should tell you that any logo you create by this process won't really be all that good in terms of quality, in the same way that me tweaking a WordPress template doesn't make a quality website. Sure it works, and doing it yourself is always the cheapest option, but at some point you might want to seriously consider investing in a graphic ...
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Most of it can be done with photoshop as plainclothes suggests.
And sometimes it works well.
But if your portfolio is primarily print work, nothing beats actual samples of the printed work.
Alternatively, I find nothing wrong with not going the photo-realistic route. If you designed business cards, just show them as your standard rectangle. That let's ...
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Download the psd here click on the blue-button.psd text in top left corner
Its all done with gradients, inner shadow for the highlight at the top and for the shadow round the edge i used a bevel. You can download the psd above ^. Its all a little off just were a picked random colors from the jpeg.
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As Johannes points out, it's merely a darker edge on one side.
The easiest way to do this in Illustrator is via the Appearance panel.
It's simply a matter of adding a dark fill and a light fill, then moving them 1 point (or more) so they essentially "stick out" from behind the main fill.
In the image below you can see I've added two new fills and moved ...
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There are a number of ways to create circles within circles in photoshop. Here are two:
First Method:
Filter > Sketch > Halftone Pattern - probably defaulting on dot but can be changed to circle. Foreground color and backgrond color will determine the colors.
Second Method:
For say a 1px circle with a 1 pixel margin create an action that
says: Expand ...
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The way I would do it using photoshop/illustrator:
I would first grab the image I want to imitate and make it b&w and as contrasting as it can be. Alternatively, I would re-draw it in simple vector shapes using maybe 3 or 4 shades of any colour, just to get an idea of how it's composed. With that simplified version, I would overlap images until I get a ...
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The Transform Effect only allows for the replication of the effect on all copies. THere's no way to create copies via the Transform Effect and then alter each copy independently.
A better solution....
Set up the first item and then drag it to the Symbol Panel. This will turn the layout into a symbol. Copy the symbol on the artboard and rotate it, mask it, ...
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I haven't used Fireworks in a long time. I just use GIMP, but Fireworks should work.
In the example image you have provided, the distortion is so little I would just Blur it.
Way #1
try this:
Select the area you want to effect and copy it to a new layer.
Create a highly transparent black box narrow enough and centered vertically for top and ...
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There is. Use the rectangular Marquee tool to select a section of the image. Copy the section. Choose Edit > Deselect, and then switch back to the regular pointer tool. Choose Edit > Paste to drop the copied section over the original image. With the pasted section selected, choose Blur > Gaussian blur from either the main toolbar or the FW live filters. Draw ...
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I think the artist never intended to give you the original oil drop image in the first place because he does say "now add a photograph" not "now add my photograph".
A few resources I know of include:
Deviantart, do a search for any brush type + the word brush (i.e. oil brush) and you will get lots of free downloadable brush types. This also is a great ...
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Well, I solved it.
Let's consider my avatar as the original image. I make sure it is cropped into a circle.
Then in photoshop, I do Filter->Distort->Polar coordinates->Polar to rectangular:
Then, I resize the contents (but not the container [e.g. select all, edit->transform->scale]) of the image horizontally. The percentage I reduce is the percentage ...
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The Layer Styles dialog has two buttons for each style option:
Clicking these does exactly what they state.
I can't replicate an instance where the styles are anything but the default when applying styles to a new layer.
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This whole effect is what Riot Games uses for their log in screen for a game called League of Legends. (The video is actually of a character from the game, which is why I mention it)
This question has been found to be not constructive on the game development stack exchange. However it did link to a more general question about 2-D animation which might be ...
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There's no inherent method within Illustrator to do this. At least not well. You'll have to manually add anchors and create curves.
You could draw circles at the intersections and then use the Shape Builder Tool to remove the outer points..... Option/Alt-clicking those points at the corners will remove them using the Shape Builder Tool after the circles ...
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"best way" is a bit ambiguous. There may be one way which works for your style fantastically, but fails for other styles.
Essentially you just need to understand light and shadow. Then it's a matter of creating highlights and shadows accordingly. There are several ways to do that.
Effect > Stylize > Inner Glow can create a "sunken" look
Effect > 3D > ...
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The actual fanning looks like layered transparency. Meaning, you maybe start with a rectangle, cut it down to size, and make more on top until you are fully opaque.
I'd look into the Draw Inside feature in Illustrator. That way, you create your fanned look and then cut and paste the shape(s) into whatever shape.
I'll try and expand this answer later, but I ...
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The most flexible solution I've found (and I'm assuming you want flexible since you're coming back to Illy) is a tiled raster texture overlaid on your Illustrator art. It's not exactly the same effect but it is essentially scalable.
Create a texture tile in P'shop -- seemless is obviously better
Place that image into your Illy doc
Use Effect > Distort ...
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You can use some of the photoshop filters right in illustrator. Once you have converted the file to bitmapped (when you import it into photoshop), all of your vector data is lost and it cannot be used as an illustrator file again. Do your vector stuff first, then go over the finished image in photoshop.
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You're question could benefit from further info (available software, intended use, what you've tried already, etc). Nonetheless, I'll take a shot.
Set up your main text and duplicate the emphasized word over it.
In Illustrator, the most controllable option would be to apply a feather to the text (Effect > Stylize ... > Feather). Depending on the size, it ...
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One way to do what you indicate in your link is to place the file as a linked file 2 (or 3) times in a second document, and apply clipping masks as needed. You edit the original document and then update the links in the second document. I haven't done this exact thing in Illustrator, so I am presuming the clipping mask will not need to be updated, but I am ...
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The area for these kind of illustrations comes technically under something called gestalt theory - how the human brain interprets visually.
Here is some reading you can check out to better understand the concept:
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/design-theory/the-gestalt-principle-design-theory-for-web-designers/
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Put the glare layer to the left of the coin on the first (key)frame
Make a new keyframe ahead in the timeline on that layer, for example at frame 15
Select this keyframe, select the glare object, and move it to the right of the coin (probably you'll want to put it at the same y position)
Make a copy of the layer containing the coin shape (make sure it's ...
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