21 Dazzling Graphic Designs by Javier Alvarado Quesada

thumbJavier Alvarado Quesada, also known as poisonvectors, is a digital illustrator and photomanipulator from San Jose, Costa Rica.  His work has been featured in PhotoshopCreative, FWA and a variety of other groups.   He most often combines photographs with dynamic illustrated elements and dazzling lighting effects to create a stunning result.

In this post, we’ll feature 21 dazzling designs from Javier, which showcase his portfolio.  You can check out his full gallery at his website here: http://www.poisonvectors.com/

Hopefully you like his work, it’s really creative and will inspire you in your own design endeavours.

Have a great day!

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Best of the Web #31

thumbHey again everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend and were able to enjoy yourself.  I know how everyone tends to dread Mondays, so in continuing the tradition of trying to make Mondays a little more bearable, here’s the best of the design web from last week.

Last week had some really great roundups for web designers and developers, with some tutorials on jQuery and Wordpress, and of course, some design inspiration.  Additionally, there were some great photomanipulation tutorials, and as always, some fun inspirational roundups.

Hope you all enjoy, and stay tuned the rest of this week for some more awesome posts.

Have a great day!

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20 Tutorials for Professional Effects in Fireworks

thumbAdobe Photoshop isn’t the only graphic design tool in the Adobe family of products.  Adobe Fireworks provides a unique balance between vector and raster graphics, which is a nice hybrid between Illustrator and Photoshop.  However, good resources and tutorials for Fireworks are somewhat hard to find.

Today, we have 20 tutorials that will get you started with Adobe Fireworks and will help you to create professional effects.  So if you have thought about trying out Fireworks but didn’t know where to start, check out these tutorials.

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10 Amazing Effects from Abduzeedo

thumbFor those of you who are graphic designers but haven’t heard of Fabio Sasso from Abduzeedo, this post is for you.  Fabio is a Brazilian designer from Porto Alegre who is very talented with both web and graphic design.  He started Abduzeedo as a way of publishing and storing some of his work, along with sharing the various effects he uses, and hoping to inspire countless other designers.

Today, it is my pleasure to bring to you 10 amazing effects that Fabio Sasso has written tutorials about.  There’s some great explosion effect, along with some very beautiful, colorful lighting effects, and of course, some great typography.

Enjoy, and be sure to check out Fabio’s blog, Abduzeedo: http://abduzeedo.com/

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Web Picks #10

52It’s Monday again, so it’s time for another web picks set.  This weekend was far too short, I think we’d all agree, but luckily there were some great posts across the web last week.

We’ve got some PSD downloads, some tutorials and some fantastic articles, so check them out!

As always, don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed, and spread the link around to your friends and acquaintances.

Enjoy!

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Electro-DJ Flier Tutorial

thumbToday, it is my pleasure to feature the first tutorial on PresidiaCreative.  In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the creation of an electro/DJ house music flier.  We’ll start by adding color, then we’ll add some lens flares for lighting.  Next, we’ll add some shapes into the flier, and then import two images and blend them.  We’ll apply some final colorization, and then lastly apply text to help bring the flier together.

If you have any questions along the way, please let us know in the comments and we will answer whatever questions you might have.  Also, if you find this tutorial helpful or interesting, please share it with your friends and submit it to your favorite social networking site.  Don’t forget to subscribe so you don’t miss out on any future content!

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