Best of the Web #51
Jan 11, 2010 Best of the Web
Hello again everyone, welcome back. Last week, we didn’t have a best of the web edition, but this week we resume our normal post schedule, so as usual I’ve gone around and rounded up some posts from the design web that are inspirational, useful, or just plain interesting.
There’s an interesting post on Abduzeedo about how designers get influenced through music, which is a rather interesting read. There are a couple resourceful posts on vectors and tutorials, and some inspirational posts as well.
Hope you find them useful, and always share your favorite posts with us in the comments so everyone can check them out!
Have a great day.
Tags: 3d Tools, Best Of The Web, Creative Photos, Demarchi, Design Web, Designers, Exposure Photographs, Flavio, Free Image, Free Vector, Hello, Image Resources, Music, Text Effects, Vector Image, Vectors, Web Edition
20 Fresh Vector Illustrations
Aug 13, 2009 Inspiration
By Nate Jelovich
The main difference between vector illustrations and others, such as bitmap (aka raster), is that vectors will not degrade in quality no matter how large they are scaled. Vectors work by using mathematical formula to store the data such as lines, shapes and colors. Where bitmap images (which account for nearly all images displayed online) are composed of pixels, vectors are composed of points, lines and curves. As you can imagine, working with vector images provides much more flexibility.
Check out the 20 fresh vector illustrations below!
Tags: Artwork, Beautiful Morning, Bitmap Images, Cathleen, Hsieh, Illustration, Illustrations, Inspiration, Jonathan Ball, Leavens, Luther Brown, Mathematical Formula, Maz, Pandas, Raster, Run Dmc, Sea Monster, Shapes And Colors, Tim Van, Twiggy, Vector, Vector Illustrations, Vector Images, Vectors, Wolter
20 Tutorials for Professional Effects in Fireworks
Apr 2, 2009 Web Roundup
Adobe 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.
Tags: Abstract, Adobe Help, Adobe Photoshop, Creating Logo, Digital Collage, Digital Id, Fireworks, Good Resources, Graphic Design Tool, Grass, Hybrid, Illustrator, Interface, Iphone, Lighting Effects, Logo, Neon Lights, Orbs, Path, Professional Effects, Raster Graphics, Scratch, Smoke Effect, Text Caption, Vector And Raster, Vectors, Vista, Wallpaper
50 Tutorials to Cinema4D Mastery
Mar 10, 2009 Tutorial
Well, I promised you a big roundup coming today, so here it is.
CINEMA 4D is a commercial, cross-platform, high-end 3-D graphics application, produced by MAXON Computer GmbH. Noted for its flexible interface and ease of use, it is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modelling, animating, lighting, texturing and rendering.
Today we have 50 tutorials that will teach you to be a Cinema 4D master, covering all aspects of the program from modeling to animation to shaders.
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Tags: 3d Objects, 3d Text, 3d Tutorial, Abstract, Animation, Animations, Array, C4d Tutorials, Caption, Cinema 4d, Cinema 4d Tutorials, Cinema City, Crash Burn, Cross Platform, D Graphics, Diamonds Are Forever, Flexible Interface, Graphics Application, Inspiration, Ipod, Lighting, Modeling, Roundup, Snail, Tentacle, Text Caption, Typography, Vectors
The 10 Best Year-End Roundups from 2008
Jan 2, 2009 Resource
As you probably already know, Presidia Creative isn’t the only blog that is doing year-end roundups. Most bloggers know that roundups are a great way to build viewership, because of the backlinking generated, and the fact that readers love these kinds of posts.
So, after scouring the web, here are the 10 best year-end roundups from 2008. There are enough resources here to last anyone a long time, from vectors, typography, wallpapers, web designs and tutorials. If you like it, please subscribe and spread the post around. It really means a lot when a reader takes the time to Stumble! or Digg the post. 
Tags: Airey, Blog, Bloggers, Brilliant Design, Creative Designs, Design Resources, Illustrator Tutorials, Logo, Long Time, Roundup, Typography, Vectors, Viewership, Wallpapers Web, Web Designs, Web Tutorials, Year End
