February 23rd, 2010 — Graphic Design
Producing aesthetic and creative Text effects can considerably spice up and enhance a web design, and perhaps web designing in the year 2010 is all about going out of the box when creating something.
Here, we’ve accumulated 5 incredible text effects and tutorials for Photoshop. Check them out:
3D Typewriter

This tutorial teaches you on how you can create 3d typewriter hammer keys in Illustrator and then combine them with painting methods and the Vanishing Point Filter in Photoshop. This will help you create a trendy all purpose wallpaper.
Ragged Metal Effect

This tutorial focuses on creating a text effect by utilizing the textures from stock images. The final piece you get is in the form of a ragged image with the text showing up from the dark and being highlighted in a shiny metal form.
3D Jungle Text

This light-mode Photoshop tutorial explains how you can create a 3D jungle text effect. This text effect is quite unique in which the letters are textured with various animal skins and jungle inhabitants. You’ll be first taught on how to produce text in Xara3d and then in Photoshop to give proper animal texture to the text letters.
Retro Style Text Effect

Retro style is basically a style of the 50’s 60’s and the 70’s. This text effect will be first composed in Cinema4D to make it 3D and afterwards in Photoshop to assemble it and give it the final touches of the retro style.
3D Explosion Text

Using the brush and smudge Photoshop tool, this tutorial explains how to create a 3D explosion text style. This tutorial not just gives details about creating the text explosion, but also describes the steps you can take to implement your own 3D text.
July 6th, 2009 — Business, Graphic Design
Startups just can’t start without good graphic design, reason being they need to establish a good brand image. While deciding to seek the help of a graphic design company, what should they really look for?
Certainly, a number of factors need to be considered, but in general choice should be based on size your project, budget, and long and short term objectives.
Being new to the industry, a startup needs online presence among in order to target more and more customers, and to establish a powerful online presence a professional graphics and web design service matters a lot. Here’re few quick concerns that may help you finding a good service.
- Experience counts, so don’t forget to see what experience your shortlisted companies have.
- Communication plays a vital role in getting what exactly you want, so analyze their communication skills.
- Money matters a lot for you, so don’t ignore the prices.
- Don’t compromise on quality.
- Check out the portfolio and get the services reviewed.
Picking out the right graphic design company is a rather difficult task, but once you make the right selection, you’ve resolved your long run business problems.
June 23rd, 2009 — Graphic Design
What should a small business look for while selecting the right graphic design company for building their website? Although many factors including the project size, budget, and targeted results are involved but here are the few basic things you need to consider before making the final decision:
Look out for Experience
A professional graphic design company knows what it’s doing. Experience makes a certain company develop the most effective website for your business with appealing color blends, appropriate fonts, attractive images, and clear navigation. There is nothing more you would want other than a website giving composed look and giving a good user experience.
What’s your price range?
Being new, you don’t want to end up overspending your budget limits. Thus, opting for the right graphic design company is an economical decision you make, considering the minimum price range you have as a startup. How they can save you money lies in the fact that they have plenty of experience to know what exactly you require and deliver error free results.
Creativity is important
Innovative and unique designs may get you all over the place in no time. If the graphic design company succeeds in giving you the most original of the designs, you’ll soon gain visibility and customers. Uniqueness always gets its way through, so make sure the designers have a creative vision. You can analyze the creativity of the company through its portfolio and previous work samples.
Identifying and selecting the right graphic design company is a fairly difficult task, but once you succeed in making the right selection, you have already solved your long run business problems!