How to design a montage in Photoshop

Here, as promised, is a short tutorial about creating montages. Here is a montage of three different images which gel together without having to laboriously cut anything out.
Layer masking with a brush
I sized the cityscape image over the picture of the girl and played around with layer blend modes until I chanced upon one that [...]

Designing different vector logo options

I was asked to come up with a logo for Toby Beresford an application developer that specialises in third party apps for Facebook. The client wanted something neat, simple and modern that could have a shiny web 2.0 effect put on at a later date.
I find it better to start off with Adobe Illustrator using [...]

Montage design for music DVDs

I have been working on some CD and DVD packaging for a music creation software company. I love doing stuff to do with music and here I was asked to create some montages to express different musical genres.
The montages will eventually go on large sierra boxes (a sierra box is a large cardboard box for [...]

How to design sound waves in Illustrator

This is a nice little trick using Illustrator’s Blend option.
To create perfect sine-waves – or something very close – first of all, draw a line. Then go Filter > Distort > Zig Zag… and choose the number and height of waves you want (remembering to click the smooth radio button, otherwise you’ll get a zig [...]