Changing an image to match your design’s colours

You have a great photo. You have a great design. One problem: the photo doesn’t “go” with the design.
The solution is to change the image in Photoshop to more accurately match the colour scheme of the design or, more commonly, to match the client’s or brand’s colours.
In the above example the final image (on the [...]

Article filed under: Photoshop 16 Comments

How to design psychedelic pop art

I made this image of one of my favourite guitarists, Jimi Hendrix. He is associated with flamboyant clothing and psychedelic colourful artwork on his album covers and guitars so I tried to make this image as vibrant as possible.
To do this I followed the basic techniques of pop art that I’ve used before. Only this [...]

Article filed under: Photoshop 24 Comments

Forum design for music website

I have just created a phpBB bulletin board or forum for my music website. Click here to visit the mu-sik forum.
I installed it using Fantastico which I have on my host’s cPanel. I chose the prosilver phpBB theme which was close to the look I was trying to achieve. This meant tweaking a few [...]

Article filed under: Design, Internet 11 Comments

Environmentally-friendly designing and marketing during a recession

I’ve noticed a trend emerge recently. A client of mine got me to design an invitation to a marketing event – cocktails at a new store – I sent him a beautifully designed invite in the form or a PDF and asked him how many he needed printed and he said: “Oh, there’s no need, [...]

Article filed under: Design, Marketing, PDF 17 Comments

How to distress or shatter type in Illustrator

This is a good tip if you ever want to change type to invoke a mood. I wanted to give a bit of text a feeling of electricity and this is what I did.
First of all, in Illustrator, you must convert your type to outlines. Remember, after you have done this you can’t edit what’s [...]

Article filed under: Illustrator 8 Comments