Jul 07

Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

For another contribution on Design Instruct, I wrote for them a Photoshop tutorial on "How to Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout". In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to create a beautiful web page design that is dark-themed and perfect for a web portfolio that is centered around photographs. It’s a pretty simple tutorial that aims to illustrate some great techniques to adapt into your current web design workflow.

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Jun 17

Create A Vintage Automobile Poster Ad in Photoshop: My Tutorial in a French Tutorial Book

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: News, Tutorials

I had the opportunity to be asked to write a tutorial for a book called "Savoir Tout Faire Avec Photoshop: Effects de Texte" a popular French book containing various Photoshop tutorials and distributed under Advanced Creation. Two days ago, I’m so happy to have received my own copy and would like to share it with you guys!

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Jun 06

Business Card Design Walkthrough

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Articles, Tutorials

Several months ago, Dawghouse Design Studio held a custom-designed business card giveaway to its readers. Our lucky winner was Greg Pettit of Monkey House, his personal blog about parenthood and family. In this post, I will be giving you a walkthrough on the entire business card design process that I did for them.

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Feb 02

How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

For my very first contribution to Design Instruct, I’ve written for them this tutorial on How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop. In this Photoshop tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a worn out, low-saturation-colored vintage beach ad in Photoshop. We’ll use some beginner to intermediate level techniques such as the usage of brushes, editing colors, using filters, masking and a whole lot more!

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Jan 27

Create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Icons, Photoshop, Tutorials

Since I really enjoy the grunge style, I will be sharing to you another awesome tutorial using my favorite style! In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon from scratch. We will learn some basic to intermediate techniques in Photoshop such as making use of brushes, textures, masking, the burn tool and a lot more!

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Jan 12

Create A Cute Vector Octopus in Illustrator with Simple Shapes

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Illustrator, Tutorials

In this Illustrator tutorial, we will learn how to Create A Cute Vector Octopus in Illustrator with Simple Shapes. This is a pretty simple illustration of an octopus using basic Illustrator tools and shapes.

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Dec 28

Craft a Vintage Postage Stamp in Photoshop

Author: Jan Cavan, Category: Photoshop, Tutorials

In this easy, step-by-step Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to craft a Realistic Vintage Postage Stamp. This is a pretty simple tutorial making use of basic to intermediate Photoshop techniques and features such as masking, creating your own custom brush, configuring brush presets and color adjustments.

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