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Daily Inspiration #493

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:57 PM PDT


This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use "Daily Inspiration" in the subject, and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo

If possible use the HTML code: <p class="imgC"><a href="Link to the page you found the image"><img src="Link to the Image" /></a></p>

Do you want to see all images from all Daily Inspirations? Check out http://daily.abduzeedo.com

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Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

AlexanderSpencer

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Cecilio Mendes

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Claudinho

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Color.

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

creative

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Christoffer Hedberg

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Dhyani

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

drfranken

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

eDsanca

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Eugene Kim

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Fabiano

Bear Untitled - D.O. edit from Christen Bach on Vimeo.

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Fabio

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Florian Nicolle

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

George

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Gisele

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

jtownboy

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Khyzyl Saleem

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

m.a.Raihan

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Patrick

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Peter Belko

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Robbymilo

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Ronissom Lucas

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

teo27

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

Via Twitter

Send your suggestions via Twitter to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo using #abdz in the end of the tweet.

@Rodrok

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

@allrox

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

@daniel_nelson

Showreel 2010 from Romain Loubersanes on Vimeo.

GKASTER DEMOREEL AVRIL2010 from gkaster on Vimeo.

@psdfan

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

@djbennett999

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

@tayzar44

Digital art selected for the Daily Inspiration #493

About the author

My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

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Awesome Random Inspirations

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT


Sometimes we seek an exactly type of inspiration like web inspiration for example but there are times where the unexpected can do some good for your brain. This collection is full of great images that are quite unexpected and pretty awesome at the same time, so what you waiting for? Check them out!

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Awesome Random Inspirations

VINCENT BOUSSEREZ


Awesome Random Inspirations

ROB MATTHEWS: OFFLINE WIKIPEDIA


Awesome Random Inspirations

IN SEARCH OF EARTH'S CORE


Awesome Random Inspirations

IT'S NOT MY FAULT!


Awesome Random Inspirations

NILS RIEDWEG


Awesome Random Inspirations

MTV MICHAEL JACKSON LOGO ANIMATION


Awesome Random Inspirations

ANDREAS GURSKY


Awesome Random Inspirations

BROCK DAVIS


Awesome Random Inspirations

VISUAL ADVICE


Awesome Random Inspirations

THE MATTRESS WALLET


Awesome Random Inspirations

BUDDHA SHAPED PEARS


Awesome Random Inspirations

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WHEN I REALLY WANT A MAC


Awesome Random Inspirations

ZACH BLUME


Awesome Random Inspirations

FIRE ALARM // ASHTRAY


Awesome Random Inspirations

RUBIKCUBISM


Awesome Random Inspirations

FOOT


Awesome Random Inspirations

PEACE & LOVE


Awesome Random Inspirations

THE ITALIC POSTER


Awesome Random Inspirations

OLD SCHOOL GOOGLE


Awesome Random Inspirations

JONATHAN ZAWADA


Awesome Random Inspirations

SOON MO KANG - HANGER TEA


Awesome Random Inspirations

SHEEP SCULPTURES MADE FROM ROTARY TELEPHONES


Awesome Random Inspirations

MOXY CREATIVE - GREAT ARTISTS STEAL


Awesome Random Inspirations

BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE


Awesome Random Inspirations

BREATHE


Awesome Random Inspirations

MEAN STREETS


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WHICH CAME FIRST


Awesome Random Inspirations

13TH STREET "STATIONARY OF HORROR"

About the author

Hi! I'm Paulo Canabarro and I'm here to post some really cool stuff for you, if you have any ideas or any requests please get @ me - pvpcanabarro@gmail.com you can also Follow me on twitter!

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3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:05 AM PDT


The new Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended is about to be released, it was announced already and among the new features there is one really special that is the Repoussé. This new feature or tool will allow us to create 3D objects extruding texts, selections, paths and layers masks. It's a really powerful tool and I had the chance to try it and now I will share with you one of my first experiments with it.

In this tutorial I will recreate an image of a tutorial I did for Digital Arts Magazine last year which I used Photoshop and Illustrator to create a 3D text with a girl on top of it, the tutorial was the CREATE MILE-HIGH TYPE ART. So this time I will do everything using just Photoshop CS 5 Extended with the Repoussé. I also want to mention that I'm still learning these new features/tools and I will try to share as much as I can with you guys and if you are using the beta of Photoshop feel free to share with us as well.

Repoussé is a new research system for the interactive enhancement of 2D art with 3D geometry. Repoussé creates a 3D shape by inflating the surface that interpolates the input curves. By using the mean curvature stored at boundary vertices as a degree of freedom, a user is able to manipulate the inflated surface intuitively and efficiently using a single linear system. - Adobe

Step 1

Open Photoshop CS 5 Extended and type with the Horizontal Type Tool (T) type the word 3D using Impact for the font.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 2

Go to 3D>Repoussé>Text Layer, this is the new 3D tool built-in in Photoshop CS Extended. With Repoussé we will be able to create all sorts of extrusions from text layers, selections and layer masks. In this case we will use a text layer.

Once the Repoussé settings window is opened you will have quite a few settings. First you can choose from some Shape Presets, which have a basic extrusion, different kinds of bevels and other presets. For this tutorial I use the basic one but, I've changed the Extrude values to create the effect I wanted. You also have the Materials, Bevel, Scene and Inflate settings but I won't get into these right now because I'm still learning them and preparing new tutorials about them as well.

For the Extrude settings I used 4.94 for the Depth and 0.30 for the Scale so the 3D seems to be coming from the ground to up in the sky with a very strong perspective.

Another cool thing here is that you can rotate, scale and move the object around until you find the right position.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 3

This is the 3D text I wanted, in the past I would have to use another software like Illustrator or a 3D app such as Cinema 4D, now I can do that in Photoshop.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 4

To add and edit textures is pretty easy as well. As in Photoshop CS 4 we have the 3D palette where we can edit our 3D objects, you can access this palette going to Window>3D. Select the 3D object and then you will have the 3D front Inflation, 3D front Bevel, 3D extrusion... all of these are the areas where you can apply materials. Select the 3D Extrusion Material and the on Diffuse click on the folder next to the color (1) and select Open Texture. The texture will be open in a new window like when you edit a Smart Objects. So in this window you can create your material

I'm using a brick texture from Shutterstock, you can find it here. So adjust your texture in terms of colors then save this file. Photoshop will automatically updates the 3D object adding the texture. If you want to make the bricks smaller just click again on the icon next to the color and select Edit Texture. A dialog box with Texture Properties will open where you can adjust the UV Scale and Offset. I used 10 for the U and V Scale.

The last thing here is apply the same texture to the Bumpmap (4). Simply repeat the same thing. The bump will add depth to the texture like the displacement map where the light areas go up while the dark areas go down.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 5

Now select the 3D Front Inflation Material and repeat the same thing we did in the previous step, this time however I'm using another texture, a concrete one which was courtesy of Shutterstock and you can find it here.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 6

Once you changed the materials this will be the result you will have. As you can see the whole process was much easier than if you have to do that using different tools and them exporting and importing in Photoshop.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 7

As you can see there is light as well. Yes you can add lights to make your scene more realistic. In this first part I have only one light. It's a Point Light with Intensity of 2. It also creates shadows, where I've changed to 100% of softness to make the shadows really soft.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 8

In this step I started mixing the 3D object with 2D objects, in this case a photo I took from an airplane when I was traveling. I wanted to give a sort of warm feeling to my image so first I went to Image>Adjustments>Hue and Saturation and changed the Hue to -10, the Saturation to -65 and the Lightness to 10. Then I went to Image>Adjustments>Color Filter. I selected orange for the color and 50% density. Then at last, I went to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Gradient Fill. I used grey and black for the gradient with Radial for the Style, so the grey would be in the center of the radial gradient. After that I changed the Blend Mode of this Gradient Fill to Color Dodge to create the sun behind the 3D text.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 9

Add a new layer on top of the other layers including the 3D object. Then make sure you have black and white for the color and go to Filter>Render>Clouds. Change the Blend Mode to Color Burn.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 10

With the Eraser Tool (E) delete parts of the layer leaving just the bottom part of the layer. Use the image below for reference.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 11

I have already shown you how to create clouds using the Brush Tool (B), so let's do it again. Add a new layer on top of the others and go to Window>Brushes. For the brush settings use the image below for reference. The most important part is the Texture where you will selec the clouds pattern. It's also important to notice that if you increase the size of your brush you will have to increase the scale of the brush texture.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 12

Select the Brush Tool (B) and white for the color, then with the brush we created start painting some clouds. First paint just a few clouds like the image below (1-2)

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 13

Select a light brown now for the color and paint more clouds, especially over the white clouds we created in the previous step.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 14

Now select white again for the colors and paint more clouds. The idea of this 3 steps was to add depth to our clouds by adding some dark areas using the light brown.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 15

Import a photo of a person to add to our scene, I'm using a photo of a girl sitting on a chair which was courtesy of Shutterstock, you can find it here. After that extract the background of the image and copy it and paste it in our design. Select just the girl and the chair and then go to 3D>Repoussé>Current Selection.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 16

The idea here is to create a 3D object from a 2d photo so we can position it and create some shadows, but also to play and learn with the Repoussé tool. Change the Depth to 0.1 and the scale to 1. Remove the materials leaving only the front one. Now a very important detail, over the Internal Constraints, change the Type to Hole, that will create wholes in the areas that were transparent, otherwise Photoshop would render a big solid and it would ignore those transparent areas.

Once again rotate, move and scale your object until you find the right position. You can do that later on as well.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 17

In order to create a 3D scene with the 3D text and the girl we will have to merge them in one 3D layer. To do that is simple, select the 3D layers and go to 3D>Merge 3D Layers. By doing that you will create one 3D layer only with both objects. So over the 3D Palette you will see the 3D text and the Girl objects where you will be able to edit them like scale, rotate, move and change the extrude options as well.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 18

Now the most important thing to do is to adjust your objects in your 3D scene (1). Move the lights so you can illuminate the scene properly and play around with other objects. As I mentioned before I'm still learning so the best thing to do is try different things, render a preview to see how it looks and try again.

To see all the 3D objects click on the little icon at the bottom of the 3D palette, the one with the eye and select Show All. (2)

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Step 19

The best thing with the Repoussé tool is that you can edit the 3D object anytime during your design process, so if you think a different position might look better you can do it or try a different illumination everything is possible.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

Conclusion

Once you position all your 3D elements there's one extra step to do that is different from the Photoshop workflow which is render the 3D object using the Raytrace Final mode. Photoshop then will render the object and create the shadows and details, it usually takes a few minutes to do that, but it's a necessary process. If you are used to other 3D softwares you already know that.

So basically in this tutorial/making-of I showed you a little bit of this incredible new tool that comes with the new Photoshop CS5 Extended. There are lots of things to learn and practice but I'm sure the Repoussé will be very useful for those, like me, that are trying to mix 3D objects with photos and other 2D objects that we are used to do in Photoshop.

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended
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About the author

My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.

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Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:36 AM PDT


I was browsing around the web searching for my daily inspiration images, something that I do everyday, when I bumped into Bradley Sharp's work and really liked it. The image that got my attention was the first one from this selection, which by the way is already my new desktop wallpaper. Since I liked the style and the idea from that one image I decided to check out his portfolio for more stuff and noticed that it was pretty cool to show here to you. His illustrations/vectors are really stylish. His lines, characters, E.T.s alike elements, colors and shapes are pretty cool and eye catching.

Hello all.. I'm Brad Sharp, a Graphic Designer from the UK. I spend a good amount of time on personal work and with my illustrations - beginning with sketchbooks from as early as I can remember. In the past 5 years I've been playing more and more with vectors, which I'm always learning. I often get inspiration from nature or technology and sometimes look at the interplay between the two.

Check out the selection we put together and don't forget to visit his website for more. Hope you like it! Enjoy. =)

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

T-shirts

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Wallpapers

To get the wallpapers go to his website and download the desktop wallpapers file at the bottom of the page. He also has some iPhone wallpapers at his page, so check it out.

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

About the author

Someone with a bachelor degree in Foreign Trade that really likes technology, design, photography and creativity. A person 'digging' a new way as a 'geek apprentice', blogger 'wanna be' and a communication lover! Current location: Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil
Twitter user: gismullr

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The Perfect Office #34

Posted: 25 Apr 2010 09:45 PM PDT


We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture, sound system, gaming stuff (for lunch time!). A designer is totally allowed to dream with the perfect office, and that's what we're gonna do here! Comment telling us your suggestions, or even better, you may tell us via twitter (mine and fabio's), using #abdz_ofc so we can check it. Alright? I hope you guys enjoy this brief selection. Cheers! ;)

Lovely Rita Bookshelf


The Perfect Office #34

Lovely Rita bookshelf by Kartell can be used as a single shelf or repeated by adding additional units to create the length you need. (at Holycool.net)

iTable


The Perfect Office #34

These COol iPod-shaped tables designed by Italian artist Mirko Ginepro for Milan Design Week. Called iTables. The iTables are all custom made to order, if you are interested, you can contact them via mail. (at Likecool.com)

Reflectius Clock


The Perfect Office #34

A concept clock that "brilliantly uses tiny mirrors to reflect a single red laser beam, rotating to alter it into different numbers". (at Moco Loco)

Mypressi Handheld Espresso Machine


The Perfect Office #34

Portability and mobility. The Mypressi Twist is only 10.5? in length and 3.5? in height, making it perfect for your travel bag. (at 7Gadgets.com)

Transparent OLED Headphones


The Perfect Office #34

Tired of the same old opaque single tone band on your headphones, an OLED panel might just be the thing to spruce up boring monitors. The Transparent OLED Headphones by designers Min-guk Ji & Hong-joo Kim & In-oh Yoo might be onto the coolest headphone invention yet. A headphone band is usually a piece of black or white plastic, but by using a transparent OLED panel for a headphone band, colors and patterns could be changed on a whim. (at Gizmodo)

EeeTop PC ET2010 series


The Perfect Office #34

The EeeTop PC ET2010PNT and ET2010AGT models come with a multi-touch screen allowing you to easily pinch zoom or rotate images with just two fingers. The is also a pre-installed @Vibe repository which gives EeeTop users access to a wide variety of content including music, videos, games, magazines, e-books, e-learning material, and Live TV. (at Geeky Gadgets)

About the author

Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 25 year old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I have worked as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! For more cool stuff, you may also follow me on Twitter.

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