Free Every-Tuesday Holiday Assets
If you’re in a pinch for some holiday design goodies, you’ve come to the right place! Here’s a roundup of every-tuesday content from the past two holiday seasons, enjoy!
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LETTERING + GRAPHIC
DESIGN LEARNING
How to Mask an Image Inside of Text in Photoshop
Happy Tuesday! Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! Spence, Nuna + I went low key + celebrated just the 3 of us together. After dinner, we spent the rest of the evening sipping blackberry rum fizzes, dipping italian herb bread in oil + vinegar we brought back from Sonoma + binge listening to Serial while Spence read coding tutorials + I doodled 🙂 ah, days off are the best!
But it’s back to the grind for now.. I’ve been thinking about fun holiday themed tutorials I could make this year and this was one of the first ones that came to mind. You can use it on greeting cards, e-cards, gift tags, wrapping paper – you name it! And you can use the same technique all year long. In this week’s tutorial, we’ll mask an image inside of text in Photoshop in a few quick and easy steps. Click on to get started!
How to Vectorize Hand Lettering
Happy Tuesday! Chances are you’ve heard of hand lettering recently – it’s everywhere! Many tutorials on hand lettering are paid ones, but I have the best readers, so this one’s free 🙂 In this week’s tutorial, we go over the basics of converting some hand drawn lettering and make it digital by vectorizing it. We’ll take a scan of a hand lettered word, optimize its contrast in Photoshop, then vectorize it in Illustrator. Vectorizing will help us to have our lettering fully scalable, re-colorable, and allows us to digitally customize it without compromising resolution. Let’s get started!
How to Test Paint Your Walls in Photoshop
Picking paint is so hard! There’s so much pressure to get it right, especially for a big room. Our new livingroom is green, and not a good green, either. And it’s going to be the place we spend the majority of our time hanging out and entertaining friends + family. So, it’s big decision on what color it’s going to change to – I’ve lived in apartments so long this new freedom to paint the walls comes with a little second-guessing. Paint is pricey, you guys..I had no idea. In an effort to test paint out without buying a zillion little sample jars (those are ~$3 a pop), I took things into my own hands/fingertips with a little test painting in photoshop. Nothing fancy, just show-me-how-it’s-going-to-feel quick mockups. I thought it might help someone out there too, so I made a little tutorial on test painting your walls in photoshop this week, click on to see how!
Freebie: Handmade Paper Patterns
Happy Tuesday! This Tuesday is one of my favorite Tuesdays because I’m spending it with my parents (haven’t seen them since Christmas)! They made the 17 hour trek from upstate NY to help me and Spence fix up some minor things that our new home’s inspection report found. So thankful in times like these for a dad with super handyman skills who likes to drive long distances 🙂 Anyway, in honor of things created + performed by hand, I present you with two awesome handmade paper patterns this week!
How to Create a Pattern Fade in Illustrator + Photoshop
Happy Tuesday! If you’re a designer, chances are at some point you’ll get a request to make something feel rich or luxurious. Adding a pattern fade is a quick way to add that richer feeling, so in this week’s tutorial, we’ll create a pattern and add a fade using Illustrator + Photoshop using a different method for each. Let’s get started!
Freebie: Hand Drawn Web Form Elements
Happy Tuesday! This week’s freebie is a set of hand drawn web form elements! The set includes everything shown above, with a larger preview below. Form fields, checkboxes + icons are all included as RGB ai, eps + psd files for versions of Illustrator + Photoshop, CS3 or newer.
How to Create a Business Card Mockup in Photoshop
Happy Tuesday! In this week’s tutorial, we’ll create a business card mockup using a free stock photo and a couple of design assets. We’ll start from scratch and use smart objects to make our mockup easily editable – perfect for anyone looking to add a mockup to their website or portfolio!
Freebie: Hand Drawn Vector Dividers
Dividers are one of the handiest design elements out there. Whether online or in print, they help to separate information, add style to a layout, and even a little personality. Some of my favorite places to drop them in are on invitations, social media posts and greeting cards. Since hand drawn is one of the best ways to infuse personality, this week’s freebie is a set of 10 hand drawn vector dividers, perfect for web + print. The download includes all 10 dividers as an ai, eps, and psd file for versions of Illustrator and Photoshop, CS3 or newer. Start incorporating them into your work immediately, no matter which program you’re using! Preview below 😉
How to Create an Offset Ink Effect in Photoshop
In this week’s tutorial, we’ll create an offset ink effect in Photoshop in just a few easy steps! We’ll begin with a solid background, add a skew to our text, create the effect, then add texture to our background to create consistency between our font + ink effect. Let’s get started!
Freebie: Geometric Photoshop Patterns
Happy Tuesday! This week’s freebie is a set of 4 geometric seamless photoshop patterns! Download includes all 4 as a photoshop .pat file, as well as 1024x1024px tileable jpgs of each pattern (perfect for websites!).
How to Create Illusion Shadows in Photoshop
Chances are you’ve come across illusion shadows before..shadows behind photos or elements that give the illusion the image is ‘floating’, bent on the sides, or somehow not lying completely flat. These shadows are super simple to create, and in this tutorial we’ll make 3 different kinds (shown above), as well as the polaroid style photo frames they lie behind. Let’s get started!