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Photoshop Tutorial: Creating a Page Peel or Curl

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:34:34 +0000

Adobe Photoshop -- Create a Page Peel / Curl -- Video Tutorial.

For a clearer and/or larger video choose “HD” in “Full Screen”

Free Vector Files: Japanese Crests – Kamon – Motifs

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:06:20 +0000

Yes some more free stuff! Feast your eyes on this collection of Japanese Crests. Some call them Motifs and they are also commonly called Kamon. Each Japanese family name has their own design. The files I am redistributing are just some of the many different beautiful designs that have stood the test of time through years of Japanese bloodline. Over at http://eps.crest-japan.net/index_en.php is where I found these files. They are .eps vector files that need to be opened in Illustrator if you want to edit them. The site offers them as separate downloads, but I have collected them all (it took forever) and have them zipped up as one 50 MB zip file! You can go ahead and open them in Photoshop, but they will have to be rasterized which will remove the editable vector data. It’s up to you how you use these wonderful designs. The site is mostly in Japanese, but there are some English sections. If you know Japanese (or can translate) you can dig deeper into their crest’s database and learn more about each design itself. Pretty cool stuff. The crest categories provided are: Animal, Flower, Furnishing, Martialism, Natural, Pattern, Plants, and even some original designs. The creator of these files has removed all copyrights… You can do what you want with the designs. After you download the files, be sure to visit the creators website. There is also a cool Flash animation relating to Japanese crests.

Japanese Crests – Redistributed for your convenience
1 zip file – 50 MB – 281 .eps files total
Click here to download – Japanese_Vectors_Crests.zip

Salomon Snowboard Graphics Winners and Templates

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:12:25 +0000

I was wandering around cyberspace looking for info on Snowboard Graphics. Along with the many tutorials I found for creating snowboard graphics, one site stood out. Salomon (you know – the ski company) has a snowboard graphic design contest each year. The 2008 contest is over already, but the winners are listed on their site along with the winning designs. After browsing through the eye candy, I noticed that they had their snowboard templates still available for download! Sweet. You see, all of the tutorials I had seen for designing your own snowboard graphics all consisted mostly of how to create the outline/shape/vector of a snowboard (not thrilling). Then they tell you to put your graphic on it… Well anyways, I am going to skip the tutorial, because I know you know how to copy and paste your own graphics. Creating your own graphics is something that we all have to learn to do and is too large in scope to go through in just one post (ah duh). Now back to the templates… yes, they provide the front and back in both .psd and .eps formats so that you may either use Illustrator and or Photoshop to design your own cool snowboard graphics. I am going to redistribute the templates here at PaperFlame just in case they remove them (which I don’t think they will). The templates are at the bottom of this post. Enjoy! Oh yeah I almost forgot, here are the top five winners!

Here are the Snowboard Templates:
SSAC_LayoutsKit.zip - 501kb
(includes: Layout.eps, Layout_Board.psd, ssac_fullbriefing.pdf)

Note – The 2008 contest is over.
I am redistributing these templates for the fun of it.
Maybe you can give it a shot next year.