Core GFX

Light Lime and Blue Navigation

Anterr — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:05:11 +0000

I haven’t posted for a long time so this is how I’m going to make up for all of it. I have created a new tutorial in which I will be explaining how to create something like in this bottom picture. It is very simple so there is no experience needed.
If you want to read it, click Read More.

First create a new document any size you want (depends on how big you want your navigation) and put the background color #dfeacf .

Create a new layer and grab you Marquee Selection Tool. Now make a selection which is going to be your navigation and fill it with any color you want (the color doesn’t matter cause we are going to add Blending Options to it).

Now right click on that layer and select Blending Options. Add these options to it:

After you did that you should have something like this:

Now let’s add some seperators. Create a new layer and press “D” on your keyboard. Now grab your “Pencil Tool” and select the square brushes. Put the size (”Master Diameter”) to 1px. Now make 1 black and one white line next to it like this:

After you did that put the layer on “Overlay” and “Opacity” to 70%. Now you can just duplicate that layer and put it on several places (depends on how many buttons you have).

Now lets add a hove effect. Create a new layer and select one of those buttons (squares). Take out your “Gradient tool” and fill the squares with these two colors: #3c95cc and #52aee6 (make sure that the first one is the upper color).

Make sure that you have placed the layer right. It should be one pixel inside the navigation like this:

Now right click that layer and add the following “Blending Options”:

Now you should be having something like this:

As you can see, the hover effect went a little over the edge, so let’s fix it! Create a new layer and grab your “Pencil Too”l. Select the Square Brushes and put the size to 1 px. Just select the colors you need and start painting them like this:

Now everything should be ok like this:

Let’s add some light effect to the button, shall we? Create a new layer and select half of the button. Put your color to white (#ffffff) and grab your “Gradient Tool”. In the left upper corner of your screen click on the image of the gradient and select “Foreground to Transparent”:

Now use that gradient on tha image and you will have something like this:

After you did that you can deselect the layer and put it to “Overlay” and change the opacity to 20%. It looks better now, doesn’t it?

Oh, I forgt to add to add a bit more lighting with “Dodge Tool”. So what are you waiting? Let’s do it. Grab your “Dodge Tool” and select 60 px soft brushes , put the Range to “Highlits” and Exposure to 15%. Now select the blue layer and make a few brush strokes left and right until you get the light you wanted, like I did:

Hehe, now it looks even better. See, I told you:

I think that we’re done with that button, now let’s add some text. Select your “Type Tool” (T) and grab any font you like and put the color black (#000000). I have used “Arial Narrow”, Regular, 12 px size and Smooth. Write your first link and select the Blending Options. We are going to add some “Drop Shadow” to it like this:

Now your text should look like this:

Do the same with all the other links except for the hover one:

Now let’s create the hover one. Use the same font and everything except put the color to white (#ffffff) and add these Blending Options:

Well believe it or not we’re done! If you followed this tutorial carefuly, you should be having something like this:

I hope you liked this tutorial. Feel free to use it in any of your designs but don’t forget to leave a copyright to CoreGFX. You may not redistribute this tutorial without contacting us first. If you have any problems or any questions feel free to contact me on my msn anterrx@hotmail.com

If you want to download the source files, you can do it by clicking the link below.

Free GoMedia Vector, Motion, Texture packs and more

Anterr — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:55:20 +0000

Since I have seen that a lot of people are interested in GoMedia stuff like vector packs, motion packs, texture packs, spray paints and watercolor textures, I have decided to put some free stuff from them. Here I have included something from everything that I have listed before. I hope you like them and that you will leave some good comments about it.

To view them press “Read More”.

Go Media Vector Pack Sample

Included in the set are samples from Architecture, Trees, Banners, Halftones, Zoology, Wings, Tech Shapes, Skulls, Destroy, Grimey Doodads, Statues, Hooladanders, Crests, Paint Splatters, Spray Paint, and the Sexy Pack.

If you use these, please drop a link back to Go Media!

File Format: EPS
File Size: 2.2 MB
Number of Items in Set: 42

Go Media Watercolor Pack Sample

(Click the image for a full preview)

In this Watercolor Texture Pack I have included two packs which each consist of 2 textures. There is one firey splash of watercolor and another painterly brush stroke from Raphael at My Dead Pony in the first pack, and one splattery and drippy texture and another that’s more of a washed out fade in the second pack. Please not that these are High-Resolution textures. You can download both packs in one file.

File Format: JPG
File Size: 18 MB
Number of Items in Set: 4

Go Media Motion Pack Sample

(Click the image for a full preview)

In this pack there are two packs putted in one, hoolanders and tech shapes. The first Hoolanders Pack consists of 4 FREE Animated Hooladanders (flourishes, ornaments, tribals, swirlies, etc.) and the second one 4 FREE Animated tech shapes in Quicktime MOV format with Alpha Channels.
All you have to do is overlay these on top of your video or animation.

File Format: ZIP (Contains 2×4 MOV files)
File Size: 2.3 MB
Number of Items in Set: 8

Go Media Texture Pack Sample

Included in the set are samples from Concrete, Wood, Masonry, Metal, Rust, Paint, and Oddshot from GoMedia’s Texture Pack.

File Format: ZIP (Contains 7 JPG files)
File Size: 18.5 MB
Number of Items in Set: 7

Go Media Spray Paint - Photoshop Brush Set

We went out and sprayed cans of spray paint and scanned them in at a super high resolution. They are also available in vector form as well.

File Format: ZIP (Contains 1 .abr File with 7 Brushes)
File Size: 12.5 MB
Number of Items in Set: 7

P.S If you use any of these, please drop a link back to Go Media!

Best Photoshop Text Effects Free Tutorials

Anterr — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:44:48 +0000

I have decided not to create a new tutorial but to give you some best ones that I have found on the internet. I think that this is going to be more useful. Click on the images to view the tutorial. Please don’t forget to leave a comment. I am going to update this thread a lot so don’t forget to bookmark it and check it again later. You can leave a comment with the good tutorial that we might add.

Listing Statistics:
No. of Tutorials: 19
Last Updated: 15th June 2008

So here’s the list:
Create a Layered Glowing Text Effect

Created by: PSD Tuts

Author: Kyle Pero

Date Added: 15th June 2008

6 Quick’n'Dirty Photoshop Text Effects

Created by: PSD Tuts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Collis

3D Typographic Effects in Photoshop

Created by: Digital Arts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Nik Ainley

Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect

Created by: PSD Tuts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Collis

Aqua Text

Created by: Voidix

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: N/A

Dramatic Text on Fire Effect in Photoshop

Created by: PSD Tuts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Collis

Design Soft Stylized 3D Type

Created by: PSD Tuts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Arik

Slow Shutter Text Effect

Created by: Shotgun Magazine

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: N/A

Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text

Created by: PSD Tuts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Fabio

Recreate the “Bee Movie Text” Effect

Created by: Photoshop Star

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: N/A

A Slick Supernatural Text Effect

Created by: PSD Tuts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Collis

Wicked Alien-Entity Text Effect

Created by: Photoshop Star

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: N/A

Icey Styles in Photoshop

Created by: PSD Tuts

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Collis

Kaboom! Exploding Text

Created by: Homemade Tutorials

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Gabriel

3D Cliff text

Created by: Tutorial Wiz

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: N/A

3D Photoshop Text

Created by: Celox Design

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Celox

Bling Bling Simple Gold Text Effect

Created by: Photoshop Star

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: N/A

Simple 3D Text

Created by: Core GFX

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Anterr

Cartoonish/Juicy Text

Created by: PS Tut

Date Added: 15th June 2008

Author: Michael

Free Photoshop Tutorials Over 6000 Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials.

High Resolution Cloud Brushes

Anterr — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:52:22 +0000

Here is a pack of 10 one of the best cloud brushes you can find. They are really great and are made for enough high resolution. If you like these brushes you can head over to it’s creator’s Deviant Art (JavierZhx). Here is a preview for the brushes:

Click on the image for a larger preview.

Tasty Tattoo Photoshop Brushes

Anterr — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:20:00 +0000

Tattoos, Tatoos, Tattos, Body Art, Super Cool Body Paint For Your Mom, whatever you want to call it. These brushes are big, so they are ideal for print work. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you will need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800-2400 pixels wide or tall. Here’s a few examples I created to illustrate what you can do with the Tasty Tattoo Set:

Vector Files For Purchase
The original vector files for this set can be purchased. You must have vector editing software (such as Adobe Illustrator, or Macromedia Freehand) to edit this file. Included in this download is an AI, and an EPS file compatible with Adobe Illustrator version 8 and above. Since there are a lot of designs, I’ve divided them into 3 individual sets. You can buy them individually or purchase them all and save $3.

Tasty Tattoo™ (1 of 3)…………………..$10.00
Tasty Tattoo™ (2 of 3)…………………..$10.00
Tasty Tattoo™ (1 of 3)…………………..$10.00
All 3 Tasty Tattoo™ Sets (Save 10%)…$27.00

Download Instructions For the Photoshop Brush Set
1. Buy and download brushes from the links above.
2. Select the paint brush in the Photoshop tools.
3. From the brushes palette choose “Load brushes…”

Credits
This brush set has been created by Design Fruit .

Gold Borders Vector

Anterr — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:35:08 +0000

(Click the image for a full preview)

4.1MB | .rar

Simple 3D Text Tutorial

Anterr — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:06:39 +0000

In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to create simple 3D text in Photoshop. This is how it’s gonna look like when it’s finished:

So let’s begin. First create a new document size 350×150 (but you can use any size you want) and write some text on it. I have used the font “Impact”, 80 px, smooth.

Now we would like to rasterize this layer so go to Layer>Rasterize>Type.
After that’s over go to Edit>Transform>Perspective and move the upper left box up like this:

After you are done with that press Enter. Now duplicate your text layer and put it unde the original one. After you did that, select the layer you just created (located under the original one) and while holding Ctrl+Alt press the left arrow a few times until you get what you want. This is how it looks like now:

It looks terrible, doesn’t it? But don’t worry, we are going to fix it. Now merge all the layers you just created except the original one and go to Image>Adjustments>Brightness/Contrast . Put the “Brightness” to -50 and press OK. It looks much better now:

And that’s it. But you can do a lot of stuff with this now. You can put different Blending Options to those layers. I have played a bit with mine and this is what I came up with:

If you want to know how I got this style you can download the .zip package including my .psd files.

I hope you liked the tutorial. Please don’t forget to say thanks and to rate our tutorial.

Valentastic Valentine Brushes

Anterr — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:11:00 +0000

Here is a beautiful pack of Valentine/love brushes. You are free to use them on your designs or to send them to your love ones. It is designed by Design Fruit.

There are 15 Brushes in this set. The brushes work with Photoshop CS and above.

Graffiti Photoshop Brushes for High Resolution

Anterr — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:54:34 +0000

These brushes are big, and meant for print. You can use them for Web stuff as well, but you will need to size them down. Most of them are around 1800+ pixels wide. Here’s a few examples from the Graffiti Set:

This pack was created by Design Fruit.

dFlover Wordpress Theme

Anterr — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:26:27 +0000

dFlover was one theme we were thinking to use one our site but after so good feedback we decided to give this lovely resource for download. This is a dark theme with lot of flowers (some like it and even some don’t…). This theme is designed by Deziner Folio .