http://designpear.com DesignPear.com - A blog about design on the WWW Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:40:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In my last post How to define patterns in photoshop i outlined how to define patterns, but of course we want to know how to make good looking ones. This involves a couple of different line patterns and styling them. http://designpear.com/photoshop/photoshop-tutorials/tutorial-cool-looking-line-patterns-using-photoshop Defining pattens in Photoshop can be very useful, if you want to use patterns of your own. Defining patterns is actually quite easy and doesn't take long. I have found patterns to be great space fillers mainly for website backgrounds, banners or even buttons.. http://designpear.com/photoshop/how-to-makedefine-patterns-in-photoshop This is probably one of the easiest ways to make any 3d object using photoshop. The trick is to use SketchUp to make the basic object that you want, then using photoshop you can style it with some gradients, or what ever you want. This way of making 3d objects ... http://designpear.com/photoshop/how-to-easily-make-3d-objects-using-photoshop A few glossy styles which you are free to use wherever and however you please. http://designpear.com/photoshop/glossy-noise-styles You might be thinking, gradients just for banners? Yes just for banners, but i suppose you could make them work for other things. I made 13 colours for this pack, 13 is a bit of a controversial number, but hopefully it won't affect your quality of work when you use ... http://designpear.com/photoshop/photoshop-banner-gradients In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple home icon. The final result will look like this: http://designpear.com/photoshop/tutorial-icon-in-photoshop I have seen some of your other websites and am impressed with a lot of the work. I too am a web designer and would love to help out on this blog as an author, giving people handy design tips, tutorials, help etc. The website I have been creating and ... http://designpear.com/designpear/designcrave Just to help some people out, here is a great (easy to understand) video by the guys over at Common Craft. This is how i found out how RSS works, i hope you can benefit from it too. You can subscribe to DesignPear for regular updates on new blog entries too, ... http://designpear.com/general-web/what-is-rss Well after a couple of days and some grueling design work, DesignPear was created. I'm not exactly sure what i am going to write about, but it will be around the area of web design and everything that goes with it. I'll have some free downloads here too, maybe some ... http://designpear.com/designpear/design-pear-launch