12. Save your grid set by clicking edit=> Preset manager. Select patterns up top. hold your shift key down and and select your grid patterns. then click save set. Call this set Square Grids and save to your pattern presets.
Learn how to use the 960 Grid System to design a website template in Photoshop. You will be practicing layer styles to for effects and positioning elements based on the 960 Grid System.
The focal point, and anchor element of this piece is type. After all, this is a typographic poster, is it not? The font should also reflect the concept. Since this is all about grids, then the font itself should be minimal and intensely geometric. Bifurk fits the job description, and we'll use it here. If that's not a good enough argument, well it's free too, so it makes a good choice for a tutorial!
Here is a link to the written version of the tutorial Create and Then Shatter a Grid, while Making a Typographic Poster and the video version is below.
Step 1:??Create a new Photoshop document 18 pixels wide by 18 pixels high at 72 pixels/inch. Make sure to set the background contents to �Transparent�.
You can change the settings as you go, to see what kinds of different effects you can achieve with these filters. Post some replies if you try this tutorial, let us see what you did.
Colin's graphic design work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Guru awards at Photoshop World 2001 and 2002, for his work in both Illustration and Web Design. He's authored or co-authored more than ten books on Photoshop, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003) and award-winning Photoshop Most Wanted: Effects and Design Tips (A Press/Friends Of Ed, 2002). Colin is also creator of the Photoshop Secrets Video training series (PhotoshopCD.com). He is in high demand across the United States as a lecturer, presenting his Photoshop techniques to Web designers and other graphics professionals across the nation.
Today's Photoshop tip will show you how to take advantage of the �Grid� feature in Photoshop. The Grid is the perfect alignment tool for graphic design, and is very easy to use. By combining the use of the Grid with the �Snap� feature, users can perfectly align objects along grid lines and sudivisions.
Choose between Adjusted pattern your pattern (the last in the row). And the grid is ready. The only problem is that you have a grid of 2px everywhere except on the outside. To fix this you do the following. Go to Image > Canvassize. Put on the option relative, put the unit of weight and heigth on pixels and fill in 2 after weight and heigth. Go to Edit > Stroke. Fill in 1px after weight and put the location on inside.
1. Create a new 165 x 165 pixel. Now fill the document with any color you want.Show channels and create a new channel. Press D then X, then use the rectangular marquee tool and a selection 20x20 pixels, hold down shift to make perfect square. Then fill it with white. Then press the down arrow once and the right arrow once, press delete, then press the up arrow once and the left arrow once. Leave the selection, then go Edit > Define Pattern..Name it whatever you want (I used 'grid'), then deselect.
In this tutorial I'll show you how to mock up a fresh looking blog theme in Photoshop that is designed to be used within the 960 framework. This tutorial was designed more for web design theory than Photoshop technique. It is for that reason that I don't go into great depth on each Photoshop step, but spend considerably more time on design theory and application. Photoshop beginners may find it somewhat tricky to follow along. Let's get started.
We are going to resize the image using the rule of thirds or the divine proportion. This is a fantastic way to achieve balance and style in your design. If you are unfamiliar with this school of thought be sure to check out Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs by Smashing Magazine, or just do a quick Google search and you are sure to get loads of quality results. The magic number to work out the divine proportion is 1.618, well actually that's the number rounded to 3 decimal places, but it will suffice for our purposes. Take the length of the content area (in our case 700px) and subtract the amount we will be using for the padding on both sides (40px) that leaves us with 660px for our content area. Now divide that number by 1.618 and you should get 408px. The difference between 660px and 408px leaves us 252px for the image. These proportions workout, but we still have to account for the padding between the image and the text. So subtract 10 from both 408 and 252 and we are left with 398px for the text content and 242px for the image content. Wow, that was the most math I've done since highschool! :)
Now, many people have seen these alignment tools but don't know how to use them. It's actually very simple. First off select the Marquee Tool (M). Create a selection around the whole canvas.
9. Now all you have to do is add some dropshadow, some text and you've got a really nice looking logo.
Learn how to use the 960 Grid System to design a website template in Photoshop. You will be practicing layer styles to for effects and positioning elements based on the 960 Grid System.
I sent two December desktop wallpapers into Smashing Magazine this month titled World Harvest and Natural Grid. They're a little dark and moody.
Today's Photoshop tip will show you how to take advantage of the �Grid� feature in Photoshop. The Grid is the perfect alignment tool for graphic design, and is very easy to use. By combining the use of the Grid with the �Snap� feature, users can perfectly align objects along grid lines and sudivisions.
First we will make the grid, this is a pattern so start by making an empty new project with dimentions 100 x 100 px.
Click Window > Channels To bring up the channels tab. Create a new channel and name it Grid.
Choose pattern and and select the grid.
We are going to resize the image using the rule of thirds or the divine proportion. This is a fantastic way to achieve balance and style in your design. If you are unfamiliar with this school of thought be sure to check out Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs by Smashing Magazine, or just do a quick Google search and you are sure to get loads of quality results. The magic number to work out the divine proportion is 1.618, well actually that's the number rounded to 3 decimal places, but it will suffice for our purposes. Take the length of the content area (in our case 700px) and subtract the amount we will be using for the padding on both sides (40px) that leaves us with 660px for our content area. Now divide that number by 1.618 and you should get 408px. The difference between 660px and 408px leaves us 252px for the image. These proportions workout, but we still have to account for the padding between the image and the text. So subtract 10 from both 408 and 252 and we are left with 398px for the text content and 242px for the image content. Wow, that was the most math I've done since highschool! :)
Now, many people have seen these alignment tools but don't know how to use them. It's actually very simple. First off select the Marquee Tool (M). Create a selection around the whole canvas.
2. Click View=> New guide. Set the guide to vertical 25 pixels. Click View=> New guide. Set the secont guide to Horizontal 37 pixels.
What is Grid-Based Design?