A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan.
In this tutorial, we’ll focus on superimposing images onto a more complex 3D objects. Last time we put images onto flat surfaces. This time, we’ll put images onto round objects, which is a little trickier.
First, I’ll pick my round object. I’m going to superimpose faces onto the surfaces of these party balloons from contributor jgroup
A Photoshop tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan.
In this tutorial, we’re going to build on what we learned in the first tutorial about animated gifs with more complex movement. We’ll do this using the following two stock images from Bigstock contributors Elenamiv and NesaCera
The first thing I’m going to do is isolate the parts of the images I’d like to animate. With a little silhouetting and cloning, I make one layer for the body of the bicycle, one for the front wheel of the bicycle and one layer for the back wheel, then I’ll place our background image on the bottom layer.
One of the ways I’ll create movement, is by having the background move, so I’m going to make the canvas size shorter than the width of the background.
Now I’ll open the animation panel (Window > Animation) and duplicate the frame.
While I’m in the second frame, I’ll select all of the bike layers and move the bike a bit to the right.
Then I will select the background layer and move it to the left by just a little bit.
I’m going to repeat these steps (duplicate the frame, move the bike to the right and move the background a until) the bike is out of the frame.
Now that we have all our frames created, we’re going to go in and tween between each frame. If you recall from the prior Animated Gif tutorial, you do this by selecting the first 2 side by side frames and clicking the “tween” button in the animation panel. I’m going to stick with the default settings, but feel free to play around and see what works best for you. I’m going to proceed to tween between each of the original frames. (When dealing with a lot of similar looking frames, it’s sometimes easier to start tweening from the last 2 frames and work backwards.)
I’ve tweened between all of the original frames, and I’ve created my flying bike animation. Now all I have to do is Save for Web & Devices as a gif like we did in the last tutorial, and I have my animated gif.
Animated gifs aren’t the easiest way to create animations, but they can be fun! You can couple this type of movement with the opacity based animation we explored in the first Animated Gif tutorial to create some pretty awesome pieces. Enjoy!
A few weeks ago we announced our Easter-themed competition with printed.com, hosted on Pinterest. Now that Easter’s past, we’re delighted to announce our winner of 300 Bigstock credits: Claire Montgomery. Claire is a Brighton-based illustrator and designer specializing in hand crafted, often surreal collage illustrations. She likes to combine traditional paper craft processes with unusual imagery and digital enhancements to create a modern twist. We decided to find a bit more about Claire, her work and inspirations. Check out the interview below.
Claire’s Winning Entry:
First off, congrats on making it to the top of our list! What first inspired you to become an illustrator and designer?
From an early age I would spend hours drawing, cutting things up and you’d often find me under a heap of coloured card and glitter (and you probably still would). Art was probably the only subject at school I enjoyed, after I was told I had a talent from my teachers it motivated me to work hard and try to achieve what I wanted.
We’ve been scrambling all morning to get this brand-new collection of Easter egg photos out to you, but ultimately, it was over … easy. (Give us time, we’ll think of a few more egg puns.) Truly, we’re shocked the decorators of these eggs didn’t crack under the pressure. (Told ya.) Hard-boiled and bold, these images put a hand-painted spin on a holiday tradition. Check ‘em out!
Just in time for spring, we’re delighted to partner with printed.com to launch an exciting Easter-themed competition on the hot new social media platform, Pinterest. Check out the full details here!
Sometime late last night, a memo went out to all the young gents at Bigstock declaring Tuesday March 20th “Plaid Day.” OK, not really, but we couldn’t resist a quick photo op for this ridiculous coincidence. And while we’re at it, here’s a gallery of some stellar plaid photos and vectors to help you plan your own plaid-day.
With so many colorful symbols and images to choose from, St. Patrick’s Day is a designer’s dream. Expect to see a surge of green heading into the weekend.
We’re getting a jumpstart on the party by showcasing some of our favorite St. Patrick’s Day photos and vectors that will get you into the spirit of the holiday. Our leprechauns have a lot to offer, or maybe a four-leaf clover will bring you some luck. Who knows – maybe there’s a pot of gold (or green beer) waiting for you on the other side of your search.
A tutorial by Art Director and founder of Pureworks, Victoria Jordan.
In my last tutorial we looked at importing vector files into a Photoshop document. In this tutorial, we’ll be bringing photos into Illustrator in order to create vector files.
Picking your image…
Let’s say I’m working on a baby shower invitation and they’d like to use a baby’s footprint. I usually have no problem finding the perfect illustration, but every once in a while, I can’t find the exact one I want so I have to create my own. Let’s start with this image of footprints by contributor “Actionsports.”
We know how designers love to play with type, so we created this lightbox of fun and versatile letter illustrations. If you need to write a ransom note, this is your ticket.
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