Dear readers,

Tomorrow I will be on a holiday for two weeks. (I am going to Denmark) After the holiday in Denmark I will come back posting once in a while. I will let you know if I have some nice pictures from the landscape there or urban stuff (Who knows)


See you later!


~Stanley

Today I have been experimenting a bit with the layer styles of photoshop.

The result:


You can click on the image for the PSD-file.

Feel free to share but please credit me!



DeviantArt link - http://think-creative.deviantart.com/art/Darkness-Typoghraphy-130697739

An awesome post by Abduzeedo about the Manipulation basics. This post is really worth checking out if you are just starting with making Photo manipulations.




Check it out here or click on the image.

Some great artists I watch on Deviant Art will be featured in this post.
Because of time shortage and argueing with the artists I chose to just fave the artwork and let you go to my gallery to look at it.

The dA artists with awesome art I watch:

Starsys - http://starsys.deviantart.com/
Sugargrl14 - http://sugargrl14.deviantart.com/
Visuasys - http://visuasys.deviantart.com/
xxTJxx - http://xxtjxx.deviantart.com/
Zach Bush - http://zbush.deviantart.com/
Shiny Binary - http://shinybinary.deviantart.com/
Knarf Art - http://knarfart.deviantart.com/
Simple Comics - http://simplecomics.deviantart.com/


My gallery with some of their best recent artworks can be seen HERE
Except for simple comics, his images can be viewed here and here.


*All credit goes to the artists, their images may not be used in anyway or redistributed in anyway unless they give you their permission.*

Okay, the title of this post is a bit weird, I just needed of think something original:

Today on PSDtuts they have posted an awesome web round-up of uses of Typography. 53 of them to be exact.



The post can be read HERE.

As I was making some typography today, I actually put the wrong setting on something and created something I did not know yet.
This effect is simple, so I decided to make it a ''quick tip'' instead of a whole tutorial.

So here is the effect:




So let's start:

Way #1
Just open up an image and type some text (with the text tool T). (Does not matter what colour)
Then double click on the right side of the layer name. (*1) This should open up the Layer Styles dialogue. Go to the Gradient Overlay ''section'' (*2). And set the Blend Mode to Luminosity (*3) and change the gradient to a rainbow gradient (Should be standard). (*4)

A little image (click to magnify) to help you (thats why I put *# in the text):




Way #2 (especially for Gimp users)

(This will added later due to Gimp failures, I am sorry)

A minute ago, my last Dropular Invite has been given away.
So you don't have to comment or e-mail me anymore.

Just wanted to report it.


Greetings,

Stanley