Geek girl chronicles of a blog design enthusiast.
Bad Girls Throughout History Postcards by Ann Shen As I mentioned in my previous geo post, I’m going to show you how I create my Photoshop geo shapes. Photoshop shapes are versatile because they can be scaled to any size without becoming pixelated. And besides, Photoshop shapes can become part of your Custom Shapes library. [...]
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I installed these calligraphy brushes last week. I’ve only used them to draw arrows, really (like the ones here and here). Though I’m obviously not a calligrapher, I enjoy using these brushes anyway. I love how the angled nibs create natural-looking lines of varying width and taper. Very nice. If you like these brushes and [...]
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The Goodies As you may recall, I bought Eduardo Recife’s Handmade font earlier this year and recently, I downloaded some free resources from his site, Misprinted Type. There were some free fonts, an EPS sheet of decorative elements, and, my favorite, some collage brushes. You can use the brushes to give your graphics a “handled” [...]
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Lauren Harrison is an artist, graphic designer, and web developer. She also blogs at Animus, a treasure trove of pretty patterns and textures, brushes, and fonts. In fact, the chunky geometric font I used to create this post was made by Lauren. It’s called Retro Lights. The cloud brushes and floral textures were all designed [...]
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Hey guys, here’s a new download, Photo Layouts Part 11! There are half a dozen layouts in 2 sizes (600px and 900px). Unlike my previous photo templates, each of these six layouts have different frame styles and orientations. The caption paper backgrounds and transparent “circle stickers” tie this theme together. I actually crumpled a sheet [...]
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Today, I want to show you a technique for styling the numbers you use to enumerate the individual elements in your collages. There are many ways to do this. For example, you can enumerate your collages by labeling the elements with a simple number or letter. Or, you can use a font like Fyra …
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