Someone told me: "You have made three types of viewers to rank Blogbabel ; in a flash , in one image and one in Adobe AIR ! What are you waiting for him having a logo. " Use these studies ... I expect to become at least 
honorary member of Blogbabel Italy ! 
The effect "folded paper" (curl effects) will be subject of another post-tutorial
From http://universofrattale.blogspot.com - not to upset anyone!
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This Photoshop tutorial shows how it is "relatively" easy to create compelling icons Web 2.0 style, with shades and more, simply by setting the effects on the layer. Once you understand the process, it is also possible - giving free rein to your creativity - to create many variations.
Create an image of 800 × 600 pixels. Add a layer (bck) - which will be our background - and draw space. It must be a dark picture! You can enjoy you realize it or place (as I did), some spectacular images of NASA, by adjusting the levels so that it is still dark. From the Filter menu select Render / Lens Flare - we create our sun! You can do this "rise" where you want ... I have placed at the center to the top of the picture:
As predicted Julius arrive early requests for logo redesign ... from friends who, rightly, they said "and me?". Obviously pity ... and because I do as a job is because I have family!
However, as usual, I started with:
Extremely simple! I wanted to play on hexagons of the hive ...
A logo, in my opinion, is "beautiful" when it can be seen in two colors.
This is a test ... is not really a logo! It differs from the precedent for the "style" of the sudden, nothing more.
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If an example is worth a thousand explanations, here is how to understand the difference between the percentage of transparency (alpha) of the property opacity and fill rate. Both, in fact, act on the layer and, in some cases appear truly identical. However, if Adobe has separated, there is a reason! The difference is simple: opacity acts on the entire layer, including effects. Filling, however, is limited to the content of the layer without affecting any additional effects. Create an image similar to the one shown below:
Alternatively by setting opacity of 10% to 10% and then fill, we soon become aware of the difference:
All this can be useful, for example, to make things like this:
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Shortly be publishing a post with the tutorial - step by step - to create the illustration shown above!
Sometimes I like to rework some nice logo ... As I see JuliusDesign has just revamped its look, I could not resist the temptation to "fiddle" with the handsome new logo designed by him!
This is the logo from where I started, simple, web2.0 style, perfect!
Among other things, appeno I saw reminded me of something oriental. I see in a Ninja - or thereabouts - overturned. If anything, with two eyes:
Here is a reworking spectacular! Lux formed, so to speak.
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| simple (click on image to enlarge) | with reflection (click on image to enlarge) |
With background and reflex starts ...
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I thought about how many "sketches" and case studies I have done for clients, so I decided to present them with their own category (Case Study), rather than let them "rot" in my HD. The client, in fact, choose one of the n proposals, often what you do not expect and others, some you thought valid, remain unknown zipped in HD! The proposed graphics for a Web site, for example, or simple logos or studies of the effects.
Some studies, made by me and = STID = , on the site and-lementi.com
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For the gallery I used Shadowbox.js : use the Esc key to close the preview window and the cursor keys to move back and forth.
Today I'm in the mood for graphics tips! We shall see, step by step, how to make a key (a keyboard) with photorealistic Photoshop.
Those who are lucky like me to own the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Extended version - it will "grogiolato" to see all the news of this new release. Among the many new features in version 10.0.1 Two in particular struck me for their extremely useful. The first is the instrument dials:
This allows, for example, of "contour" an object in a simple and effective. Once selected, simply click on the image that we want to capture him and do the rest. It is possible, during this process, remove any selections that do not satisfy us, usually with the Alt key (on Windows - what used to elimnare share with the other selection tool). Furthermore, in the top toolbar, it is possible to adjust the amplitude of the "brush" selection, until arriving to operate pixel by pixel.
This feature is coupled perfectly with the second new feature found in Adobe Photoshop CS3 : improves board, accessible from the Select menu (Alt + Ctrl + R).
Given a selection, this tool allows you to run a series of operations really useful and interesting, with a real-time preview adjustable form by any images that you see at the bottom of the window above. In addition to being useful for improving the edges during the operations of contour and selection, also allows to perform rework of simple images, such as that shown below:
From the rough and "square" image of the left, by using Refine Edge has arrived in a flash to the right figure.
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