I stumbled upon this beautiful fashion illustrations by Sophie Griotto and wanted to share with you. Sophie's illustration's seems to have unique style, her focus is at the contemporary urban woman with accessories and attitude whom she portrays with beauty and personality. Her use of color is amazing making her illustrations attractive and appealing. Check her website to look at all her illustrations.
These days one sees a lot of bokeh effect in web design. Big headers with colorful, glossy bokeh effect can be seen in lot of web designs. The term bokeh is used to describe the portion of a photograph that is out of focus behind the area of principal focus in a picture. It's that wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights.
No doubt, you can create you own bokeh effects but design community is amazing, there are tons of free bokeh textures and graphics available on web. Below you will find a collection of around 100's of free stunning and beautiful bokeh textures, which you can use as it is or customize it in Photoshop and adapt it to your design projects. Be sure to read the terms for usage and copyright advice also. Click on the images for the original resource and download link.
Well my last blog post on free fonts, A to Z Free Fonts became quite popular, among other traffic sources it received around 30k Views from Stumbleupon. com and it is continuing till today. A lot of readers asked me to post more font related articles and looking at it's popularity, here we go again! :)
Below you will find a mix collection of awesome free fonts ranging from professional serifs and sans-serif to more fancy and experimental fonts. Also please be sure to check the licensing requirements of each fonts whether for personal or commercial use.
And in case you missed, you would like to check: A to Z Free Fonts
Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator is a automated and a quick way to easily convert any bitmap or raster image into vector graphic. A lot of raster images or logos have a white background and most of the time when you live trace, you only need the image with transparent background. So in this tip, I will quickly show how you can easily do away with white background using "Ignore White" command.
Just to show you a example, lets use this Shopping bag image from sxc.hu. Open a new document and place the image, File > Place in Illustrator.
Next press on the Live Trace button on the option bar and click on Tracing option dialog as shown in the image below.
In the dialog box choose the settings that you prefer,(I just choosed Photo High Fidelity for Preset and all other settings to default) now, click the checkbox ON for Ignore White as shown in the image below. Remember to check the Preview button to see the changes.
If checked, the Ignore White checkbox allows users to decide whether Illustrator shall leave/omit the areas that include white transparent and if unchecked they shall be filled in with white.
Click on the Trace button when you're done. And here is your image without the white background. Below I have added a blue gradient n the background, just to show you that now you have your vector shopping bag without the white background.
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