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- gambl0r, on 10/30/2007, -8/+33This tutorial teaches next to nothing. "How to turn 5 premade objects from istockphoto into one PSD!" Why not include how to create your own grungey-looking-paper, or starburst backgrounds, etc?
- sensibledriver, on 10/30/2007, -4/+16Sweet, now my stuff can look like everyone on iStockPhoto's stuff...yeah!!!!
- unfilterthought, on 10/31/2007, -1/+12The tutorial is about LAYOUT and COMPOSITION.
Something a lot of so called graphic artists (who are really just people who know how to use Photoshop with no actual design talent) need help on. - jeremyduffy, on 11/01/2007, -3/+11Wow. Take it easy guys... It's a pretty good poster and it's well written to make it easy to understand. It's helpful for people who need it so where's the problem?
- worthone, on 10/30/2007, -3/+10The title should be: Best way to create a generic poster.
- ekboost, on 10/30/2007, -1/+8For the love of god kern that title.
- seanbro, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7I hope someone at psdtuts starts visiting typographytuts soon. The kerning on "STREET" is the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/30/2007, -0/+7there are no more real graphic designers anymore because of these tutorials. anyone with a computer and a copy of photoshop is a graphic designer. my grandma is a graphic designer. she printed out a birthday card that she designed with print shop and printed it on her dot matrix printer.
- wedges, on 10/30/2007, -2/+7further convincing morons they know how to use photoshop.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/29/2007, -2/+6i think i'll write a tutorial on how to make these elements and they can pay me to put it on their site. pretty much all you need is a scanner and a digital camera...and photoshop knowledge. there is nothing creative about this tutorial other than learning a little bit about layout using pre-made stock elements.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2however true your statement may be what is ultimately more exciting to the beginner (and creatives in all levels) is creating the elements yourself with which to use. going out into the world, using found objects, taking photos and scanning objects to use in your own work is much more fulfilling than downloading a bunch of stock elements to slap together. wait, people buy photoshop?
- TheKingInYellow, on 11/01/2007, -1/+3the problem is it's a tutorial on how to put a puzzle together...you just snap in the pieces and call it done. the second thing that is wrong with it is that you should be doing layout with indesign and never ever ever photoshop.
- Kazbaeden, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2That may have been the intention, but the tutorial is titled "Creating an Old-Collage Effect Poster", and in fact it contains step by step instructions to do just that. There's no lesson here about layout and composition when most of the steps are "Add a border here" or "add a drop shadow there" or "change this color to that". Perhaps if the author left out that mundane detail and gave more insight into his actual design decisions this would be a useful tutorial, but as it stands it's just useful for anyone who wants to copy what he did.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2yes, it is about what the artist is comfortable using. however, you should not ever try to upsample an image. create your project with the most highest of quality elements using a program that will allow you to export as many other and smaller size (if neccesary) file types. let's say the artist made all of this poster in photoshop (which would have a ridiculously huge file size) and sent a proof to the client. the client turns around and says to make some elements larger. the artist has two choices; scale the element larger or re-import and place it. this is usually never the case when using indesign because you're linking to the largest file possible at all times and you can constantly scale it to whatever (within reason) whenever the client wants to make a change. you can always export the work as a pdf then scale it down as a rasterized image in photoshop for web deployment. i've been working for an agency for quite a while now and have come to really accept and love indesign for what it is an has to offer the creative community which is why i've become more pro-indesign than photoshop since i graduated from college 6 years ago. i just consider photoshop to be the lazy man's creative tool because it's more widely known and accessible to more people of the non-professional creative type.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2you can still kern it regardless of it being photoshop.
- seanbro, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1I understand your point and generally agree with using InDesign for layout, but there are definitely instances when you need the abilities of Photoshop for layout. For example, with advanced blending and nested layer sets in the typical "weathered to hell" look. Your complaint about scaling elements becomes a moot point with the introduction of smart objects in CS2. You can bring elements into Photoshop at the highest quality, convert them to a smart object, and scale them up and down as much as you'd like without any reduction in quality. Granted they aren't vector objects, so scaling beyond 100% of the native size will result in upsampling with either program.
- RainForRent, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1They're setting type in Photoshop, 'nuf said.
- beerbarron, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2Its aimed towards beginners, not experts or people that have been using it for several years...
- tidrion, on 10/29/2007, -1/+2I have to disagree with your argument about "where" someone should do their layout. I agree for page layout with multiple mixed elements that needed to be edited on a regular basis that indesign or quark are your best choices. If an artist is simply layering a document for use in multiple mediums such as print and web than laying it out in photoshop or illustrator is fine. To me it really comes down to what the individual artist is most comfortable with unless it is a case of an agency and then they should adhere to whatever standards the agency has set.
- Yodacola, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Using your own work is very fulfilling, but most of the time it isn't your own work you are using. He probably took some text and some photos from a brochure that a someone put together last year or something, and had an idea of using some pictures he found from istockphoto (I personally prefer Corbis and stock.xchng) into a layout. In my personal experience, you cannot compete in a professional environment if you do not have any way of retrieving stock photos. I think a happy customer with generic stock photos placed elegantly and a paycheck is more fulfilling than having a week-long craft fest and the customer hate it and no paycheck.
Also, he did a pretty good job, except he should of made the tiff into a background and typed the text into postscript-compatible page layout application, like Quark or InDesign. That way the text would would look very clear on the flyer, and he could hand off the design to another publication with ease that it will look the same when printed on a offset web printer. - ckbreece, on 11/08/2007, -0/+0Hehehhehe - well at least i saw no mention of "lens flares", "beveled edges" or "really cool offset drop shadows" ...right.
- ckbreece, on 11/08/2007, -0/+0Dugg. If for no other reason than there are about 4 great images in there i need to add to my iStock library.
- syclonix, on 10/29/2007, -0/+0Why do people insult others for contributing to the design community?
Even if the tutorial is rudimentary, it doesn't make it worthless. - RainForRent, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0Have you seen type in Photoshop after being ripped for offset?
*shudders* - inactive, on 10/29/2007, -1/+1That and the fact that the author site has multiple digg accounts to push their own article.
Typically you can tell by the first few comments (nice tut/Great tutorials) and the comment times (both at the same time).
I generally bury these stories on principle regardless of the value of the content. - Nb2bM, on 10/29/2007, -3/+2Looks good! And you make a great advertisement for this choir now when you are in top :) And agree with gambl0r: maybe a little more information? )
But it's a good job! - beerbarron, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1Despite this being dead easy for someone who knows how to use photoshop, where this excel's is to the person who has just bought it. I remember tutorials like these were amazing for me when I first started to learn.
- inactive, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1You can do this in 30 seconds with Apples Pages program.
Might not be as nice as the walkthrough, but the same basic idea is just a template with that program. - Standup101, on 10/29/2007, -3/+1I definitely want to try this design out. I've been looking for exactly this for my site. Thanks Collis! I'm ever so grateful for online tutorials!
- xYike, on 10/29/2007, -4/+1I likey ... I need to figure out how to do this with my own photos instead of stock photos. TAG
- inactive, on 10/29/2007, -8/+3if anyone learnt anything new from this, they should go outside and shoot themselves
- yagran, on 10/30/2007, -12/+6nice tut.
- rupric, on 10/30/2007, -13/+3Great tutorials
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