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Re: It’s Happening! Weapons of Mass Creation Fest Flying Blind Tickets on Sale 3/30 at 11 am

Simon H. — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 13:23:53 -0000

YES YES YES. Can't wait.

Re: Building Communities with Tom Ross from Design Cuts

Simon H. — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:30:28 -0000

About time this fine gentleman is on the podcast :-) What these guys have been doing is great.

Re: Becoming a Punk Rock Entrepreneur: It’s All In Your Attitude

Simon H. — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:46:46 -0000

Can't wait for the full book.

Re: Typography Inspiration: Parisian Street Signs

Simon H. — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:57:00 -0000

Absolutely. And I remember many more. There are Instagram/Flickr accounts that track them.

Re: Typography Inspiration: Parisian Street Signs

Simon H. — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:24:53 -0000

Neat collection.

Re: Building a brutalist conference poster with Jason Carne’s Texture Lot One (Free Poster Mockup included)

Simon H. — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 08:58:43 -0000

Well, that is a tough one. My instinctive answer is: "practice, practice, and practice." When working on a project, try to come up with 5 different concepts, and a to come up with a few variations for each of them. The more you stretch your creative and conceptual muscles, the better they'll get.

At the same time, you also have to do things that serve the project at hand. My project here was to create a visually striking poster about a specific architectural movement. In addition to that, I had the objective of demonstrating the potential uses of the texture pack I'm mentioning in the tutorial. Knowing what the architectural style was, I went through a few stages of trial and error to determine what combinations of textures, colors, and type would have the desired end result (the nice poster).

On top of that, the type of textured treatment applied to this poster is very much my own "style," which is something you develop through practice, and experimentation.

Finally, you'd be surprised, but I got some feedback that was pretty critical of some of the design decisions I've made, which is great, because it's giving me things to think about for the next one. You can read that feedback here: https://www.reddit.com/r/id...

I hope this helps!

Re: Building a brutalist conference poster with Jason Carne’s Texture Lot One (Free Poster Mockup included)

Simon H. — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:40:50 -0000

Awesome sauce! It looks like you were able to follow the instructions to a T. Let me know if you have any questions.

Did you learn a trick or two that you'll be able to re-use in other projects?

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:04:45 -0000

Hey Spencer, the way the presets are labeled in VSCO Film is different than in the app. I'm not even sure that they closely match anyways. I suspect that VSCO has a set of presets exclusive to the app, and that the ones for Photoshop/Lightroom are close, but not the same.

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:03:22 -0000

Thank you for your kind words, Emily. I had a very quick look at A6 again, and I think the trick would be in the color adjustment step. A6 has a slightly more warm orange vibe than what I did here.

Alas, as I've said to someone a while back, it's all about trial and error :-)

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:00:25 -0000

Thank you Jessi! We're planning a few fun things in regards to doing more of these ;-) Stay tuned.

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:59:45 -0000

Thank you Dave!

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:59:35 -0000

Thank you for your kind words!

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:59:25 -0000

That' definitely a good way to think about this. Levels are the fancy way of doing what I accomplished with that fade layer.

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:58:33 -0000

Please let us know how it turned out.

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:58:19 -0000

Cheers!

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:58:12 -0000

Great example! You might be able to take this a step further by adding a bit of grain and fade, but this is pretty nice.

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:57:18 -0000

Thank you for your kind words, John!

Re: Easy to accomplish VSCO Cam effect in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 09:57:01 -0000

I'm sorry I'm only seeing this comment now! I think that you should be able to execute most of the tutorial. As long as you have access to adjustment layers, you're good. The parts that are tricky are probably the ones that involve the blur.

Give it a shot, and let us know how it goes!

Re: Thank you, everyone. Sincerely, the designer of WMC Fest 6

Simon H. — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:41:28 -0000

Boom!

Re: Goodbye, California 🏄. Hello, Colorado 🏂.

Simon H. — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 22:58:58 -0000

Congratulations!

Re: 50+ Gig Poster Designs We’re Obsessed with & Free Poster Mockup PSD Download

Simon H. — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:03:00 -0000

Great collection for sure.

Re: Audio Guide to Guitar Effects | Chicago Music Exchange

Simon H. — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:55:36 -0000

Lovely walk through. Thank you also for sharing song examples most of the time - it helps to connect your recordings along with the ones we've heard already, without being able to put a name on them.

Re: Save the Date for Weapons of Mass Creation Fest 6

Simon H. — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:40:31 -0000

W00t w00t!

Re: Album Design Inspiration: the FUTURALBUM Collaborative Design Project

Simon H. — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:41:12 -0000

Can't wait for the rest to go live!

Re: How to Create an Old-World Magnifying Glass Poster in Photoshop

Simon H. — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 19:10:28 -0000

Thank you for the kind words!