How to Use Smart Guides in Illustrator
Smart guides are hands down one of Illustrator’s most powerful and useful features. If you have ever tried to place objects next to each other in Illustrator without smart guides you probably know how difficult it is to…
Giveaway Announcement: 4 Readers Win a Membership to Elegant Themes!
Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! Today we’ve got some exciting news for 4 lucky Colorburned readers who won a free yearlong membership to Elegant Themes. Before we announce the winners however we would…
Quick Tip: How to Load Photoshop Brushes
Understanding how to manage your collections of Photoshop brushes is essential if you want to learn how to use them effectively. Learning how to clear and then load a new set of brushes into the Brushes Palette is…
4 Lucky Readers to Win a Free Year-Long Membership to Elegant Themes
Hello everyone! It’s Christmas week and today we’ve got an exciting giveaway to announce. Our friends at Elegant Themes have partnered up with us again to give away a year-long membership to their Premium Wordpress Theme website to 4 lucky Colorburned…
Stocking Up on Design Resources
I think it’s safe to say that most designers cringe at the idea of using clip art in their work. When I think of clip art, I think back to the Intro to Computers class that I took…
Screencast: How to Create Glowing Light Effects Using Photoshop Brushes
I frequently receive requests from readers asking how I create the glowing effects that you’ve all seen as the preview images for some of the light effect brushes on this website. That is because if you download one of those…
Grunge Brushes: 10 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
I’m always looking for new ways to create Photoshop brushes. There are a ton of ways to create brushes and each method brings with it its own characteristics. With this set of brushes I wanted to create something…
Screencast: How to Open Illustrator Brush Sets
I frequently receive emails from readers who have downloaded a set of Illustrator brushes from this website, opened the file, only to see a blank screen. While you can access Illustrator brush sets in this way. It is…
How to Avoid and Relieve the Devastating Effects of Eye Strain
I think it is safe to say that most designers don’t think very often about the effect that their job has on their eyes. If you’re anything like me you probably work until your eyes burn or get…
Giveaway Announcement: 3 Readers Win 500 Free Business Cards From 1800PostCards.com
Hello everyone! It’s time to announce the winners of yet another awesome business card giveaway; this time sponsored by our friends at 1800PostCards.com.
1800 Postcards has over 30 years of experience and can cater to any and all of your printing…
Screencast: Create Intricate Patterns in Illustrator Using SymmetryWorks 5
Today I’d like to introduce everyone to one of my favorite Illustrator Plug-Ins. If you guys have been following this blog for a while you have probably seen me mention SymmetryWorks here and there. SymmetryWorks is hands down the best…
You Can Survive and Thrive After a Crisis
Sure, some of us have it easier than others but for the most part, success comes to the people who want it the most. We all know that life isn’t easy and there sure as heck aren’t any…
3 Readers to Win 500 Free Business Cards From 1800PostCards.com
You guessed it! It’s time for another exciting giveaway, this time sponsored by our friends at 1800PostCards.com who were generous enough to donate 500 free business cards to 3 lucky Colorburned readers.
1800 Postcards has over 30 years of experience and can…
Streaks of Light: 40 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
I don’t know about you guys but I love a great set of light effect brushes for Photoshop. I could spend days messing around with them trying to come up with the perfect effect. The best thing about…
1 Lucky Colorburned Reader Wins Over 6,000 Vector Elements From ArtBox 7
Last week our friends at ArtBox 7 sponsored another amazing giveaway with their Complete Designer Set; Over 6,000 vector elements, a $259 value. Today, one lucky Colorburned reader will add this set to their design arsenal. If you guys…
