4 Fabric Inspired Vector Pattern Swatches for Illustrator
A while back I snapped some photos at the quilting exhibit at state fair where I live. I came back with a lot of ideas for creating seamless vector patterns and decided to put a few of them…
Switching From PC to Mac: The Adobe Cross-Platform Upgrade
So you have finally decided to make the switch from PC to Mac. Congratulations! Changing platforms is quite a big decision and there are a lot of things to consider. Is it worth the price? Will you be…
Screencast: How to Customize Your Default Illustrator Pattern Swatches
Customizing your default settings for Illustrator can save you tons of time. Adobe has done a lot in recent years to make it easier for us to create new documents but even though they have managed to save…
Screencast: How to Customize Your Default Illustrator Brush Settings
Customizing your default Illustrator brush settings can save you loads of time. How many times have you opened your brush palette in Illustrator only to see the same tired, old, default, Illustrator brushes that you have probably never…
15 High Resolution Moldy Paper Photoshop Brushes
You may remember several weeks back when we released a set of 5 Moldy Paper Textures. In that release, we mentioned that we made considerably more textures than we were able to release but we couldn’t do so…
Create Stunning Interlocking Shapes and Light Effects Using Photoshop and Illustrator
I am often asked to write tutorials demonstrating how to create some of the designs in my site’s gallery. One of the more popular requests is for a tutorial demonstrating the effects used in Equidistant; which is one…
The Evolution of a Design Blog
As many of you know, the design community isn’t all that old. In fact, some of the most successful and popular design blogs have only been around for about 2-3 years. During that time the design community has…
Quick Tip: How to Import Pattern Swatches Into Illustrator
We frequently receive comments from readers who have downloaded a set of pattern swatches only to see a blank screen when they attempt to open the file. Our response is typically to tell them just to open up…
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…
