Isolating and Vectorising a scanned logo

Isolating and Vectorising a scanned logo

 

Introduction

Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you need to take a poor-quality scan of a logo and make it into something scaleable and clean? Sure, you could recreate the logo from the ground up, but that’s time-consuming and labour-intensive. What I’m going to present here is a technique you can use to tidy up a noisy logo and make it into a vector graphic using Adobe Illustrator, quickly and effectively.

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5 Websites for PhotoShop Brushes

I use a mixture of these 5 websites for my PhotoShop brushes, so I thought I would share them with my readers.

 

myphotoshopbrushes.com

 

brusheezy.com

 

qbrushes.com

 

psbrushes.net

 

deviantart.com
Ok so this is more of site for artists/graphic designers etc, but if you do a search you can find some great brushes.

CSS Reset

In this article we are going to scratch the surface of CSS Reset and introduce to a basic version and amore complex version which I use.

 

Firstly I will explain what a CSS Reset is, it is basically used to create a baseline for certain element styles so that they remain consistent across different browsers.

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Simple PHP Contact Form

A simple PHP contact form

 

The first step is to add the form to a HTML page, its needs to be added within the <body> section of a page.

<form action="email.php" method="post">
 Email:
<input name="email" size="30" type="text" />
 
 Message:
 
<textarea cols="40" rows="15" name="message">
  </textarea>
<input type="submit" />
</form>

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Reflective Text

Ok in this tutorial we are going to cover making reflective text in photoshop.

 

The first step is to write out a line of text I have went with WebDesignerHelp. Step two is to duplicate the layer, to do this you can right click on the text layer and select duplicate layer or press CTRL + J (PC) or CMD + J (Mac).

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