Designing the soccer craze: The few best

Formally included in the Brazil fans in the college, we had a lot to do in order to cope up with the fanfare of the Argentineans. Being a Brazil fan is easy, but being a designing enthusiast as well as a Brazil fan is not. It was a rather difficult task checking out the web some high quality images for preparing some posters and ultimately I had to give up. But meanwhile, I had come across a few graphic websites which offer a few better opportunities and collections. The best may not have been yet found out, but ideas and inspiration still glows behind them. A collection of designs, rendering, signatures, PSDs, wallpapers all exclusively for sports...

Sports GFX

This was the best I came across. Have a look at some of the collections. Large PSD packs are waiting for you at sportsGFX.

 Wallpaper Gallery

Exquisite collection of wallpapers. Not just soccer.

PSD-Dream 

Here are a collection of renders in sports, movies and a few more categories. Quality compromised, but better than many... 

 And now a few places where you can search and search and search and skip through the pages to find the right one...

Heroturko 

Lord of Design

If you have come across anything still beautiful please provide the link. Surely, it will be published with acknowledgements.

7 Step Transparency Effect Poster Design Tutorial

I would love to share one of my recent creations with you. It was a poster for the release of a magazine in our college. Though not so perfect in any sense, it was a work which took just several minutes from a day. And I believe it is not that bad either.

So I had earlier decided that my next poster or brochure would be something based on the transparency effect. The inspiration behind this was the simple picture shown below, just the difference in its tones. It was much more beautiful than what I had done (but I had to move on with a theme background for the magazine).

The steps are simple

1. Choose a background which suits your idea


2. Make necessary corrections (especially make it bright)


3. Draw a black colored rectangular area of your choice over the background after creating a new layer


4. In the ‘Layers  window’, adjust the transparency of the square


5. Now pen down your texts over the translucent region


6. ‘Merge down’ the text layer to the translucent rectangular layer (from Layer menu tab)


7. Using the ‘Magic wand’ and ‘Delete’ button cut out the letter so that the background layers are visible through it (thinks there would be better solutions to this problem. But after all, I am not an expert in Photoshop)

Now you have got your poster ready to be pasted

This especially works better if the background is colored bright enough. Dark backgrounds work better with a grey translucent bar. This simple poster can save a lot of your time, without compromising on the design part. I invite any better ideas like this or suggestions regarding that text editing as I have been learning Photoshop only through trial and error. I don’t think I need to provide the PSD, since these 7 steps are much easier than you can imagine. But you can download the background image from here...

 

Concept Design Backgrounds: Grunge Designs too

Here are my second set of concept design backgrounds that would surely be of use to you. Stain it, spill your paints, airbrush it and take it to the horizon to experiment with your art work. Without blah..blah... download it..


Thanks to PSD graphics for the pretty good designs.


1. Scratches: Dark grunge

 Download scratched retro backgrounds

2. Abstract Pixel Waves: Concept Background

Download abstract pixel wave concept

3. Clouds concept backgrounds

Download cloud concept backgrounds Green clouds, Blue sky, Purple sky

4. Stars Background Designs

Download Stars background designs

Hope you have found this post useful...

Graffiti concept design backgrounds & wallpapers

I had been collecting wallpapers and design backgrounds for about a year or so. And I believe it has some of the best I found over the net. Well, it would be unworthy if I dont share it with you, since using them is just my distant dreams. More than just wallpapers, these could be creatively used to make your face or ideas come lively over the screen or print.
And I hope you could also grab many of these ideas too as they are innovative and too attractive not to have a look at them. So check out and comment. Download link below

Download from Designskool at deviantart
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