There are many emerging design trends and concepts in the graphic design world. And these trends help us graphic designers to create more competitive and better designs. My favorite concepts are the Letter Press and Huge Typography designs. These two concepts were widely used by different graphic designers for creating logos, posters, and even in magazines.

Letter Press | Design Concepts Using Typography

The Letter Press design concept, one of the most widely used design concepts all over the web. It has been very popular because of its professional look, especially when used in business cards, posters and book covers. I also use this concept in my new designs especially in business cards.

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Philippine Revolution, EDSA Revolution, People Power Revolution – three names but only one glorious event in the Philippine History. It was the day that The Marcos dictatorship ended by a nonviolent and prayerful mass revolution of Filipinos. It was indeed a great event for the Philippines which also inspired different countries around the world to fight against the unreasonable governance.

And as a tribute to our People Power Revolution, I created wallpapers. You can download it and set as your desktop wallpaper.

Wallpaper Monday: Philippine Revolution

People Power - Wallpaper Monday: Philippine Revolution | Created by Kelvinonian.com

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Wallpaper Monday, wallpapers

These past months, our family and some of my friends celebrated their birthdays. While some bloggers created new blogs. And some people really like doing hard stuffs. Just like me, I’ve been into many tasks these past few weeks. I got a lot of graphic design jobs, like birthday invitations, tarpaulins, logos and others. But fortunately, some of these tasks gave me some funds (after finishing it) to look over and over again at my Paypal account. And I also received a plain but very sweet “Thank you” as I accepted their requests – which is really nice, too.

As of February 2010, here’s some of the things that I created filed under the graphic design jobs category:

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It’s been a long time since I posted a Photoshop Tutorial here on my blog. I think this tutorial is the first one for year 2010. Actually, this tutorial was already planned to be posted earlier, but I wasn’t able to work on it because of my migration from old to a new hosting account. But of course, the delay was worth it because I got a better blogging experience right now.

Anyway, the purpose of this tutorial is to help you build or create a better or more realistic feel on your photo. This tutorial is perfect for Still Life photography, and not for Portraits. And you should be glad because this tutorial is very easy.

What you need:

• Adobe Photoshop CS+
• A nice photo
• Creative mind (optional)

The first thing you must do is to open up Adobe Photoshop and open the image file you want to edit.

Next is to create a Black and White layer on the image.

Create Black and White Layer - Create a More Realistic Look on Your Photo

You can create a Black and White layer by just selecting the “Create a new fill or adjustment layer” button below the Layers Pallet. Please make sure that the created Black and White layer is at the top of the Background layer.

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Wallpaper Monday is here again! And this week’s theme is love, because Love day is coming. Here are the three wallpapers I created for you:

Wallpaper Monday: Love Like This

LOVE | Wallpaper Monday: Love Like This

Peace + Love = Better Life | Wallpaper Monday: Love Like This

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Wallpaper Monday, wallpapers

As you notice, my blog’s background design contains my eyes (of course), my blog name, blog tagline, rays and huge splatter stamps. Splatter is one of my favorite brushes that I use in designing graphics in Adobe Photoshop. Why? Because it’s so cool. It’s like a dripped paint, like a blood from a huge monster or massive tears of a dinosaur (dinosaurs cry? LOL).

Anyway, I want to share some cool splatter Photoshop brushes. You can use these Photoshop brushes in different versions of Adobe Photoshop.

Splatter Brush from ~ka05

Download Free Splatter Brush from ~ka05 here.

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Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop brushes