This past few months, I created 3 new blogs. And every time I set up a new blog, I always have a problem finding the right Wordpress theme. Whenever I search for it in Google, I found huge number of blogs that features Wordpress themes, but almost all of those blogs feature almost just the same with others. But now, I found some awesome Wordpress themes that I never seen before. And I want to share it with you.

Here are the 10 Awesome Wordpress Themes that you must see:

Notepad | Wordpress Theme

Download Notepad | Demo

iZen | Wordpress Theme

Download iZen | Demo

Perfect | Wordpress Theme

Download Perfect | Demo

Smooth | Wordpress Theme

Download Smooth | Demo

DailyNote | Wordpress Theme

Download Daily Note | Demo

Brightsky | Wordpress Theme

Download BrightSky | Demo

Furvious | Wordpress Theme

Download Furvious | Demo

Masinop - Wordpress Theme

Download Masinop | Demo

Proud Black | Wordpress Theme

Download Proud Black | Demo

96Degree | Wordpress Theme

Download 96Degree | Demo

More awesome Wordpress themes downloads soon here on Kelvinonian Ideas.

Typography has been a popular style of digital art these days. And I just joined the bandwagon. I am now trying out my “typography skills” in Adobe Photoshop and its quite enjoyable. Unlike in photo-manipulation, typography in graphic design is very simple. You’ll make art out of simple texts. It sounds a bit hard, how you can create an art out of a very simple thing? But, we, graphic designers, need to be creative. Hey, we’re creative right?

So, if you haven’t tried doing some typography stuffs, you need to try it now.And what I got here are 15 free fonts for you to get started:

ithornet

Walkway

Vtks Revolt

Top Secret

Star Avenue

Reboard

Quadranta

Masterplan

Harabara

Green Piloww

Champagne & Limousines

Capture it

Birth of a Hero

Abode

28 Days Later

You can download all these free fonts at DaFont.com on their “Top” category.

I’ll be posting more free fonts here starting today and more typography artworks that I made, soon.

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.

Here are some Letter Press Photoshop Tutorials from the web:

• Ps Letterpress emboss text effect
• Photoshop CS3+ Letterpress Tutorial
• Photoshop Tutorial: The Letterpress Effect

Huge Typography | Design Concepts Using Typography

The Huge Typography is very remarkable because of its elegant and simple style. Huge Typography style is also used in the new Windows Phone 7 Series UI, which was said to be a great innovative design. This design is my favorite style whenever I am creating posters.

Here are some Huge Typography Photoshop Tutorials from the web:

• Create a Trendy Typographic Poster Design
• Creating a Typographic Wallpaper

How about you? What’s your favorite design concept?

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

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

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

I hope you like this week’s set of Wallpapers. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

Note: What is Wallpaper Monday? Wallpaper Monday is a series of posts by Kelvinonian.com that features different set of Wallpapers every other Monday. You can now subscribe to our RSS Feed for more 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:

I really enjoy doing stuffs like these, especially when I know someone will be very happy because of it.

Want me to hire? Email me at: kelvinonian [at] gmail [dot] com.

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.

Layers Pallet - Create a More Realistic Look on Your Photo

Then, create a new copy of Background Layer by selecting the Background layer and hit CTRL+J on your keyboard. After that, drag the “Background copy” layer and drop at the top of the Black and White Layer.

The image at the left is a screen shot of my Layers pallet. And that must be proper location of the three layers that we created. “Background copy” then “Black and White” and the “Background” layer at the bottom.

Next is to set the Blend mode of the “Background copy” to “Overlay” or “Soft Light”. You can do this by simply following the image below.

Note: “Overlay” Blend mode is much harder (or blacker) compared to “Soft Light”. But in most cases, “Overlay” is much better than “Soft Light”. But still, you can play with different blend modes by simply adjusting the opacity of the Background layer. And take note, do not overdo it.

Select "Overlay" as the Blend Mode - Create a More Realistic Look on Your Photo

You can select the Overlay blend mode by simply clicking the Blend mode list box at the Layers pallet. And the last thing that you need to do is to analyze your image. Adjust it until the desired image is achieved.

And you’re done.

Here’s the original photo:

Original Image | © Kelvin Servigon Photography

And the processed photo:

Finished Product - Create a More Realistic Look on Your Photo

You’ll see a great difference between the original and the edited photo. The edited one has more realistic look and better contrast, making it nicer than the original image.

I hope you liked this Photoshop Tutorial. You can subscribe now to my RSS Feed for more Photoshop tutorials, soon.

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

Love Happiness | Wallpaper Monday: Love Like This

I hope you all liked the whole set of this week’s Wallpaper Monday. Enjoy the love season!

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.

Splatter Brush from ~Hest1a

Download Free Splatter Brush from ~Hest1a here.

Splatter Brush from ~DieheArt

Splatter Brush from ~circle--of--fire

Splatter Brush from ~NaldzGraphics

I hope you found this blog post useful. You can subscribe to my feed now for more Photoshop brush downloads soon.

Nature is one of my favorite subjects in photography (like my my mom’s garden flowers). And as of now, nature is indeed in a critical stage, where different changes occur. Like the climate change, where the normal cycle of weather shifts into a new and extremely bad cycle that caused a lot of trouble.

If we continue destroying nature, then, we’re destroying our lives too. So, stop destroying our mother nature.

Love Save Protect | © Kelvinonian Ideas

I Love Nature | © Kelvinonian Ideas

Go Green | © Kelvinonian Ideas

Using my digital artworks, I help saving nature by shouting out loud to conserve, protect and love it. How about you? What are the things you want to do for nature?

I’ve been a Photoshop user since I started graphic designing. I never used a photo editing web app. My younger sister, Keith Anne, loves editing her photos using different web apps available on the net. But Rollip.com (a new photo-editing web app) has an interesting thing that grabbed my attention — professional photo effects.

If you’re a photographer, you should know that Adobe Photoshop is a great tool for post-processing your photos. Adjusting colors, the tones, everything, use Adobe Photoshop. But in the web? You can use nothing. The available photo-editing apps on the web can’t be used as a post-processing tool for photographers because they only do simple effects. But now, Rollip.com requested me to review their app that offers professional photo effects – which sounds awesome.

Rollip said that they have 40 high quality photo effects that retains the original size of your image – all online. So, before I agree with them, I tried it first.

Categories in Photo Effects of Rollip.com

Rollip.com’s photo effects are great. They have Classic, Vintage, Added Character, B/W & Sepia, Styled Lenses, Glows, B/W Added Character, Extreme Stylized, Bold Tones and Drawing Styles. Total of 10 categories and 4 photo effects each category. The number of photo effects is nice and enough for you to have a long time choosing your desired effect.

Performance test: In testing Rollip.com, I chose the 3rd photo effect in Added Character category. I used a 1024×684 photo that I took last year.

Original Photo

After Putting Photo Effects from Rollip.com

I love the effects done on my photo, as it enhance the photo, added more contrast and some vintage effects on it. I also noticed that the whole process is simple, pick a category, upload your photo, then it’s done. The upload time is fast, too.

So, to conclude this post, I must say that, Rollip.com is a great web app for photographers, photo-lovers, and for those people who are obsessed with photo-editing web apps.

Want to try it? I am giving away 15 Pro Rollip Accounts for free, just follow these very simple steps:

1. Subscribe to my feed via email here.
2. Post a comment on this post. (Note: when posting a comment, use the email address that you used to subscribe to my feed so I can check of you really subscribed to it)
3. Then, I’ll email you the details on how to get your free Rollip.com Pro Account with 30 credits (worth $5.98 per account).

Enjoy Rollip.com!