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.

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!

“I love designs” is this week’s tagline for Wallpaper Monday!

This is the first time I posted a Wallpaper Monday post, and let me explain what is Wallpaper Monday. Wallpaper Monday is my new series of posts here on my blog where you can download high quality wallpapers for your system. And all wallpaper that you’ll download were made by me! You can have it for personal use only.

Wallpaper Monday: I Love Designs

I Love Designs (Black) by Kelvinonian.com

I Love Designs (Red and Black) by Kelvinonian.com

I Love Designs (Blue) by Kelvinonian.com

To download, just click the image.

I hope you liked it all. Watch out for more!

The power of Adobe Photoshop is enormous, incredible, amazing. Yeah, any great positive adjective can describe it. Adobe Photoshop saved many lives, too. How? By simply manipulating their photos (celebrities, I’m talking to you). Many people around the globe are using Photoshop to help them in their “problems”. They found it nice. But, is it really nice?

One of the most significant things that made Adobe Photoshop popular is its ability to manipulate photos, easily and in a very flexible way. Like what I’ve posted here, the Photoshop virtual beauty tutorial, you can change your looks in Photoshop (but only virtually).

Here’s some videos of photo-manipulating in enhancing beauty:
Dove Evolution

From Fat to Hot

Another good thing in Photoshop is its ability to create art. Digital art is the right term for artworks done using Adobe Photoshop. And I found some cool videos of cool digital arts. Here:

Fantasy Art Done Using Photoshop

Speed Drawing

Indeed, Photoshop is an incredible tool for us, graphic designers, photographers, or any people who enjoy art. But unfortunately, because of Photoshop, the “real beauty” has been distorted, the traditional art has been forgotten by some artists, and many different photo scandals scattered around the web that are fake. Everything that is great has some downsides on it, just like Photoshop.

Let’s just say we love Photoshop, but fake photos sucks. But we do love fake photos, in some ways (like in a funny way). So, I think, the right sentence that I must write here to end this post is my greatest law in Photoshop:

Do not over do it.