Good Design with Swirls and Flourishes

Final Image Design with Swirls and Flourishes Tutorial

It’s very common these days to see swirls and flourishes within graphic design. You can use brushes or vectors to achieve this look, but if you want to customize your own you’ll have to dig in and spend some time creating them. You should check out My 10 Favorite Swirls and Decorative Brush Sets post for some awesome free design elements you can download. This tutorial will cover some of the techniques you can use to create your own beautiful swirls and flourishes.
A quick thanks to Zoe who requested a tutorial like this, by dropping me a comment using my Community Suggestion Box. If their is a tutorial you would like to see covered, I would love to see your suggestions there.

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Design a Calendar Using Scripting in Photoshop

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Creating a graphic calendar by hand is not an easy task. That is why it is best if you can find some way of automating the process. In today’s tutorial we will show you how to generate a full year, custom background calendar using JavaScript. If you’re a bit of a computer programmer, that is great, if not, don’t worry this will be pretty straightforward.

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