Spoon Graphics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Follow along with this photo compositing Photoshop tutorial to create a surreal space scene with a vibrant neon light effect. We’ll use assets from a free sample pack of the Ultimate Universe Creator product that’s exclusively available for Spoon Graphics viewers to download. I’ll show you how to compose the various space-themed graphics to make a fantasy cosmic art piece, then apply a cool duotone colour scheme and give the artwork an abstract twist with a neon style geometric

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Spoon Graphics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The retro artwork that used to appear on old VHS tape covers has become an iconic design style that is often mimicked today. Follow along with this tutorial to create your own fun retro style poster based on the artwork of those VHS cassette covers. We’ll use Illustrator to construct the design with text and shape elements, then we’ll quickly send the final artwork over to Photoshop to give it an aged appearance with texture overlays.

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Spoon Graphics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A brand new kind of design bundle has just dropped over at Design Cuts. Curated Collections are mini bundles of 4 related products for just $10, saving up to 90%. You’ll find collections of brushes, fonts, illustrations and more for Procreate, Photoshop and other art and design software. Which ones are your favourites? Each curated collection has a specific theme, so you can be sure to find one that’s made just for you!

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Spoon Graphics

AUGUST 26, 2024

In one of my recent tutorials I showed how to create a Grainy Xerox Grunge Effect in Photoshop , named after its similarity to old photocopied images. Download this FREE Smart PSD to easily recreate the effect with your own images by replacing the contents of the Smart Object. The artwork is given a high-contrast appearance with shading generated by large grainy noise textures, all customisable by altering the layers within the PSD file.

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Spoon Graphics

AUGUST 21, 2024

Do you need some new fonts? Of course you do! I’ve just picked up this new fonts bundle at 90% off, reducing the $304 price to just $29 for all 17 typefaces. This is a great opportunity to upgrade your own font library with a range of new typefaces that you can call upon in your design projects for years to come. There’s a variety of font styles included, which makes the collection extremely versatile, providing you with a suitable type choice for whatever design challenge you might face. $29 wo

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Spoon Graphics

AUGUST 11, 2024

Adobe’s AI tool Firefly is great for quickly creating effects that would otherwise take considerable work in Photoshop. Learn how to generate this oozing slime text effect with ease, along with a bonus tip that helps to fix the common problem of Firefly not isolating your text on a plain background. Subscribe to the Spoon Graphics YouTube Channel The post Easy Green Slime Text Effect With Adobe Firefly appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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Spoon Graphics

JULY 10, 2024

The key to creating authentic looking vintage designs is using the right assets, but genuine vintage tools and resources can be difficult to find! Thankfully this bundle has you covered with a variety of resources that are derived from various authentic sources, so you can inject a piece of history right into your design work for the most realistic results.

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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 13, 2024

How do you fancy getting your hands on a hand-picked selection of fantastic fonts to take your design projects to the next level? Design Cuts have put together another deal packed full of top quality fonts and squashed the price down by 91%, so much so that there isn’t much left on the price tag! This is a great opportunity to acquire $316 worth of fonts in a variety of styles for just $29.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 29, 2024

Prepare for any design project that you might face this summer with a huge upgrade to your resources library. This new Creative’s Shining Summery Collection contains a variety of tools that help you create cheeful styles and effects. Improve your illustrations with detailed brushes; add stunning text to your designs with expertly crafted fonts; and easily add watercolour effects to your work with ready-made assets.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 20, 2024

Typography is a core component of Graphic Design so it’s an important subject for every designer to learn. Typefaces are divided into classifications based on the era or characteristics of their design. Being able to identify a typeface style can help you make educated design decisions and choose the best font for your work depending on its use.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 15, 2024

Get your hands on this incredible collection of best-selling creative products and explore new effects in your upcoming projects! Inside you’ll discover a range of effects packs, mockups and overlays combined into one discounted bundle named The Effect Lovers Mega Collection. All the assets come backed with full extended licensing, so you can safely use the resources in all your design projects and even use them to produce merchandise and other saleable items!

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Spoon Graphics

APRIL 22, 2024

Access All Areas members have a great collection of photo effects to download this week, courtesy of Sickboat. These Film LUTs can be applied to photos or video to create a vintage film effect effect with various warm, cool and B+W colours. There are 20 LUT presets included to provide a variety of vintage film effects to choose from. Being LUT files means they are compatible with all kinds of software, the effects can be easily applied to photos and images in Photoshop using the Color Lookup adj

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Spoon Graphics

APRIL 8, 2024

Check out the best new font releases for April 2024! Often new fonts are released with some nice discounts, so it can be the perfect time to pick them up when they’re fresh out of the font foundry. Some of these typefaces have up to 60% off, I’ll also share some of the latest variable font additions to the Adobe Fonts library, which you can activate for free as part of your Creative Cloud subscription.

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Spoon Graphics

MARCH 11, 2024

Access All Areas members have a wonderful collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of PSD Stack. These Earth Tones presets give your photos a warm and natural look that is ideal for enhancing your outdoor images. 14 presets are supplied in a variety of formats, including.XMP,LRT,DNG and.LRTEMPLATE to cover all versions of Lightroom on desktop and mobile, as well as Adobe Camera RAW.

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Spoon Graphics

MARCH 7, 2024

Brushes are a staple of any design resources library, they are important tools required for drawing, illustrating and creating interesting effects. This new bundle contains 21 of the very best Procreate products that contain brushes in a variety of art styles, discounted by 92% to reduce the price to just $29 for them all! All the assets come backed with full extended licensing, so you can safely use the brushes in all your design projects and even use them to produce merchandise and other salea

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Spoon Graphics

MARCH 4, 2024

One of my most-watched videos every day on the Spoon Graphics YouTube channel is my tutorial showing how to create a watercolor effect in Photoshop. That tutorial uses a combination of Photoshop filters to transform an image with a painterly appearance. Since the addition of the Generative Fill tool to Photoshop, there’s a whole new way of creating a realistic painting effect with the help of AI.

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Spoon Graphics

MARCH 1, 2024

Check out the best new font releases for March 2024! Often new fonts are released with some nice discounts, so it can be the perfect time to pick them up when they’re fresh out of the font foundry. Some of these typefaces have up to 60% off, and certain fonts can even be downloaded free! Garrison Up first is an expertly designed font called Garrison, it’s a nice modern sans serif with a humanist style, a little like the classic Gill Sans.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Do you fancy a new collection of fonts but with 90% off the price tag? There’s a new deal over at Design Cuts that will bag you 16 incredible fonts from a variety of talented typography artists, all for just $29 with the best licensing terms you can get. The fonts in this collection are expertly made with a multitude of weights and styles, so this is a great chance to level up the typography and lettering in your design work.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This text portrait effect is known as a Calligram. It’s where a passage of text bends and warps around the contours of the subject’s face. This effect is particularly powerful when used to present famous speeches by depicting the orator through their words. The process uses just a small selection of Photoshop’s tools, with the Displace filter and a clipping mask being the key ingredients to making the effect.

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Spoon Graphics

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Spring is in the air, so if you’re feeling the inspiration to add a fresh creative touch to your design work, The Blooming Brilliant Creative Collection is just what you need! Inside you’ll find a variety of floral and rustic themed resources such as flower illustrations, cute animal drawings, watercolour assets and paper texures. Use these tool to create all kinds of fun, whimsical artwork.

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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 29, 2024

Access All Areas members have a great collection of photo effects to download this week, courtesy of Sickboat. These Thermal LUTs can be applied to photos or video to create a surreal heat map effect with vibrant colours. There are 31 LUT presets included to provide a variety of thermal colour schemes to choose from. Being LUT files means they are compatible with all kinds of software, the effects can be easily applied to photos and images in Photoshop using the Color Lookup adjustment layer, an

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Spoon Graphics

JANUARY 22, 2024

There are several ways to add texturing to your logo artwork in Photoshop, you could apply textures using brushes, add a texture image to a layer mask, apply a texture with a clipping mask, or even using a pattern overlay. All methods have their benefits, but my favourite technique is what I call the ‘knockout’ method. Using this technique to apply textures to your logos means you can easily layer up multiple textures non-destructively without it being permanently applied, so you can still edit

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Spoon Graphics

DECEMBER 19, 2023

2023 is coming to an end, so let’s take a look back at my tutorial videos from the past year and see which topics proved to be the most popular. My Neon effect Photoshop tutorial from a couple of years ago has continued to dominate as my top piece of content, gaining another 500,000 views to increase its total view count to 2.6 million views since it was published.

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Spoon Graphics

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Access All Areas members have a huge collection of PNG photo film graphics to download this week, courtesy of Sickboat. These scanned images of real 35mm and 120mm analogue film allow you to achieve authentic looking film effects in your graphic design and video projects. Simply drag and drop to add layers of borders, overlays and textures and create a unique appearance every time.

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Spoon Graphics

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The new AI powered Generative Fill has quickly become my most used tool in Adobe Photoshop to quickly change the background of my photos. Take this one for example, it’s a boring iPhone photo of my truck after a recent flurry of snow, but with a quick AI background swap it’s suddenly teleported from an empty car park to a picturesque lake with snow capped mountains.

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Spoon Graphics

AUGUST 28, 2023

Usually custom typography pieces would be drawn by hand, but today I’ll share the secret of how you can still create trendy lettering by customising ready-made fonts in Adobe Illustrator. If you are a whizz at illustrating your own script text, the same vector shading techniques can be applied to your artwork once it has been traced to give it more impact with vibrant colours.

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Spoon Graphics

AUGUST 9, 2023

Do you need some new fonts? Of course you do! This new Font Collector’s Superb Summer Selection contains 16 pro-grade fonts, each in a trendy and unique style. The bundle is reduced by a massive 90% discount to just $29 for a limited time only, so this is a great opportunity to upgrade your font library with a range of new typefaces that you can call upon in your design projects for years to come.

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Spoon Graphics

JULY 10, 2023

This Photoshop glow effect has a cool retro vibe with its colourful gradient halos and blurry outlines, especially when combined with grainy textures to enhance the low-fi look. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make it in Photoshop and provide links to the free assets you need from my Spoon Graphics website. Assets used ► Activate the Roc Grotesk Font – [link] ► Download my FREE Duotone Gradient Presets – [link] ► Download my FREE Dirty Surface Textures – [link] ► D

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Spoon Graphics

JULY 17, 2023

Access All Areas members have a great collection of Lightroom Presets and Photoshop Actions to download this week, courtesy of Hydrozi. This set of Honey Essence photo effects give your images a golden honey vibe with enhanced tan skin tones. It contains 7 one-click presets and actions that add a warm and golden glow to your images, making them perfect for portraits as well as summer and travel photos.

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Spoon Graphics

JULY 10, 2023

This Photoshop glow effect has a cool retro vibe with its colourful gradient halos and blurry outlines, especially when combined with grainy textures to enhance the low-fi look. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to make it in Photoshop and provide links to the free assets you need from my Spoon Graphics website. Assets used ► Activate the Roc Grotesk Font – [link] ► Download my FREE Duotone Gradient Presets – [link] ► Download my FREE Dirty Surface Textures – [link] ► D

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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 26, 2023

Download my collection of botanical garden illustrations for free to add vintage flower graphics to your artwork. These kinds of botanical drawings are commonly used as poster prints, home decor and rustic card & invitation designs. Usually vintage illustrations like this are sourced from antique prints, but I harnessed the cutting-edge power of AI technology to generate these floral illustrations from scratch.

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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 19, 2023

Access All Areas members have a useful collection of creative assets to download this week, courtesy of NUUGRAPHICS. These Fireworks Overlays are made from photos of real fireworks to look completely authentic. There’s a huge choice of 50 unique options, all at a versatile size and resolution of at least 3600x5000px at 300ppi. Being JPEG files they’re compatible with all kinds of image editing software that features layers and blend modes, including Photoshop, Elements, Paint Shop Pr

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Spoon Graphics

JUNE 7, 2023

No doubt you’ve seen some mind-blowing examples of Photoshop’s new AI-powered Generative Fill feature! Today I’m going to show you how to access it yourself in Photoshop Beta and share some examples of ways you can make use of this magical new technology to enhance your images. Stick around until the end because I really put it to the test with some surprising results!

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 29, 2023

Today I’m going to share the secret behind my Photocopier Machine Actions and show you the combination of Photoshop filters that creates a grainy, high-contrast photocopied look with various dirty toner effect options. Get 20% off my Copy Shop Photocopy Effects Kit with the code: 20OFF Buy my Copy Shop Photocopy Effects Kit Assets used ► Photo 1 – [link] ► Photo 2 – [link] ► Photo 3 – [link] Subscribe to the Spoon Graphics YouTube Channel The post Grainy Photocopy Effect

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 15, 2023

Access All Areas members have a great collection of Procreate brushes to download this week, courtesy of Creative Veila. These Fabric and Paper brushes are perfect for texturing and shading your designs. Rather than typical noise effects, these brushes apply expressive fabric and paper patterns made from denim, crumpled paper, and burlap instead! Discover a range of unique design goods by Tatiana Lapina from Creative Veila , a professional graphic designer and enthusiastic photographer with a pa

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 8, 2023

With the advent of AI, the process of creating the double exposure effect has become so much easier. Not only do we not need a camera. We don’t even need any source images because AI tools like Midjourney can conjure them itself! So let’s see how powerful Midjourney is at producing double exposure images and see whether it replaces Photoshop and even the original analogue film method.

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Spoon Graphics

MAY 3, 2023

Get started with digital painting in Procreate! This is the perfect class for you if you are just getting started with digital painting or if you want to brush up your skills in the app Procreate. During this easy, fun and engaging class you will be learning by doing. You’ll get familiar with all the features and tools in the app Procreate while you create a lovely digital painting.

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