NEC Eyeglasses Translate Foreign Languages

These glasses still sound a little like a concept to me, but several blogs are reporting their existence, so they're worth spending a little virtual ink on, so long as it's taken with a grain of salt. The glasses, designed by NEC, are the perfect international travel companion in that they take a foreign language, intepret it into your own language and then cast the intepretation onto your retina so that you're able to seamlessly speak with others (or at least understand what they're saying).

Create a Stylish Club Poster

Stunning techniques to add photographic details making your work fun to scrutinize. Learn the tricks as you create an urban style poster.
Step 1
Download this image www.sxc.hu and open it up in Photoshop. Duplicate the layer and go to Filter, Sharpen, Sharpen.

Step 2

Easily Transform Your Photo into a Watercolour Painting in Photoshop

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A few-step technique to get a realistic drawing that even seems to have that odour of a paint. A great method to create your own gallery while improving your Photoshop skills.

Step 1

1. Load a photo of you choice into photoshop. You can use the above "before" image if you want to follow exactly what's in this tutorial.

Adding Texture to the Skin

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Give a man's face a stone feel and look to manipulate the message. Great trick for propaganda and social advertising as well as provoking web design.

Firstly, start by finding a stock photo that you can add the texture to. For example, you can use this one or you can of course, go to Google Images and look up some picture you are interesting in. Also you need to find some appropriate stone texture. You can do it in the same way or feel free to use mine. Ok, now open up both of your photos in Photoshop, you can either keep it at it's current size of resize it down a little bit if you want. After that bring the texture picture to the canvas with the man's face:

Design a Horror Style Text Effect with Dirt and Splatter Texture in Photoshop

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:

Font
Dirty Spray Brushset
Stroke and Splatter

Step 1

Create a new document sized 1200 * 800 px (in fact size doesn't really matter here, choose one you feel comfortable with), use White as background colour.

Sewing a Fabric Badge in Photoshop

Download Fabric Linen by Jaqx Textures here. Create a new document of size 500x708 pixels. Drag the texture downloaded into the working document. Name this layer as Fabric.

Quick Logos with Live Trace in Adobe Illustrator

Perhaps one of the most underutilized features in Illustrator is Live Trace, which can convert any photograph into vector art in just a few clicks. In this tutorial, we're going to use Live Trace to vectorize a photo for a logo design. Now, of course, all images are different, so depending on the final effect you want to achieve, you'll need to experiment with the settings that we'll be using here.