SloDive - Design Resources & Inspiration

Adobe just posted this sneak peek video on it’s blog showcasing a feature called Content-Aware Fill that they’ve been hard at work on. Seriously this is some jaw draw dropping footage.

Paul Mellender is from the west coast of the United States and is completely self taught. A lot of his work has religious themes and characteristics but Paul is actually agnostic. His love for history is where he draws a lot of his inspiration and where the religious overtones come from. I would like to tell you more but his bio is riddled with conspiracies keeping his identity a bit of a mystery but his talent is very obvious.

There’s nothing better than free open source software that can do a lot of the same things and sometimes more than your professional overpriced software can do. I don’t know, it just feels good and that’s why I love GIMP. The tutorials below are some great examples of GIMP in use and several are Photoshop tutorials converted for GIMP use. Well, minus the $700 you had to pay to do it with Photoshop.

So every now and then I come across something that absolutely blows my mind and know in an instant this has to be shared with the SloDive community. The images below are the work of Alexa Meade who currently lives in D.C. Notice I said images, not paintings! Somehow she manages to blend paint on the human body in way that makes the figure look like it jumped straight from the canvas into the real world. Have a close look below and make sure to visit her portfolio for more info on Alexa.

Time to learn a few tips & tricks that will help save you a lot of time and make your design work flow much more efficient. From shortcuts to speeding up the performance of Photoshop, these will help allow for more time to be creative and less doing the mundane tasks that can be associated with using Photoshop.

Vince Fraser is a freelance digital illustrator / designer based in London who has worked for various clients including British Airways, PC World, BBC and T-mobile. His ability to create extremely detailed pieces of art & collages are what really set him above the average designer and why we think you need to see his work.