Converting 2D to 3D

You would think it was simple to extrude a 2D black & white image into 3D space.  I tried a number of avenues.  They all pretty much have two large steps: 1) Provide a vector file like SVG or DXF and 2) Extrude in a 3D. I tried out a number of 3D modeling...

Thematic fonts

Google fonts is a pretty awesome collection of web fonts.  There must be at least 500 of them.  Recently, I’ve gone through all of them for a project and, because it is such a time-consuming task, I took note of fonts that could possibly be used for very...

Creating outlines from photos

In Paint Shop Pro, I would click Filters >> Find Edges.  But for Photoshop, it’s a combination of the following: Filters >> Other >> High Pass Image >> Adjustments >> Threshold Referenced from here.

Drawing text around a circle

I was recently creating a mockup and had need to draw text around a circle, like in an analog clock face.  In Photoshop, this involves two things: Understanding that text can follow an arbitrary path. How to draw a circular path. I came across a good video tutorials...