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[2011-04-11 10:53:09 +0000 UTC]
"Rahul Das"
(India)
# Statistics
Favourites: 345; Deviations: 52; Watchers: 61
Watching: 68; Pageviews: 20857; Comments Made: 644; Friends: 68
# Interests
Favorite movies: The Grand Budapest HotelFavorite TV shows: Sherlock and S.H.I.E.L.D.
Favorite bands / musical artists: Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Guns n' Roses
Favorite books: Any Agatha Christie, PG Wodehouse, Ruskin Bond or Satyajit Ray books
Favorite writers: Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Ruskin Bond, Satyajit Ray
Favorite games: Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: Photoshop CS6; Windows 7 (just upgraded and then MS stopped supporting it :P); Chrome or Firefox
Other Interests: Reading, the occasional writing, travelling
# About me
Trying to make the world, or rather the computer apps, a better place!I also do wallpapers (once a decade :p)
BTW, If you like one of my works, please do comment!
And even though I might not be able to send you a thanks! for every favourite, you will most probably find a llama waiting in front of your profile
# Comments
Comments: 115
Hey I have a question. How do you make your concepts?
I use to use Photoshop, but I moved to Illustrator so things like icons and rounded corners don't look pixelated. But working with bitmap tools are so much easier, so I'm just curious in how you approached your style. I would like to design more freely yet not have to have everything so pixelated.
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I actually use Photoshop, but am planning to learn a vector tool 
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When you say smart shapes, do you mean the presets that come with the shape tool? Well that's interesting. While they do come in handy, the functions seem pretty limited for things like icons, but your icons look pretty official. Though, I'm still not sure I follow your method. Also, I never really played around with the layer styles, so I don't really know their advantages. I'm a bit of a newbie.Β Β
You said you want to learn vector, huh? I know *a lot* of Illustrator. If you really want to learn, I can make a video of it.
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Actually, I use smart shapes only for the rounded rectangle bases, most of the other stuff's done by the marquee tool. For example, in the new concepts, almost all apps have a preset base, set to white background, a drop-shadow 2px at 90Β° (for the spot-lighting effect) and a faint outer glow(ambient light). I mostly use slight dulled colours, and avoid using outlines. The base details are almost completely applied by layer styles, except for ornamentation. The real advantage of layer styles is that they're consistent and easily copyable, so you get the same effect every time. Hope this helps
And yes, I want to learn vector, and thanks for offering help, it's much appreciated! 
I learnt it (Photoshop) mostly by mucking different stuff around, seeing what'd happen. (If you'd seen some of my previous stuff, you'd have cringed! It was quite funny, and frankly ugly
[PS. If you want, I can upload some icon PSDs. Lemme know]
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Very well. I'll see what I can put together for a text tutorial for Illustrator. I'll be busy for the next few days, but I could work on it on Tuesday since I don't have work that day. I can't promise that this is what you're looking for, but I do know a lot of tricks like converting text to salable objects, type on path, add gradients, and add multiple outlines.
The text in these two deviations were done in Illustrator.
leduc-gallery.deviantart.com/aβ¦
leduc-gallery.deviantart.com/aβ¦
Sure, I would like to see the icon PSDs.
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I'll try to upload 'em, but it'll take time: the files are horrendously messy. As for the tutorials, thanks! I'd love to see 'em, but I'll have to get Illustrator first! And what with my current situation, that might take time, so no hurries there
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Hey I got it up. I covered everything I know about getting fancy with text. I hope this helps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz8uX3β¦
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Well in that case I wish you luck. I'll start thinking about what to cover for my video, and you can check it out just when ever you get around to it. No hurries for you either.
Just to let you know, I might be leaving Illustrator for the new Affinity Designer coming to Windows. The first beta is just weeks away, and I'll be all over it. Depending on what suits you better, you may want to hold off on getting Illustrator. Affinity Designer and Photo are looking fantastic.
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Oh hello again. I had to look back at what we were talking about. Right now, the Affinity Designer beta for Windows is free, but I don't know for how long.
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Yeah, its been long XD. (sorry for the late reply though
Life'd been busy as heck, and I'm just starting to brush up all my online stuff)
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It's no problem. Got any new concepts on the roadmap?
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A few, but they need refinement. Will post 'em soon
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They're not really complete, but I have a deviation of three concepts I submitted recently. If you're interested.
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Thank you and happy holidays to you too! And may you have a great, wonderful and joyous year ahead!
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Thank you for the 
JOIN THE DREAM
Plz ignore if u r in
``|D|R|E|A|M|S|``
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You're welcome!
And that article was really helpful!
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any new discover, tell me to include there.Β
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Thanx for the
Glad you like it
Have a nice time my friend
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You're welcome 
(PS, check yer profile, a super llama's waiting for you!)
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Whoa amazing! Thx mate, really appreciate it! Β
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You're welcome 
and thanks for the
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Thank you for the
JOIN THE DREAM
Plz ignore if u r in
``|D|R|E|A|M|S|``
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No problem! Your pics are too good to not
[Added you to my watch
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No problem!
BTW, am a big fan of your VSes
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hammn.deviantart.com/art/Adobeβ¦
take a look at this. Its perfection. You should draw your inspiration from this one for Photoshop
Alos if you start working on it you could write a journal for your watchers announcing this.
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It's up! Decided to go with Photoshop
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what? already? well its pretier enough but we need smth serious next timeΒ Β
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Actually, I was thinking, what about an IDE? Photoshop already has a dark mode, but current IDE's look horrendous, to say the least. Would also be more interesting
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well search for the most popular and in the same time most outdated/uglier UI.
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Code::blocks? Not ugly, but could definitely use a facelift
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that not so popular: I mean Net beans, Eclipse, Aptana, Flash Develop, the IDEs Β from jetbrains)
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Thank you so much for the watch. Right back at ya!
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