I got bored tonight and decided to tinker with my Photoshop skills. I’ve always wanted to create a hedcut for Boss Sergey Brin ang Boss Larry Page. I have a popular tutorial for creating hedcuts, but for this one I took it a bit further by applying different textures to the skin, hair, clothing and background.

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Looking for my Hedcut Photoshop tutorial? Somehow that post got clobbered in the search engine results. Well, I’m writing this to take my rightful place in the serps! I really had fun creating this tutorial. Hope you learn something from it!

I first encountered this type of illustration while reading the Wall Street Journal during my days studying at Pratt Institute in New York. Back then I had no idea what it was called or how it was done.

From Wikipedia:

Hedcut is a style of drawing, primarily of people, pioneered and used by The Wall Street Journal. The drawings are traditionally 18 by 31 Picas (3″ by 5.167″), and use the stipple method of many small dots to create an image. They are designed to emulate the look of woodcuts from old-style newspapers, and engravings on certificates and currency. The phonetic spelling of “hed” may be based on newspapers’ use of the term “hed” for “headline.”

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This is the first of a series of Adobe Photoshop tutorials I’m going to offer on how to create a logo in “Web 2.0″ style.

What do I mean by Web 2.0-Style Logo? If you follow Web 2.0 closely, you’ll see similarities in the way logos are designed: Simple, glossed, gradient, bright-colored and often came with a slight reflection and a beta sign just like this:

Pretty ain’t it? Here’s a quick 6-minute video tutorial I prepared:
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