Get an 80s Inspired Facelift With This Graphic Technique

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Get an 80s Inspired Facelift With This Graphic Technique Several months back I was playing around with an Adobe Illustrator tutorial and modified several photos to mimic the Patrick Nagel illustration style. I turned one of them into wallpaper for my laptop and sent another to my daughter who used it briefly as her Facebook profile pic. This month I decided to create all new and improved versions and share the techniques with you here. Bonus: This minimalist look is like an instant facelift. Wrinkles and blemishes just disappear. (Appropriate since I was much younger in the 80s!) Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Expert Go for the Minimalist Look With a Nagel-Inspired Vector Portrait Here are some ideas of how you might use photographs that you've turned into stylized vector portraits. Poster, yes, but other ideas as well. I've only tried this with individual portraits but you could do a really cool group shot, especially if you pose everyone ahead of time. It could take a while to do so start now on a retro Christmas Card family photo. READ NOW Share Do This For The Kids Appeal to the children with layouts that are fun, colorful, and friendly. Fonts and colors that might not be appropriate for adult communications are just right for a child-focused layout. READ NOW Share Headline Your Newsletter With These Fonts The text of your main newsletter articles is not the place for blackletter, script, and most decorative fonts. However, they do have a place in headlines and other places. Legibility is still important though because you do want to get read, right? READ NOW Share In Case You Missed It... Find a Designer MOOC and go to school for free. Substitute Objects for Letters for fun headlines, logos, and posters. Get Involved in Post Press because printing isn't always the end of the job. Do You Do Home Publishing for fun? Is There Anyone Not Using Wi-Fi in some compacity? READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • Norway to Dump FM - Radio Trolls Still Out of Luck • Take Pictures of Board Notes Then Save to Evernote • A Full Review of FreeUndelete, a Free Data Recovery Tool • Games in the Grand Theft Auto Series • Turn Your iPad Into a Scanner • Twitter & StarWars release #StarWarsEmojis - here's how to use them • Want a Better Mobile Browser? Consider Opera and Opera Mini • Select Rows, Columns, and Worksheets in Excel with Shortcut Keys Advertisement About Tech   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Desktop Publishing newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved