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From time to time, we like to showcase how designers and studios are presenting their work. So for this installment of Monday inspiration, we’ve gathered 22 excellent examples of portfolio and studio websites for you to study and gain inspiration from. In this collection, you’ll see a variety of styles and trends including minimal layouts, parallax scrolling, and illustrated designs. Whatever the approach, you’ll notice that each one of the sites captures the personality of the creative individual or studio it represents.

Hero

A portfolio WordPress theme from Theme Trust that uses a parallax effect in the home page banner to highlight the site’s key message in an engaging fashion.

Leo Tartari

Leo Tartari is an experienced designer born and raised in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

35mm Design

35mm Design is a collection of work by Steve Scavo.

Tobias Van Schneider

Tobias Van Schneider is a multi-disciplinary art director and user interface designer from Germany.

Safari

Safari specializes in the innovative production and swift delivery of social and mobile applications, technology systems, creative strategies, and more.

Tyler Smith

Tyler has worked in the web industry for 5 years, and is currently working for Refresh Media in beautiful San Luis Obispo.

Mohiuddin Parekh

User experience designer developing interface designs for web apps iOS and Android.

Julien Renvoye

Marisa Passos

Marisa Passos is a graphic and web designer.

BigNoise

We don’t just come up with cool ideas, we use a well-tuned, engaging process to make them happen… on time and on budget.

SOUP.

WeAreSoup. We believe in culture, design & digital as means of sharing experience. We are focused on bringing companies into digital.

Oven Bits

What you want, we’ve likely done. We may be small(ish), but most of us draw on eight or more years of experience in mobile, web, and design.

Robby Leonardi

My name is Robby Leonardi, and I am a multidisciplinary designer based in New York City. I do illustration, graphic design, animation, and front-end development.

Etienne Ledemay

I’m Etienne Ledemay a French Art Director & Interfaces Designer

Pavel Macek

I am Pavel and I am an User Interface Designer of mobile and web applications.

4v

4v is a development and creation studio from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Pollen

Pollen – an ambitious European design studio that delivers cohesive, robust brand identities that break the mould and get our clients noticed.

Scribble Tone

We are a design team in Portland, Oregon that focuses on branding, interactive and type projects. As problem solvers, we thrive on fun and complex challenges.

FoundryCo

We are a Branding & Digital agency pairing beautiful images with relevant messages.

These Are Things

Welcome to the design and illustration studio of Jen Adrion and Omar Noory.

Bbbttery

Bbbttery is a multi-disciplinary studio that works with design, art and technology.

Socket Studios

Socket Studios is the work of London based designer and web developer Paul Macgregor.

Last week I discovered a new Web site about chrome logos in cars. I spent hours browsing through that site and it’s definitely one of my favorites right now. The site is called Chromeography and you can visit at http://chromeography.com/. The site inspired me so much that I decided to try to do something in Photoshop.

So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a nice chrome effect in Photoshop using only Photoshop. The process is a bit long but it is a very useful technique and there is still a lot to evolve in terms of layer styles values.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document. I am using 2560x 1600 pixels. After that fill the background layer with red, like Ferrari red, or blood red 🙂

Step 2

Go to Layer>Layer Styles>Pattern Overlay. Select a metal texture. I am using a light aluminun effect from http://subtlepatterns.com

Step 3

Click on Gradient Overlay. Use black and white for the color but notice that the black is a bit close to the center. Also change the Blend Mode to Multiply at 40% Opacity. Afte that change the Scale to 35%.

Step 4

Add a new layer on top of the others and fill it with white. After that make sure you have black and white for the foreground and background color, then go to Filter>Noise>Add Noise. Use 10% for the amount. After that go to Image>Adjustments>Invert, then go to Image>Adjustments>Levels. Then make sure that the background is almost black with just some white details. The last thing to do here is go to Filter>Blur>Radial Blur. Use Best for the Blur Method and Best for the Quality.

Step 5

Change the Blend Mode to Color Dodge.

Step 6

Add a new layer and group into a folder. Change the Blend Mode of the folder to Color Dodge. Select the layer inside the folder and then with the Brush Tool (B) use a very soft brush with white. Paint almost in the center of the image a little highlight. Use the image below fore reference.

Step 7

Add the text you want to apply the chrome effect. The one I am using I created in illustration and it is inspired by AMG cars

Step 8

Let’s add some layer styles. Just follow the images below for the values.

Step 9

This is the final result you will get after the layer styles.

Step 10

Now let’s add some adjustments. The first thing to do is go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Gradient Map. Use the defaul black and white and change the Blend Mode to Soft Light.

Step 11

Select all layers and duplicate them. After that merge all the new layers into one, then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur. Use 5 pixels for the radius. Change the Blend Mode to Overlay at 100%. Duplicate this layer and change the Blend Mode to Screen at 50%. With the Eraser tool delete some areas of these two layers to create some differences in the light. Use the image below for reference.

Step 12

Add another layer and group it into a folder. Change the folder’s Blend Mode to Color Dodge. After that with the Brush Tool (B) and a soft white brush create a reflection on top of the letter A.

Step 13

Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer> Photo Filter. Use Cooling Filter (82) with 20% Density.

Conclusion

And here we have it, a nice chrome effect using just layer styles and basic Photoshop filters. Of course we can improve this effect and make it even more realistic, it’s all about playing with the Layer Styles values. But that is up to you now 🙂

Download the Photoshop file

Download the Photoshop file used for this tutorial