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LiveSurface

August 3, 2007 by in Downloadable with 5 Comments

As an up-and-coming designer, I’m always looking for new ways to present my work and impress clients. Unfortunately, being a student, I don’t have much real-world work to show off in my portfolio. A great design is one thing, but great design in its native environment instead of simply printed on foam-core is even better.

To the rescue comes LiveSurface, a stock photography site with a twist. Offering a huge selection of large and small scale, indoor and outdoor surfaces, the site provides downloadable photoshop files complete with Vanishing Point settings, shadows, and layer masks just waiting for you to drop in your own design.

While it would be nice if this was a free service, I think most designers could justify spending a few dollars on making their portfolio stand out.

[via swissmiss]


  • Cynic821

    Thanks Dan!

    This will definatly be something me and the designer here at my office are going to play with today. Great find!

  • Mike B

    As an up-and-coming designer you should be (or become) comfortable enough in Photoshop not to need prepared shadows and vanishing points, and especially not have to pay for them! Might I even suggest that you go out and take your own photos of indoor and outdoor surfaces to use? Just a thought.

  • http://www.brandon-martinez.com Brandon Martinez

    As an up-and-coming designer myself, it is a nice find. But in a way I agree with Mike B, go take some of your own pics (billboards, taxi cabs, w/e), and throw in your artwork. It’ll give you all the more credit as a designer, and maybe as a photography, too (companies are always looking for people with multiple talents).

    However, I do understand not everyone has the scenery available to achieve an open canvas such as that, so in that manner, very nice :)

  • http://www.lunarboy.com Roger Wong

    I think this is a great service!

    While I can understand the desire for this service to be free from a student’s perspective, many professional designers who are often under tight timelines, will gladly pay a few dollars for some nicely-produced, professionally shot environments on which to comp in their designs.

  • Cynic821

    As someone in the actual software business, our sales people would much rather have our sales materials and examples be made from professional templates like these instead of having our designer go out and take photos.

    Buying these would actually cost less. And i wouldnt really care either way how a new designer we hire demo’ed his work.

    I can understand the point you guys make, but its a service better bought than known. Let others waste their time on it, and you get it for the measly 30 bucks

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