Creative Cloud Market is a collection of high quality, curated content for creatives by creatives. Our library includes patterns, mockups, brushes, wireframes and anything else you might need to jumpstart your next creative project. Each month, we highlight one of the talented artists whose work is available (for free!) in Creative Cloud Market.
Raul Taciu is an illustrator, designer, and self-proclaimed “design geek.” He has had a lifelong affair with creativity, drawing as a child, painting as an adolescent and designing as an adult. Taciu began creating design resources in hopes of “sharing something useful with his community,” and this endeavor has since become his primary profession. Today, his site Graphic Burger is a hub for creatives, providing some of the most relevant, flawless and reliable assets in the realms of graphic and web design. His resources have been downloaded over 15 million times and counting!
Some of Taciu’s most popular assets are photorealistic mockups that allow creatives to showcase their work in context. Flat logos and layouts come to life when seen in 3D, spread across the glossy pages of a magazine, or perfectly placed on a t-shirt.
In the past, creatives carried the burden of producing these life-like images from scratch, which meant hours of photographing, editing and masking. Thanks to Taciu we now have a treasure trove of high-quality, user-friendly for placement files at our fingertips.
When creating a for placement asset, Taciu photographs the objects in multiple scenarios, including real world situations and studio set ups. Using Camera RAW and Photoshop, he retouches the photos and adds a placeholder image to make the asset customizable. Multiple filters and layer styles are then added to fine tune the image and test out various use cases. Taciu admits that he is a “maniac for pixel perfection,” and it’s this keen eye for minutiae that makes his assets so valuable.
Taciu’s assets save creatives time and resources, all the while providing a solution for presenting your best work in a meaningful way. In return, Taciu gets the ultimate reward: satisfaction. “I still can’t believe how many creatives are using my stuff,” he beams, “it just fuels me to create more!”
Visit Creative Cloud Market for more info on how to download and use Raul’s photorealistic mockups in your next project. Some of his most popular assets are available for free with your Creative Cloud subscription!