Month: March 2013

12 Handy Tools For Invoicing and Time Tracking

Every service-related business – or freelancer – needs an invoicing tool to send invoices to their client. It should be simple to use yet produce professional enough invoices that will give a positive impression to your clients and hopefully make getting paid simpler. If you search the internet, you will come across many invoicing tools… Continue reading 12 Handy Tools For Invoicing and Time Tracking

Turn Day into Night in Photoshop

Turn day into night! Use the power of Adjustment Layers and Blending Options to turn a bright daytime image, into a semi-realistic nighttime image. While these settings may not give you 100% perfect results, you can use the same techniques on your images with a bit of tweaking. Source Files The images that I’m using… Continue reading Turn Day into Night in Photoshop

Freebie: 10 Instagram Photoshop Actions

Instant Hipster Actions Preview These are the first Photoshop actions by SparkleStock and they make your photos look like it was shot with Instagram. This free download gives you access to 10 Photoshop actions. If you’re a SparkleStock member, you get access to all 19 of them! This Photoshop action set creates snapshots so that… Continue reading Freebie: 10 Instagram Photoshop Actions

Windows Apps for Web Developers

When the editor of Nettuts+ requested an article to show Windows developers love by listing popular web development apps, I was all over it. OSX devs get a lot of attention, so it’s good to mix things up a bit. What I want to do is list the development tools that I frequently use as… Continue reading Windows Apps for Web Developers

Weekly Dose Of Inspirations: Typography Art

Hi guys, This is another episode of our weekly inspiration series. In this series we’ll try to bring out the most popular, very unique and highly inspirational works of highly talented artists of our art and design community. The aim behind initiating these roundups is bringing out and showcasing the amazing art created today and… Continue reading Weekly Dose Of Inspirations: Typography Art

25 Web Development Tutorials for Useful Code Snippets

Over the past few years we have published a large set of tutorial focused on web development techniques. Both frontend and backend code samples are always helpful when you are building new projects. And that is reason enough to go back and check out past tutorials for golden nuggets of codes. Check out the gallery… Continue reading 25 Web Development Tutorials for Useful Code Snippets

20 Beautiful Websites in White Background Merging with Attractive Colors

A website stands powerful when its design, colors, fonts are well decorated. To go with white, it’s a better idea if designers can implement some beautiful colors in it. This post is a beautiful collection of 20 Beautiful Websites in White Background Merging with Attractive Colors.   PDD Bluelounge Big Life Gavick Ocean Basket LiquidFolio… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Websites in White Background Merging with Attractive Colors

20 Free Ecommerce WordPress Themes

Free eCommerce WordPress themes have been developed and designed for integration with one or several of the eCommerce plugins developed for WordPress. Some designs have eCommerce functionality integrated into the theme. The main eCommerce plugins developed for WordPress include Jigoshop, Cart66, WP eCommerce and WooCommerce. Although a wide variety of options for an eCommerce platform… Continue reading 20 Free Ecommerce WordPress Themes

Streamline your Process with Volo

Front-end developers face a variety of challenges when creating sites that have repetitive solutions. All sites use a similar DOM skeleton, as well as many common features and attributes. Volo aims to remove some of the effort out of the process, allowing developers to focus on the new aspects of a project, as apposed to… Continue reading Streamline your Process with Volo

Everything You Need To Know About Facebook’s Latest News Feed Design

The New Facebook is about you. In a new attempt to manage clutter that is invading our personal feed on Facebook, Facebook is putting all your favorite feeds into one ‘personalized newspaper’ where you can get high quality content from famous figures, relevant local sources and your social circles. With the new design you can… Continue reading Everything You Need To Know About Facebook’s Latest News Feed Design

Capture Your User’s Attention With These 15 Absolutely Gorgeous Retro Icon Sets

Every project’s success depends on how great it runs and how gorgeous it looks. It doesn’t matter if you have an application which is working flawlessly and covers all the user’s needs; if it doesn’t have a great interface then there is a high probability that it will fail. Nowadays, user’s demands are getting increasingly more  sophisticated… Continue reading Capture Your User’s Attention With These 15 Absolutely Gorgeous Retro Icon Sets

Create a Cute Bunny House in Photoshop

Tutorial Resources Grass – Morguefile Daisies – Maureenolder Road – happeningstock Sky – sxc.hu Signpost – sxc.hu Big carrot – Stockfreeimages Three carrots – Stockfreeimages Roof – Morguefile Door – Stockfreeimages Rug – sxc.hu Window – sxc.hu Fence – Morguefile Bunny 1 – Morguefile Bunny 2 – Morguefile Bunny 3 – Morguefile Step 1 Create… Continue reading Create a Cute Bunny House in Photoshop

Interactive Challenges & Writing jQuery in the Browser

Try jQuery is a combination of videos, interactive console challenges, and writing code in the browser. You’ll need about 2 hours of time to make it through everything. There is a gentle introduction to what jQuery is, and what it can do. It tells you how to search and walk through the DOM with selectors… Continue reading Interactive Challenges & Writing jQuery in the Browser

21 Creative World Maps in Photoshop, Eps & Ai Formats

Few days ago, there was a tough and difficult task and that was the searching for the high quality world map source files. This task was not only difficult but also took lots of time. But now in this collection, you will see the 20+ World Map Source Files in different formats like PSD, EPS… Continue reading 21 Creative World Maps in Photoshop, Eps & Ai Formats

45 Awesome Design Fonts for Minimalist Design

Taking a minimalist approach for your website or a graphic project requires that you use fonts that match the simple and uncluttered setup of your design. Clean and light fonts can profoundly complement your minimalist design as they appear laid back and subdued. Their somewhat subtle appearance would give you a breathing space to admire… Continue reading 45 Awesome Design Fonts for Minimalist Design

38 Unique Musical Websites for Bands and Musicians

Musicians and artists often struggle to come up with their own unique website idea. It is difficult because there are not many standards for building a music website. Often these are more free of the typical rules in web design, which allows artists to break outside the mold of normal website trends. This leaves room… Continue reading 38 Unique Musical Websites for Bands and Musicians

Create a Retro Mixtape in Photoshop

Incorporating retro elements into your design work is an effective way to add strong nostalgic appeal and garner the attention of a large, worldwide demographic of strong spenders. Few adults can look at an old piece of technology without conjuring up a few fond memories, and this reaction can translate to a positive impression and… Continue reading Create a Retro Mixtape in Photoshop

40 Must Have Cheat Sheets For Graphic Designers And Developers

A cheat sheet or crib sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. “Cheat sheet” may also be rendered “cheatsheet”. In the graphics world, cheats sheets are there to help the designers in completing their design applications easily. At times, designers get stuck with the design process and they do not know… Continue reading 40 Must Have Cheat Sheets For Graphic Designers And Developers