Month: June 2013

How to Make a Steampunk Illustration

Steampunk is popular style of artwork. Artists create modern objects from materials found during an earlier time. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial by Benjamin Mounsey, we will show you how to create a steampunk illustration of farm equipment assembled from an earlier post-apocalyptic period of war. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members… Continue reading How to Make a Steampunk Illustration

55+ Twitter Bootstrap Templates – Want a Future Proof Website?

Bootstrap templates are responsive website themes build upon the highly popular framework called Twitter Bootstrap. These templates have won a lot of popularity and for a good reason. Aside from providing unique add-on features, these templates retain the native functionality of Bootstrap.

Foundation for Beginners: Custom Forms and Switches

Following on from our look at buttons in Zurb’s Foundation, let’s now take a look at custom forms and switches. During this tutorial we’re going to work on an exercise; a contact form which you can add to your projects or just play around with. Once we’ve built that, we’ll move onto other form elements.

Top 20 CMS Alternatives to WordPress

WordPress is a well-known platform among thousand users all over the world where people talk about their experiences and views through blogging activity. It has many features including themes, plug-ins, widgets, mobiles and multi-user and multi-blogging.   WordPress has a lot of advantages. It offers a variety of blogs and different kinds of website designs… Continue reading Top 20 CMS Alternatives to WordPress

Adobe Illustrator for beginners: 10 top tips

Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing tool, meaning you can create artwork that can be scaled infinitely without any loss of quality. It’s a fantastic tool for logo design, creating complex vector artwork and playing with illustrated typography design. But coming from Photoshop you may not be savvy with Illustrator and its unique ways: so we’re here to help.

From using Bézier points and curves to strokes and fills and adding a more natural look to your vector artwork, read on for some Illustrator secrets for those new to the application.

Our Complete Walkthrough of What’s New in Photoshop CC

The new version of Photoshop is finally here! Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) is now available for download for Creative Cloud Subscribers. The new version includes several new features including Camera Shake Reduction, Camera RAW improvements, Image Upsampling, Properties Panel Improvements, Behance Integration, Sync Settings, and many more useful features. In this article, Martin Perhiniak… Continue reading Our Complete Walkthrough of What’s New in Photoshop CC

25 Free Tools for Creating Responsive Website Layouts

Free open source tools and resources have been getting online over these past few years. Many of these tools are geared directly towards responsive web design, handling CSS and other typical features. The performance of these tools can vary greatly which is why so many designers are hesitant to jump right into a new library.… Continue reading 25 Free Tools for Creating Responsive Website Layouts

25 Useful Free Photoshop Custom Shape Sets

Photoshop comes with many tools and exploring them in the right way can significantly help you achieve better results. With the help of Photoshop custom shapes, one can easily design something in Photoshop, and they are pretty handy as well. Using Photoshop custom shapes can save your time to a great extent when you are… Continue reading 25 Useful Free Photoshop Custom Shape Sets

How to Work More Efficiently With MiniBridge

Sooner or later, you are bound to have a lot of design files stored on your computer. Managing these files is an essential task that you will have to perform, otherwise, you will have trouble finding your files at a later date. While the Finder and Windows Explorer are great for managing your files, they… Continue reading How to Work More Efficiently With MiniBridge

Are You A Web Developer Without Any Graphic Skills? Then Check Out These 25 Gorgeous Website .PSD’s

Creating a website is not an easy thing because it requires a lot of steps; from the planning and all the way to functionality testing, the process of designing and developing a website needs people with various skills. You need a good graphic designer, a good web designer, a talented web developer, a great content… Continue reading Are You A Web Developer Without Any Graphic Skills? Then Check Out These 25 Gorgeous Website .PSD’s