Plexiglass Photoshop Actions Preview Plexiglass is a set of Photoshop actions that adds abstract overlays to your photos. They’re great for posters, covers, or even as backgrounds for images. What’s cool about these actions is that you can resize or crop your image and the effects will update itself to fit your new image dimension.… Continue reading Freebie: 7 Abstract Photoshop Actions
Day: August 14, 2013
Create an Abstract Tattoo Design in Adobe Illustrator
Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In the following tutorial you will learn how to create hand-drawn tattoo styled illustration in Adobe Illustrator. You will need a graphic tablet such as Wacom to learn how to create, set up and use Calligraphic Brushes. Starting with sketch work you will learn how to work with Strokes and… Continue reading Create an Abstract Tattoo Design in Adobe Illustrator
Dominating Bold Type in Website Design: New Examples
What makes great website design great? Your answer will definitely vary: advanced animations, spectacular captivating photos, uncommon video intros, high-detailed artistic illustrations, flawless execution of popular styles, creative solutions and much more – all these aspects depend on kind and purpose of website itself, but there is undoubtedly one thing that you find in common… Continue reading Dominating Bold Type in Website Design: New Examples
12 Unique Freebie Graphics for Web Designers
New PSD and AI vector graphics are released online every day. Freebies have become a tremendous market themselves, gathering support from designers and developers alike. There are many freebie directories but it can be tough finding exactly what you need. In this article I would like to share a small collection of freebies which are… Continue reading 12 Unique Freebie Graphics for Web Designers
Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website
Well… would you look at at that… a whole new WordPress site! Clever you! Have you logged in yet? If so, you might be sitting looking at the Dashboard wondering what the heck you do next… so, let me help you with that! (Failing that you’re wondering what on earth a Dashboard is, that’s ok,… Continue reading Beginning With WordPress: First Steps With Your New Website
Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick
In this short tutorial, we are going to create an interesting slide-out footer with a bit of CSS. Grab the zip from the download button above, open it in your favorite code editor and read on! The Idea The effect we are after, is to give the impression that the page lifts up to reveal… Continue reading Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick
How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport
One of the key concepts in any responsive design is the change of viewport size. That’s because mobile viewports vary greatly from desktop viewports. To control the viewport size we traditionally use the viewport meta tag. However, the viewport meta tag, like all the worst browser developments of the last forever, isn’t W3C valid. It… Continue reading How to build standards-compliant responsive design using @viewport
My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013
I regularly post links to interesting design tutorials and articles over on my Twitter and Facebook accounts, but in case you missed them here’s a roundup of my top pickings from my recent browsing of the web. This week we have some great content from Vectips, PSDFan, Vectortuts+ and Codrops. The Fundamentals of Shape… Continue reading My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013
Create a Geometric Kermit the Frog Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
Final Product What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I am going to draw Kermit (known in Mexico as “La Rana René”) by using simple shapes and basic tools in Adobe Illustrator. I’ll also show you how to modify your colors in the blink of an eye! So let’s get started… 1. Create a New Document… Continue reading Create a Geometric Kermit the Frog Illustration in Adobe Illustrator
Smartimage: Management of Brand Files, Simplified
I was in dire need of a good tool to handle my images, so I started scanning the internet for a solution that is both convenient and simple to use. Quite a few alternatives presented themselves, but one of them really stood out after I started using the free trial. So, here’s how it went with Smartimage. It… Continue reading Smartimage: Management of Brand Files, Simplified