How to Draw a Soft, Dreamy, Profile Illustration with Color Pencils

In this tutorial, I would like to show you how to draw a soft, dreamy profile composition using a mechanical pencil and colors added with color pencils. With only a few steps, you can have it completed with full colors. Grab you tools now, it’s time to draw! Tools Pencil (I used a mechanical pencil)… Continue reading How to Draw a Soft, Dreamy, Profile Illustration with Color Pencils

44 Useful Free Photoshop Files For Designers

Here we have put together a beautiful and useful collection of some extremely helpful free PSD files that we have seen in 2013. PSD files are great resource for every designer. This is the reason why designer community constantly releases new and useful PSD files so that new designers as well as professionals can take… Continue reading 44 Useful Free Photoshop Files For Designers

How to Quickly Isolate Product Photos Onto White Backgrounds Using Lightroom and Photoshop

Over the years, I have spent quite a bit of time experimenting with product photography; sometimes more successfully than others. While I spend my days working as the editor of Psdtuts+, I often spend time in the evenings helping my wife by shooting photos of her jewelry. In this tutorial, I wanted to share the… Continue reading How to Quickly Isolate Product Photos Onto White Backgrounds Using Lightroom and Photoshop

20 Really Helpful Responsive Web Design Tutorials

These days, making your website responsive is a MUST! With so many mobile devices out there, you’ll be missing a lot of visitors if you won’t modify your website and make it responsive too. If you are a beginner web designer or just want to improve your skills, here are 20 really helpful responsive web… Continue reading 20 Really Helpful Responsive Web Design Tutorials

A jQuery Plugin for Creating Calendars

There are wonderful and feature-rich calendar modules out there and they all suffer the same problem: they give you markup (and often a good heap of JS) that you have to work with and style. This leads to a lot of hacking, pushing, pulling, and annoying why-can’t-it-do-what-I-want scenarios. CLNDR is a jQuery calendar plugin. Unlike… Continue reading A jQuery Plugin for Creating Calendars

Rawr! How to Draw an Anatomically Correct Dragon

Dragon anatomy is a problematic topic, mainly due to the fact that they’re mythical creatures. However I can show you how to design a believable body for this mythical creature based on basic anatomy theory. In this tutorial you’ll learn about dragon skeleton, muscles and movement. If you want your dragons to look real, this… Continue reading Rawr! How to Draw an Anatomically Correct Dragon

Webydo: The Code Free Website Creator Platform For Professional Designers

Let’s say you are a designer who is hired by clients to create websites. The traditional process is to design the picture of the website in Photoshop and get it approved by the client. Once he approves it, you will have to hire a developer or a coder who will then convert that design into… Continue reading Webydo: The Code Free Website Creator Platform For Professional Designers

What Simplicity Really Means

When it comes to web design trends, minimalism has risen to the top and shows no signs of losing its current popularity. There are many reasons why the style has been so embraced of late: not only does it mesh well with the tenets of web design, it also can be effortlessly combined with other… Continue reading What Simplicity Really Means

35+ Grid Based Web Design Templates

Every website needs to have its own personality. If you have a minimalist design in mind for your website, going for a grid based web design is definitely a interesting choice. Basically, grid websites enable you to present your website’s content in a web page grid fashion. Think blocks of your most appealing text, or… Continue reading 35+ Grid Based Web Design Templates

Responsive Web Design: Will this bubble burst?

There is a lot of hullabaloo about Responsive Web Design (RWD). Why not? After all Google recommends Responsive Web Design. So is it time for you to join the RWD bandwagon? With mobile internet surpassing the desktop-only era, with loads of tablets and mini tablets coming up and new phenomenon called ‘phablets’ hitting the scene;… Continue reading Responsive Web Design: Will this bubble burst?

10 Free PSDs for Perspective App Mockups

Our job at WDL is to gather inspiration, resources, tools, tips and of course freebies for our readers. We do all the searching so you can focus on what’s important. For today, we’ve got some cool PSDs that make it super easy to present your app mockups in an eye catching perspective layout. These PSDs… Continue reading 10 Free PSDs for Perspective App Mockups

Free Calendar UI Kit (PSD File)

I always try to share some free stuff with my blog readers. Here I have just created simple calendar UI kit. It’s created in Photoshop but all objects are smart so you can easily re-size them. You can use this kit in designing mobile apps or any other project you like. You might also be… Continue reading Free Calendar UI Kit (PSD File)

Create a “Kick-Ass” Fan Art

In this tutorial, we will show you how to create an illustration of “Hit Girl,” from the new “Kick Ass” film. In the process, we will show you some simple techniques to help you improve your digital illustration skills and give your artwork an almost comic-like edge. Let’s get started!   Speed Art Video Tutorial… Continue reading Create a “Kick-Ass” Fan Art

6 Tantalizing Facts About Utilization of Flat WordPress Themes

Flat interface is the latest trend of the current world of internet. The combination of attractive colors and typography has made the flat word press designs exquisite and unique. Hence the latest trend of flat designs has gained popularity in the recent times where the ideas of flat designs are further explored and refined. Distinctiveness… Continue reading 6 Tantalizing Facts About Utilization of Flat WordPress Themes

8 wordpress theme for government and politicians

Here are 8 wordpress themes for government and politicians. I used to really hate visiting government websites because they are slow and ugly to look at. Fortunately, times have changed and I am seeing more and more government adopting the latest in web design and aesthetics.  A case in point is using wordpress as the… Continue reading 8 wordpress theme for government and politicians

How Content Holds Significant Role in Web Design

There are countless websites in the world. But all are not successful. The main story of success is to follow some guideline for a website which not only acceptable among the audience but need some creativity. Sometime A beautifully designed website can be top of the page and also some content heavy with adaptive design… Continue reading How Content Holds Significant Role in Web Design

Design a Custom, Print Ready Pocket Folder in Adobe InDesign

A pocket folder is a very powerful business device when created the right way. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up a dieline, create a multi-page spread with bleed to accommodate your dieline, and apply a full design to the exterior and interior of the pocket folder in Adobe InDesign. This pocket folder… Continue reading Design a Custom, Print Ready Pocket Folder in Adobe InDesign

10 Tips for Designing Logos That Don’t Suck

So you’re designing a logo. It sounds like an easy enough task, right? Draw a circle, type in the company name and you’re done (I’ve literally heard a designer suggest that very process). Unfortunately, if you’re really worth the money the client is paying you, there’s a lot more to it than that. There are… Continue reading 10 Tips for Designing Logos That Don’t Suck

20 Free and Premium Responsive WordPress Theme

Everyone wants to have a website. They must not be a coder or designer. If you want a responsive wordpress theme for your website here is a beautiful collection of some free wordpress theme and some magnificent premium theme. These themes are easy to customize. Here you go 20 Free and Premium Responsive WordPress Theme.… Continue reading 20 Free and Premium Responsive WordPress Theme

All You Need to Know about Parallax Scrolling

Our generation has witnessed the evolution of website design in a major way. If you have been the child of the 1990s, you have experienced websites which were mostly text based. Based on the path of the table based sites and online page builders, flash designing, PHP and CSS, Java Scripts and Semantics, Web 2.0… Continue reading All You Need to Know about Parallax Scrolling

55 Fresh Examples Of Creative Single Page Website Designs

Displaying your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. You possibly cannot imagine what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. The best single pages are those that help you convey your message into few… Continue reading 55 Fresh Examples Of Creative Single Page Website Designs

Free Flat Responsive Web Mockups PSD

Today’s freebie is a Free Flat Responsive Web Mockups PSD, we have created 4 Flat Devices including Macbook, iMac, iPhone and iPad. This is a smart way of presenting your responsive web projects to your clients. This Responsive Web Mockup features a simple and effective Flat Design, which is ideal for presenting a clean mockup.  If… Continue reading Free Flat Responsive Web Mockups PSD

Semantic: Sharing UI Elements Between Developers

Semantic UI is a set of specifications for sharing UI elements between developers. Semantic is also a UI library to make front end development simpler and easier to learn. The Semantic library describes many UI elements. In most instances it might be best to build a custom build with only the elements you need. UI… Continue reading Semantic: Sharing UI Elements Between Developers