8 Scientifically Proven Ways to Increase Your Happiness

We can take charge of our happiness by choosing to engage in activities like physical exercise and performing acts of kindness to help us find happiness. The good news is that there are also several other scientifically-proven activities which when done habitually, can help us in our quest for happiness. After looking through many of… Continue reading 8 Scientifically Proven Ways to Increase Your Happiness

15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

Collages done in Photoshop are truly inspiring! A few days ago, while browsing the web, I discovered some really amazing collage Photoshop tutorials and decided to share them with you. These collages are incredible and very eye-catching! You’ll learn lots of new tricks from these tutorials and hopefully, you’ll improve your Photoshop skills. Here they… Continue reading 15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes

Installing WordPress involves a series of steps. Installing WordPress successfully involves multiple steps and the first step in the series could be installing the WordPress on any local computer. Below are listed the step wise basics of WordPress installation which will make the process easier and fruitful for you. Installing WordPress on your Local Computer… Continue reading A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes

20 Of The Best Flat Design Templates

Site design is crucial because it can either appeal to the public, or fail to draw and secure their attention. So, which approach is more likely to get great results? Over the last months, flat design has been gaining more and more ground. It wasn’t just the leading trend of 2013, but continues to rule… Continue reading 20 Of The Best Flat Design Templates

Coming and Going Web Design Trends for 2014

Over the last couple of years we saw such a change in web design that it is unbelievable to anticipate what could possibly the next hot things. However, I have a few hunches of my own as to what trends will flourish this year and which ones will fade off. Let’s see if you would… Continue reading Coming and Going Web Design Trends for 2014

24 Award Winning Portfolio Designs That Follow Current Trends

The current trends that have really changed the whole concept of website design during the last few years seem to be set to stay at least for the coming year. We have seen the rise of trends such as vertical scrolling, flat design, retro or minimal color schemes, slideshows including animation or video and, of… Continue reading 24 Award Winning Portfolio Designs That Follow Current Trends

How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to play around with various image adjustments to recreate the emotive style of high fashion black and white photography. Typically these photographs feature many of the characteristics of old school 35mm film, such as heavy film grain and low contrast. Follow this step by step guide to quickly transform… Continue reading How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect

Engage Your Community Using Web Design

As we enter further into 2014 a few things are becoming more apparent than ever before. The world of marketing is moving so much faster and has become viral on digital and interactive levels. The social media boom and the internet has truly changed the face of the world, so much so that if any… Continue reading Engage Your Community Using Web Design

Getting Started With Android Studio

Android Studio has come a long way since its first stable build was released in 2014. It is completely free to use and has long been the official and recommended tool to develop apps for Android devices. Android Studio is a huge and complicated application which can be intimidating for beginners. I have already written… Continue reading Getting Started With Android Studio

20 Clean & Modern Free Web Layout PSDs

Are you looking for some top-notch free web layout PSDs? Then you have come to the right place. What we have for you is 20 clean PSD templates that resonate with professionalism and have all been designed with the latest web trends. They are all free (a couple requiring a tweet), all fully-layered, and all… Continue reading 20 Clean & Modern Free Web Layout PSDs

New Generation of Presentation Tools

Open Source, Embeddable, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 These tools clearly show the power of Open Source and the new freemium SaaS business model. All you need is a browser. Any browser, any operating system will do. No vendor lock, as the enterprise guy would say. You can download your results as PDF, but the main use… Continue reading New Generation of Presentation Tools

35 Best HTML5 Development Tools To Save Your Time

Are you running out of time? Want to save your time without compromising on the quality of your work? Here is the solution for you. Have a look at this collection of 35 best and most useful HTML5 development tools that not only save your time but also improve your productivity as well. The introduction… Continue reading 35 Best HTML5 Development Tools To Save Your Time

Minimal is the New Black: 20 Fresh Free WordPress Themes from January 2014

Continuing with our monthly series, today we bring you a new edition of the most recent and beautiful themes available. All our new entries sport a minimal style, which is undoubtedly growing in popularity. In order to improve their websites’ speed, to ensure that visitors focus on content and – not least – granting a… Continue reading Minimal is the New Black: 20 Fresh Free WordPress Themes from January 2014

80 Free Vector Graphics Every Designer Should Have

Sometimes designing your own graphics from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. In this post the team at Designrfix have hand picked an amazing collection of well designed free vector graphics that we do think are worth mentioning…for example; Banners, Business Cards, Icon Packs… Continue reading 80 Free Vector Graphics Every Designer Should Have

The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color

In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at the Color Balance and Selective Color adjustment layers in Photoshop. They work by balancing the percentage of primary and secondary colors in your images and can be used to fine-tune your colors. Although Color Balance and Selective Color are not used as often as… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color

13 New Romantic Free Fonts

Download romantic fonts free for your lovely designs. All sweet and romantic love free fonts for commercial-use, you can use these fonts for love letters, cards, posters, logos, badges, blog websites and etc. In this collection we include a large variety of hearts and great romantic style fonts for design lovers in 2014. Today we gathered a high quality… Continue reading 13 New Romantic Free Fonts

11 showcase sites to get your user interface design inspiration

There are many galleries online that showcase the best in web site designs. As we move towards a more interactive web, we need more than just beautiful aesthetics. Designers and developers need to look for user interfaces, specifically different types of user interactions designs, to inspire them on how to design websites that users can… Continue reading 11 showcase sites to get your user interface design inspiration

The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White

It is quite unusual to find website home pages that feature absolutely no other color than black and white – there is usually a call-to-action button, the company logo or social media buttons that have some color. Even in printed media simply black and white is unusual these days. Today we have scoured the internet… Continue reading The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White

Free Vector Pack: Polygonal Hearts

Still feeling unsure about your sweet designs for Valentine’s Day? Worry no more, for we here in YTD have partnered again with our friends from Freepik to give you another awesome set of vector graphics for your last minute design needs this love month!Today’s featured pack consists of 10 polygonal hearts in vector format that… Continue reading Free Vector Pack: Polygonal Hearts

Open source alternatives to illustrator, Balsamiq and other designer/developer tools

Open source is now a well known concept whereby the developer of the code will release it to the public for typically zero cost. This has greatly benefited the community in a couple of ways including giving us free alternatives to expensive software such as illustrator.  There is of course a trade off in using… Continue reading Open source alternatives to illustrator, Balsamiq and other designer/developer tools