How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator

In today’s Illustrator tutorial we’re going to create a comic book inspired text effect your favourite superhero would be proud of. Learn how to create a basic 3D effect using the Blend tool and produce cool halftone patterns to give the design that retro screen printed appearance. These two techniques alone are crucial additions to… Continue reading How To Create a Comic Style Text Effect in Illustrator

Animating Personal Skill Bars With CSS3 Keyframes

This design technique is commonly found on personal portfolios or design studio websites. Skill bars represent a level of knowledge related to certain tasks – web design, illustration, branding, character design, you name it! Adding some fancy animations to these skill bars will provide a quicker connection to the viewer.  In this tutorial I want… Continue reading Animating Personal Skill Bars With CSS3 Keyframes

Adding Localization to Tumblr Themes

In this episode of Tumblr Theming 101 we’ll complete the CSS for our video post type, which will involve using some principles from Fitvids.js. We’ll also look at adding localized theme strings, for multilingual support.   Localization (Amongst Other Things)  Alternatively, Download the video, or subscribe to Webdesigntuts+ screencasts via YouTube Useful Links Fitvids.js Fitvids.js… Continue reading Adding Localization to Tumblr Themes

15 Free CSS JQuery Tabs Plugin And Tutorials

CSS jQuery tabs plugin and tutorials helps you to create tabbed navigation and improve usability and browsing experience. Jquery tabs are easy to use. CSS jQuery tabs plugin make helps you to create simply tabbed interface by using simple coding techniques in HTML and CSS using the specific functionality of jQuery, while in tutorials we… Continue reading 15 Free CSS JQuery Tabs Plugin And Tutorials

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to split your HTML file into a set of template files. You now have the beginnings of a theme,… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3

How to Make Basic Tonal Adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw

Adobe Camera Raw’s Tonal Adjustments are are probably the most important and most widely-used features in ACR. These basic tonal adjustment include Exposure, Shadows, Highlights, Blacks, and Whites. In this tutorial, we will take a close look at the Histogram and all the things you need to know about the tonal values in Camera Raw.… Continue reading How to Make Basic Tonal Adjustments in Adobe Camera Raw

Summernote – A Super Simple WYSIWYG Editor on Twitter Bootstrap

Twitter Bootstrap has been a great front-end tools for most web developers. Especially for backend development, it saves us plenty of times and efforts. Backend usually doesn’t need fancy design, hence, Bootstrap will be really handy to make the layout rapidly and reuse UI component easily. Previously, we introduced a WYSIWYG Rich text editor for… Continue reading Summernote – A Super Simple WYSIWYG Editor on Twitter Bootstrap

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Creating Template Files – Part 2

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first part of this series, I showed you how to prepare your HTML and CSS files for WordPress, ensuring the structure would work, the code was valid and that the correct classes were being used. In this tutorial… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Creating Template Files – Part 2

8 habits of successful designers that I know

This is by no means a scientific list from formal studies. What I have written here is my impression from the list of designers whom I personally known. I observed their habits and what make them more successful in their career or business relative to others.  Again, this is not meant to be a comprehensive… Continue reading 8 habits of successful designers that I know

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Preparing the Markup – Part 1

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4   Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Last year I did a small (and admittedly very un-scientific) survey among other WordPress developers. What I wanted to know was this: When they built their first WordPress theme, how did… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Preparing the Markup – Part 1

45+ New Year Holidays Wallpapers

New Year – MORE INFO Happy New Year – MORE INFO New Year – MORE INFO 2014 – MORE INFO WELCOME 2014 – MORE INFO New Year – MORE INFO New Year 2014  – MORE INFO 2014 Wallpaper – MORE INFO NEW YEAR 2014 WALLPAPER 3D – MORE INFO New Year 2014 – MORE INFO… Continue reading 45+ New Year Holidays Wallpapers

25 Amazing Icons In PSD Format

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Icons are used in all softwares, websites and user interfaces and they work better in some places instead of words. They look very attractive and give the overall layout a touch of finesse. Their colors and illustrations are very appealing to the users and… Continue reading 25 Amazing Icons In PSD Format

25 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials For Graphic Designers

Adobe Photoshop is an essential toolkit and most popular graphic editing program to all designers and designers love all of those Photoshop tuts that can help them to learn more and more and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. Here you have “25 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials For Graphic Designers” to… Continue reading 25 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials For Graphic Designers

20 Creative Portfolio WordPress Themes

WordPress is best and easier platform to create a website which is easy to edit and navigate. It is the tool that set up your identity in the professional world. Let’s go to the real and quick world when i’m talking about wordpress themes style. Every new or old photographer, artist, designer, theme layout is… Continue reading 20 Creative Portfolio WordPress Themes

10 Ways to Be a Student of Life

Learning shouldn’t stop once you graduate from school. Graduating from college doesn’t mean you can no longer be a student. Life offers more lessons than school ever could. As an individual, you must constantly seek for more ways to grow. To be stagnant should never be an option for someone who has so much potential.… Continue reading 10 Ways to Be a Student of Life

Useful Free Vector Files for Designers

Designers have to use art for all kinds of purposes; to beautify their work above all. Designing their own art, from scratch, is time consuming and requires much thought. But they don’t always have time to think up and design their own art; especially when they have to meet certain deadline which could be very… Continue reading Useful Free Vector Files for Designers

Web Design Trends That Will Disappear in 2014

If you’re looking forward to changes that come with starting a new year, you may also be excited to learn what sorts of trends are emerging in the web design world. What most people aren’t talking about, but should be, are the types of design trends that are on their way out, which ones should… Continue reading Web Design Trends That Will Disappear in 2014

Flat Illustration in Web Design

At the moment it does seem that every newly launched site or app has adopted the flat design trend. What started just over a year ago as merely a unique design concept, has now exploded into a phenomenon that has literally changed the face of UI design. Perhaps forever. Some web designers have even taken… Continue reading Flat Illustration in Web Design

Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create an conceptual surreal photo-manipulation. We are going to learn the process of creating depth of field using a few advance tools. We are going to learn how to blend images so seamlessly that it would look like a single image using the Brush tool, the Eraser… Continue reading Create “Dark Scientist” Conceptual Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

Last year I posted a roundup of the best Photoshop alternatives aimed at casual designers or hobbyists who wants to fulfill their creative passion, but don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive industry standard software. I’m a big Illustrator fan myself and I post loads of Illustrator tutorials here on my blog, but… Continue reading 7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer

10 Fresh JavaScript Libraries for Web Developers

JavaScript library is pre-written JavaScript code snippets for specific functionality to ease web developer work. These JavaScript libraries are the best resource for the web developers. JavaScript libraries are developed by professional developers to help out novice web developers. You will get benefited with these JavaScript libraries for AJAX development and JavaScript Application development. There… Continue reading 10 Fresh JavaScript Libraries for Web Developers

15 Free And Awesome Responsive WordPress Themes

In this round up, we are showcasing some fresh and awesome free responsive WordPress themes. WordPress is very well-accepted and well-known blogging platform that’s why millions of people are using it. With these WordPress themes, you will be provided with wonderful features which are very useful for your work. Furthermore, all these WordPress themes are… Continue reading 15 Free And Awesome Responsive WordPress Themes

7 Best Practices of Responsive Web Design

Considering the rate at which the mobile web is growing, it’s becoming crucial that your website be ready to accept visitors who are coming in from a widely assorted array of different devices and screen sizes. This is where responsive design can come into the picture and save your day nicely. However, with responsive design,… Continue reading 7 Best Practices of Responsive Web Design