Steps Towards a Successful Business Website

A business website is the first introduction of a corporation or a company to its customers. It is a medium, through which a business owner or a corporation can spell out its mission, vision, values and above all its services to its potential customers. What constituents are required to makes a good business website design?… Continue reading Steps Towards a Successful Business Website

Artistic Photo Manipulation with Cracked Face Effect in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this Artistic Photo Manipulation with Cracked Face Effect in Photoshop. We will practice a number of layer masking techniques and image adjustment tricks along the way, as well as applying some interesting filter effect to our image. This is an intermediate level tutorial so… Continue reading Artistic Photo Manipulation with Cracked Face Effect in Photoshop

Setting up Foundation With Sass and Compass

Sass is a great way to speed up front-end development in general, I use it in every one of my projects. Sass (as with all other preprocessors) allows for nested styles, functions and prewritten code in what are called mixins. Foundation has a few different versions, currently we’ve covered the most common HTML/CSS variants, but… Continue reading Setting up Foundation With Sass and Compass

20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials

These 20 inspiring Photoshop poster tutorials in this post will teach you the basics of Photoshop, and also some advanced manipulations techniques for creating amazing designs. These tutorial are ideal for print designers or any other designers who want to improve their Photoshop skills. Which one is your favorite? Let us know in the comments… Continue reading 20 Photoshop Poster Tutorials

Google Web Designer ? Cool HTML5 and CSS3 Animation Made Easy

The web giant has released a tool called Google Web Designer. I downloaded it but haven’t got a time to play with it yet. After I run the app, first thing came into my mind- it looks like Adobe Flash. Second thing came into my mind – I think Google is trying to kill Flash… Continue reading Google Web Designer ? Cool HTML5 and CSS3 Animation Made Easy

Design Inspiration: A Look Into iOS7 Icon Designs

Love it or hate it, the initial iOS7 release is out and causing quite the stir. Regardless of opinions relating to the design, functionality and direction of iOS7 there is some rather eye catching iOS7 icon design work going on behind the scenes. In this little inspiration roundup I wanted to showcase some of the… Continue reading Design Inspiration: A Look Into iOS7 Icon Designs

Animated Border Menus

View demo Download source The other day I saw a really nice concept of a menu on the UI8 site. CreativeDash implemented that gorgeous concept and I instantly had some ideas for more effects involving border transitions but also with the desktop in mind. So today I want to show you how to create something… Continue reading Animated Border Menus

The Rising Trend of Bright Flat Colors in Web Design

p>We’ve seen the use of solid colours increase through the adoption of the flat design trend, but these hues are becoming increasingly vibrant following the release of iOS7 and the colourful iPhone 5C. Dazzling RGB colours are becoming more popular in the latest website designs, with saturation levels at an all time high. This post… Continue reading The Rising Trend of Bright Flat Colors in Web Design

Create a “Lomographic” Photography Effect in Photoshop

The “Lomography” photo effect is a popular contrarian photographic style characterized by oversaturated colors, distortions, unexpected prismatic effects, and several other qualities that are usually avoided or corrected by traditional photographers. Those who enjoy and seek these unusual effects appreciate lomography’s stylized surrealism. The effect is inspired by photographs taken from an inexpensive Russian camera… Continue reading Create a “Lomographic” Photography Effect in Photoshop

30 High Quality Free PSD Files for Designers

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers When we talk about PSD, the idea is of a graphic file is, as if, a best friend. Reliable, flexible, time saver and life saver and comes in multi-layered features. Considered in graphical meaning, the real value of such interactive file is enormous. Thus,… Continue reading 30 High Quality Free PSD Files for Designers

24 Best WordPress Social Media Plugins You Most Likely Haven’t Seen

So whether you like what about for blog owners?Well,of course we are in social media and it has become a part of our daily life too.We share and build relationships with our members and we must learn how to use social media effectively.So the first step is to integrate social media into our blogs. Today… Continue reading 24 Best WordPress Social Media Plugins You Most Likely Haven’t Seen

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)