15 Social Networks and Websites Where Any Designer Should Be Present

For the most of us, social media websites is equivalent to Facebook, chat with friends or liking and sharing images and statuses. In spite of that, some people said that for them social media brought clients and implicitly money. Unfortunately, they are a small minority and most of us make money when don’t use social… Continue reading 15 Social Networks and Websites Where Any Designer Should Be Present

A Round-Up Of 45 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials And Techniques

Graphic designers and web designers are ready all the time to welcome Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. There are so many reasons behind this like Adobe Photoshop can easily use, you can easily learn from it, and most important is that Adobe Photoshop comes with so many varieties of highly developed tools which give outstanding and inspiring… Continue reading A Round-Up Of 45 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials And Techniques

Use of Flat Design in Mobile App Interfaces, Best Examples

Emphasis on typography, roomy widgets, muted color palette, one-colored or blurred background, grid or horizontal stripe layout, inornate graphics, 2d illustrations – all these can be easily attributed to flat style, that recently got its second rebirth. Microsoft’s “Metro” aesthetic has captured the minds of a great deal of designers, pushing them on eschewing shadows,… Continue reading Use of Flat Design in Mobile App Interfaces, Best Examples

HDR Photography: 25 Tutorials + 50 Awesome Examples

Taking great shots can sometimes become a difficult and daunting task, high dynamic range also know as HDR can make your photographs stand out and come to life. HDR technique is achieved by capturing a series of photographs at different exposures and then merging then together using a software of your choice. When applied with… Continue reading HDR Photography: 25 Tutorials + 50 Awesome Examples

How To Compare Strings In PHP

During any sort of programming you will always get situations where you need to compare values with each other, if the values are boolean or integers then the comparison is simple. But if you want to compare strings or parts of strings then there can be more to the comparison such as case of the string you are comparing.

Useful Tips That You Should Consider When Designing A Website

Websites have flooded the way in which we perform in our day to day lives; they have changed the very world we live in and taken the shopping industry by storm. It is estimated that a visitor on a website stays for around 8 seconds before clicking the “Back” button and leaving, it is through… Continue reading Useful Tips That You Should Consider When Designing A Website

Email Templates For Web Designers And Developers (PDF, ODT, TXT)

You know how it goes: you are facing a difficult situation with a client, and you aren’t quite sure how to respond to it to navigate the conversation into a meaningful direction. This is where email templates can come in handy. This article features email templates for communicating with clients, superiors, teammates and the like.… Continue reading Email Templates For Web Designers And Developers (PDF, ODT, TXT)

How to Make a Steampunk Illustration

Steampunk is popular style of artwork. Artists create modern objects from materials found during an earlier time. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial by Benjamin Mounsey, we will show you how to create a steampunk illustration of farm equipment assembled from an earlier post-apocalyptic period of war. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members… Continue reading How to Make a Steampunk Illustration

55+ Twitter Bootstrap Templates – Want a Future Proof Website?

Bootstrap templates are responsive website themes build upon the highly popular framework called Twitter Bootstrap. These templates have won a lot of popularity and for a good reason. Aside from providing unique add-on features, these templates retain the native functionality of Bootstrap.

Foundation for Beginners: Custom Forms and Switches

Following on from our look at buttons in Zurb’s Foundation, let’s now take a look at custom forms and switches. During this tutorial we’re going to work on an exercise; a contact form which you can add to your projects or just play around with. Once we’ve built that, we’ll move onto other form elements.

Top 20 CMS Alternatives to WordPress

WordPress is a well-known platform among thousand users all over the world where people talk about their experiences and views through blogging activity. It has many features including themes, plug-ins, widgets, mobiles and multi-user and multi-blogging.   WordPress has a lot of advantages. It offers a variety of blogs and different kinds of website designs… Continue reading Top 20 CMS Alternatives to WordPress

Adobe Illustrator for beginners: 10 top tips

Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing tool, meaning you can create artwork that can be scaled infinitely without any loss of quality. It’s a fantastic tool for logo design, creating complex vector artwork and playing with illustrated typography design. But coming from Photoshop you may not be savvy with Illustrator and its unique ways: so we’re here to help.

From using Bézier points and curves to strokes and fills and adding a more natural look to your vector artwork, read on for some Illustrator secrets for those new to the application.

Our Complete Walkthrough of What’s New in Photoshop CC

The new version of Photoshop is finally here! Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) is now available for download for Creative Cloud Subscribers. The new version includes several new features including Camera Shake Reduction, Camera RAW improvements, Image Upsampling, Properties Panel Improvements, Behance Integration, Sync Settings, and many more useful features. In this article, Martin Perhiniak… Continue reading Our Complete Walkthrough of What’s New in Photoshop CC

25 Free Tools for Creating Responsive Website Layouts

Free open source tools and resources have been getting online over these past few years. Many of these tools are geared directly towards responsive web design, handling CSS and other typical features. The performance of these tools can vary greatly which is why so many designers are hesitant to jump right into a new library.… Continue reading 25 Free Tools for Creating Responsive Website Layouts

25 Useful Free Photoshop Custom Shape Sets

Photoshop comes with many tools and exploring them in the right way can significantly help you achieve better results. With the help of Photoshop custom shapes, one can easily design something in Photoshop, and they are pretty handy as well. Using Photoshop custom shapes can save your time to a great extent when you are… Continue reading 25 Useful Free Photoshop Custom Shape Sets