Designing an Advertisement

Working non-destructively doesn’t restrict your workflow. In fact, working non-destructively can help you to be more creative. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use non-destructive photo editing techniques to create a basic advertisement. In the process, we will also explain a bit about color profiles. Let’s get started!   Final Product What… Continue reading Designing an Advertisement

The 20 Best OS X Apps for Designers & Web Developers

Building websites on Mac OS X provides a completely different landscape in comparison to Windows or Linux. The applications are designed much differently and built from a different standard of programmers. Not to mention the enormous Mac App Store which offers immediate downloads for software you can purchase right away. In this collection I am… Continue reading The 20 Best OS X Apps for Designers & Web Developers

25 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

Free PSD templates are very helpful for designers, developers, bloggers and anyone who wants to make a website. Normally web designers create Photoshop PSD website templates as the first step before start coding HTML and CSS to create a web page. Here we have gathered 25 hand picked premium quality website PSD templates for free… Continue reading 25 Free Professional PSD Web Templates

How to Create a Surreal Gothic Artwork in Photoshop

Resources Gothic Lolita – Kechake-stock Floor – SkyesStock Dress form – JinxMim Clocks – JinxMim | Alternative White Rabbit – Tilt-Stock Stormy Sky – EvanescentStock | Alternative Wall Crest – AshenSorrow Texture – SXC.hu Step 1 Create a new file, 2000x2000px 300dpi. Step 2 Now take the floor stock and paste it on the canvas.… Continue reading How to Create a Surreal Gothic Artwork in Photoshop

40 Best Twitter Plugins For WordPress Users

Twitter is one of the most powerful social media platforms that millions of users are using on a daily basis. With an extensive growth of social media networks, it has become one of the crucial steps in the marketing strategy of any business whether it is online or offline. By integrating Twitter into other marketing… Continue reading 40 Best Twitter Plugins For WordPress Users

Create a Quick, Sticky Menu

  During this quick tutorial we’re going to implement a sticky menu with CSS, toggling its visibility with jQuery. It’s the perfect way to give visitors social links, additional places within a network of sites, or even personalize settings. Step 1: Setting up the Page Let’s start out by making a basic HTML page. We’ll… Continue reading Create a Quick, Sticky Menu

12 Useful HTML5 Sliders to Save your Time

Nowadays, websites have become more fancy and dynamic and boast a lot of animation and moving objects – thanks to the advancements in the designing industry. A few years back websites had simple and boring web pages with content on them static and unattractive. This thing has changed now due to the excessive use of… Continue reading 12 Useful HTML5 Sliders to Save your Time

Top 10 Free Note-Taking Apps For Smartphones

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to write down a thought or an idea just to find that you do not have a pen and paper with you? While it isn’t convenient to bring a pen and paper out, a majority of us now own a smartphone, so there lies… Continue reading Top 10 Free Note-Taking Apps For Smartphones

Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser

As a web designer at Four Kitchens, part of my job is leading the production team’s visual design objectives. A key part of this process is ensuring the client’s satisfaction with the overall look and feel of the site. Since most of my projects utilize an agile development process, I am no stranger to shifting… Continue reading Building a Better User Experience by Designing in the Browser

How to Improvise Cheerful Forest Character Design in Adobe Illustrator

A lot of the pieces created in Adobe Illustrator are planned out well in advance. Sketches are imported, previous work traced, and you might build images with simple shape elements for graphic work. This tutorial will take you through improvising a character in the program from start to finish.   1. Build Up Your Characters… Continue reading How to Improvise Cheerful Forest Character Design in Adobe Illustrator

Creative Block: Environmental and Emotional

In the previous article we discussed the meaning of creative block. We introduced the observational block and possible solutions for overcoming it. In this article, we’ll introduce two more types of creative block; the environmental block and the emotional block. Understanding how these occur in reality is an important step in beating them. Let’s quickly… Continue reading Creative Block: Environmental and Emotional

Ultimate Collection of Best Premium WordPress Theme Store

WordPress become a reliable option as a CMS for corporate websites. WordPress not only for bloggers it’s doing most valuable growth in business websites. Today we collect some fabulous resources for Best Premium WordPress Theme Store. App themes App themes is a powerful & robust customer feedback theme for WordPress. All themes are easy to… Continue reading Ultimate Collection of Best Premium WordPress Theme Store

Simple YouTube Menu Effect

Today we’ll show you how to recreate the little menu effect that you can see in the left side-menu on YouTube when watching a video (where it says “Guide”). The menu is made of a little menu icon, a label and a list of menu items that appears when the label or menu icon is… Continue reading Simple YouTube Menu Effect

28 Fresh Free Fonts

In this post we have put together some high quality free fonts. If you like these fonts you might also want to check out our previous posts below. 22 Fresh And Free Fonts For Your Design 30 Free And High Quality Fonts Iron Typeface Fairview Cylburn Mission Gothic Imperio Free Font Distractor free typeface Hiruko Pro… Continue reading 28 Fresh Free Fonts

40+ Cool Minimalistic Photoshop Device PSDs

Doing a great and realistic presentation is extremely important if you are selling creative products and services such as apps and website design, themes for WordPress. One of the popular ways to serve the goodies is to make some great quality in action screenshots of the design and functionality. This helps potential customers get an… Continue reading 40+ Cool Minimalistic Photoshop Device PSDs

Promised-Based Validation

The concept of “Promises” has changed the way we write asynchronous JavaScript. Over the past year, many frameworks have incorporated some form of the Promise pattern to make asynchronous code easier to write, read and maintain. For example, jQuery added $ .Deferred(), and NodeJS has the Q and jspromise modules that work on both client… Continue reading Promised-Based Validation