45 Creative Buttons And Badges Tutorials

For today’s round up, we have gathered 45 tutorials that will let you learn how to create appealing and fine looking buttons and badges for your website. All these tutorials are different from one another but they all make use of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. With beautiful and appealing web buttons and badges, the overall… Continue reading 45 Creative Buttons And Badges Tutorials

How to Make the Design of Your Website Attractive to Audiences

Web design is all about making your website look beautiful, attractive, and professional. As it is, web design is vital because it is a representation of a brand, product, or service. The right web design is capable of capturing visitors and converting them to customers. Since web design is what any visitor first notices in… Continue reading How to Make the Design of Your Website Attractive to Audiences

Grunge Minimalist Posters Illustrating Famous Movie Quotes

Making posters related to famous movies is somehow popular these days among designers. There are a lot of them doing it and they are each creating the posters in a certain style. For example, Jay Quann created this series of posters which illustrate famous movie quotes and a significant minimalist image which is relevant for… Continue reading Grunge Minimalist Posters Illustrating Famous Movie Quotes

50 Amazing jQuery Plugins That You Should Start Using Right Now

jQuery has a wonderful community of programmers that create incredible things. However, it may become difficult to sift through everything that is released and find the gems that are absolute must-haves. This is why, in this post, you will find a collection of 50 new jQuery plugins and JavaScript libraries that, when applied with good… Continue reading 50 Amazing jQuery Plugins That You Should Start Using Right Now

Looking for Cool Photoshop Brushes?

If you`re a graphic designer or a web designer and you need to use Adobe Photoshop brushes every day, then you`re probably tired of using the same old standard options. You know better than anyone how competition is nowadays and how hard it is to look for ways to make your projects stand out. Plus,… Continue reading Looking for Cool Photoshop Brushes?

Freebie: 5 Skin Retouching Photoshop Actions

Skin Retouching Actions Preview To retouch skin, simply play an action then paint over the areas that you want to retouch. They’re extremely easy to use and a rough paint will work – you don’t need to be too precise. The skin airbrushing action makes skin look smoother without losing skin details. Here’s a video… Continue reading Freebie: 5 Skin Retouching Photoshop Actions

An Awesome Selection Of The Latest Premium Fonts

A lot of people are paying a lot of attention at colors and design techniques when working on a project for print or web, when the most important aspect of a design is typography. Selecting a font is really important because it portrays messages beyond the words that it writes. The typeface is a subliminal… Continue reading An Awesome Selection Of The Latest Premium Fonts

Magically Turn Your Photoshop Layers Into CSS3 With CSS Hat

Today I’m going to show you a Photoshop plugin which aims to greatly improve your workflow. It’s called CSS Hat and it turns your Photoshop layers directly into valid CSS3. Further Information Download: You can grab CSS Hat from its homepage. Compatibility: CSS Hat is compatible with Photoshop CS4 and upwards, on Mac OS X… Continue reading Magically Turn Your Photoshop Layers Into CSS3 With CSS Hat

How to Create an Amazing Space Battle Scene in Photoshop

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Starry sky – nighthawk101stock Planet – dadrian Spaceship – inadesign-stock Asteroid – mototsume Space brushes – redheadstock Nebula – sxc.hu Galaxy – Photoxpress Step 1 Create a new document and fill it with white. I make the width is a bit larger than the height. Make a new layer… Continue reading How to Create an Amazing Space Battle Scene in Photoshop

Film Themed Logo Designs for Inspiration – 62 Logos

Advertisement A lot of the time a logo is the very first point of introduction between a company and a potential client. It’s like an ambassador that communicates what the company is all about. For that reason companies invest a lot of thought and effort into their logo design, thus ensuring that their message is… Continue reading Film Themed Logo Designs for Inspiration – 62 Logos

Quick Tip: Creating a Bazinga! Text Treatment in Adobe Illustrator

With this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a Bazinga text effect made famous by Sheldon from the sitcom The Big Bang Theory in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be using some techniques to add multiple effects to a single shape, also duplicating and copying objects quickly, as well as creating a pattern and even rotating… Continue reading Quick Tip: Creating a Bazinga! Text Treatment in Adobe Illustrator

60 Websites Using Full Screen Photographic Backgrounds

Using a large photograph as a background is becoming more and more popular in website design. The photograph offers more interest and far less work than a design. Many of our collection of websites using full screen photographic backgrounds actually use a slideshow – even more flexibility. We have also included some links to tutorials… Continue reading 60 Websites Using Full Screen Photographic Backgrounds

Mind-Blowing Long Exposure Photos Which Will Definitely Capture Your Attention

Long exposure photography is a technique which involves using a long-duration shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary elements of images while blurring, smearing, or obscuring the moving elements. The paths of moving light sources become clearly visible. Long exposure photos are extremely interesting because they are showing a different world that you can’t see it you your own… Continue reading Mind-Blowing Long Exposure Photos Which Will Definitely Capture Your Attention

How to Create an Iron Cross Self-Mailer Template Using InDesign

Looking for something more exciting than a standard trifold or postcard? One attention-grabbing solution is the iron cross fold. This speciality, or exotic, fold gets its name from the cross shape/plus sign shape it forms when flat and unfolded. It is fairly easy to set up and will add significant flair to your piece. It… Continue reading How to Create an Iron Cross Self-Mailer Template Using InDesign

Collection OF Exquisite Rose Flower Pictures

Roses are undeniably beautiful and are a sign of love and peace. Their fresh fragrance and loveliness make them the most loved flower in the world. This sign of love is a flower that has sparked the imagination and touched the hearts of so many people. Today we are going to share “Collection OF Exquisite… Continue reading Collection OF Exquisite Rose Flower Pictures

Create a Colorful, Lively Retro Text Effect in Photoshop

Plain type is rarely enough to achieve the strength and distinction that you want in your messaging. Most designers tailor their type to match their design and carry strong connotations. Text effects are amazing; you can really play with styles and techniques and convert anything boring into an art piece. So, today I am going… Continue reading Create a Colorful, Lively Retro Text Effect in Photoshop

29 New Black & White Website Designs for 2013

It is difficult to locate websites which are designed following a strict black-and-white theme. Remember that colorful tones and imagery will catch the eye when it contrasts off a colorless canvas. It offers a unique sensation in websites and very few designers venture into this area. For this gallery I have rummaged through the Internet… Continue reading 29 New Black & White Website Designs for 2013

15 Free Minimal And Responsive WordPress Themes

Here, we are presenting 15 free, minimal and responsive WordPress themes for you. WordPress offers the best platform for blogging and sharing content online. With loads of feature rich options and plugins, WordPress is the ideal choice of many bloggers, designers and creative people who want to share their content with the world. WordPress themes… Continue reading 15 Free Minimal And Responsive WordPress Themes

Use Photography to Create a Scenic Matte Painting From a Sketch in Photoshop

Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Cliff-01 Cliff-02 Jungle-01 Jungle-02 Jungle-03 Jungle-04 Jungle-05 Jungle-06 Jungle-07 Lake-01 Man-01 Mountain-01 Mountain-02 Mountain-03 Panorama-01 Ship Tree-01 Tree-02 Tree-03 Water-01 Ground-01 Jungle-08 Mountain-04 Mountain-05 Mountain-06 Tropical-foliage-01 Tropical-foliage-02 Water-02 Moss-01 Ref-sketch 1. Setting the Bases Step 1 Let’s create a new file with following… Continue reading Use Photography to Create a Scenic Matte Painting From a Sketch in Photoshop

CSS Media Query Snippets

With responsive design being big in web design it’s important that you design your website so that it can be used on different devices. There are a number of different media queries that you can use on your design, if you don’t know where to start with media queries here is a good boilerplate to… Continue reading CSS Media Query Snippets

45 Fresh Collection Of Free Icon Sets Available In PSD Format

Here we have come up with a fresh collection of some useful and nice looking icon sets that are available in PSD format so that you can easily edit them according to your own needs. Having a high quality and visually appealing icon sets always come in handy for the designers as they can save… Continue reading 45 Fresh Collection Of Free Icon Sets Available In PSD Format