Creating a Movie Magazine Cover Using InDesign

As a taster for our Workshop, An Introduction to Adobe InDesign, that begins on Thursday, Martin shows you how he created an awesome movie magazine cover – in less than 4 minutes! Watch closely as Martin Perhiniak, Adobe Design Master and Instructor, speeds through the process of creating an attention-grabbing movie magazine cover using InDesign.… Continue reading Creating a Movie Magazine Cover Using InDesign

8 jQuery Plugins for Layout and UI Enhancements

On occasion, you might have to work on a project that has unique layout or UI requirements – things that can’t be achieved with CSS alone. With projects like these, jQuery can be very useful. So for this post, we’ve rounded up some jQuery plugins that can help you accomplish some amazing things when it… Continue reading 8 jQuery Plugins for Layout and UI Enhancements

35+ Stunning WordPress Full Width Slider Themes

With WordPress full width slider themes, it is possible to build business websites that impress visitors and do an optimal presentation of important content. One of the recent trends in business website design is to add a cool full width slider just below the navigation. The effect is available and easy to set up if… Continue reading 35+ Stunning WordPress Full Width Slider Themes

School Isn’t For Everyone — And That’s OK

I’m going to start this out with a confession, and one that I’m not very proud of. I spent a lot of time in college, but I do not have a college degree. Has it affected me and what I do? Definitely. But not for the reasons you think. Everyone has a different perspective on… Continue reading School Isn’t For Everyone — And That’s OK

A Great UI is Invisible

A really well designed user interface is one that goes unnoticed by the user, whereas a poorly designed user interface forces the user to pay attention to it instead of the content. Users come to websites in order to achieve a goal: buy a new book, learn about jQuery, share an article with friends, find… Continue reading A Great UI is Invisible

20 Beautiful Flyer Designs For Inspiration

For a marketing Ad element you have to search some attractive Flyers, Posters etc. A good designer can create an attractive Flyer for a marketing Ad campaign. You not only have to collect a good Flyer design but also print it from an established flyer printing shop. Today we show you some Attractive Flyer Design… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Flyer Designs For Inspiration

Thumbnail Grid with Expanding Preview

If you have searched images on Google recently, you might have noticed the interesting expanding preview for a larger image when you click on a thumbnail. It’s a really nice effect and it is very practical, making a search much easier. Today we want to show you how to create a similar effect on a… Continue reading Thumbnail Grid with Expanding Preview

10 Useful jQuery Plugins For 360 Degree Image Rotation

With the advent of jQuery the web/graphic designing industry was totally revolutionized. JQuery has made the task of designing extremely easy and handy, and allows you to do it quickly by using jQuery plugins. A huge amount of jQuery plugins are available out there, in various categories that allow you to achieve various different types… Continue reading 10 Useful jQuery Plugins For 360 Degree Image Rotation

How to Create a Book Cover and Mock Up in Adobe InDesign

Have you ever wondered how to design a book cover from scratch? From this tutorial you can learn everything you need to know. Martin Perhiniak, Certified Adobe Design Master Instructor will share his techniques with you and walk you through the whole design process of a book cover initial setup in Adobe InDesign. You can… Continue reading How to Create a Book Cover and Mock Up in Adobe InDesign

Tricks of Web Design that Would Make You Site Go Viral

The importance of web design is known to almost all entrepreneurs who are looking forward to venture in this swarming market. Be it in any field, the level of competition is skyrocketing thick and fast. In order to keep up with this volatility, entrepreneurs are in a constant endeavor to improve their online presence.Web design… Continue reading Tricks of Web Design that Would Make You Site Go Viral

How to Create a Photo-Realistic Metal Apple in Photoshop

Download the PSD Metallic Apple.zip | 44.99 MB Download from Website How to Create a Photo-Realistic Metal Apple in Photoshop Tutorial Resources Metallic Ball Apples City Worm Sun Brushes Step 1 Open file “Metal Ball”. Select the Elliptical Marquee Tool and make a selection of the ball. Hold shift while dragging to keep the selection… Continue reading How to Create a Photo-Realistic Metal Apple in Photoshop

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

In the following Quick Tip tutorial you will learn how to use Ellipse Tool, Brush Tool, and Gradients in Adobe Photoshop CS6 to create Nexus 7 abstract background. You can use these techniques and elements to create your own abstract background for tablet or smartphone! Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview… Continue reading How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

45+ Beautiful Easter Wallpaper Designs

A beautiful Easter wallpaper might be all that you need to complete the celebration of the most important yearly religious feast in Christian liturgical year. According to the Scripture, the resurrection of Jesus Christ happened three days after He was crucified. In some Christian faiths, the resurrection is celebrated on Easter Sunday or Easter Day,… Continue reading 45+ Beautiful Easter Wallpaper Designs

Creating a Vector Anime Character in Adobe Photoshop – Part 1: Sketch and Line Art

This tutorial, and its second counterpart, will walk you through the process of creating a simple anime character bust from start to finish. Here we focus on the drawing side of it and creating a clean sketch, which we then render with vector to create a line art. You will need a graphics tablet or… Continue reading Creating a Vector Anime Character in Adobe Photoshop – Part 1: Sketch and Line Art

Why Ours is the best WordPress Theme Builder

Since the beginning of last year, the WordPress Theme Generator has been moving around, and you may have heard something about it; this is one of our best projects, and it seems that a lot of people is trying it out now and most of them are having excellent results and satisfaction with the tool.… Continue reading Why Ours is the best WordPress Theme Builder

13 Very Useful jQuery Modal Plugins

In today’s collection, we are presenting for you 13 jQuery Modal plugins. Many websites are using jQuery currently and it is important that one should know what jQuery plugins are available there in order to stay up to date with the latest web design trends. With the help of jQuery plugins, one can keep his… Continue reading 13 Very Useful jQuery Modal Plugins

Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: Practical Tips for Securing Your Site

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress In this series, we’re taking a look at how to secure our WordPress projects from XSS – or cross-site scripting. In the first article in the series, we defined what cross-site scripting actually is, understanding how it works, and why it’s… Continue reading Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: Practical Tips for Securing Your Site

How to Create This Mystical Scene and Add Makeup to a Girl in Photoshop

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Model – Mariaamanda Stones – Compot-stock Mountains – Resurgere Mountains2 – Kuoma-stock Forest – Riktorsashen Sky – Frozenstarro Butterfly – Madetounique Hair – Trisste-brushes Step 1 – Open a New File Go to File – New (Ctrl+N). Then change the resolution of the new file to Width 2500 pixels… Continue reading How to Create This Mystical Scene and Add Makeup to a Girl in Photoshop

E-commerce Website Navigation: 14 Essential Tips

Navigation on site plays a significant function as it assists and shows path to Web surfer to continue surfing for desired products or services on a website rather than leaving the site. It is very frustrating, if users fail to locate what they are searching for, then they are likely to bounce off the website.… Continue reading E-commerce Website Navigation: 14 Essential Tips

35 Beautiful Examples of Text-Based type Logos

Typography is an art of playing with alphabets in a beautiful way. There are several typographers out there who create interesting typographic pieces of art for you in the form of posters and logos. Doing typography in logos or making typographic logos isnot an easy task, which infact require special designing skills and lots of… Continue reading 35 Beautiful Examples of Text-Based type Logos

Studying User Experience Trends in Website Layouts

As a web designer you always want to stay on top of the latest ideologies. User experience design is the process of building around what the user needs to do. You have to consider specific reasons for why users are coming to your website in the first place. And the goal is to build a… Continue reading Studying User Experience Trends in Website Layouts

Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration

Designing a map does not seem like something very original, but why should maps have to be boring? Whether it’s a town map, a real or imaginary country map, whether it is functional, or simply decorative, there is plenty of room for fun and creativity in this field. Fortunately some great designers out there have… Continue reading Beautiful Map Illustration Design Inspiration

Designer Spotlight: John Thai

Every week we are discovering new, awesome, design stars and showcasing them right here. The spotlight may hit on a logo designer, UI designer, videographers, web or graphic designer—we’re bringing you a new talent. These bad ass designers bring their “A” game time and time again and we hope that you will find this as… Continue reading Designer Spotlight: John Thai

Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: What Is XSS?

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress One of the most exciting aspects of modern web development is the potential that comes with building applications specifically for web browsers (or to run “in the cloud.”) Originally, Java was meant to be the “write-once, run-anywhere” solution, but it appears… Continue reading Cross-Site Scripting in WordPress: What Is XSS?