Top 10 Internet & Tech-Related Infographics from 2012

We saw a lot of advancement over the course of 2012. The year produced a significant number of new open source projects, startup launches, and great ideas among the Internet community. The culture has also lead to a series of great infographics being published over this time. I’d like to share my top 10 favorites… Continue reading Top 10 Internet & Tech-Related Infographics from 2012

Essential design events, vector art and much more!

Essential design events for 2013 Covering graphic design, typography, web design, 3D and more, here’s a list of essential design events around the world over the next 12 months. The pro’s guide to CSS layouts CSS’s next big challenge is to make flexible, dynamic page layouts that work across our ever-broadening range of devices. With… Continue reading Essential design events, vector art and much more!

How to Create Elegant Valentine’s Day Greeting Card with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

In the following Quick Tip tutorial you will learn how to use Custom shapes, Layer styles, and Gradients in Adobe Photoshop CS6 to create elegant Valentine’s Day greeting card with abstract hearts. You can use these techniques and elements to create your own greeting card! Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview… Continue reading How to Create Elegant Valentine’s Day Greeting Card with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Weekend Inspiration: Design for Continuous Experimentation

Take some time out this weekend and listen to Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer at Etsy.com. In this talk he describes the processes undertaken whenever a redesign is carried out – and he knows what he’s taking about, having been at the helm of five redesigns in Etsy’s eight short years.. Watch live streaming video from… Continue reading Weekend Inspiration: Design for Continuous Experimentation

Gallery of Backlit Photography

Creative backlights are often used to lend an artistic and enigmatic touch to photographs. In fact, if done properly, backlights can single-handedly transform an ordinary photograph into a masterpiece. In this gallery, we present to you some of the finest examples of backlit photography. Love’s Spark Portrait of my Sister and my Son Julie &… Continue reading Gallery of Backlit Photography

jQuery Auto-Complete & Auto-Suggest Text Input

Ajax Autocomplete for jQuery allows you to easily create autocomplete/autosuggest boxes for text input fields. It was built with focus on performance – results for every query are cached and pulled from local cache for the same repeating query. If there are no results for particular query it stops sending requests to the server for… Continue reading jQuery Auto-Complete & Auto-Suggest Text Input

35+ Amazing Free Spring Wallpaper Designs

Spring wallpaper are great for decorating your desktop or laptop during the winter period and helps you remember the joy of the warmer seasons. Wallpapers have become seriously popular and we share large collections now and then. Another popular category is minimal wallpapers. They are great because they do not fill up the desktop area… Continue reading 35+ Amazing Free Spring Wallpaper Designs

Loading Circle Animation Using Photoshop CS6

In today’s tutorial, we’re going to be creating a very simple ‘loading circle’ animation using Photoshop CS6, which you can use on your websites, or before your video projects. This effect is going to take advantage of some of Photoshop CS6′s improved animation capabilities, leaving you with a silky smooth result. Written In terms of… Continue reading Loading Circle Animation Using Photoshop CS6

30 Powerful and Free Drupal CMS Themes

I think it’s a safe bet to assume Drupal is one of the most appreciated open source CMS platforms based on PHP/MySQL. Knowledgeable web developers would agree that Drupal CMS offers more customizations from the backend, without hacking into your theme files. There are also plenty of members in the community who provide support and… Continue reading 30 Powerful and Free Drupal CMS Themes

10 Tips to Better Productivity With Evernote

Evernote is a great tool for easy synchronization of notes across multiple devices and various platforms. It’s used extensively to save, edit and share notes among different devices and with multiple users. It works great for group collaborations and is great to jot down ideas on-the-go. At first, Evernote may look like a disorganized and… Continue reading 10 Tips to Better Productivity With Evernote

6 Biggest Challenges for Designers in 2013

With the economy sinking all over the place, it’s just as challenging for designers to stay afloat as it is for most other professionals. Designers, however, have even more to worry about today than most others because the design environment changes proportionate to web technologies, which really has a rapid rate of change. On top… Continue reading 6 Biggest Challenges for Designers in 2013

Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up

Congratulations! Web design can be one of the most useful skills to acquire in your professional career. Your first 30 days of learning are crucial because many people simply give up after a week or two. In this article, we’ll go through some useful tips and tricks to help you get started with web design… Continue reading Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up

50 Excellent Dark WordPress Themes – Want Your Website to ROCK?

The availability of themes for WordPress is staggering, but for some reason there us a limited supply of dark WordPress themes. The process of choosing colors for your website is one of the most crucial parts of the web design phase. Colors have a strong impact on visitors and specific colors often evoke certain types… Continue reading 50 Excellent Dark WordPress Themes – Want Your Website to ROCK?

25 Best Photoshop CS6 Tutorials

Quickly Select Skin Tones Color Splash Effect in Photoshop CS6 Quickly Change the Appearance Content Aware Move Tool Introducing the New Crop Tool Hunger Games Poster Composite Using Photoshop CS6 Use New Features in Photoshop CS6 to Create an Administrator Dashboard Interface Use the Content Aware Move Tool Create Tilt Shift Photography with the New… Continue reading 25 Best Photoshop CS6 Tutorials

Pricing tables & business icons: 50 designs, 20 colors,112 icons, with PSD sources

This massive set of pricing tables templates and icons will be a great help in your next project, they were carefully designed with special attention to details, there are 10 different templates, each one with 20 color variations, the full set also include 112 business icons. (layered PSD sources included). Details Date: January 25, 2013 Number of… Continue reading Pricing tables & business icons: 50 designs, 20 colors,112 icons, with PSD sources

The Top 6 WordPress SEO Mistakes & How to Correct Them

You’ve taken the time to choose, commission or build a theme, you’ve thought about your audiences, written some great content, added some nice pictures and you’re ready for the world to see your new WordPress site: exciting times! WordPress is optimised for search engines – using some basic WordPress settings and free plugins, you can… Continue reading The Top 6 WordPress SEO Mistakes & How to Correct Them

The Artwork of Mario Sanchez Nevado

Known as Aegis, Mario Sanchez Nevado is a freelance illustrator, art director, and Psdtuts+ author living in Spain. His work is often surreal and typically involves combining and manipulating large numbers of photographs. In this article, we will take a look at some of our favorite pieces from his portfolio. Betrayal Deliberation – Tutorial Nirvana… Continue reading The Artwork of Mario Sanchez Nevado

Quick Prototyping: Collection of Free HTML/CSS/JS UI Kits

The main idea of HTML/CSS/JS UI kits is to offer you a range of production-ready web elements with a consistent style, so that you quickly kick-start any new web project. Typically standard UI packs will include buttons of different sizes and types, form field elements, navigation & pagination systems, tabs, alerts and tags. But some,… Continue reading Quick Prototyping: Collection of Free HTML/CSS/JS UI Kits

20 Amazing Creations You Can Make With 3D Printing

If you can print in 2D, can you print in 3D? Well, the technology is already here. You can print out 3-dimensional objects based on a working template, and they aren’t just for show. They actually work! Manufacturers can provide you with a template where you can print a broken part of a machinery, let’s… Continue reading 20 Amazing Creations You Can Make With 3D Printing

Ruby on Rails Study Guide: The History of Rails

Ruby on Rails – or simply, Rails – is an open source, rapid web development framework, with a continuous goal of maximizing developer happiness and productivity. Created nearly a decade ago, Rails today forms the backbone of many of the most popular applications on the web, and has an incredibly vibrant and passionate community. In… Continue reading Ruby on Rails Study Guide: The History of Rails

Important Considerations When Building Single Page Web Apps

Single page web applications – or SPAs, as they are commonly referred to – are quickly becoming the de facto standard for web app development. The fact that a major part of the app runs inside a single web page makes it very interesting and appealing, and the accelerated growth of browser capabilities pushes us… Continue reading Important Considerations When Building Single Page Web Apps

20 Free WordPress Plugins You Should Know About

Free WordPress Plugins play a immense role in website designs today. Most people have never heard about them, and only few people have an interest in how a beautiful and user-friendly website is created. Still, the majority of us are literally “living” on the internet, and some would say that we take it for granted.… Continue reading 20 Free WordPress Plugins You Should Know About