In this quick tip, we’ll cover the very basics of CSS counters; a useful, yet not so well-known CSS feature. When we’re done building our demo, we’ll take a look at some real world examples of sites which take advantage of CSS counters. The Goal: Styling an Ordered List As a first step, let’s look at the… Continue reading Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements
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Create an Underwater Dreamscape in Photoshop
Learn how to emotional photo manipulation of an underwater dreamscape with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a fantasy underwater scene, place a girl in the dreamscape, then complete it with some bubbles. Throughout the tutorial, you’ll learn techniques that will help you create better matte paintings and photo manipulations. What you’ll… Continue reading Create an Underwater Dreamscape in Photoshop
Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit for Google Material Design
Advertise here via BSA Material Kit is a Free Bootstrap UI Kit with a fresh, new design inspired by Google’s material design. You asked for it, so we built it. It’s a great pleasure to introduce to you the material concepts in an easy to use and beautiful set of components. Along with the restyling… Continue reading Material Kit – Free Bootstrap UI Kit for Google Material Design
Style Guides in Sketch
Product design is a team sport. The best teams tend to have lots of moving parts: designers and developers and managers and researchers all working in concert on a single, refined vision. All those moving pieces come with a cost, though, in the form of meetings, emails, and file versioning—all things we do in order… Continue reading Style Guides in Sketch
Essential Design Trends, March 2016
One of the great things about looking at trends each month is catching a glimpse of what designers are experimenting with. In particular, you start to see a distinct crossover of elements that you might have missed at first glance. That exact thing happened with this month’s collection. Note all the yellow and gold tones. Even… Continue reading Essential Design Trends, March 2016
Personal Creative Portfolio, Blog and CV WordPress Theme
This is a creative WordPress theme for personal blog, review portal, magazine, portfolio, or CV / Vcard, perfect for designers, developers, photographers, fashion and lifestyle bloggers and other professionals who wish to showcase their works. The theme features 4 demo layouts (where you can also replace or remove elements), 4 predefined color schemes (that you… Continue reading Personal Creative Portfolio, Blog and CV WordPress Theme
Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
What You’ll Be Creating If this is the first time you are designing for a wearable device, you will notice that there are some key differences compared to designing a product for a smartphone or a desktop computer. In this quick tip, I cover some of these differences while also teaching you how to design… Continue reading Designing for Apple Watch: Designing a Glance in Sketch
Placemat – Some Pretty Nice Placeholder Nouns for Sites
Placemat got some pretty nice placeholder nouns for your site. The three current endpoints are https://placem.at/people, https://placem.at/places, and https://placem.at/things. Any one of those will actually give you a valid image back on its own, but you probably want to do something a little bit fancier. The good news is that all three endpoints accept the… Continue reading Placemat – Some Pretty Nice Placeholder Nouns for Sites
How to Design a Tattoo With a Game of Thrones Theme
What You’ll Be Creating Game of Thrones season 6 is just around the corner! If you want to pass the time and learn something along the way, with this tutorial you’ll be able to create your own GoT tattoo design. I will show you how to plan the composition and how to paint it using… Continue reading How to Design a Tattoo With a Game of Thrones Theme
20 Useful WordPress Calendar Plugins
The first thing I think of when I hear “WordPress” and “calendar” is the default calendar widget that displays WordPress Posts by date. But WordPress calendar plugins encompass a far greater—not to mention more powerful—array of plugins. There are calendar plugins for events, bookings, and appointments. Some transform WordPress into its own private working app,… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Calendar Plugins
10 Illustrator Tools Every Designer Should Be Using
What You’ll Be Creating In this article, we’re going to talk about the top ten most useful tools in Adobe Illustrator. Whether you’re into icon design, illustrations or any other craft, you’ll definitely want to read this article, since you’ll learn something new and interesting about the software that you use on a daily basis. So,… Continue reading 10 Illustrator Tools Every Designer Should Be Using
International Artist Feature: Mexico
For this article in the international artist series we turn to Mexico, featuring six illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from illustration to lettering to graphic design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Gaby Zermeño Gaby is an illustrator and… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Mexico
The Building Blocks of Flat Design.
The term ‘Flat Design’ gets thrown around a lot. It seems like it would be easy enough to understand, but flat design is really the culmination of a long tradition of minimalist design that has found its perfect place in modern web design. What started off as a way of shearing away the clunky aesthetics… Continue reading The Building Blocks of Flat Design.
14 Ideas to Make Your Websites Stand Out
Picture this: You’re going to a big event, every person who can change your life would be there, and a lot is riding on how you present yourself. After all it’s about first impressions. So you pick out a sleek outfit, complement it with great formal shoes, dab on some perfume, wear a classy watch and feel… Continue reading 14 Ideas to Make Your Websites Stand Out
10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
Fashion Patterns From clothes to accessories, fashion illustrations have a long history as a visual reference for a designer’s concepts or current fashion trends. What makes a good fashion illustration, though? With help from content from Envato Market, let’s count down 10 top tips for creating great fashion illustrations to better your own sense of… Continue reading 10 Top Tips for Fashion Illustration
20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins
There are many rivals to Photoshop. Sketch app, Acorn, Gimp, Autodesk Pixlr, PaintShop Pro and others. I can honestly say that all of these tools are really nice and good. But it’s really hard to compare with the Photoshop. The interface of the tools I’ve mentioned before is really nice, it’s easier to use it,… Continue reading 20 Time Saving & Free Photoshop Plugins
Styleguide Toolbox – Templates, UI Kits, Tools & Generators
Styleguides are an essential tool for ensuring that everyone in an organization is on the same page. After all, maintaining a consistent style is vital to brand recognition, readability and it just looks more professional. The great thing about these Styleguide resources is that there is undoubtedly one that will let you work the way… Continue reading Styleguide Toolbox – Templates, UI Kits, Tools & Generators
8 Essential Bootstrap Tools For Web Designers
There are so many trendy and time saving things available in internet world. Bootstrap tools are one of them. Bootstraps tools have many wonderful and outstanding features like Add-ons, pre-styled modules of library and so many. This is the reason that every talented web designer and web developer always keep an eye on bootstraps tools.… Continue reading 8 Essential Bootstrap Tools For Web Designers
Create a 3D Abstract Photo Manipulation Style in Photoshop
Create a beautiful and stylish photo manipulation in abstract style. This picture is a poster with a large number of interesting effects and creative solutions. In this tutorial I’ll show you a new and interesting effects, talk about alternative ways of selection, retouching, working with a variety of filters, tools and much more. We all… Continue reading Create a 3D Abstract Photo Manipulation Style in Photoshop
Editing Images in CSS: Combining Techniques
In last two tutorials of this series, we have discussed how filters and blend modes can completely change the appearance of images. In this tutorial, I will cover the basics of editing images by using both these properties together. The Basics of Layering Image Effects With CSS Any non-primitive image editing usually requires more than… Continue reading Editing Images in CSS: Combining Techniques
How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision
By definition: an inventory is a gathering of items tracked in a list. This term isn’t anything new, but the idea of using this concept towards interfaces is. Brad Frost, who coined the term “Atomic Design”, states that creating agnostic patterns helps to build far more versatile components that can be used widely across a… Continue reading How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision
20 Free WordPress Themes (2016 Edition)
Thinking about launching a WordPress site? Not sure if you want to hire a professional web designer or buy a WordPress theme? What about a nice cocktail of free WordPress themes for any kind of project, all collected together in this blog post? Will these freebies brighten your mood? We are sure they will. So,… Continue reading 20 Free WordPress Themes (2016 Edition)
10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
The design field is pretty crowded. If this is your “calling,” then you have to accept that you are in competition with a lot of creatives that may know more than you. You have to accept that you will have to take all of that creativity you have and translate it into products that others… Continue reading 10 Reasons Why Your Design Skills May Seem Lame
15 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)
Are you rebranding or launching a new business? Maybe you have a big conference or meetup fast approaching? Or is your current business card just not at the quality level you’d like? Is it not representing you well anymore or does it have outdated info on it? You don’t want a wrong phone number, changed… Continue reading 15 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)