There are tons of articles and guides about color theory and its importance for every web designer. Colors are really essential in design and may even influence people’s behavior in many cases. Thus, web designers usually check their website colors are suitable for the overall website style and that they create a good impression for… Continue reading Using Color Theory to Improve Website Accessibility
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Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design
It’s no secret that color psychology is used extensively in all aspects of design. From the colors used on day-to-day grocery items, to brand logos and website design, color is an important element that can convey a specific message to users. Photo credit: Dropbox According to Kissmetrics, when we view a color, our eyes send… Continue reading Understanding Color Psychology for Impactful Web Design
Freebie: 300+ Free Flat Color Icons
Today we are very excited to be sharing something amazing with you guys. the folks at Icon8 have released an amazing free consisting of more than 300 Flat color icons. Every web designer will tell you that there is nothing better than getting something for free, not only will it save you a lot of… Continue reading Freebie: 300+ Free Flat Color Icons
WordPress Admin Themes: Rebrand and Customize the WordPress Admin
How do you like the default WordPress admin ? Some people express distaste for it saying it’s stuck in the past design-wise and can be hard to learn for beginners. Personally I have never had a problem with it – that may be because I have used most versions and spend so much time in… Continue reading WordPress Admin Themes: Rebrand and Customize the WordPress Admin
Ditching Large Images: The Absence of Large Header Background Images
Although the utilization of impressive images as a header background is considered to be a huge web design trend, it seems that not everyone has a burning desire to follow the tendency and join the mainstream. Instead, some folks go for opposite tactics and prefer ditching wide-screen pictures in favor of clean, solid color backdrops.… Continue reading Ditching Large Images: The Absence of Large Header Background Images
30 Beautiful Designed & Fresh Posters
Today, we bring you a list of 30 beautifully designed posters guaranteed to leave you inspired. The perfect mix of cool typography, splash of colors, and texture are very effective in catching people’s attention. As a designer, you need to stay inspired in order to produce beautiful works and satisfy your clients. By looking at… Continue reading 30 Beautiful Designed & Fresh Posters
20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Designers
As a web or graphic designer you must have a keen sense of color combinations and feel which colors look good together and which don’t. Anyway, even with this great skill in color combining, you may find yourself in situations when you just feel less inspired. That’s when these best color palette tools come in… Continue reading 20 Best Color Palette Tools for Web and Graphic Designers
20 Examples of Creative Using Color Filters in Web Design
Large background image has established as web design trend this year. Its quite challenging to place typography and buttons over the image and make them well-seen. Therefore, designers use creative photography filters and gradients to create a cover over the image and place other web design elements on it. New fresh vibe gives a site… Continue reading 20 Examples of Creative Using Color Filters in Web Design
Free Tools to Help With Color Theming a Website
Everyone knows that color is an incredibly powerful tool for sending the right message to your audience. The last thing you want your website to do is alienate readers because of the color scheme you used. Specific shades and hues can often carry personal or even cultural meanings that need to be considered before implementing… Continue reading Free Tools to Help With Color Theming a Website
The Science Behind Color and Emotion
Color resonates with people in different ways. We all have a favorite color or color that we use more during specific periods of life. But the color you use in a design project can say a lot about the work itself. That’s a scientific fact. The science behind our emotional connections to color is a… Continue reading The Science Behind Color and Emotion
How to Use Cool Color in Design Projects
Cool and warm colors. These descriptions are commonly used to describe hue choices in a variety of conversations – fashion, beauty, decorating and design. But while we commonly talk about warm and cool, do you really know what these terms mean and how to use the colors? Today, we will look at using cool color… Continue reading How to Use Cool Color in Design Projects
Create Color Swatches From Your Designs
What You’ll Be Creating The combination of images, graphics and typography create a cohesive design that gets noticed. All of these elements also feature a variety of colors all working together through the design. But how do you know what colors to use? Which colors work together and which ones should you stay away from?… Continue reading Create Color Swatches From Your Designs
Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator via Email
Ever wondered what colors to use with an image? Just email a picture to Pictaculous, and they’ll send back some color suggestions. Simple as that. There are many tools out there that will analyze the colors of an uploaded picture, but the beautiful thing about Pictaculous is you can snap pictures from your mobile device,… Continue reading Pictaculous – A Color Palette Generator via Email
Create a Fun Cartoon Character Face in Adobe Illustrator
In the following steps you will learn how to create a fun character face in Adobe Illustrator.
20 Powerful Red Color Websites
Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Colors can have a very powerful effect. When different colors are used according to their significance they elicit favorable response and can move an audience deeply. Red is a very powerful color depicting strong emotions and it can definitely grab the desired attention. Whenever… Continue reading 20 Powerful Red Color Websites
The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color
In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at the Color Balance and Selective Color adjustment layers in Photoshop. They work by balancing the percentage of primary and secondary colors in your images and can be used to fine-tune your colors. Although Color Balance and Selective Color are not used as often as… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color
How to Create Diagonal Lines with CSS
A few days ago, I received my invite to Google Music. While browsing the app, I noticed a tiny, but neat trick they use to create tabs and diagonal borders with plain-old CSS. I’ll show you how to do the same in your projects today! Prefer a Video Tutorial? Step 1: The Markup We begin… Continue reading How to Create Diagonal Lines with CSS
Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table
Whenever we start any new design project, we’ll usually sit down with the client and discuss all the relevant project details with the client. If you’re lucky, your client will have a relatively clear idea of what they want to achieve and perhaps even the functions and features they want for the site. However clients… Continue reading Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table
20 Creative Portfolio WordPress Themes
WordPress is best and easier platform to create a website which is easy to edit and navigate. It is the tool that set up your identity in the professional world. Let’s go to the real and quick world when i’m talking about wordpress themes style. Every new or old photographer, artist, designer, theme layout is… Continue reading 20 Creative Portfolio WordPress Themes
20 Creative Resume Website Templates to Improve Your Online Presence
Every professional should have an online portfolio or presentation website. There are many types of personal websites you can choose to have. For example you can opt for simple vCards or one-page portfolios, or if you have more works to showcase you can choose to have a complex portfolio website with a great gallery and… Continue reading 20 Creative Resume Website Templates to Improve Your Online Presence
Create a Vinyl Record Player Icon in Adobe Illustrator
In the following steps you will learn how to create a vinyl player icon in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, using a simple grid and the snap to grid feature along with basic tools you will create the main shapes. Next, you will learn how to create a conical gradient using a somewhat complex mesh. Using… Continue reading Create a Vinyl Record Player Icon in Adobe Illustrator
Tell A Story With Your Web Design – It Always Works
The most popular websites on the World Wide Web are able to impressively convey information about their brand and what it stands for. This helps generate user interest in their brand and ensures the website message is delivered in a way that makes maximum impact on website visitors. They do this by using one of… Continue reading Tell A Story With Your Web Design – It Always Works
4 Tools to Build an Amazing Website
You pride yourself on your ability to code websites by hand, shaking your cane at these upstart web designers who rely on HTML editors and even the dreaded WYSIWYG tools. However, even the best from-scratch developers benefit from some designing tools. You want to work smarter, not harder, and tools can help you get your… Continue reading 4 Tools to Build an Amazing Website
New to Photoshop? Get Started Here!
So you’ve decided to teach yourself Photoshop? That is so exciting! Thank you for choosing Tuts+ as your place to learn. Photoshop is a fantastically powerful application that will allow you to manipulate images in just about any way you can think of. You can remove unwanted people or distractions from a photo, make color… Continue reading New to Photoshop? Get Started Here!