Tag: effect

Icon mouse hover effect using CSS3

This tutorial will show how simple it is to achieve simple animation mouse hover using CSS3. We use transitions and animations css properties to achieve some of the interactive animation. 1. Simple image popup effect using pure CSS3 *{margin:0;padding:0;} body{margin-top:80px;font-size:12px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#9C9C91;background:#fff;} a {color:#333;text-decoration: none;} a:hover {color:#f00;} .wrap {width:720px;background:#f2f2f2;margin:0 auto;} ul.works {list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0;} ul.works li {float:left;display: inline;margin:0 20px… Continue reading Icon mouse hover effect using CSS3

Create A Simple Responsive Portfolio Page with Filtering and Hover Effect

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create portfolio page with filtering and also hover effect for each of your project item. We will be using a CSS3 and jQuery filter & sort plugin called MixItUp. This script should work pretty well with our previously published tutorial – display images with shape masking and… Continue reading Create A Simple Responsive Portfolio Page with Filtering and Hover Effect

Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop. I will show some interesting methods to rendering the electrified orbs by utilizing lightning textures and various Photoshop tools. We will go through manipulation techniques such as clipping mask, layer mask, layer blending… Continue reading Create Facial Photo Manipulation Surrounded by Electrified Orbs in Photoshop

Weekly Design News Roundup – 21 July 2013

The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look at great Photoshop tutorials, Sand Textures, flat WordPress designs, beautiful parallax scrolling and much more.   How to modify Bootstrap… Continue reading Weekly Design News Roundup – 21 July 2013

20 High Quality Website Templates For Free Download

Templates are great source to learn and allow a great insight into a certain effect or style. For a designer, developer, photographer or any other business the website of their own is the best place to showcase their skills and services. Thanks to many kind and generous designers / developers, high quality web templates are… Continue reading 20 High Quality Website Templates For Free Download

Quick Tip: How to Create a Triangle Pixelation Effect in Photoshop

Final Results Step 1 Start by opening any photo you want into Photoshop. You should resize the image to your final output size before you continue. This is the photo that we’ll be using. Step 2 Duplicate your background layer twice. Step 3 Activate the Transform tool (Ctrl/Cmd+T or Edit > Free Transform) then set… Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Create a Triangle Pixelation Effect in Photoshop

Create An Animated CSS Box Menu

In this tutorial were going to play with CSS transitions to create a new style navigation menu. The effect we are aiming for is having a number of navigation boxes, and when the mouse hovers over a box this will grow and shrink the other boxes. We can even add an icon to animate into… Continue reading Create An Animated CSS Box Menu

Freebie: 24 Ultra Faded & Light Leak Photoshop Actions

These faded film effects are popular with many wedding and portrait photographers. They work great on high-contrast photos and they’re useful whenever your clients want the the retro/film look. With the right effect, you can change the mood of your photo. Although the faded film can look drastic, they’re actually created with only 1-2 adjustment… Continue reading Freebie: 24 Ultra Faded & Light Leak Photoshop Actions

Simple YouTube Menu Effect

Today we’ll show you how to recreate the little menu effect that you can see in the left side-menu on YouTube when watching a video (where it says “Guide”). The menu is made of a little menu icon, a label and a list of menu items that appears when the label or menu icon is… Continue reading Simple YouTube Menu Effect

30+ Hot CSS3 Image Hover Scripts

CSS3 image hover effects is one of the common techniques used in web design to make web pages more interactive and stand out visually. CSS image hover scripts makes it simple to add cool dynamic effects on otherwise “static” images whenever the mouse hovers over them. CSS3 effects are typically created using CSS filter and… Continue reading 30+ Hot CSS3 Image Hover Scripts

Put More Personal Work In Your Portfolio

Anyone here have a bunch of strange, unusual, or, shall we say, “quirky” hobbies? Perhaps you like to collect bottle caps from around the world and photograph them as found typography. Or maybe you recycle old computer parts to fashion into handmade art pieces? Come on, you’re designers – I know there’s something juicy you… Continue reading Put More Personal Work In Your Portfolio

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

3 Photo Effects for Wedding Photographers

Split Toning The first effect you will learn is split toning. Split toning is an effect that tints the highlights and shadows of your black & white photo to give it a two-tone color effect. You can do this easily in Adobe Lightroom but sometimes you need to do it in Photoshop for more control.… Continue reading 3 Photo Effects for Wedding Photographers

36 Clever Illustration Graphics for Design Inspiration

Illustrators and digital artists are not often caught in website design. But there are so many creative logos featuring a cute vector animal or cartoon figure. These designs can breathe life into a company and generate a very unique branding effect. That is why I have put together a series of brand new illustrations for… Continue reading 36 Clever Illustration Graphics for Design Inspiration

How to Create Bounce Effect with CSS3 Animation

This article is part of our “HTML5/CSS3 Tutorials series” – dedicated to help make you a better designer and/or developer. Click here to see more articles from the same series. Today, we are going to doing an experiment with CSS3 Animation. In our previous post, we discussed how to re-create “marquee” effect using CSS3 Animation.… Continue reading How to Create Bounce Effect with CSS3 Animation

Useful Tutorials For Creating Vector Graphic Using Free Software “Inkscape”

In this article, we are sharing with you some useful and detailed tutorials for creating vector graphics by using Inkscape. Although, Adobe Illustrator is there for creating amazing vector graphics but Inkscape is a free resource for creating vector graphics, and for this reason it is the best alternative to Adobe Illustrator. Using Inkscape is… Continue reading Useful Tutorials For Creating Vector Graphic Using Free Software “Inkscape”

33 Amazing Photoshop Photo Effect Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is the best tool to edit photos and create stunning artworks. It’s quite hard to learn working with Photoshop by yourself. The web is choke-full of different tutorials and guides, but in order to find really useful and interesting ones you need to spend a lot of time searching. Therefore, I have taken… Continue reading 33 Amazing Photoshop Photo Effect Tutorials

Freebie: 12 Large Bokeh Brushes

There are 12 color bokeh brushes. If you’re a SparkleStock member, you can pick from 18 bokeh brushes! They come in multiple sizes; 625, 1250, 2500, and 5000 pixels. In addition, you get them in pre-colored JPEG images to save you time. Drag and drop them into your document then set the blending mode to… Continue reading Freebie: 12 Large Bokeh Brushes

Make a Web App with Instagram-like Filters

In this tutorial, we are going to make a simple web app that allows you to drag a photo from your computer into the browser window, and apply instagram-like filters on it. For this purpose we are going to use a number of JavaScript libraries and plugins: Caman.js – this is a powerful canvas manipulation… Continue reading Make a Web App with Instagram-like Filters