Photoshop Basics: How to Feather in Photoshop

July 20, 2020 by Sangalang Kristine What is ‘Feather’ in Photoshop? To ‘feather’ an image simply means to soften its edges. In some references, ‘feathering’ is also called blurred edges. Feathering is done to an image for a variety of purposes. This is usually used to isolate a certain part of an image, to use… Continue reading Photoshop Basics: How to Feather in Photoshop

Exciting New Tools for Designers, June 2020

The best new tools for designers are ones that make your life easier and your workflows faster. You’ll find some of those in this list this month for sure. From tools to help you capture and manage color palettes to AI-powered design analytics to simple animations, there’s something for almost every designer or developer. Here’s… Continue reading Exciting New Tools for Designers, June 2020

How To Create Your Own Graphic Design Portfolio

Moving on from design school and attempting to land your first position can be one of the most baffling occasions in your vocation. You need a design portfolio to find a new line of work, yet you haven’t done some full-memory design work previously, so what are you going to place in it? Stress not.… Continue reading How To Create Your Own Graphic Design Portfolio

How to Create an Android App Without Coding

Alternative approaches to Android application development—those that involve writing no code at all or writing only minimal amounts of code—are becoming increasingly feasible today. They are, of course, ideal for non-programmers, but experienced programmers too can use them to save time and effort. In this tutorial, I’m going to talk about two such approaches and… Continue reading How to Create an Android App Without Coding

How to Create a Vintage Fade Effect Photoshop Action

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a vintage Photoshop effect using such Photoshop effects as smart filters, adjustment layers, and overlay textures. If you want to create this fade Photoshop effect in a few simple clicks, check my Faded Presets with different overlay textures and a greater number… Continue reading How to Create a Vintage Fade Effect Photoshop Action

How to Create a WordPress Gallery Using the Justified Image Grid Plugin

Displaying photos and videos on your website are essential for your website’s success.  Photos and videos on a website can increase engagement by over 65% and encourage visitors to spend a longer period of time on your site. By increasing engagement and keeping your target audience on your website, you will have a much better… Continue reading How to Create a WordPress Gallery Using the Justified Image Grid Plugin

How to Make a Texture Brush in Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating This tutorial is for those who want to incorporate a real-world drawing technique into digital drawing. If you like texture, grunge, or paint brushes, or if you enjoy drawing in Illustrator and would like to have a more diverse brush arsenal, please stay here. In this quick tip tutorial, you will… Continue reading How to Make a Texture Brush in Illustrator

How to Create a Vector Infographic Template in Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating In the following steps, you will learn how to create an infographic template in Adobe Illustrator. For starters, you will learn how to set up a simple grid. Using basic tools and taking full advantage of the grid and snap to grid features, you will learn how to create the infographic… Continue reading How to Create a Vector Infographic Template in Illustrator

Create a Google Login Page in PHP

In this article, I’m going to explain how to integrate Google Login in your PHP website. We’ll use the Google OAuth API which is an easy and powerful way to add Google Login to your site. As a web user, you’ve probably experienced the hassle of managing different accounts for different sites. Specifically, when you have… Continue reading Create a Google Login Page in PHP

How to Create a Dusty Texture From Scratch

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, we’ll create a dusty overlay texture from scanned paper, and I will show you how to apply this texture to your image. I created Dusty Textures Pack the same way for my GraphicRiver portfolio. Tutorial Assets A sheet of craft paper or any other paper with a similar structure. A scanner… Continue reading How to Create a Dusty Texture From Scratch

How to Make Modern Websites With Clean WordPress Themes

Creating a website has never been easier thanks to platforms like WordPress. Not only is WordPress very easy to learn, it’s the perfect platform to create any type of website.  Thanks to the huge number of themes, you can get your site up and running in a matter of hours, whether you want to launch… Continue reading How to Make Modern Websites With Clean WordPress Themes

How to Build an Amazon Affiliate Website With a WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin

Amazon is one of the biggest e-commerce platforms on the planet, selling a huge variety of products.  In addition to keeping the world supplied with everything from top-of-the-range MacBooks, to dishwasher tablets and mattresses, Amazon offers an Amazon Associates program that makes it possible for anyone to earn commission, simply by referring people to the… Continue reading How to Build an Amazon Affiliate Website With a WooCommerce Affiliate Plugin

Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS

1. Test Your Site for Keyboard Accessibility The most important goal of keyboard accessibility is to make every interactive element, such as links and form controls, available with the Tab key. This is how keyboard-only users navigate through a web page. Testing your website for keyboard accessibility is actually pretty easy: just press the Tab key… Continue reading Keyboard Accessibility Tips Using HTML and CSS

How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing pastel photo effect in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time.  The effect shown above is the one I will show… Continue reading How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop

How To Add A Navigation Menu To WordPress: Beginner’s Guide

Are you struggling with how to add a navigation menu to WordPress? WordPress actually includes a fairly user friendly interface to help you add menus to WordPress without needing to know any code. But unless you’re already familiar with WordPress, it can still be difficult to dive in and create your first menu. In this… Continue reading How To Add A Navigation Menu To WordPress: Beginner’s Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Services

Hello there! I hope you’ve followed along with our tutorials on Angular components and routing. In this post, we’ll go on to another interesting concept in Angular: services. Angular Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Components Divya Dev Angular Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Routing Divya Dev If Angular components are the presentation layer of our application, what… Continue reading Beginner’s Guide to Angular: Services

Choice paralysis: 3 ways the number of choices impacts conversions

Maybe you’ve heard of a phenomenon called choice or analysis paralysis. In short, it’s a situation where a customer can’t make a decision on a purchase because he’s faced with so many choices that they end up paralyzing him. Hence, choice paralysis. In the annals of marketing, there’s this notorious jam experiment that painfully details… Continue reading Choice paralysis: 3 ways the number of choices impacts conversions

Creating Multiple Banner Ads Layout Using Artboard in Photoshop CC 2015

One of Photoshop CC 2015 new feature is more or less the same with Illustrator artboard, allowing us to create multiple pages within one document. But Photoshop’s artboard is more flexible because we can freely change the arboard size and position. Now we can be more productive, because we are able to create multiple design… Continue reading Creating Multiple Banner Ads Layout Using Artboard in Photoshop CC 2015

How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API

The first post in this series laid the groundwork for understanding taxonomies, terms, and their relationship within the context of WordPress. If you haven’t read it yet and you’re brand new to WordPress development, then I highly recommend reading through it as this post is going to build on top of everything covered in that… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Term Meta: Term Metadata API

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