How to Create a Trendy Neon and Oil Spill Rainbow Poster

What You’ll Be Creating * { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make a Y2K style poster with an oil spill rainbow background that will make you want to step out of the box. We’ve said it over and over again—trends are made to come back. The Y2K… Continue reading How to Create a Trendy Neon and Oil Spill Rainbow Poster

The A-Z of Adobe Lightroom Classic for Photography

Adobe’s Lightroom Classic is an immensely powerful tool for photographers to cull, edit, and share their photos. In this tutorial, we’re going to look at all kinds of little tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of this photo-editing application. You can also learn the basics of the Lightroom photo editor… Continue reading The A-Z of Adobe Lightroom Classic for Photography

Working With Tables in React: Part Two

In this two-part series, you will learn about the ins and outs of working with tabular data in React using the React Bootstrap Table2 component. You’ll be able to create sophisticated and professional-looking tables with little effort and yet be able to customize every aspect. In this part, we’ll continue the journey by expanding rows,… Continue reading Working With Tables in React: Part Two

Popular Design News of the Week: December 28, 2020 – January 3, 2021

Every week users submit a lot of interesting stuff on our sister site Webdesigner News, highlighting great content from around the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of all the great stories and news being posted is simply to check out the Webdesigner News site, however,… Continue reading Popular Design News of the Week: December 28, 2020 – January 3, 2021

How to make a Hitchcock’s Vertigo poster tribute in Adobe InDesign

The Vertigo movie poster by Saul Bass used spiral graphics, a two-tone color palette and jaunty, unnerving text to create a feeling of unsettling instability for the viewer. Technically, vertigo is a symptom of acrophobia, which is an extreme fear of heights, so we’ve cheekily corrected Hitchcock’s original movie title!  Today we’ll be creating a Vertigo-inspired… Continue reading How to make a Hitchcock’s Vertigo poster tribute in Adobe InDesign

10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow

It’s been over a year since I wrote this article in which I showed you how to extend Sketch through plugins and different resources. The Sketch community continues to grow and during recent months it’s given us tons of new and interesting ways to make our daily job even easier. Let me share with you a… Continue reading 10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow

Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin With WordPress

PHPMyAdmin (PMA) is an excellent free, open-source, web-based database client which can be used to interact more easily with MySQL and WordPress databases. I’ll describe how to install PMA in Linux and with the WAMP and XAMPP server distributions. I’ll also describe ways to secure it and some common scenarios in which it can assist… Continue reading Installing and Using PHPMyAdmin With WordPress

Photoshop Plugins you Won’t be Able to Live Without

To help make 2014 the most awesome year for you yet, here is a collection of amazing Photoshop plugins for you. I’m not saying you should download them all as they do a variety of things but browse through these to find some cool and, most importantly, time saving plugins to help you be that… Continue reading Photoshop Plugins you Won’t be Able to Live Without