Minimal is the New Black: 20 Fresh Free WordPress Themes from January 2014

Continuing with our monthly series, today we bring you a new edition of the most recent and beautiful themes available. All our new entries sport a minimal style, which is undoubtedly growing in popularity. In order to improve their websites’ speed, to ensure that visitors focus on content and – not least – granting a… Continue reading Minimal is the New Black: 20 Fresh Free WordPress Themes from January 2014

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding a Loop – Part 4

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first three parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to create a theme by splitting your HTML file into a set of template files and editing the stylesheet.… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Adding a Loop – Part 4

Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3

Tutorial Details Software: WordPress Difficulty: Beginner Completion Time: 1 hour  Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 In the first two parts of this series, you learned how to prepare static HTML for WordPress and to split your HTML file into a set of template files. You now have the beginnings of a theme,… Continue reading Creating a WordPress Theme From Static HTML: Uploading Your Theme to WordPress – Part 3

Web Design Inspiration from WordPress Theme Demos

We all enjoy browsing web design galleries and showcases of fresh layouts for ideas and inspiration, but there’s a whole world of amazing designs we probably overlook. WordPress themes are often constructed with beautiful layouts but they’re hidden away on the theme’s demo. This post rounds up a collection of some of the most inspiring… Continue reading Web Design Inspiration from WordPress Theme Demos

My Favourite Illustrators From Creative Market

I guess I should start with saying this is not a sponsored post or anything of that nature, it is simply highlighting some of the insanely cool work of some of the illustrators I came across on Creative Market. Creative Market is a relatively new platform where designers and developers can upload and sell their… Continue reading My Favourite Illustrators From Creative Market

Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

An innocent vector portrait based on a stock image from Photodune became a battleground of sparkles and glitter. As requested, people wanted to see a portrait tutorial which used a lot of glitter! Who was I to not take up such a challenge? In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a… Continue reading Create a Sparkling, Glitter Portrait From Stock in Adobe Illustrator

Infographic: Take Amazing Photos From Your Phone

Even professional photographers need to take a course in camera phone photography, because it varies somewhat from traditional cameras. In order to get the most out of your mobile device, you have to trick it into performing like a supped-out $ 3,500 Nikon. This infographic includes professional tips, expert advice, and interesting examples of what… Continue reading Infographic: Take Amazing Photos From Your Phone

How to Create a Rainbow Colored Portrait From a Stock Image in Illustrator

In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how I created a simple, rainbow colored portrait using a stock image base in Adobe Illustrator. I’ll be adding subtle decoration to the portrait with the help of a Scatter Brush and will be playing with a splash of color to create the rainbow effect. So let’s… Continue reading How to Create a Rainbow Colored Portrait From a Stock Image in Illustrator

Use Photography to Create a Scenic Matte Painting From a Sketch in Photoshop

Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Cliff-01 Cliff-02 Jungle-01 Jungle-02 Jungle-03 Jungle-04 Jungle-05 Jungle-06 Jungle-07 Lake-01 Man-01 Mountain-01 Mountain-02 Mountain-03 Panorama-01 Ship Tree-01 Tree-02 Tree-03 Water-01 Ground-01 Jungle-08 Mountain-04 Mountain-05 Mountain-06 Tropical-foliage-01 Tropical-foliage-02 Water-02 Moss-01 Ref-sketch 1. Setting the Bases Step 1 Let’s create a new file with following… Continue reading Use Photography to Create a Scenic Matte Painting From a Sketch in Photoshop

Exceptional Landscape Photography from Jakub Polomski

Born in 1985, Jakub Polomski found his love for photography when he was 20 years old. Inspired by photos from National Geographic, he borrowed a DSLR from a friend and then it began… Since 2007 Jakub has been awarded with several prizes and commendations in various photography contests. Hist most notable achievement was the National Geographic Poland… Continue reading Exceptional Landscape Photography from Jakub Polomski

Top 10 Internet & Tech-Related Infographics from 2012

We saw a lot of advancement over the course of 2012. The year produced a significant number of new open source projects, startup launches, and great ideas among the Internet community. The culture has also lead to a series of great infographics being published over this time. I’d like to share my top 10 favorites… Continue reading Top 10 Internet & Tech-Related Infographics from 2012

Our Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012

Just as we published this time last year, today, we have put together our 50 favorite Photoshop tutorials from last year (2012). The tutorials have been split into the following categories: Painting, Photo Composition, Illustration, Drawing, Photo Effects, 3D, Icon Design, Text and, finally, Poster Design Tutorials.   So, what’s the wait? Go ahead and… Continue reading Our Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials from 2012

55 Stunning Freebies from Dribbble

Dribbble is awesome source of inspiration, cool stuff and useful elements. But what is the most awesome – there are tons of quality free stuff!I adore freebies from Dribbble! You can find there cool designed UI kits, icons, buttons, forms, patterns, textures, psd files and so on. All kinds of graphic materials are waiting for… Continue reading 55 Stunning Freebies from Dribbble

Removing a head from an image for a great effect – Photoshop Tutorial

Tutorial Details Requirements: Photoshop CS2 and newer Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completetion Time: 1 hour In this tutorial we will learn how to remove someone’s head and replace it with object in the background. It does not only apply to heads but to all kinds of objects so you can remove them and replace with a… Continue reading Removing a head from an image for a great effect – Photoshop Tutorial