Copyright is defined as having the exclusive right to control reproduction and commercial exploitation of your work. In a world where truly inspirational art has taken a backseat to fame and fortune it is important to make sure your true creations remain yours in the eyes of the law. For aspiring designers, it is especially… Continue reading 10 Copyright Laws Every Graphic Designer Should Be Aware Of
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Create Pure CSS 3D Model With Tridiv
We all know about WebGL, it’s an open standard browser implementation of OpenGL, and you can create 3D games, effect with Javascript. Now, we have a new way to create 3D graphic – by using CSS. I found this very impressive tool called Tridiv, a web-based editor for creating 3D shapes in CSS. If you… Continue reading Create Pure CSS 3D Model With Tridiv
Sliding Horizontal Layout
Today we’d like to share an interesting layout with you. You might have seen it already on Skybox or on the website of Lotta Nieminen. It’s a layout where we see the main section in the middle and part of the previous and next section on the sides. The navigation reflects this view by showing… Continue reading Sliding Horizontal Layout
Learn AngularJS With These 5 Practical Examples
By now you’ve probably heard of AngularJS – the exciting open source framework, developed by Google, that changes the way you think about web apps. There has been much written about it, but I have yet to find something that is written for developers who prefer quick and practical examples. This changes today. Below you will… Continue reading Learn AngularJS With These 5 Practical Examples
Using Alignment to Improve Your Designs
Alignment is one of those things that comes hand-in-hand when working with grid systems. The subject of alignment isn’t simply a matter of choosing whether or not you want to align text or images to the left or right of a design (though those decisions obviously still matter), instead, we employ alignment to improve our… Continue reading Using Alignment to Improve Your Designs
Create a Delicious Print Ad Using Photo Manipulation Techniques in Photoshop
Print designers often work with digital illustrators and CG artists to help produce their work. In this tutorial, we will continue to develop a character concept from a Cgtuts+ tutorial by Nacho Riesco and show you how to create a print ad by combining photo manipulation techniques with some renders from another tutorial. Let’s get… Continue reading Create a Delicious Print Ad Using Photo Manipulation Techniques in Photoshop
Create a Shaded, Stylized Text Effect in Photoshop
Typography and text effects are critical in today’s graphic and commercial design. Viewers are becoming more and more overwhelmed with daily information, and as a result they can inadvertently be conditioned to “filter out” messaging that isn’t truly distinctive. Stylized typography is an effective way to regain the attention and appeal that can otherwise be… Continue reading Create a Shaded, Stylized Text Effect in Photoshop
30+ Stunning Joomla Virtuemart Templates
It is more and more common that web developers use solid and mature multi-purpose CMS platforms, such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla, for building professional and easy to maintain websites, web applications and webshops. These solutions are interesting because they are easy to set up, they make it a breeze to publish content and further you… Continue reading 30+ Stunning Joomla Virtuemart Templates
How to Build a Dynamic Imgur Upload App Using jQuery & PHP
Many new online web services are providing backend APIs for developers. These allow anyone to connect into a web app and pull out specific information (or push or change bits of data). Today we’re specifically looking at the API for Imgur. In this tutorial I want to demonstrate how we can remotely mirror an image… Continue reading How to Build a Dynamic Imgur Upload App Using jQuery & PHP
25+ must-have Photoshop actions for your toolkit
No matter your area of expertise, chances are you’ve worked with photographs. Web and print designers alike are no strangers to the magnificence that can be captured in photos. It’s what we build our designs on top of and with, whether they’re the focus or just a background piece. And as the time passes and… Continue reading 25+ must-have Photoshop actions for your toolkit
15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins
jQuery is powerful and feature riched JavaScript library with nice event handling system, thus favorite among web designers/developers. Writing and using JavaScript is always a fun with jQuery for developers. jQuery and its plugins have made it possible to make web pages look appealing and user friendly. JQuery Lightbox plugins are used to overlay images… Continue reading 15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins
19 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers
Here, we have come up with another interesting collection of Chrome apps and this time we are focusing on 19 most essential apps for web designers and developers. Google Chrome is a powerful web browser and because of its simplicity many of us prefer it over many traditional web browsers. We have previously presented some… Continue reading 19 Must-Have Chrome Extensions For Designers And Developers
Create a Realistic Underwater Scene in Photoshop
Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Underwater scenes can be quite challenging to create in a realistic way. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create an Underwater scene in Photoshop using several stock photographs. Let’s get started! Speed Art Video Take a look at this stunning speed art video that shows how this… Continue reading Create a Realistic Underwater Scene in Photoshop
The Creation Process of “Urbanized” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this “Urbanized” photo manipulation in Photoshop. The concept behind this work is that human is increasing living in a confined urban space and being consumed by the endless expansion of the cities. I used 3 elements in this manipulation to represent the theme “Urbanized”:… Continue reading The Creation Process of “Urbanized” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
Freebie: 7 Abstract Photoshop Actions
Plexiglass Photoshop Actions Preview Plexiglass is a set of Photoshop actions that adds abstract overlays to your photos. They’re great for posters, covers, or even as backgrounds for images. What’s cool about these actions is that you can resize or crop your image and the effects will update itself to fit your new image dimension.… Continue reading Freebie: 7 Abstract Photoshop Actions
Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick
In this short tutorial, we are going to create an interesting slide-out footer with a bit of CSS. Grab the zip from the download button above, open it in your favorite code editor and read on! The Idea The effect we are after, is to give the impression that the page lifts up to reveal… Continue reading Create a slide-out footer with this neat z-index trick
Create Unique Floating Rock Typography in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the process of Creating this Unique Floating Rock Typography in Photoshop. You will learn a number of brush tricks, image adjustment tips and practice your selection techniques. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try! Note: The Photoshop… Continue reading Create Unique Floating Rock Typography in Photoshop
10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects
There is an open area in Photoshop to experiment with some amazing effects. You can play with any image in Photoshop creating some Lighting Effects which can be used in your upcoming print or web design. This article provides some Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects. Advanced Glow Effects Show me the light –… Continue reading 10 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Lighting Effects
Building a Circular Navigation with CSS Transforms
VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create circular navigations using CSS transforms. I’m going to take you through the steps for creating these styles one by one, and explain the math (yikes!) and simple logic behind them so you get a clear understanding of the technique. Like I… Continue reading Building a Circular Navigation with CSS Transforms
Ornamental Nature – Websites featuring Handwritten Fonts
Hand drawn typography is no longer associated with doodles in average school workbook; it has firmly entrenched in print, graphic and web designs. Among all variety of adorned fonts that give opportunity not only represent content in the best light, but also play as a decorative tool – it is definitely undisputed leader. Unlike most of… Continue reading Ornamental Nature – Websites featuring Handwritten Fonts
How To Design a Responsive Site Correctly
Businesses must decide whether to build a native mobile apps or a responsive site for their digital presences. Should you invest in separate iOS and Android development or simply design a site that works across all devices? If you opt to build out a responsive site, here are some best practices to make your design seamless on… Continue reading How To Design a Responsive Site Correctly
CSS 3D Image Flip Gallery With Dynamic Shadows
My recent book Pro CSS3 Animation walked the reader through a simple version of a 3D flip image gallery. After publication, I wanted to take it further: thus, this article. The UI challenge addressed here is the same focused on in many of my other CSS 3Dworks, such as the Origami UI: we live in a world of increasingly diversified… Continue reading CSS 3D Image Flip Gallery With Dynamic Shadows
14 Fantastic Free Tools for Design Collaboration
For designers, collaborating and sharing design concepts can be frustrating. The process is often initiated over email, while we wait for feedback and sort through comments and revision notes. However, there’s a wealth of excellent collaboration tools to make it easier to get feedback and approve artwork in a timely, professional manner. For freelancers or… Continue reading 14 Fantastic Free Tools for Design Collaboration
Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments
Have you ever been frustrated by the fact that WordPress doesn’t let you assign categories or tags to your images or uploaded media? Imagine how useful it could be: you could create dynamic galleries of images from specific places or of specific types (landscapes, abstracts etc.), or you could create listings pages for sites with… Continue reading Applying Categories, Tags and Custom Taxonomies to Media Attachments