How To Design A Great Portfolio Website

Advertisement Designing a great portfolio, whether it is a web design portfolio or a graphic design portfolio, is a challenging task for every designer. Designing a project for ourselves, such that could meet our highest requirements, can be tough. Still, it doesn’t mean that we cannot create an online portfolio which is entertaining, accurate, and… Continue reading How To Design A Great Portfolio Website

Create a “Game of Thones” Inspired Photo Composite

Lately Game of Thrones season 6 has been aired! One of the most famous characters in it is Daenerys Stormborn. So let’s do an fanart for her! I loved her baby dragons. So I dediced to do an artwork of her with one of her baby dragons. You will learn how to use fire and… Continue reading Create a “Game of Thones” Inspired Photo Composite

How to Composite a Ruins Landscape

Learn how to create this beautiful ruins landscape with magical shafts of light. This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to add ruined buildings to the peaks of a snowy mountain landscape, add mystical light shafts, and a marching army. Final Results Tutorial Resources Some resources may not be available anymore – this is one… Continue reading How to Composite a Ruins Landscape

Create a Dark and Mysterious Landscape Matte Painting with Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a dark and mysterious landscape using a range of photo manipulation techniques. You’ll learn how to combine different stock photos into a cohesive scene, create a misty atmosphere, adjust color, work with lighting and more. What you’ll be creating We’ll start this tutorial by creating a… Continue reading Create a Dark and Mysterious Landscape Matte Painting with Photoshop

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks. Final Results Step 1 – Place the background The first step it’s to place the sky,… Continue reading Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation

How to Create a Cute Sleeping Moon Illustration

From a simple sketch to full blown colored artwork you will learn how create an Illustration of a Sleeping Moon. A drawing tablet isn’t necessary for this tutorial but it can make things go little smoother. Before I touch Photoshop I draw a series of sketches for my Moon design and select the best one… Continue reading How to Create a Cute Sleeping Moon Illustration

New Coffee Break Course on CSS Keyframe Animations

CSS keyframe animations offer designers a powerful way to create animations in the browser without having to rely on external plugins or extensive programming.  If you’re not sure how to use them, our new Coffee Break Course, Up and Running With CSS Keyframe Animations, is the place to start. In just ten minutes, Envato Tuts+ instructor… Continue reading New Coffee Break Course on CSS Keyframe Animations

How to Create Your Own Product Mockup Box in Photoshop

Learn how to create your own realistic looking Product Mockup Box in Photoshop with this very easy tutorial This image was made to help readers create their very own product mockup. To create this, we’ll start by making the boxes. Next, we’ll add some designs to the box. Finally, we’ll finish it up with shadows… Continue reading How to Create Your Own Product Mockup Box in Photoshop

How to Create a Misty Landscape Photo Manipulation With Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a misty landscape with rocks, an arch bridge, flying birds, castles, and a medieval woman. You’ll learn how to combine simple images into a cohesive scene, play with the depth and atmosphere, adjust the colors, and more.  Tutorial Assets The following assets… Continue reading How to Create a Misty Landscape Photo Manipulation With Adobe Photoshop

How to Create a Dory-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating To celebrate Finding Dory, the upcoming sequel to the classic Finding Nemo, I’ll show you how to create realistic fan art easily in Adobe Photoshop. Inspired by the movie, learn how to use photo manipulation and digital painting techniques to make any character come alive. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The… Continue reading How to Create a Dory-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Adobe Photoshop

How to Create a Layered Floral Typography Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

What You’ll Be Creating Floral typography is a design trend that combines nice floral elements with bold typography, to create some elegant designs. This tutorial will show you how to use a flower stock image, with a simple text, and a couple of layer styles, filters, textures, and adjustments to create your own floral typography… Continue reading How to Create a Layered Floral Typography Text Effect in Adobe Photoshop

Create This Surreal Scene of Waterfall Mountains with Adobe Photoshop

Learn how to create a surreal scene of waterfall mountains in Photoshop. In this tutorial I’ll show how you can merge different stock images to accomplish a surreal and fantastic scene of waterfall mountains. You’ll learn how you can create amazing lights effects, blending mountains stocks into a cohesive scene, enhancing light effects and creating… Continue reading Create This Surreal Scene of Waterfall Mountains with Adobe Photoshop

Create This Surreal Scene of Waterfall Mountains with Adobe Photoshop

Learn how to create a surreal scene of waterfall mountains in Photoshop. In this tutorial I’ll show how you can merge different stock images to accomplish a surreal and fantastic scene of waterfall mountains. You’ll learn how you can create amazing lights effects, blending mountains stocks into a cohesive scene, enhancing light effects and creating… Continue reading Create This Surreal Scene of Waterfall Mountains with Adobe Photoshop

New Course: The Complete Guide to CSS Positioning

If you want to get a comprehensive but concise overview of CSS positioning, our new course is for you.  The Complete Guide to CSS Positioning consists of just eight video lessons totalling less than an hour of viewing time, but by the time you’ve finished it, you’ll have a firm grasp of the essential principles you… Continue reading New Course: The Complete Guide to CSS Positioning

How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android

In the previous tutorial, we talked about the Model View Presenter pattern, how it is applied on Android, and what its most important advantages are. In this tutorial, we explore the Model View Presenter pattern in more detail by implementing it in an Android application. In this tutorial: we build a simple application using the MVP… Continue reading How to Adopt Model View Presenter on Android

Multisite Enhancements in WordPress 4.4

I’m a big fan of WordPress Multisite: I use it to manage a small network of client sites, hold all of my demo sites in one place, and also run a network allowing people to create their own custom sites. So it’s always nice to see Multisite getting a bit of love when WordPress is… Continue reading Multisite Enhancements in WordPress 4.4

International Artist Feature: Mexico

For this article in the international artist series we turn to Mexico, featuring six illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from illustration to lettering to graphic design and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Gaby Zermeño Gaby is an illustrator and… Continue reading International Artist Feature: Mexico

10 Free Note-Taking Apps For Smartphones

Here, we are showcasing top 10 free note-taking apps for your smartphones. Using smartphone for taking notes and noting down important things and notes have become a norm. Smartphones have literally eradicated the need of carrying a paper and pen with you everywhere. Now you can carry a perfect note taking device in the form… Continue reading 10 Free Note-Taking Apps For Smartphones

How Welcoming are WordCamps to Women?

This month it’s International Women’s Day, a worldwide event designed to raise the under-representation of women in many walks of life and encourage us all to open up more opportunities to women and girls. I thought it would be a good opportunity to take a look at gender diversity at WordCamps, and compare these with… Continue reading How Welcoming are WordCamps to Women?

How to Work With WordPress Post Metadata

In the first post in this series, I gave an overview of all of the various types of metadata offered by WordPress, where it’s kept, and what we’re going to be covering throughout this series.  Further, I defined what metadata is; its role within WordPress, and how it’s relevant to us as developers. But the… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Post Metadata

Create An Emotional Photo Manipulation Of A Sad Angel In Photoshop

Rate this post Learn how to create a fantasy photo manipulation of a desperate angel in sorrow and bleak rainy scene with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create your winged angel with ordinary stock images, do some retouch and enchantment on the angel with shadows and lighting, then complete it with rain… Continue reading Create An Emotional Photo Manipulation Of A Sad Angel In Photoshop

International Artist Feature: South Africa

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to South Africa, featuring five illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to illustration and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Pearly Yon Pearly Yon is illustrator Simone Hodgskiss, who runs… Continue reading International Artist Feature: South Africa

9 WordPress Advertising Plugins

Here, we are presenting another useful assortment of 9 WordPress advertising plugins for you. These plugins will allow you to place different advertisement on your WordPress blog in order to earn some extra money. You can place ads either into your posts or your sidebar – the choice is yours. With these WordPress advertising plugins,… Continue reading 9 WordPress Advertising Plugins