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How to Create Mooncake and Dim Sum Icons for Chinese New Year

What You’ll Be Creating Celebrate Chinese New Year with mooncakes, steamed buns, and dumplings! In this tutorial we’ll illustrate dim sum food icons, perfect for use in a mobile game or other vector graphic needs. Start with circles and ellipses, and end with delicious food drawings.  You can also supplement your icon designs with vectors… Continue reading How to Create Mooncake and Dim Sum Icons for Chinese New Year

How to Create a Retro Funfair Vector in Adobe Illustrator

What You’ll Be Creating Wanna have some fun in the amusement park? Then join me in this tutorial and create a retro-style flat funfair scene, inspired by the Grease movie! No special drawing skills are required here—we’ll be working with simple geometrical shapes and the Pathfinder operations of Adobe Illustrator. What is more, we’ll learn… Continue reading How to Create a Retro Funfair Vector in Adobe Illustrator

How to Install a WordPress Plugin

One of the challenges of writing articles focused on web development and software development is making sure anyone and everyone who wants to learn a skill is able to do so. When you provide as much content as Envato, it can often be a challenge to make sure you’re educating everyone. This includes people who are… Continue reading How to Install a WordPress Plugin

How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme

The WordPress platform is a magnet for those who want to take matters into their own hands, who want complete control over their websites and want to be independent in running them. WordPress does make it really easily to completely customize a website. If you have a bit of knowledge of HTMl, CSS and/or PHP,… Continue reading How To Create And Customize A WordPress Child Theme

14 Best Resources For Learning CSS3

Are you looking for some detailed and useful CSS3 tutorials and techniques that you use to create better results? If your answer is yes then you are at right place. In this compilation, we are presenting top 14 useful and detailed CSS3 tutorials and techniques for you. All these tutorials and techniques are designed by… Continue reading 14 Best Resources For Learning CSS3

How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Learn how to create this fantasy photo manipulation of a pirate house scene set in warm scenic dreamscape with Photoshop. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create rocky mountain using photos of rock and stones, combine ruin of castle to create dramatic pirate house in the dreamscape with warm vivid lighting. Throughout the tutorial,… Continue reading How to Create a Surreal Pirate House Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Walking

What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial I will be taking you through the steps of how to animate a character walking in place. Basically you will be creating a walk that loops infinitely, so if you were to incorporate a walk like this into a movie, perhaps the background would be scrolling from right… Continue reading Animation for Beginners: How to Animate a Character Walking

Data Structures With JavaScript: Tree

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;} Trees are one of the most commonly used data structures in web development. This statement holds true for both developers and users. Every web developer who has written HTML and loaded it into a web browser has created a tree, which is referred… Continue reading Data Structures With JavaScript: Tree

WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination

In this part of the series on Mastering WP_Query, you’ll learn about some of the arguments you can use with the WP_Query class, namely those for status, order, and pagination. You can use these arguments to fetch scheduled posts from the database, to query attachments, to amend the way posts are ordered and what they’re… Continue reading WP_Query Arguments: Status, Order, and Pagination

30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

* { box-sizing: border-box; } body {margin: 0;}*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;} PHP is the most widely used language for server-side programming on the web. Here are 30+ best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals. We have also written posts like these for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. HTML & CSS 30 HTML Best… Continue reading 30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

The Creation of “Mechanical Man” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the process of creating this “Mechanical Man” digital art in Photoshop. We will use a number of photo manipulation techniques to merge several objects into one piece, and apply image adjustments to fine-tune each of the objects to achieve the desired effect. This is an immediate level tutorial… Continue reading The Creation of “Mechanical Man” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status

Content takes on new meaning with Google’s new algorithm, which is codenamed Hummingbird. In fact, Hummingbird takes into context not just content but how that content is written. As the latest salvo fired by the internet company to stay atop the web browser game, as was the case with previous iterations of algorithms Penguin and… Continue reading Hummingbird: What It Means For SEO, and What It Does For Google’s Status

Free App Screen Mock-Up Perspective PSD

Today’s PSD file is a Free App Screen Mock-Up Perspective PSD. App Screen Mock-Up Perspectives are essential for designers wanting to display their apps to clients. Whether you’re designing for a small or large business you can now showcase your app ideas using this Free Apps Mock-Up Perspective PSD. A mobile app is a software… Continue reading Free App Screen Mock-Up Perspective PSD

13 Beautiful Design Agency Websites

If you’re looking for inspiration for your own portfolio site, checking out how design agencies do it is a good place to start. For today’s weekly inspiration post, we’ve gathered a collection of excellent portfolio sites of design agencies that you can learn a lot from. As you’re browsing these website, pay close attention to… Continue reading 13 Beautiful Design Agency Websites

Human Visual Processing – Why understanding it is Crucial for Web Design [Infographic]

You know that attention spans are quickly becoming even shorter. When people watch movies and television, go shopping, browse for books, and surf the web, they make up their minds in seconds—sometimes to their detriment, true, but that doesn’t matter in cyberspace. You can’t track down every person who visits your site, delivers the Blink… Continue reading Human Visual Processing – Why understanding it is Crucial for Web Design [Infographic]

10 jquery plugins for typography problems

Typography has been one of the biggest nightmares of the web designers and developers. As the websites are getting more and more interactive, static typographic features are becoming a thing of the past. Website owners now want text that not only coveys the message, but also attract the visitors. Now even though we now have… Continue reading 10 jquery plugins for typography problems

Create This Gorgeous Moonlight Poster of a Girl Walking on a Railway

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Model – Dazzle-stock Railway – Sed-rah-stock Sky 1 – Frostbo Sky 2 – Frostbo Moon – Yumi1805 Step 1 Create a new document with a trasparent background. Size: Width 1500px Height: 2000px Step 2 Go to File > Place and open the ‘Railway’ Stock. Step 3 Go to Edit… Continue reading Create This Gorgeous Moonlight Poster of a Girl Walking on a Railway

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

How Human Centric Web Design Improves Your Workflow

Human-centric and user-centric design are two terms we often hear in the industry, though sometimes both designers and developers consider them to mean the same. User-centered design is something most of us aim to put high on our list of priorities; having the end-user in mind and reflecting this philosophy in our products. Human-centered design… Continue reading How Human Centric Web Design Improves Your Workflow

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 Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a cute Teddy Bear and some school themed items. We’ll be using basic shapes and the Pathfinder panel, so you don’t need a graphic tablet or advanced drawing skills for making up such character. Let’s dig in! 1. Form the Bear’s Head and Face Step 1 Create… Continue reading Create a Simple School Teddy Bear in Adobe Illustrator

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

How To Create Stylish Pictogram Inspired Illustrations

Illustrating with basic linework not only results in some really cool artwork, it also makes the job a lot easier! Instead of painstakingly drawing every detail, simplifying the object into its basic form and using just a single stroke weight produces a stylised pictogram effect. In this tutorial I’ll take you through the process of… Continue reading How To Create Stylish Pictogram Inspired Illustrations