A Journey Through Beautiful Typography In Web Design

First impressions are lasting impressions. Whether you realize it or not, your typography helps to create an experience for users before they’ve even read a word or clicked a button. Typography has the potential to go beyond merely telling a story — it shows the user who is behind the website and what you’re about. The treatment… Continue reading A Journey Through Beautiful Typography In Web Design

Create a Mysterious Scene with Planets

Preview of Final Results Tutorial Resources Stars – greenaleydis-stock Cosmos Package – resurgere-stock Field – f3rd4-stock People Brush – fiftyfivepixels Trees Silhouettes – kuschelirmel-stock Trees Silhouettes 2 – winerla-stock Bushes – redheadstock Step 1: Creating a new Photoshop file Let’s start off by creating a new Photoshop file. Create a new file with the following… Continue reading Create a Mysterious Scene with Planets

The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done

Envato have recently launched a new service, currently in beta, called Microlancer. It’s a place where people can sell their creative services, or get creative work done. What’s Microlancer? The difference between Microlancer and other freelance job sites is that every Microlancer service is sold at a fixed price. Services are also generally smaller jobs… Continue reading The Best Place for WordPress Devs to Get Design Work Done

20 High Quality Website Templates For Free Download

Templates are great source to learn and allow a great insight into a certain effect or style. For a designer, developer, photographer or any other business the website of their own is the best place to showcase their skills and services. Thanks to many kind and generous designers / developers, high quality web templates are… Continue reading 20 High Quality Website Templates For Free Download

New Features of Adobe Muse CC

Adobe Muse CC software allows designers to create professional websites for desktop and mobile devices without writing code. Using Adobe Muse CC you can plan, design, and publish HTML pages according to the latest web standards using familiar Adobe tools the same as in Illustrator or InDesign. You will be able to work quickly with… Continue reading New Features of Adobe Muse CC

How to Create a Surreal Gothic Artwork in Photoshop

Resources Gothic Lolita – Kechake-stock Floor – SkyesStock Dress form – JinxMim Clocks – JinxMim | Alternative White Rabbit – Tilt-Stock Stormy Sky – EvanescentStock | Alternative Wall Crest – AshenSorrow Texture – SXC.hu Step 1 Create a new file, 2000x2000px 300dpi. Step 2 Now take the floor stock and paste it on the canvas.… Continue reading How to Create a Surreal Gothic Artwork in Photoshop

Simple YouTube Menu Effect

Today we’ll show you how to recreate the little menu effect that you can see in the left side-menu on YouTube when watching a video (where it says “Guide”). The menu is made of a little menu icon, a label and a list of menu items that appears when the label or menu icon is… Continue reading Simple YouTube Menu Effect

How to Create an Iron Cross Self-Mailer Template Using InDesign

Looking for something more exciting than a standard trifold or postcard? One attention-grabbing solution is the iron cross fold. This speciality, or exotic, fold gets its name from the cross shape/plus sign shape it forms when flat and unfolded. It is fairly easy to set up and will add significant flair to your piece. It… Continue reading How to Create an Iron Cross Self-Mailer Template Using InDesign

How to Draw Little Red Riding Hood with Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an adorable cartoon Little Red Riding Hood with her basket and bunch of flowers. You will use the Pen Tool (P) and basic shapes such as the Rectangle Tool (M), the Ellipse Tool (L) and the Polygon Tool. This is a great tutorial for those who… Continue reading How to Draw Little Red Riding Hood with Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

10 Things You Don’t Want to Hear About Web Design

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Given that the web design field flourishes in the face of honest and open feedback, we thought we would put together a post that discusses some things that we as an industry need to hear, that we perhaps don’t want to. Or that aren’t always the easiest to hear.   1 – Not Always Room… Continue reading 10 Things You Don’t Want to Hear About Web Design

How to Create Multiple Frames with One Image in Adobe InDesign

It is possible to create cool image effects not only in Photoshop and Illustrator but also in InDesign. In this tutorial we will learn how to place one image into several randomly placed frames. We will use Effects, Object Styles, special Paste features and learn some very useful techniques on the way. Let’s get started!

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

15 Amazing Skydiving Photography

Men have always wanted to take to the skies, but no hot-air balloon or airplane can really match the thrill of actually soaring through the air like skydiving.That very desire to have the human form itself flying unencumbered by technology is made possible by this extreme sport. The Process & The Gear What’s great about… Continue reading 15 Amazing Skydiving Photography

50 Fresh and Truly Creative Photo Manipulations

The featured image of this post is the georgeous photo manipulation [myOwnWorld²]. When memory fade like the life of autumn leaf Evolution Titanic II the place you want to be the WorkForce Play with me? also human part II Health Check Despairing Red (Love) Stoned visitor. Moon Palace… the Mysteries of Waxing Youth Preparing for… Continue reading 50 Fresh and Truly Creative Photo Manipulations