What You’ll Be Creating Hair is a very complex subject to draw, because it’s like a substance that can take many shapes and forms. Because of this, manga artists have developed a special method of simplifying hair. In manga or anime, you draw hair as a mass or a cloth. This way it can be… Continue reading How to Draw Anime Hair
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How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Photoshop adjustment layers to create a fantasy photo manipulation featuring a rock goddess. First, we’ll build the base scene using several arch, rock and landscape images. After that, we’ll add the ground, the model’s face, and a rock texture. Later, we’ll add… Continue reading How to Use Photoshop Adjustment Layers to Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation
How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an amazing pastel photo effect in Adobe Photoshop. I will explain everything in so much detail that anyone can create it, even those who have just opened Photoshop for the first time. The effect shown above is the one I will show… Continue reading How to Create a Pastel Photo Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop
How to Upload a File in PHP (With Example)
In this article, I’ll explain the basics of file upload in PHP. Firstly, we’ll go through the PHP configuration options that need to be in place for successful file uploads. Following that, we’ll develop a real-world example of how to upload a file. Configure PHP Settings There are a couple of PHP configuration settings that… Continue reading How to Upload a File in PHP (With Example)
Save time on image design with graphic editor Crello
Are you looking for a professional tool for your digital designing needs that helps making your marketing strategies better? Then, Crello is perfect for you. There are many visual graphic design tools out there in the market. Some of them are quite expensive. Other free tools need a forced sign up to use few of… Continue reading Save time on image design with graphic editor Crello
How to Draw a Ball
What You’ll Be Creating Drawing a ball may sound like something very simple, yet if you try it, you may discover that there are certain rules that must be followed. You need to know them if you want to draw a perfect ball! In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw a soccer… Continue reading How to Draw a Ball
Reap Enormous Benefits From a Web Development Company
A seasoned company can help you to make a brilliant website that would assist you in creating a unique identity for your website. For this, you are needed to ensure that you hire a professional web development company. This company will build you an incredible site which can cater to the demands of your company.… Continue reading Reap Enormous Benefits From a Web Development Company
How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating This sunlight photo effect is a part of the Rays Of Light Photoshop Action from my portfolio on Envato Market. You can also the check the Animated Sunlight Photoshop Creator. The color tones of the sunlight rays and the flare effects are easy to edit and customize. Sunlight Rays Photoshop Action Tutorial Assets… Continue reading How to Create a Sunburst Effect Action in Adobe Photoshop
How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web
It’s not a sudden discovery that the size of web pages are increasing. Developers minify their code, ditch expansive libraries, and shift code to the server side, all in an attempt to shave 100 kB off their code base. You may even be asked to drop valuable libraries like jQuery in an attempt to speed… Continue reading How to Optimize, Compress, and Save Images For the Web
Best Practices for Designing Push Notifications
Notifications are a crucial part of any app. Not only are they a key part of keeping users engaged with your application: many apps require notifications for their basic functionality. You won’t have much of an email app, for example, if you don’t have notifications. But the line between good notifications and bad notifications is… Continue reading Best Practices for Designing Push Notifications
Which Print-On-Demand T-Shirt Fulfillment Company Should You Use?
So you decided to start a print-on-demand t-shirt business. One of the most important decisions you will make is choosing the print-on-demand fulfillment company. You should take this decision very seriously because it can make or break or business. Can you imagine ordering a t-shirt online and getting a low quality product? You’d never buy… Continue reading Which Print-On-Demand T-Shirt Fulfillment Company Should You Use?
Design with the engineering constraints
No matter how good your engineers are, the application you are building will not feel the same between two devices. Internet speed, data usage, and device bandwidth are all technical limitations that result in distinct experiences. Network speed (3G, LTE etc) across the world and network quality across your living room may vary. In addition,… Continue reading Design with the engineering constraints
No one designs like you
We’re imposters, you and I. But that designer you look up to. The one you feel knows something you don’t about design. About craft. About success. About leadership. Why don’t we think they’re imposters? That they have it all figured out? And why, for many of us, does achieving their level of mastery seem almost… Continue reading No one designs like you
A few things I have learned after 10 years writing about UX
Photo: Drew Coffman I have been blogging for more than 10 years now. (Funny how “blogging” used as a verb sounds a bit off these days) It all started back in the day when I was working as an Information Architect (yep, “UX” is a relatively new term) at the biggest digital agency in Brazil. At… Continue reading A few things I have learned after 10 years writing about UX
5 Must Have Tools for All Freelancers
The opportunity for freelancers to make money in any number of fields is greater than it ever has been. Nearly anyone, with skills they already have, can make a living from home by freelancing. Rather than creating departments and hiring employees, hundreds of companies are using freelancers instead to get the work they need done… Continue reading 5 Must Have Tools for All Freelancers
Top Tips to Prevent Hacking Attempts On Your Website
There are many different reasons why website owners must do all they can to protect their portals from hackers. In fact, if you own an e-commerce portal, you must have already faced some sort of hacking attempt. On the other hand, hackers not just focus on e-commerce websites, they go after simple websites too. And… Continue reading Top Tips to Prevent Hacking Attempts On Your Website
How to Create Better Typography Based Designs
In days gone by, books were originally handwritten by monks in monasteries. Later on, they were created out of wooden or metal type, which was used as a part of a printing process. Using typography, therefore, has a long legacy. In a world where many focus on a drop down menu and the size of… Continue reading How to Create Better Typography Based Designs
Design a Cool Text Portrait Effect for Your Business Card in Illustrator
Business cards are one of the top ways to market your company because they’re so versatile and portable. That’s why so many business owners use them—but that makes them kind of hard to stand out. A business card needs to be totally unique so it won’t end up in the trash. And that’s where you… Continue reading Design a Cool Text Portrait Effect for Your Business Card in Illustrator
Design a Cool Text Portrait Effect for Your Business Card
Business cards are one of the top ways to market your company because they’re so versatile and portable. That’s why so many business owners use them—but that makes them kind of hard to stand out. A business card needs to be totally unique so it won’t end up in the trash. And that’s where you… Continue reading Design a Cool Text Portrait Effect for Your Business Card
Tailwind CSS: A framework for rapid UI development
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development: in simpler words, it’s a CSS where class names are not based on their content but describe what they do. For example, it has a .text-center to be used if you want align text to the center, an .opacity-75 class to set the opacity of… Continue reading Tailwind CSS: A framework for rapid UI development
Rippplr
I am still recoiling from the loads of information and knowledge sharing that happened during IxD14 last week. You guys should follow #1xd14 on twitter and catch up on the videos at Vimeo channel. During the conference, I conducted a workshop at the HKU on “Playful Thinking”. To give you a short introduction, ‘Playful Thinking’… Continue reading Rippplr
What designers can learn from the iPhone X
I’ve been playing around with the iPhone X for a couple of days now. The one thing that surprises me the most is how different it is from all the previous models. It’s the most radical deviation from the original iPhone, and yet — or perhaps precisely because of it — the best update so far. With it’s high… Continue reading What designers can learn from the iPhone X
The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
In 13 years working in UX, I have joined a considerable number of meetings where UX Designers present their work to the rest of the team. More than I can remember, to be brutally honest. Consumer journeys, sitemaps, wireframes, benchmark audits, personas, user research reports — the list of deliverables designers are creating is huge. Presenting work… Continue reading The relationship between design deliverables and presentation skills
WordPress CV Templates for Recent Graduates
When you are a former student, finding the profession of your dream seems to be only a matter of time. If you wait for a little, you will easily find what you need. But the reality is a bit crueler than you may think. You have to be aware of how to sell your knowledge… Continue reading WordPress CV Templates for Recent Graduates