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
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How to Create a Face Detection App With React Native
Are you a hybrid app developer wanting to include face detection into your app, but you don’t have any idea where to start? As a start, you could read An Introduction to Face Detection on Android, which shows you how to natively implement face detection on Android. But if you are like me and you don’t want to write Java code… Continue reading How to Create a Face Detection App With React Native
Taking Control of the tvOS Focus Engine
Introduction On iOS, users normally interact with your apps via the device’s touch screen. On tvOS, however, user interaction is handled by moving the current focus between views on the screen. Luckily, the tvOS implementations of the UIKit APIs handle the changing of focus between views automatically. While this built-in system works very well, for specific… Continue reading Taking Control of the tvOS Focus Engine
How to Create a Gradient Icon Inspired by Instagram in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating Rebrand your logo in style with this quick tutorial on creating a gradient icon in Adobe Illustrator CC. We’ll build our icon design from scratch with quick and simple shapes and pair gradients and effects from the Appearance panel to complete our on-trend design. Alternatively, you may wish to use a… Continue reading How to Create a Gradient Icon Inspired by Instagram in Adobe Illustrator
How to Build a News Website Layout with Flexbox
What You’ll Be Creating It’s not necessary to understand every aspect of Flexbox before you can jump in and get started. In this tutorial, we’re going to introduce a few features of Flexbox whilst designing a “news layout” like the one you can find on The Guardian. The reason we’re using Flexbox is that it… Continue reading How to Build a News Website Layout with Flexbox
Using a Drag and Drop Builder? Get Your Free License
Posted · Category: Uncategorized Drag and drop website building tools have their pros and cons, as do most website building tools. If you are using drag and drop to build your websites, we have a little reward for you – a promise of something better. It’s called XPRS, it offers a new and innovative approach… Continue reading Using a Drag and Drop Builder? Get Your Free License
How to Create a Watercolor Wedding Invitation in Adobe InDesign
What You’ll Be Creating Painterly designs are a big trend for wedding invitations right now. Romantic without being overly feminine or floral, they have an effortlessly cool, beachy style which is perfect for outdoor or more laid-back ceremonies. In this tutorial that’s suitable for beginners to the software, we’ll walk through the steps of creating an… Continue reading How to Create a Watercolor Wedding Invitation in Adobe InDesign
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
10 Remedial Design Pointers for Developers
Here’s a situation which may be familiar to you: you’re a developer and you build a prototype to demonstrate something. It works just as you mean it to, but the looks of horror on your users’ faces tell you something is wrong–your demo looks like crap. Let’s look some simple guidelines and tips to help… Continue reading 10 Remedial Design Pointers for Developers
20 Best Shopify Themes With Beautiful eCommerce Designs
When it comes to eCommerce, the design of your site plays a crucial role. It can make or break your website—leading to sales either falling flat or converting profitably. Even though you are probably eager to get your new site up and running as quickly as possible, it’s important to first make sure you pick… Continue reading 20 Best Shopify Themes With Beautiful eCommerce Designs
What Salary Could You Be Earning?
Posted · Category: Information If you want to know what you’re worth, Hired has the answer: with data from thousands of real interview requests and job offers, we’ve put together a salary calculator that can tell you what you could be making in your job based on the skills you have. If you want to… Continue reading What Salary Could You Be Earning?
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
How to Draw Trees
What You’ll Be Creating Trees seem like one of the few things that are easy to draw. However, if you know nothing about drawing, you may either go too simple… … or too literal: Neither of these is what a real tree looks like. The first is a symbol of a tree, and the other… Continue reading How to Draw Trees
SpriteKit From Scratch: Constraints and Actions
Introduction In this tutorial, the second installment of the SpriteKit From Scratch series, you learn about constraints and actions. These features are used to easily add movement and animations to your SpriteKit game while limiting the position and orientation of nodes in the game. To follow along with me, you can either use the project… Continue reading SpriteKit From Scratch: Constraints and Actions
How to Enable Deep Links On Android
What Are Deep Links? Android deep links open a specific page within an app and optionally pass data to it. Developers may find deep links particularly useful for actions, such as clicking a notification or sending an app link via email. Let’s take an email client as an example. When the user clicks the notification of an email… Continue reading How to Enable Deep Links On Android
How exactly to Overcome The Top 4 Freelance issues
“Freelancing is tough. It may be very hard, in reality. It May wear people down, making them lose sight of whatever they utilized to love simply because they need to just do everything else to get by.” – Mason Hipp, The Unlimited Freelancer Recently, a friend of mine switched to become a freelancer that is full-time.… Continue reading How exactly to Overcome The Top 4 Freelance issues
Create Amazing Videos in Your Browser with Showbox
Posted · Category: License Free, Video Showbox enables anybody to create studio-quality video content. Showbox is a cloud-based solution that transforms video creation into a simple, scalable process that gives you beautiful results you couldn’t achieve beforehand. We tried to cover everything needed to create a video, in a way that allows you to go… Continue reading Create Amazing Videos in Your Browser with Showbox
SpriteKit From Scratch: Fundamentals
Introduction SpriteKit, available on iOS, tvOS, and OS X, is a framework that allows developers to create high quality 2D games without worrying about the complexities of graphics APIs, such as OpenGL and Metal. In addition to handling all of the graphics for developers, SpriteKit also offers a wide range of extra functionality, including physics simulation, audio/video playback, and… Continue reading SpriteKit From Scratch: Fundamentals
12 Best Free Stencil Fonts For Designers
ADVERTISEMENT In this collection, we are going to showcase 12 top and wonderful stencil fonts for the web designers. All these superb stencil fonts will definitely help you in interior decorating, architectural mastery, posters, packaging, t-shirts/clothing and in creative painting. All these outstanding stencil fonts are presented in high quality that helps you to enhance… Continue reading 12 Best Free Stencil Fonts For Designers
Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements
In this quick tip, we’ll cover the very basics of CSS counters; a useful, yet not so well-known CSS feature. When we’re done building our demo, we’ll take a look at some real world examples of sites which take advantage of CSS counters. The Goal: Styling an Ordered List As a first step, let’s look at the… Continue reading Quick Tip: Using CSS Counters to Style Incremental Elements
How to Prepare a Cool 3D Card for Post-Print Effects
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a laser-cut pop up card, perfect for showcasing retail offers or adapting for events. We’ll break down into simple steps some of the essential techniques for preparing your artwork for post-print processes, including laser-cutting and accommodating for folds. Suitable for beginner-to-intermediate users of… Continue reading How to Prepare a Cool 3D Card for Post-Print Effects
Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
Drop caps are a form of decoration sometimes used at the beginning of a block of text; the initial letter running several lines deep and indenting the body text within these lines. Drop cap example, as found on The Walrus Drop cap example, as found on Nautilus It’s a typographic tradition as old as the… Continue reading Better CSS Drop Caps With “initial-letter”
11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic
If you want to create some outstanding and attractive marketing magic then you should try this collection. In this post, we are presenting top 11 free tools which help you to make marketing magic. In this post all these tools are free and very useful. When you use these tools in your projects it makes… Continue reading 11 Free Tools To Make Marketing Magic
New Course: Productivity Tips for Your Web Design Business
If you’re struggling to stay on top of your business and its demands, try our new Coffee Break Course, Productivity Tips for Your Web Design Business. You’ll be in the company of Paul Boag, founder of UK Web design agency Headscape, as he shares the productivity tips that have enabled him to work less while at the same time… Continue reading New Course: Productivity Tips for Your Web Design Business