Category: Tutorials

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Creating Your First Desktop App With HTML, JS and Electron

Web applications become more and more powerful every year, but there is still room for desktop apps with full access to the hardware of your computer. Today you can create desktop apps using the already familiar HTML, JS and Node.js, then package it into an executable file and distribute it accordingly across Windows, OS X and… Continue reading Creating Your First Desktop App With HTML, JS and Electron

How to Create Flat Profession Avatars in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial we’ll be making a set of flat-style portraits, depicting people of different professions and occupations. Such images can be used as avatars for social networks or as design elements for your website, depicting various categories. Or you can even draw yourself, using such flat-style portraits for your business card.  If you want… Continue reading How to Create Flat Profession Avatars in Adobe Illustrator

Create “Racing Vertical” Digital Art in Photoshop

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create dynamic racing photo manipulation in abstract world. If you are interested in not only repeat this photo manipulation, but also learn how to create such an abstract rendering then you should read my tutorial “Create colorful abstract glossy render in Cinema 4D” on this site. Today… Continue reading Create “Racing Vertical” Digital Art in Photoshop

Knowledge Persistence and Sessions With React

Having a “remember me” function is a very useful feature, and implementation with React and Express is relatively easy. Continuing from our last part where we set up a WebRTC chat application, we will now add Mongo-backed persistent sessions and a database-backed online user list for good measure. Sessions? If you have not used sessions… Continue reading Knowledge Persistence and Sessions With React

Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

A smart vertical navigation, with round indicators that turn into labelled icons when the user interacts with them. [sociallocker]Demo Download[/sociallocker] Our first concept of vertical fixed navigation is one of our most popular resources. This time, we tried to push this concept a little further. The basic idea behind putting round indicators on the side of… Continue reading Vertical Navigation in CSS and jQuery

How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to create a cool portrait effect using a long passage of text that bends and deforms around the contours of the face. Known as a Calligram, this effect is particularly powerful when used to present famous quotes or speeches by depicting the author/speaker with the actual words. Photoshop’s Displace… Continue reading How To Create a Text Portrait Effect in Photoshop

WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication

In the introductory part of this series, we had a quick refresher on REST architecture and how it can help us create better applications. We then explored the history of REST APIs in WordPress and introduced ourselves to the latest addition: the WP REST API plugin. We set up a basic working environment for testing… Continue reading WP REST API: Setting Up and Using Basic Authentication

Create this Poster Design with Abstract Effects in Photoshop

Create a creative poster with beautiful visual effects. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to quickly and easily create a unique poster using abstract rendering and many interesting effects like lightning, glowing lines and police tape. And all of these effects you can create your own in Photoshop. Read this tutorial and see how… Continue reading Create this Poster Design with Abstract Effects in Photoshop

10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow

It’s been over a year since I wrote this article in which I showed you how to extend Sketch through plugins and different resources. The Sketch community continues to grow and during recent months it’s given us tons of new and interesting ways to make our daily job even easier. Let me share with you a… Continue reading 10+ New Sketch Plugins to Improve Your Design Workflow

Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements

In this course you will learn how to create stunning photo manipulations using Photoshop, Illustrator and Lens Flare. You will be creating an advertising campaign using stock photos and learning some advanced photo manipulation techniques, such as lighting effects and text effects that will allow you to enhance your clients’ advertising campaigns or promotional material.… Continue reading Advanced Photo Manipulation for Advertisements

How to Color in a Traditionally Inked Comic in Adobe Illustrator

Learn how to turn a traditionally inked comic page into a warmly lit night scene in vector. With live paint, global process colors, gradients and different layer transparency settings in Adobe Illustrator, we will turn our black and white artwork into a comic page brimming with color. 1. Prepare the Line Art Step 1 I have… Continue reading How to Color in a Traditionally Inked Comic in Adobe Illustrator

Advanced Command Line Techniques

Want to learn some more advanced command line tips that will help you with Bash and Zsh shells? That’s what this course is all about, and we’ll even write shell scripts along the way. Lessons: 32 Length: 2.6 hours Categories: Command-LineWorkflow https://youtu.be/R74xYp9N6Sw https://youtu.be/VzkamWRTdmw https://youtu.be/cB9sgOEEPjg https://youtu.be/mHQqWCqktDM https://youtu.be/SY-TtHkYmxA

Learn Advanced High End Beauty Retouching in Photoshop

High End Beauty Images are desired product in advertisement of luxurious products as well as in Fashion and Beauty magazines. In this course You will learn the best techniques for High and Beauty Retouch, which are going to place Your retouching skills on a totally new level. So first of all what is High End… Continue reading Learn Advanced High End Beauty Retouching in Photoshop

A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding an Enable Type Option

Providing end users with the option to enable or disable certain features of a premium plugin or a theme is pretty common. Titan Framework has recently pushed a new option to its core which does exactly that. Let’s see how you can add an enable/disable toggle button inside an admin panel, a metabox or a… Continue reading A Beginners Guide to Titan Framework: Adding an Enable Type Option

Kendo UI and AngularJS from Scratch

In this course, you will learn how to create software using Kendo UI with AngularJS rather than with jQuery. Course info Level: Beginner Duration 1h 16m Released 13 Oct 2014   Download Resources Download VIdeos https://youtu.be/7ipKo-EweNY https://youtu.be/kbGK-UkRhr4 https://youtu.be/0mvPJQLHmL8 https://youtu.be/x59-fOoaCqQ https://youtu.be/Aavm_OGB_Zs

Code Clinic: PHP

Many successful programmers know more than just a computer language. They also know how to think about solving problems. They use “computational thinking”: breaking a problem down into segments that lend themselves to technical solutions. Code Clinic is a series of six courses where lynda.com authors solve the same problems using different programming languages. Here,… Continue reading Code Clinic: PHP

Animated Map Path for Interactive Storytelling

Today we’d like to share an experimental demo with you. This demo is an interactive map that will animate a map path while scrolling the page. The main idea is to connect the story being told with the path itself. The journey can also contain images that will indicate where they have been taken with… Continue reading Animated Map Path for Interactive Storytelling

20 Superb Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

To continue our Christmas Spirit we decided to share some awesome photoshop tutorials. These will teach to how to design Christmas Trees, snow globes, Christmas Cards and much more. So let’s begin!   Merry Christmas Greeting In this very detailed tutorial, you will learn how to make a Merry Christmas greeting card using Photoshop. This… Continue reading 20 Superb Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

How to Build a Simple Advent Calendar in JavaScript

Advent is the period of waiting and preparing for Christmas which begins four Sundays before Christmas eve. The passing of Advent time is traditionally measured with the help of either an Advent Calendar, or an Advent Wreath. Although the beginning of Advent is not a fixed date, Advent Calendars usually begin on Dec 1. Based… Continue reading How to Build a Simple Advent Calendar in JavaScript

Create “Dance on Fire” Scene in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the process I took to create this “Dance on Fire” Scene in Photoshop. Have a try! This is an intermediate level difficulty tutorial and some steps can be tricky. Note: The Photoshop tutorial is done in Photoshop CC – therefore some screenshot may have slighting different layout as… Continue reading Create “Dance on Fire” Scene in Photoshop

Powerful Mix of Awesomeness: CSS3 and jQuery

CSS3 has always been a good friend for web designers and since the inception of jQuery, they have made the web platforms easy and independent. They offer an insight to the most crucial factors of any web process i.e. inspiration via User Interface and Knowledge via Coding. After all, that’s all a web process is… Continue reading Powerful Mix of Awesomeness: CSS3 and jQuery

Beyond Responsive for a True Mobile Friendly Website

Responsive web design has earned itself a spot in the collection of most widely used web related buzz-words joining the ranks of Web 2.0, animated GIF, flat design and skeuomorphism. Its prevalence in the world of web design is due to its popularity as the top choice for creating mobile ready websites as shown by… Continue reading Beyond Responsive for a True Mobile Friendly Website