Category: Tutorials

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10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills

Over it’s 20+ year history, Photoshop has proved itself useful for a great many things. One of the primary applications is photo manipulation. In fact, it’s photo manipulation that is meant by the colloquial term “to Photoshop”. Yet pulling off a successful photo manipulation isn’t quite as easy as it sounds.  So whether you are… Continue reading 10 Tips for Improving Your Photo Manipulation Skills

Take a Free Course on Programming Interactive Art With p5.js

What You’ll Be Creating Do you want to learn a new way of creating animations and interactive graphics, in less than an hour?  If so, check out our new course on How to Program Interactive Art With p5.js, in which you’ll learn how to create an interactive, animated web page with p5.js.  The course consists of just… Continue reading Take a Free Course on Programming Interactive Art With p5.js

Weekly Inspiration: Scrollin’, Scrollin’, Scrollin’

Web browsers all have one thing in common: almost without exception they allow us to scroll through content. Scrolling gets us from the top of a document, to the bottom. But it allows much more than that–and for better or worse, web designers have been challenging the scrollbar for some time now, seeing how else… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Scrollin’, Scrollin’, Scrollin’

Making an Original Corporate Theme in WordPress: Designing Other Page Types

Let’s recap: My claim is that the reason of the magnitude of WordPress’s market share is because it’s so darn easy to create corporate websites with WordPress, and this is also the exact reason why the top-selling WordPress themes are corporate (or multi-purpose) themes.  Theme makers might have clogged the market a bit by putting… Continue reading Making an Original Corporate Theme in WordPress: Designing Other Page Types

How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision

By definition: an inventory is a gathering of items tracked in a list. This term isn’t anything new, but the idea of using this concept towards interfaces is. Brad Frost, who coined the term “Atomic Design”, states that creating agnostic patterns helps to build far more versatile components that can be used widely across a… Continue reading How to Conduct an Interface Inventory With InVision

How to Work With WordPress Metadata

If you’re someone who is just getting started working with WordPress, then it’s natural to be curious about some of the advanced features offered by its API. So where might you stand regarding your experience? Maybe you’ve tweaked the code in a few themes. Perhaps you’ve altered the functionality of a couple of plugins. Maybe… Continue reading How to Work With WordPress Metadata

15 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)

Are you rebranding or launching a new business? Maybe you have a big conference or meetup fast approaching? Or is your current business card just not at the quality level you’d like? Is it not representing you well anymore or does it have outdated info on it?  You don’t want a wrong phone number, changed… Continue reading 15 Premium Business Card Templates (In Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign Formats)

Professional WordPress Plugin Development for 2016

Course Description Have you ever wanted to know the secrets behind all the cool things that WordPress plugins and themes can do? This course is offered by an instructor who has developed over 250 WordPress plugins for major corporations and can now teach these skills to you. For Those Developers Who Would Like To Know… Continue reading Professional WordPress Plugin Development for 2016

10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App

Every good app developer constantly learns how to create the best apps avoiding the common pitfalls. How can you be up to date with the current methodologies and ensure that the app is bug free? There are two ways to learn. One is from the experience of developing an app and the other from other… Continue reading 10 Mistakes to Avoid While Designing an App

How to Use Swift on Linux

1. State of the Union As with any new and emerging technology or language, it is always important to stay on top of the latest news and updates. Swift as a language is no different. Apple has released many new updates and enhancements in the short time that Swift has been in existence. So you first… Continue reading How to Use Swift on Linux

Build a Custom Photo Widget for Your Desktop with Node.js

The first thing I do on any new device is customize the home screen. This has been a tradition of mine since my first non-DOS computer, when I used my Mario Paint manual to help me make some Legend of Zelda pixel art in MS Paint, and set it as the Desktop wallpaper. Now that… Continue reading Build a Custom Photo Widget for Your Desktop with Node.js

Framerjs: Innovative prototyping and design with interaction

Constant updates for free! Includes prototyping for Virtual Reality! Join more than 1400 students and learn how to use Framer JS with your Sketch 3 or Photoshop designs to create innovative prototypes, design animation and add interaction to your mobile and web designs and prototypes. This course will teach you step by step how to… Continue reading Framerjs: Innovative prototyping and design with interaction

International Artist Feature: South Africa

For this article in the international artist series, we turn to South Africa, featuring five illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to illustration and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Pearly Yon Pearly Yon is illustrator Simone Hodgskiss, who runs… Continue reading International Artist Feature: South Africa

Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools

There are more ways than ever to get yourself (and your work) seen online. Whether yours is a design, illustration, photography, code, or product portfolio, take a look at some of these tools for getting it out there. Dunked Brainchild of Orman Clark and chums, dunked is a platform offering an account where you can upload… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools

Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP

In the previous part of this series, we talked about two popular WordPress managers out in the field. In this second part, we’ll be checking out a few more of them. Also, there will be one bonus tip about a core WordPress feature that may help you manage your (or your clients’) websites. So, without… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: ManageWP, CMS Commander & MainWP

New Course: Write Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes

What You’ll Be Creating Themes let you customize every aspect of the design and functionality of a WordPress site. But what if you want to let your client customize some aspect of the theme? Perhaps you want to sell a theme on Envato Market and you want to let buyers adjust the color scheme and logo to… Continue reading New Course: Write Customizer-Ready WordPress Themes

Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.

Never coded before? No problem. We’ve worked with over 120,000 students just like you. Entrepreneurs like you are a rare breed. You create incredible businesses and come up with ideas that change the world. Technology has made the 21st century, the century of the entrepreneur. Thanks to the power of the internet, you can reach… Continue reading Coding for Entrepreneurs: Learn Python, Django, and More.

Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman

In part three of this series we’re going to get our hands dirty and start building a site for a fictitious podcast site: “Matcha Nerdz”. We’ll be using Middleman, Bourbon, Neat and Bitters. Let’s go! In This Post Roadmap Basic Blog Setup LiveReload Organizing Posts GitHub Pages Deployment Smarter Assets Bourbon Setup Normalize and jQuery… Continue reading Project: Build a Complete Website With Middleman

Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP

When you have a lot of clients with WordPress-powered websites, or a lot of WordPress projects that you work on, it might get messy to deal with all those updates and maintenance. Logging in to each website with different usernames and passwords, then moderating comments, updating plugins and themes, maybe occasionally (or periodically) making database… Continue reading Exploring WordPress Managers: Jetpack & InfiniteWP

Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python

Ever wondered about a quick way to tell what some document is focusing on? What is its main topic? Let me give you this simple trick. List the unique words mentioned in the document, and then check how many times each word has been mentioned (frequency). This way would give you an indication of what… Continue reading Counting Word Frequency in a File Using Python

Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern

What You’ll Be Creating This Islamic tiling pattern is atypical in its use of curves, as most of the traditional designs are made up solely of straight lines (even though circles are used extensively to create the underlying grids).  It is based on the seven-circle grid which we learned to draw in more detail in… Continue reading Geometric Design: How to Draw a Flowery Tiling Pattern

JavaScript from Beginner to Expert

The total length of the course is over 12 hours! You will learn theory and you will also gain lots of practice. During the course I will explain you how to write real life applications like for example galleries with thumbnails, image sliders etc. I will do everything so you understand JavaScript. After this course… Continue reading JavaScript from Beginner to Expert