Category: Tutorials

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28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Adobe illustrator is a most commonly used software for designing great vectors and for other purposes as well. It’s being common doesn’t mean that it is as easy to use or master. There are many similarities in adobe Photoshop and adobe illustrator tools but… Continue reading 28 Free Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Designers

26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties

Over the past few years a number of prominent CSS3 tutorials have been published online. These are perfect for beginners who don’t have a lot of experience coding webpages. But developers who do have that experience may also find the more detailed articles quite insightful. Take a look over this collection of posts related to… Continue reading 26 Web Design Tutorials for Learning New CSS3 Properties

How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

Highly detailed and accurate illustrations of animals and plants have a long and distinguished history, extending back through the western era of exploration. While initially these artworks served mainly to record new species in the absence of portable and effective photography, they were also appreciated for their artistic merit and attracted interest from admirers outside… Continue reading How to Create Super-Detailed Wildlife Illustrations

How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

Sproute is a hosted framework for rapid development of web applications. It allows you to easily define dynamic data and comes with lots of useful features out of the box such as user accounts and security. This tutorial will show you how to build your very own online portfolio using Sproute: a hosted environment for… Continue reading How to Create a Portfolio from Scratch with Sproute

4 Common Mistakes You are Making on Your Website and How to Fix Them

Your website is your most vital online tool. When visitors click on your homepage, it’s often their first opportunity to interact with your brand. If you’re not getting results, you’ve probably made some major—and pretty common—mistakes on your site. Fortunately, it’s often easy to correct such problems. By employing a few simple measures, you can… Continue reading 4 Common Mistakes You are Making on Your Website and How to Fix Them

How to Make a Style Poster in Adobe Photoshop CS5

This tutorial is an example of how a few simple techniques can be used to create a piece of digital artwork using multiple layers, masking, the Brush tool, some basic lighting and one simple noise texture. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in… Continue reading How to Make a Style Poster in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Things You Should Consider Before Selling Your Website

Don’t be to quick to sell your website. You have been working hard to get your website into what it is worth, be sure to sell it for what it’s worth! When you have a website that companies are interested in purchasing, be proud of yourself, you’ve built something amazing. Don’t be afraid to take… Continue reading Things You Should Consider Before Selling Your Website

20 jQuery plugins that you can customize visually

Here are some cool jQuery plugins that you can implement within minutes! They’re all extremely useful, and can be customized for your website with an easy and intuitive click interface of Bitconfig. Bitconfig is like a fiddle for jQuery plugins. All plugin options are listed in a config panel and you just need to select… Continue reading 20 jQuery plugins that you can customize visually

19 Attractive Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop; bliss in the world of digital designing is the most powerful tool any graphics artist have in the arsenal of designing software. A mark of excellence, Photoshop itself is one of the most prominent image editing and graphic designing software around the world, let alone in the Adobe family. It is most popular… Continue reading 19 Attractive Fresh Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

45 Creative Gig Poster Designs

If you didn’t know by now, gig poster collecting started out in the 60′s and the tradition is still going strong today. In fact, the community is bigger that ever. Indie music fanatics around the world have turned into collectors. This isn’t some small fad or trend, there are entire online communities/marketplaces solely dedicated to buying and… Continue reading 45 Creative Gig Poster Designs

8 Killer Tips and Tricks To Skyrocket Your Productivity in WordPress

Blogging can be a very productive activity in itself for many reasons. Businesses with a blog will find it easier to attract search engine and social traffic, increase trust with their clients and customers, and build up a reputation as being an industry authority Some people have managed to raise their blogging income to a… Continue reading 8 Killer Tips and Tricks To Skyrocket Your Productivity in WordPress

Create a Stand-Out Portfolio Book in InDesign: Part Two – the Inside

In the second part of this two-part tutorial you’ll learn how to design the interior pages for an Illustration Portfolio book intended for print, in Adobe InDesign. We will create a number of different page layouts and explore how layout styles can showcase your work to its best potential. In this tutorial I will be… Continue reading Create a Stand-Out Portfolio Book in InDesign: Part Two – the Inside

How to Design an iOS7 Email App in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a flat and modern, Gmail-inspired, iOS7 email app in Photoshop. We will begin by showing you how to sketch out your ideas, then we will show how to create your design in Photoshop, and finally, how to incorporate your design into an iPhone mockup. Let’s… Continue reading How to Design an iOS7 Email App in Photoshop

How to Create Five Simple Hover Effects for Your Navigation Links

This is a quick tutorial about creating simple hover effects that would be best suited for links within a navigation. The reason for this is that these might be too much when done inline within a paragraph but that is only a word of caution – if you want to apply these to your normal… Continue reading How to Create Five Simple Hover Effects for Your Navigation Links

Embed an Interactive Panoramic Photo with jQuery Panorama Viewer

As a traveler and a photographer myself, I have always been disappointed with the way we share our panoramic photos. Most of the time, highly detailed panoramic photos are skewed down so that they fit the website layout, making it impossible to enjoy the photo or as Derek Zoolander once said, “What is this? A… Continue reading Embed an Interactive Panoramic Photo with jQuery Panorama Viewer

Create an Illustrated Watercolor and Ink Photo Effect in Photoshop

Artists often ask how to apply watercolor and splattered ink effects to their images. While there may be some filters and effects out there that can automate this task, illustrating this by hand will give you the highest quality final result, as well as the most flexibility. In this tutorial, we will show you how… Continue reading Create an Illustrated Watercolor and Ink Photo Effect in Photoshop

20 Effective Premium Newsletter Templates

Newsletters are an extremely important part of internet marketing and play a very important role in your online business. Whether you sell something online or just have a regular blog, email marketing is very important for creating leads and increase your customers/readership numbers. Today, we selected 20 effective premium newsletter templates for you to choose… Continue reading 20 Effective Premium Newsletter Templates

15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

Collages done in Photoshop are truly inspiring! A few days ago, while browsing the web, I discovered some really amazing collage Photoshop tutorials and decided to share them with you. These collages are incredible and very eye-catching! You’ll learn lots of new tricks from these tutorials and hopefully, you’ll improve your Photoshop skills. Here they… Continue reading 15+ Amazing Collage Photoshop Tutorials

A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes

Installing WordPress involves a series of steps. Installing WordPress successfully involves multiple steps and the first step in the series could be installing the WordPress on any local computer. Below are listed the step wise basics of WordPress installation which will make the process easier and fruitful for you. Installing WordPress on your Local Computer… Continue reading A Complete Guide to Using WordPress Themes

How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect

In today’s Photoshop tutorial we’re going to play around with various image adjustments to recreate the emotive style of high fashion black and white photography. Typically these photographs feature many of the characteristics of old school 35mm film, such as heavy film grain and low contrast. Follow this step by step guide to quickly transform… Continue reading How To Create a Grainy B&W High Fashion Photo Effect