Are you searching for some useful and professional level tutorials on creating text effects, if your answer is yes, then you are at right place. Here we are presenting 40 new and useful Photoshop & Illustrator tutorials that will help you in creating amazing text effect that can bring your boring design to life. Professionals… Continue reading 44 New Photoshop Illustrator Text Effects Tutorials
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Best Node.js Tutorials and Resources for Beginners
Node.js is increasingly gaining popularity among web developers. Due to all hosting companies Node.js remains the prerogative of dedicated servers and VPS. Actually VPS is a solution that even a small startup can afford. For more details refer to the documentation on nodejs.org. As you know, Node.js supports modules. You can find the folder for… Continue reading Best Node.js Tutorials and Resources for Beginners
Designing an Elegant Blog Layout in Photoshop
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a simple, elegant blog layout in Photoshop. We’ll use a strong image above the fold (wherever that may be) with some straightforward messaging, followed by very clean and elegant typography. Tutorial Assets In order to follow along you will need the following (freely… Continue reading Designing an Elegant Blog Layout in Photoshop
Create Color Swatches From Your Designs
What You’ll Be Creating The combination of images, graphics and typography create a cohesive design that gets noticed. All of these elements also feature a variety of colors all working together through the design. But how do you know what colors to use? Which colors work together and which ones should you stay away from?… Continue reading Create Color Swatches From Your Designs
Making a Nice Ubuntu Desktop Wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS6
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a nice desktop wallpaper using Adobe Photoshop CS6. You will find it very useful to create another wallpapers. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started! Final Image Preview Start working by creating a new document (Ctrl+N) in Adobe Photoshop CS6 with the size 1920px by 1200px… Continue reading Making a Nice Ubuntu Desktop Wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS6
How Wearable Technology Will Impact Web Design
Remember how wearing a calculator watch back in the day made you feel like George Jetson or his boy Elroy? Technology has come a long way from spelling out naughty words (upside down) on your calculator. These days, you can make calls, record videos, check your health, and buy coffee from your smartwatch–and that’s just… Continue reading How Wearable Technology Will Impact Web Design
Understanding and Working With the WordPress Options Table
In the earlier parts of this series, we looked at the tables in the WordPress database and the relationships between them. In this part I’ll cover a table which is different from the others – the wp_options table. As you can see from the diagram below, this is the only table which sits on its… Continue reading Understanding and Working With the WordPress Options Table
Building a Mega-Navigation Menu with CSS3 and jQuery
Larger navigation menus will typically include separate dropdown lists to appear on hover. But for some websites it can be necessary to expand this dropdown across the entire page. Designers might call this a “mega navigation” for its influence over the whole menu. In this tutorial I want to demonstrate a method of creating one… Continue reading Building a Mega-Navigation Menu with CSS3 and jQuery
Create Leafy Face Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this “Leafy Face” manipulation in Photoshop. We will go through techniques such as layer blending, layer masks, filter effects, and the use of adjustment layers. Have a try! This is an intermediate level tutorial and some steps can be tricky. Note: The… Continue reading Create Leafy Face Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?
Today I’m speaking to those just getting started in design. Maybe you just graduated from design school, or you’ve read through all the fundamental lessons offered here and on other design blogs, and you feel you’re ready to start taking on clients. Or maybe you have a couple of projects under your belt and you’re… Continue reading What Should New & Inexperienced Designers Be Learning?
What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]
Webmasters and bloggers alike are always trying to improve their blogging. Each post has to be perfect before they publish it. It has to have the right amount of nice looking images, a certain number of links to back up your sources, and it has to be engaging to your audience. We do this so… Continue reading What Makes The Perfect Blog Post [Infographic]
5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites
Minimalism is a design style that emphasizes simplicity and the removal of surplus elements in a design, stripping it down to its basic elements, colors, shapes and textures. This style was overlooked in the early dot com days of the internet, but it has now become very popular in website design. The fundamentals of minimal design in… Continue reading 5 Great Examples of Minimal Websites
Need Coding? Top 15 PSD To HTML Services You Should Use
If web designers were to have their own way, they would like to focus on aesthetics but their end result wouldn’t only have to look good it would have to be user- friendly, cross-browser compatible, easy and fast to load and semantic. It’s a good idea to change your Photoshop mockup using a finished PSD… Continue reading Need Coding? Top 15 PSD To HTML Services You Should Use
Create a Simple Subscription Web Element in Adobe Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating This piece focuses mainly on the Appearance panel, so you will only need four rectangles and a tiny circle to create the background, the main shape, the subscribe button, the text field and the tiny x button. You will learn how to create pixel perfect shapes using the Snap to Grid… Continue reading Create a Simple Subscription Web Element in Adobe Illustrator
Prelaunch Checklist: 10 Things To Do Before Launching your WordPress Site
Once you have your new site or theme finished, content has been checked and everything is good to go, there are a few more steps you should take to really get your site ready for visitors. I have launched many WordPress sites over the years and have a pre-launch checklist of various steps and… Continue reading Prelaunch Checklist: 10 Things To Do Before Launching your WordPress Site
Introduction to WordPress App Themes
With the increasing growth rate of WordPress powered websites, the need for WordPress themes is rising. Multi-purpose themes are becoming highly popular among website owners. Many existing themes are built mainly to address blog functionality. But with the growth of WordPress web application development, we are in need of specialized themes for different purposes. These… Continue reading Introduction to WordPress App Themes
Create Photo Manipulation with “Alice in Wonderland” Theme in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn the processes of creating a “Alice in Wonderland” themed photo manipulation, by using smart filters, stock blending. The tutorial will show you how to mix stock, create lights, change weather on image, draw hair, eyes, make up and skin, and how to get depth of field on your… Continue reading Create Photo Manipulation with “Alice in Wonderland” Theme in Photoshop
How to Make Any Website Responsive
If you have an existing website that is not responsive, I’m sure you’ve probably given some thought to how you would make it mobile-friendly. It’s really hard to argue against the mobile trend these days with Mobile Web Traffic now at about 25% of all Internet Traffic, and sales of mobile devices (Phones & Tablets)… Continue reading How to Make Any Website Responsive
Working with Type on a Path in Illustrator
What You’ll Be Creating In this quick tip tutorial, you will learn how to add Type on a Path in Adobe Illustrator. This is handy for logos and badges. So let’s get to it! Text Around a Circular Path Let’s start with the badge scenario. The first thing you need to do is create a… Continue reading Working with Type on a Path in Illustrator
How to Improve Your Photoshop Workflow With CSSHat and PNGHat
What You’ll Be Creating During this tutorial I’m going to walk you through the process of creating sophisticated web element styling in Photoshop, but without employing a single image file in your finished website. When we’re done, you’ll have a single page layout with all the UI elements you see in the preview image above, using nothing… Continue reading How to Improve Your Photoshop Workflow With CSSHat and PNGHat
11 Inspiring Typography Focused Web Designs
We all know that typography is a very important element of a good design. And even though we love layouts with beautiful images, it’s always inspiring to see some minimalist type-based sites, like the ones we will show here today. The designs we have here show that type is not only an important element but… Continue reading 11 Inspiring Typography Focused Web Designs
How To Create The Float Label Pattern
Today I want to walk you through a story about the float label pattern. I can’t speak to who thought of this first, but I can say that Matt Smith popularized it with one of his Dribbble shots a few months back. It is a new take on the way input fields and placeholders behave… Continue reading How To Create The Float Label Pattern
20 Professional and Free Online Website Builders
Do you need a professional website and lack the design or developing skills? No problem! There are plenty of great, free online website builders you can use. You can create your stunning website in just minutes! We selected 20 free online website builders just for you! Create your new website today! WiX Create a free… Continue reading 20 Professional and Free Online Website Builders
Create a Soccer-Themed Text Effect in Photoshop
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a soccer-themed text effect, using basic Layer Styles, brushes, and a couple of textures. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Lobster font (Download the Lobster 1.3 version). White Texture pattern by Dmitry. Grass0138_20_M (Image… Continue reading Create a Soccer-Themed Text Effect in Photoshop