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
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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
Create a Mobile Shopping App Design in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the techniques used to create a modern and flat user interface (UI) design for an iPad app.
Getting Started With Android Studio
Android Studio has come a long way since its first stable build was released in 2014. It is completely free to use and has long been the official and recommended tool to develop apps for Android devices. Android Studio is a huge and complicated application which can be intimidating for beginners. I have already written… Continue reading Getting Started With Android Studio
The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color
In this tutorial, we are going to have a look at the Color Balance and Selective Color adjustment layers in Photoshop. They work by balancing the percentage of primary and secondary colors in your images and can be used to fine-tune your colors. Although Color Balance and Selective Color are not used as often as… Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Adjustment Layers – Color Balance and Selective Color
The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White
It is quite unusual to find website home pages that feature absolutely no other color than black and white – there is usually a call-to-action button, the company logo or social media buttons that have some color. Even in printed media simply black and white is unusual these days. Today we have scoured the internet… Continue reading The Yin and Yang of Web Design: Pure Black & White
5 Reasons Your Resume Should Be Web Based
We have moved well into the digital age, yet when it comes to applying for jobs we still submit an archaic representation of ourselves, an A4 piece of paper. Our resume is the first and often only view a potential employer gets to see of us. So it better be damn good. Sadly, the traditional… Continue reading 5 Reasons Your Resume Should Be Web Based
Create a Music Player on Android: Project Setup
Android smartphones usually come with their own built-in apps to listen to music. However, you might not like all of their features. What if instead of downloading a third-party app, you could create your own music player in Android? In this tutorial series, we will create a basic music player application for Android. The app… Continue reading Create a Music Player on Android: Project Setup
Logo Design Mistakes – 10 Mistakes That You Should Not Attempt
While weaving a logo, you might play up a traditional design and play it to the gallery, but there should be an element of imagination to the whole set up. A brand logo must possess a manipulative prowess that takes hold of a looker, and never lets him go. Creating an intriguing logo that works… Continue reading Logo Design Mistakes – 10 Mistakes That You Should Not Attempt
How to Work With Layers in Pixelmator
Pixelmator is an easy-to-use, fast, and powerful image editing app for the Mac. In this tutorial, we will dive deeper into the concept of layers by creating a collage made out of four images. Lets get started! Photos Used The following photos were used in this tutorial but you can follow along using any photos… Continue reading How to Work With Layers in Pixelmator
20 Best Responsive Web Design Tutorial for Web Designers
We are starting to present some responsive web design tutorials for designers community. From now we’ll collect important and useful tutorials for web design which surly can boost to create some fabulous responsive website. Today we collect 20 Best Responsive Web Design Tutorial for Web Designers. Responsive Web Design: A Visual Guide Convert a Menu… Continue reading 20 Best Responsive Web Design Tutorial for Web Designers
Learn How to Code
You know that feeling. You’ve been meaning to take action for a while. You’ve a great idea and an inkling to to make the next Snapchat. But how? It’s super hard to code right? Not completely true. What better a time to start learning than 2014! Coding is a serious business and it’s not easy.… Continue reading Learn How to Code
Create a Seamless, 3D, Geometric Pattern in Photoshop
Seamless patterns are a fun and easy way to add some interest to your graphic designs. Patterns, however, can be a bit intimidating to some artists, as it is often challenging to figure out exactly where the pattern repeats. In this tutorial, I will show you how to quickly create a seamless, three-dimensional, geometric pattern… Continue reading Create a Seamless, 3D, Geometric Pattern in Photoshop
25 CSS3 Code Snippets for Making 3D Animated Effects
Web developers have been immersing themselves into CSS3-based designs. Transition animations along with CSS keyframes have opened the door to many possibilities. 3D animation was never optimal outside of Flash-based websites. However the further advancements in JavaScript along with CSS3 have created a new code toolbox for web designers. I’ve put together a number of… Continue reading 25 CSS3 Code Snippets for Making 3D Animated Effects
Free PSD Browser Templates
As a web designer, having browser, mobile or other devices templates is a must! These are perfect for showing your client a screenshot of how his/her website will look. Today we selected some great, free PSD browser templates for you to choose from. These are perfect for showcasing your work! Need more useful templates? Try… Continue reading Free PSD Browser Templates
20 Beautiful Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop brushes are used frequently by designers and that is the reason why more and more appear each day! The great thing is that most of these high quality brushes are given for free! You can use them in post-processing photos or in other various projects. There are so many Photoshop brushes on the web,… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Photoshop Brushes
Visual Composer – Build WordPress Websites in Minutes
It is a real challenge for WordPress beginners to figure out how to build an attractive and functional website without having coding knowledge and experience. Often business owners end up hiring someone to do the advanced page setups for them as trying to get it done on their own would take too much time and… Continue reading Visual Composer – Build WordPress Websites in Minutes