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How to extract hair in PhotoshopPhotoshop masking techniques are what every digital imaging artist should master. One of these techniques is also very useful to apply to hair lifting of a photo model.
Date added: 21 February, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources.
Getting a great website: a step-by-step guide
A free Design Council resource for small businesses
Date added: 26 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. Web Design.
Web Designer Heaven
FONTS / STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY / CHEAT SHEET / COLOR TOOLS / VECTOR CLIP ART / LOGOTYPES / PATTERNS / ICONS / TEXTURES / TEXT GENERATORS / CSS / TUTORIALS / PHOTOSHOP BRUSHES / INSPIRATION / SOUNDS / OTHER USEFUL LINKS
Date added: 26 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. Fonts. Icons. Sound. LIFE. Cool stuff. TECHNOLOGY. Coding.
Free Concrete Textures
Free concrete textures and more..
Date added: 18 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources.
55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects
Note: Some of these sound effects have limited rights. That means they are not allowed for commercial usage. We urge that you check the rights before using them for business purposes.
Date added: 16 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Sound.
15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have
There are a lot of details to consider when designing and developing a web site. In reality, it can seem like an endless list - but if you look carefully you’ll see that there are certain elements that are more important than others, elements that are used consistently among the most successful sites.
Date added: 03 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Web Design.
23 Most Incredible Photoshop Tutorials
Follow each tutorial, step by step. I can personally attest that the knowledge you will gain about the various tools and functions that are available for you to use in Photoshop will be much more beneficial than the final image.
Date added: 03 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Tutorials.
400+ Time Saving Photoshop Actions
Photoshop Actions are extremely useful in both saving time as well as learning new features that you may not know. They can be used to help standardize your final project better, cut down on repetitive tasks, and to assist you in a bit of creative inspiration. We have collected a handful of great (and free) downloadable PS Actions in this article and also included a nice tutorial on creating your own Actions.
Date added: 02 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Tutorials.
Take Family Portraits That Break the Rules
Taking family portraits differently.
Date added: 01 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Photography.
21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs
Do you want to sharpen your creative picture taking instincts? Do you want to combine new ideas with your current projects and techniques?
Date added: 01 January, 2009 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Photography.
The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008
Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you. Eventually, we come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008.
Date added: 31 December, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Tutorials.
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Date added: 28 December, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Photography.
Educating the Client on IA
Information architecture (IA) means so much to our projects, from setting requirements to establishing the baseline layout for our design and development teams. But what does it mean to your clients? Do they see the value in IA? What happens when they change their minds? Can IA help manage the change control process? More than ever, we must ensure that our clients find value in and embrace IA - and it’s is our job to educate them.
Date added: 27 December, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Information Architecture. Web Design.
Vector World Maps Collection
Here is a collection of free vector world maps that you can use in your projects.
Date added: 14 December, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. LIFE. Cool stuff.
20 signs you don’t want that web design project
Most clients are good clients, and some clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well. Herewith, a few indicators that a project may be headed to the toilet. Guarantee: All incidents taken from life.
Date added: 08 December, 2008 | Posted in : BUSINESS. Entrepreneurial. CREATIVE. Web Design.
Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners
The American Association of University Presses (AAUP) holds an annual Book, Jacket & Journal Show which catalogs the best in book design and exhibits it around the country. The catalog of the show includes typeface credits and so are a good gauge of current trends in typeface selection for books and journals.
Date added: 15 November, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Graphic Design. Typography.
Ultimate Guide to Taking Portraits at Night
Use a tripod, moderate your flash... oh heck, just keep reading. Everything you need to know is in here.
Date added: 15 November, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Photography.
20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources
Some special handwritten fonts and also great font resources.
Date added: 29 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. Fonts.
15 Amazingly Free Magazine and Headline Fonts
Free Magazine and Headline Fonts from a variety of sites.
Date added: 29 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. Fonts.
How to Sell Your Photography to Magazine Editors
Selling is an art that some of us have and others of us fail at rather miserably. It is almost an art form and one many photographers do not grasp until well into their career. Learn to do it right from the beginning and save yourself the frustration and heartache of missed opportunities!
Date added: 29 October, 2008 | Posted in : BUSINESS. Entrepreneurial. CREATIVE. Photography.
Vintage and Retro Typography Showcase
Beautiful examples of vintage typography and the modern work they've inspired.
Date added: 29 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. Typography.
81 of the best logo design resources
A choice selection of logo design resources that I believe are beneficial to serious designers.
Date added: 29 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources.
Stylize Forms With CSS
Web forms are one of the uglier elements on web pages. These pull-downs, text boxes, radio buttons and checkboxes are often blocky, awkward and out of place in the overall design of the page. There's a good reason; styling forms is challenging.
Date added: 29 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Web Design. TECHNOLOGY. Coding.
Free Printable Paper
Hundreds of papers you can download and print for free. We've got graph paper, lined paper, financial paper, music paper, and more.
Date added: 28 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. LIFE. Cool stuff. PRODUCTIVITY. Organisation.
50+ High Resolution Textures, Tutorials and Resources
A list of sites that offer free textures to download. You can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos.
Date added: 28 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources.
Splatter and Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop
Today we are glad to release Splatter and Watercolour Photoshop Brushes, 3 sets of 21 high-quality brushes, with the average size of 2500px or 2200px. These brushes were created for Adobe Photoshop CS, CS2 and CS3 and also work with GIMP 2.4.
Date added: 28 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources.
Mikworks - The Pixel Work of Mikio Inose
This is a small portfolio and workshop by a freelance Web & interface designer Mikio Inose from Tochigi, Japan.
Date added: 26 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Portfolios.
The History of Graphic Design
This source outlines lectures in Graphic Design History at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Date added: 20 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. Graphic Design.
The History of Visual Communication
This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication.
Date added: 20 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Design Resources. Graphic Design.
Wood in Web Design
Examples of web design layouts which use wood.
Date added: 20 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Web Design.
The Top 20 Ways to Come Up With Amazing Ideas
If you’re trying to find sources of great, wonderful, unique ideas, whether that’s for a blog post or a painting or a poem or a new product here are some ways.
Date added: 15 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. LIFE. Self Development.
The Lazy Man’s Way to Branding
If you don't have much time on your hand, here are 5 quick ways to brand yourself.
Date added: 15 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Branding. LIFE. Self Development.
15 Excellent examples of Web Typography/
Some great sites that make excellent use of css and html to lay out grids and type.
Date added: 15 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Typography. Web Design.
How to Size Text in CSS
A List Apart's guide to sizing fonts with style sheets.
Date added: 15 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Typography. Web Design. TECHNOLOGY. Coding.
Travel Photo Cafe 2008 - a talk about photography and travel
Tips for taking photographs and creating travel photo album layouts .
Date added: 14 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Photography.
How to make a Softback Leather Book
Recommended for the first time leather worker. This project is inexpensive to build and very easy for someone learning basic techniques.
Date added: 12 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Crafts.
Lorem Ipsum Banners
Lorem Ipsum now as filler banner ads in all IAB sizes.
Date added: 12 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Web Design.
Nine Mind Blowing Flash Animations
Flash animation still represents the cutting edge of Internet animation. Here are nine examples.
Date added: 12 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Animation. Web Design.
Pagination Gallery : Examples And Good Practices
Pagination, a mechanism which provides users with additional navigation options for browsing through single parts of the given article.
Date added: 12 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Digital Design. Graphic Design.
Create a spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop
Use Photoshop to create a rather cool-looking grass-text effect using a photo of grass, the Pen Tool and a bit of patience.
Date added: 12 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Graphic Design. Tutorials.
Strobist - Learn how to light
Learning how to use off-camera flash with your dSLR to take your photos to the next level.
Date added: 12 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Photography. Tutorials.
How to Design Mini Icons
Tips for designing mini pixel icons using Photoshop's pencil tool.
Date added: 11 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Icons. Tutorials.
Writing an Interface Style Guide
Great list of points to consider when putting together a guide to maintaining the interface design for a css-based website.
Date added: 11 October, 2008 | Posted in : CREATIVE. Web Design. TECHNOLOGY. Coding.
Web Design Case Study : Community
On BusinessWeek : More and more businesses want an online networking site for themselves or their customers. The key to success lies in understanding what's appropriate.
Date added: 23 June, 2008 | Posted in : BUSINESS. Community. CREATIVE. Web Design.
