There we are about one month since my last tutorial with Abduzeedo! And here am I again with another tutorial for you guys! First I wanted to thank Abduzeedo again for giving me this great opportunity for sharing my knowledge. I will show you how to create a super light… read more
AOL this afternoon unveiled an updated web client for e-mail, which it says accounts for 45% of all its page views. The announcement and new features have arrived just one day before Facebook is expected to announce an e-mail solution of its own.
The new e-mail app — currently called “Project… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
There’s no doubt that plain old YouTube can be tons of fun, but when you get bored of watching clips the traditional way, there are a ton of sites that can help enhance the experience.
Whether you want to view a video with a far-away friend, compare two clips, or find… read more
3D characters are getting involved in movies, games, websites and many other mediums to a greater extent. The reason of their popularity is the uniqueness and liveliness they give to a lifeless object.
Here we have gathered some implausible and incredible exemplars of 3D Animal Characters for your inspiration. It is… read more
A Guest post by Kevin Jones.
The Urban Disguise series is a set of shoulder camera bags from Think Tank Photo which are designed to look professional while not look like a camera bag. This series has many bag sizes ranging from holding one SLR with lens attached to holding two… read more
Weekly Assignment
This week’s assignment took a trip back to the basics by looking at the Rule of Thirds. This is a compositional rule that suggests that you put your subject on one of the lines that divides the image into thirds. Our winner this week was sunwrites’s keyboard image. The… read more
After weeks of rumor, 77-year-old weekly print publication Newsweek, and 2-year-old online news and opinion site The Daily Beast have announced a 50/50 joint merger — and the union’s first casualty is Newsweek CEO Tom Ascheim, according to The New York Post.
The new company — to be called The Newsweek… read more
Engineer Matt Cutts, one of Google’s more public faces, is offering a cash prize for the best open-source and Linux-based projects built on Microsoft’s Kinect.
The Kinect is something we’ve been excited about for a while; its motion-sensing technology has the ability to completely change how we play video games.
Cutts thinks… read more
The members of cartoon supergroup Gorillaz have been busy touring this year, but they could already have a new album — recorded on an iPad — out before Christmas.
As frontman Damon Albarn told the NME, he’s been working on the follow-up to this year’s Plastic Beach while on tour with… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
The Web Design Best Practices Series is supported by The Bazaar, a marketplace to buy and sell creative objects. It empowers creative talents with the tools to promote and sell their artworks globally. Start buying and selling instantly by connecting with Facebook or Twitter.
It’s an exciting time to be doing… read more
Infographics have been a part of human communications since the invention of the first “writing” utensils. Cave paintings, rock carvings, and sculptures have been found to integrate both images and written symbols (a type of pre-writing). These artistic efforts were created some 32,000 years ago; they illustrate stories, record history,… read more
Perspective in drawings creating 3D scenes in not something new. We’ve seen some cool examples of that through out the years, but I just got to see something really fresh and amazingly creepy.
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These eerie drawings are the work of Wladimir Inostroza, also known as Fredo. He’s a Chilean illustrator and… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Content management systems can bring a world of difference to the Internet. Reading content, which the web is filled with, can be nearly impossible without a CMS. CMS or content management systems power many of the websites that you use on a daily basis.
The Winter Tech Series is supported by Goodyear. Goodyear’s Winter Reactive Technology helps drivers react to changing winter weather conditions. Be prepared for rain, snow, ice, sleet and slush. Learn more here.
If you’re dreading winter, you are most likely not a skier or snowboarder. The same snow that strains… read more
Has Best Buy just outed the “Nexus S” as the name of the next Google-branded smartphone?
Two weeks ago, the rumors started to fly about the potential existence of the Nexus Two, a device that would run a stock version of Android 3.0 (a.k.a Gingerbread) and be promoted as the next… read more
It doesn’t matter if you design posters, t-shirts, logos, banners or even ads, one fact remains, you simply cannot convey your design without giving your messages text a powerful, effective and relevant visual effect that will land that final knock-out blow.
All of the tutorials in this round-up offer unique and… read more
30 Amazing Example of Realistic 3D Artworks
Creative Outdoor Advertising Ideas for Banner Designs
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
If your blog needs a face lift, the creative types who power the web are here to help. Sometimes a few well-designed, tastefully placed icons can add a little class or creativity to an otherwise neutral theme.
Social media links, which we’d argue are a priority for any blog, are a… read more
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of its $200-million-per-year U.S. e-commerce business and the launch of its e-commerce site in the UK, Ralph Lauren is staging a “four-dimensional” light installation on Wednesday night at its flagship locations in New York and London.
Ralph Lauren has architecturally mapped the foundation and contours of… read more
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a voluminous seal print on the wax with the help of 3D modeling. You can use the achieved knowledge to designs prints of your own style. Let’s get started!
Step 1
Create the wax shape. Take the Pen Tool (P) and create an… read more
In today’s tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create elegant, glassy, 3D typography using Photoshop and Illustrator. For this project, I used my company logo. Feel free to apply this effect to any logo, text, or shape. Let’s get started! Step 1 Open the file "LOGO.fh11" from the download file… read more
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
If you want to get on the location-based advertising bandwagon, but you don’t want to spend a ton of money and you feel a little nervous venturing… read more
Earlier today, while YouTube was briefing the press on YouTube Remote for Android and YouTube Topics at its headquarters in Silicon Valley, the company welcomed a special guest through its doors: Merton of Chatroulette fame.
Merton is the mysterious and hooded improv piano player who rose to Internet fame with a… read more
Nearly all the designers and artists use, interact and rely on Photoshop and its tool for completing their design projects. Photoshop is being employed in all aspects of graphics designing. The majority of us don’t yet realize it because of the spectacular practicality and integration of the environments.
One of… read more
If you’ve ever wanted to view 3D content on your iPhone or iPod touch, Hasbro has you covered.
The toy-maker has just unveiled its newest creation, My3D, a pair of 3D glasses with a slot for an iPhone or iPod touch. It promises to deliver 3D content and 360-degree gaming.
The Associated… read more
This post originally appeared on My Life Scoop, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about using social media and technology for a more connected life.
Games are inherently social — we like to post our high scores, compete against our friends, or simply share our digital exploits. But “social gaming” is a… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Everyone’s favorite Frotographer Jared Polen from Fro Knows Photo is at it again and has produced this fun yet informative review of the Sling-o-matic 20 camera bag from ThinkTank.
There’s also a Sling-o-matic 30 which fits a laptop also.
Post from: Digital Photography School
If you’re a dedicated follower of Tuts+ you might already know Kate McInnes (aka LoungeKat), the Associate Editor of Vectortuts+. She works along-side Vectortuts+ Editor, Sean Hodge, to make sure you get your daily dose of tuts, tips and inspiration. After launching the first Totem Project last… read more
Photo credit: Jenah Crump Photography on Flickr
Previous blog posts have extolled the time-saving benefits of subcontracting. Sure, if you’re the person subcontracting work, it can help boost your income, keep clients happy, and prevent from you turning away new work even when you’re busy. But is it a sweet deal… read more
by Obaid ur Rehman
Desktop wallpapers have always been a great source of inspiration and the best way to spice up your dull desktop. Usually, Microsoft Windows includes some really nice and cool wallpapers with every new release of its Windows Operating System, which are based on the Windows version by… read more
Birds in the wild are probably one of the most beautiful things ever. Around the globe there are tons of amazing, exotic kinds of birds, and it’s just breathtaking when we get to see these little (or not) animals during their flights.
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Thankfully, these awesome photographers capture these moments for our… read more
CU3ER is a fantastic Flash-based app that makes it simple to create 3D slideshows with a wide range of customizable options that will be sure to catch your site’s visitor’s attention. The CU3ER team is generously offering three lucky Web.AppStorm readers Pro accounts, each worth $49.
Read on for more information… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Actions can be used to quickly automate repetitive tasks. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create an action that will automatically create a 3D software box from a flat template. Video Demonstration Take a look at this short video demonstrating what this action will do. Step 1: Create… read more
Really impressive 3D pure CSS animation, including a pretty exhaustive tutorial on how to do it.
Read more at www.eleqtriq.com →
A few weeks ago while walking on the streets of NYC, I saw this big billboard of a movie called Burlesque (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126591/). What really caught my attention was the effect applied in the text, sort of those old signage that casinos used to have. I loved that effect and thought… read more
Industrial/Product Designer Interview – Jared Thompson of Design Juices
Twitter has allowed users to tweet their location via its Places feature for a while now, but now it looks like the company is taking Places a step further with a feature that lets businesses “claim” a location or place.
The feature, first spotted by the Hacker News community and tech… read more
The season of oven-roasted turkey (or tofurky, as your conscience may allow), cranberry sauce and frosted gingerbread men is upon us — and so are a number of new recipe apps for the iPad.
This week, Food Network, AllRecipes.com and Martha Stewart released a series of recipe collectives formatted for Apple’s… read more
No “graphic photographs” do not have anything to do with adult themed images. Graphical photography is an image style that utilizes shape, geometry and color to resemble something that might be drawn or designed. Photographs that are considered graphic in nature have distinct curves & lines, color contrast and highlight… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Two months out of the gate and Ping is “growing fast” — according to an e-mail sent out by the service to users this week. Still, despite its “millions of users,” the music-flavored social network apparently only has 2,000 artists.
Back when Ping launched, we wrote that there seemed to be… read more
Lets be honest, CSS would typically not be the first technology you would go to for building a visually effective interactive graph or chart, certainly not without at least a touch of Javascript. There are quite a few technologies you would think, Flash comes to mind first, followed by Javascript… read more
Having a “model look” to your portraits is a bit more than just great lighting and using a sharp lens – while you can create stunning, magazine-quality photos with just your camera, you can bring out the true beauty in your images using a few simple Photoshop… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Facebook won a patent for generating a personalized feed of stories for users, quite similar to the News Feed-related patent the company was awarded earlier this year.
Named Generating a feed of stories personalized for members of a social network, the patent describes “systems and methods for generating dynamic relationship-based content… read more
Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.
Facebook Updates Mobile Apps, Announces Location-Based Deals
At a press event in Palo Alto Wednesday,… read more
A Guest post by Robert J. Mang.
Objectives: to go on a photography retreat in a new and interesting environment, expand one’s photographic portfolio, volunteer, travel, learn a language, and immerse oneself into a foreign culture.
Here’s how I did exactly that, and more, last year.
The goal
The challenge was to incorporate three… read more
by Aquil Akhter
Adobe Fireworks is a somewhat unnoticed but very useful member of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is used for multiple purposes such as to create vectors, design application interfaces, digital artwork, and create rapid prototypes of websites. There is a lot more you can do with Adobe Fireworks,… read more
Ana Carolina Orlandin is a very young visual design student from Xaxim, Brazil. She’s been drawing since she was a little girl and her passion for art, design and all this world of imagination and creativity has growing along with her too as she starts to discover more and more… read more
How do you feel about the idea of a 3D display on a phone? Having to wear a pair of special glasses to be able to enjoy 3D content on a mobile phone doesn’t sound very practical, but Sharp has a solution in the way of two glasses-free 3D Android… read more
Today Panasonic have announced a camera that is sure to get some attention – the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF2 – an update to their widely acclaimed GF1 (a camera I’ve come to love myself).
It’s being billed by Panasonic as the world’s smallest and lightest interchangable Lens system camera and it adds… read more
The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with frogs… today it’s all about squares! It’s squares everywhere
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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Finally, Justin Bieber has achieved a goal that many a small town musician can only imagine in his most fevered fantasies. A goal that is sure to affix him in the highest firmament of only the most legit, timeless music makers. No, he hasn’t penned a operatic opus or anything… read more
As you know, each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we found some really great tutorials on creating magazine layouts, illustrative vector type, and drawing vector water, among others. Grab your quick dose of colorful… read more
Truly an inspiration, Anselm von Seherr-Thoss is one of the top visual effects and 3d particle artists around. Not only has he spent years within his craft, he’s worked on favorites like James Cameron’s “Avatar” and “The A-Team”.
Visual effects is quite the tough industry. Anselm has worked his… read more
Travel + Leisure magazine has debuted its holiday issue on the iPad, the first issue formatted for the device.
Compared to the current run of magazines available for the iPad, Travel + Leisure is pretty standard. It features all of the same content and formatting as the print version — minus… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Post from: Digital Photography School
Gradient Mesh can be daunting for a beginner. Trying to achieve realism takes a lot of time, effort and patience. If you are intimidated by Gradient Mesh, this might be a good place to start.
We’ll use a simple Gradient Mesh to create organic shapes that don’t have to be super-real…. read more
A few days ago I was looking for some 3D artworks, just for inspiration, and I came across this 3D artist from Siberian town Novosibirsk, Russia, called Denis Tolkishevsk. I was totally blown away with the quality and realism of some of his 3D pieces that I had to share… read more
Esteemed game development studio Bungie concluded its direct involvment in the franchise this year with Halo: Reach, but the era ended with a bang — $200 million in sales in just one day, and 2,000 man years played in the first week. Want to know the secret behind one of… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
The annual Xbox Live fall update is rolling out now. It includes ESPN, Netflix Search and Zune Music.
Xbox spokesperson Major Nelson wrote about the update on his blog:
“You’ll be prompted to accept the update when you sign into Xbox Live sometime in the next few hours.”“Regardless of what you… read more
The 2010 Global Freelancers Survey is online and we want YOU!
Freelancers by nature usually work on their own, as such we often don’t really know what others are doing, charging and thinking. This survey aims to compile our collective knowledge for the benefit of freelancers everywhere! The 2007 survey rendered great… read more
A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more
Justin Bieber, tween idol and YouTube sensation, is getting his own movie. Save your laughter, it gets better: It’s in 3D. I pride myself in being pretty up on my film news (I am film_girl after all), but this one managed to slide past my radar. The best part? The… read more
Many people debate on the effectiveness of CSS and Flash in creating an image gallery or a slideshow. Both of the above mentioned options have their own advantages. However, most of the people consider Flash gives a more professional and stylish look to an image gallery as compared to CSS,… read more
A Guest Post by James Brandon.
Welcome to part two of the Beginners Guide to HDR Photography (links to Part 1). Part one was a huge success, and I can’t thank Digital Photography School enough for giving me the opportunity to do this three part series here. The feedback has been… read more
by Rafiq Elmansy
High scale enterprises with a large number of employees have their own regular backup routines that are obligatory to maintain. Especially these firms face a high risk of losing valuable data; we are all familiar how prone computers are to crashes and that they have to be well… read more
Good design speaks for itself, right? Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. Most of us don’t have the privilege of designing for ourselves; we design for clients, clients who have their own taste and ideas, clients who ultimately need to be persuaded on why we’ve made certain decisions. Good design… read more
I’ve been seeing these in the web for some time now. David Jablow has come up with a super simple, yet awesome project called “Do it yourself Doodler”, in which he takes an original, incomplete doodle and starts to make many doodles from it.
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These are a great example of how… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Japanese game publisher Sega is trying to recapture some of its yesteryear glory by reviving Sonic the Hedgehog, its most prestigious franchise. The 3D Sonic games released over the past couple of years have left a lot to be desired, but the bargain-priced and downloadable Sonic 4 returns to the… read more
Step by step tutorial about rigging a cartoon character in 3ds Max.
Thanks to smartphones, you no longer have to be sitting in front of your computer to upload, manage, publish and monitor your website. We’ve brought together a collection of applications for both iPhone and Android users.
WordPress
If you have a WordPress website, then you can manage comments, upload images, and write,… read more
New WordPress themes are released all the time, and it’s hard keeping up with the best that’s out there. And let’s face it: a lot of new themes aren’t very high quality.
Below we’ve collected nearly fifty high-quality WP themes from around the web.
A little over half of… read more
Just in time for door-to-door Halloween festivities (i.e. that one night every year when millions of U.S. children venture to the doorfronts of strangers in quest of diabetes-inducing confections), consumer background checking company BeenVerified.com has released a mobile app to help consumers locate registered sex offenders in their areas.
The $1.99… read more
In today’s feature film industry, productions are in constant need of digital set extensions or matte painting, the correct term for this type of work. If you don’t know exactly what it is, a matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows… read more
In a blog post on its Dutch website, Microsoft said that the next version of Windows, Windows 8, is in the works, but that the new operating system will not hit the market for about two years.
The news came at the bottom of a post commemorating Windows 7’s one-year anniversary,… read more
Robots represent the most sophisticated approach of hi-tech innovations and play a significant role in multimedia world. As robots have advanced in their designs and functionality, many artists tried to create some conceptual work on robots that we are going to showcase as Robot Artwork.
Here, we are showcasing 45 most… read more
We’re inviting you to take a walk on the wild side with our latest iPhone photo gallery that highlights some amazing captures in the world of wildlife photography.
From close-ups of creepy-crawlies, to frogs that look good enough to kiss, and a deer that could give Bambi a run for his… read more
Whether you’re a hardcore gamer or not, there’s always a new and exciting game in development that when you hear about it, you’re eager to play. This is the case with Quake Live and while it’s not necessarily new, I think the game speaks for itself in terms of the… read more
It hit the doorstep, all blushing pink in colour… Ricoh’s latest entry into the compact stakes – the Ricoh CX4. This pink is a startling colour and, just to set your mind at peace, it’s also available in a more sedate silver or black. Phew!
Seemingly a run-of-the-mill digicam, the CX4… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
China’s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping has launched an official online map service called Map World. It allows users to explore and search for specific locations.
The service is simple to navigate, even though it’s in Chinese. A zoom slider on the left and various views (map or satellite) populate… read more
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
At first the Canon PowerShot S95 seems to be just another point-and-shooter: compact, all black and stylish. Then a quick glance over the specs and external controls leads you to think otherwise.
Canon Powershot S95 Features
The CCD has 10.0 megapixels; the lens is a fast f2 zoom that has a range… read more