Google Chrome Version 6 Arrives on Browser’s Second Birthday

It’s hard to believe that two years have passed since the Chrome browser first hit the web. In that time, Chrome has come to control more than 7.5% of the worldwide browser market, according to Net Marketshare. Sure, Internet Explorer and Firefox hold 60.4% and 22.9% respectively, but if one… read more

Artistic Expressions: Needlework

Some things can be so complex. Isn’t it great that Photoshop makes them easy? All you need to know is how things work and you can do whatever your imagination conjures up.

One of the billboards in my Times Square painting contains a model wearing an intricate, crocheted top. I’ve no… read more

45 Fantastic and Splendid Digital Painting Tutorials

We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more

30 Fantastic and Splendid Digital Painting Tutorials

We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more

Creating Psychedelic Character Art Using Adobe Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to make a psychedelic comic style character and background with Adobe Illustrator, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

Starting with a hand… read more

Daily Inspiration #603

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

Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers

For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop.

It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put… read more

40 Tutorials and Techniques for Creating Business Logos

A logo alludes to its company’s identity in its appearance and visual impact; that’s how it starts branding. Seeing how important it is, we designers must not underestimate the potential of this simple graphic, and instead hone our skills as much as possible in creating and polishing logos,… read more

10 Quick and Easy Tips to improve your Photography

It’s a new week and I’ve got a new set of tips to improve your photography. This week’s tips focus on planning and decision making while taking your shots…. Eventually it will feel like second nature and you won’t even be aware of the process, until then… keep these tips… read more

The Complete Overview of Indie Graphics Software for Mac

Everyone knows about the big guns in the graphics field. Adobe is pretty much the unchallenged master of image editing with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. Adobe’s InDesign shares the digital publishing field, albeit grudgingly, with Quark’s QuarkXPress. Serious graphic designers find themselves stuck between these two large corporations, due in… read more

Print Tutorial: Creating A Magazine Cover

By Cameron Chapman

Graphic design in a print environment can be a nice change for someone who normally does web design. It’s a slightly different skillset, but still incorporates a lot of the same concepts. Print projects can be an exciting new challenge, something that lets a designer stretch their creativity… read more

The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.53)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Interactive PDFs

InDesign CS5 now offers a choice of exporting for print and a brand-new interactive PDF format to fulfill your interactive needs. The interactive PDF format supports a robust export function that takes advantage of the ability in InDesign CS5 to create multiple page sizes and includes a range of interactive… read more

How to Make a Flesh Ripping Zombie Type Treatment

When Horror Site Freddy in Space recently ran "Romero Week" they asked Nik Holmes to provide a type treatment to tie the articles together. Could you possibly think of a better Vector Artist for the job? Among one of the best illustrators of this genre, Nik will take you… read more

Best of the Week #134

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Profile: Getting into Character with Cartoonist George Coghill

From bad jokes to sultry devil girls, Cartoon Character Designer George Coghill knows how to inject some fun into life. He set aside some time to talk with us about everything from the importance of knowing how to run a business to what it’s like to see his characters come… read more

Mozilla’s Mobile Browser Alpha Hits Android and Nokia N900 [PICS]

Mozilla has just released the Fennec 2.0 Alpha for Nokia N900 and Android 2.0+ devices.

Fennec is the code name for Firefox mobile and includes the ability to install browser add-ons and sync with the desktop version of Firefox.

The new version comes with built-in support for Firefox Sync (what… read more

Interview with Tim and Bram Vanhaeren from Into1

Tim and Bram Vanhaeren, belgium based artists, run a creative studio focused on graphic design. Read how the brothers get along working together

1. First of all we would like to thank you both for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art… read more

Illustrator Turns Cute Animal Meme into an Art [PICS]

Do you like adorable animals? Do you like adorable animals doing silly things? Do you like adorable animals doing silly things that have become Internet famous? Well, then, we’ve found your new favorite artist, a veritable Van Gogh of virality: Joshua Ellingson.

The San Francisco-based illustrator got a dose of Internet… read more

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give… read more

Is a color just a color?

For centuries color has been used to provide distinction between classes, businesses, kings, courts and everything else in between. So what exactly is in a color? Does it matter that purple has been used in connotations with royalty? Does it matter that most fast food places logos are red to… read more

10 Good and 10 Bad Things About Adobe’s Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is a tool for making web sites. Learning Dreamweaver can be a bit of an uphill struggle if you are new to either web design, html or the program itself. When you first open it, even the welcome screen can look daunting, there seems to be 1000 tools you… read more

Create a Monochrome Portrait in Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to modify a stock image in Adobe Photoshop and how to use various blends and techniques within Adobe Illustrator to create a soft monochrome portrait, then we have an… read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

Sony A33 and A55 DSLRs [REVIEW]

It’s been a great year for the DSLR. Not only have we seen the top models capture stills of amazing quality, leading to many serious workers questioning the need for medium format digital capture … and then, to many an amazed onlooker, we’ve seen TV series and feature films shot… read more

Art of Type: Out of Scale

There was a time when few designers dared to venture into the murky world of the Adobe InDesign justification controls. The good news is that more and more users are starting to take charge of them. The bad news is one of them—the powerful glyph scaling control, unique to InDesign—is… read more

Six New Features in Dreamweaver CS5

Every upgrade brings something new, but Dreamweaver CS5 brings more goodies than most previous upgrades, and you can put these new features to use right away. Here’s how to use some of the coolest new features, from troubleshooting CSS with the new inspect option, to adding advanced Ajax and jQuery… read more

Samsung Releases Teaser for Galaxy Tab Android Tablet [VIDEO]

Samsung has just released a teaser video for its upcoming Android tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The Galaxy Tab website and SamsungUSA’s YouTube channel both host the video for the 7-inch device that is set to debut in Berlin on September 2.

The Galaxy Tab looks like a direct extension of the… read more

Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch

MOVE OVER MOUSE, THERE’S SOMETHING HANDIER

When the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch arrived for review, I tore into the beautifully designed packaging, eager to give it a test drive on my laptop. I quickly found that this sleek little tablet shines in its intended use—as a consumer-priced tablet for travel… read more

Listerine: Tooth Guard illustration

Illustration for Listerine store advertising.
The illustration is based on a hand-sketch and then entirely produced in Adobe Photoshop CS3.

Client: Listerine
Agency: Locomotive – Stockholm
Year: 2010

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Flash Catalyst Tutorial 101 – Creating an interactive video gallery (quickly!) without writing any code

Written by Bear Travis + Tara Feener exclusively for WebDesignDev.com.

Tara and Bear are both members of the Flash Catalyst development team at Adobe, and, along with Matthew Cannizzoro, author the FlashCats blog (flashcats.net)

First things first: we think it’s easiest to learn by example. So to introduce you to using Adobe®… read more

100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Conferences and Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming listings, check… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Conical Gradient with Adobe Illustrator, in Two Minutes!

Unfortunately, Adobe Illustrator doesn’t come with a conical gradient setting, although some vector programs, such as Corel Draw do. Using features and tools found in Adobe Illustrator, you can create an adjustable conical gradient to use in your work, and it only takes two minutes!

Introduction

Adobe Illustrator contains two styles of… read more

How to Put Your Mac on a Diet With Xslimmer

Everyone knows that apples are a healthy food—hence the saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor way”. But people rarely think to ask what Apples eat. When your Mac starts gobbling up too much fattening hard drive space, it’s time to call in a different kind of doctor. One… read more

How Limitations Improve Design

We often complain about the multitude of limitations which we’re faced with every day as designers.

From browsers, to screen resolutions, to user interactions, we seem to constantly be struggling to find some way of thinking outside the tiny little box of “best practice” which we’re constrained by.

Limitations are abundant but… read more

40 New And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

The Internet is bursting with knowledge. Whatever you want is available at your fingertips, and learning new techniques is so easy with the load of useful tutorials that guide you step by step. Adobe Illustrator is powerful indeed, but when used right, it can perform feats that humans will marvel… read more

55 Excellent Examples of Websites Using HTML5

HTML5 is the new and updated version of the web standard and famous HTML. HTML5 has tons of new features, techniques and elements that allow designers to create new and beautiful stuff. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser… read more

16-bit Vs. 32-bit Vs. 64-bit: What Does it All Mean?

A Guest post by Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist

In digital photography, there’s a lot of talk about bits:

12-bit vs 14-bit Analog to Digital Converters (ADC)
8-bit vs 16-bit color
32-bit vs 64-bit Photoshop

But, what does it all mean? Although more bits generally means better quality processing, it’s not always that simple. Sometimes you… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Aug 15-Aug 21, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a… read more

Balancing Inspiration and Individuality

I love it when a good story is broken down so that even the simplest of minds can understand. I’m not the smartest, fastest or most creative person in the world, so I don’t like using a lot of big words or fancy jargon to try and impress you —… read more

How To: Fix Adobe InDesign to PDF Character Conversion Problem

How To: Fix Adobe InDesign to PDF Character Conversion Problem

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12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics application, is the tool you use when you need flexible, scalable vector graphics such as logos and artwork… read more

Design Makeover: S Virginia Higher Ed Center

A Smarter Logo

Client:
Southern Virginia Higher Education Center www.svhed.org

BEFORE

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center’s logo is based on an abstract representation of the building itself, which stands on a hill overlooking a river.

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center calls itself an “educational connector,” in the words of Communications Manager… read more

GridIron Flow: A Visual File Workflow for Designers

In my last software review, I covered Blast, an application that shows you the recent files you’ve open or modified. In a similar spirit – but with more of a creative, professional spin – I’d like to introduce you to GridIron Software’s Flow.

Flow’s main goal is to help… read more

Envato’s 2010 Birthday Bundle – $20 For $400 Worth of Value

Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of value for only $20.

The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six code packages… read more

Head Up in the Clouds: Web Design that Uses Sky Elements

It is always amazing to designer incorporating different element of nature in their designs. This time the inspiration is cloud, sky and blue palette colors. In this post we are featuring some really beautiful website that used sky, cloud images and illustrations in their design.
Some of this website used… read more

Trapcode Particular 2

GREAT PARTICLE SYSTEM PLUG-IN GETS EVEN BETTER

Regarding Red Giant Software’s Trapcode Particular 2.0, I could basically end the review with an emphasis on the “2” (meaning 2 is better than 1) but I’d really get in trouble with the layout team. Seriously though, if you use Adobe After Effects, you… read more

A Sneak Peek at Premium for Non-members

Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added over 60 Premium tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 10,000 members have formed our unique Premium community. Learn more about the material and resources available to Premium members to Join Premium today.

Join… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.50)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Do you tend to under or over expose your photos?

OK, weird question – I know. But do you find you typically underexpose or overexpose your photos. Here’s why I ask. Believe it or not, It makes a difference when it comes to your Lightroom edits. Years ago, I read a white paper from the late Bruce Fraser. Bruce was… read more

Adobe AIR Apps on Android Phones by Q4 2010

This morning at Adobe’s San Francisco offices, a few lucky press folks were told that some Android device users could be seeing AIR-built apps on their phones as soon as the end of this year.

We’ve seen a few AIR-for-Android demos making the rounds, but it was good to hear from… read more

Use Adobe Fonts in Your Own Web Designs

Typekit, a company doing its part to help bring better typography to the web, has just announced an new partnership with Adobe.

The partnership means that Typekit users can now integrate famous fonts like Myriad, Cooper Black and Adobe Garamond into their own sites and designs.

Adobe took the time… read more

Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 1

Hi everyone, this time I’ve got for you a practical tutorial about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee." In this tutorial you’ll learn to mockup a ready to print background and a couple of additional objects, which will be imported later… read more

Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 2

This is the second part of this tutorial series about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee." In this final part of the two part series, you’ll learn to create a ready to print booklet on InDesign, work with master pages, text,… read more

Olympus PEN E-PL1 [REVIEW]

Olympus keeps pushing the PEN, obviously feeding a market need. Now we see an entry level Micro Four Thirds model – the Olympus PEN E-PL1 – that should satisfy the less well-heeled and tech-challenged photographers out there.

It’s hard to deny the physical attractions of the new PEN: the review camera… read more

25 Useful Videos and Presentations for Designers

With the huge number of design-related conferences and events around the world, the Web gives those of us who cannot attend them a great opportunity to listen and benefit from their great and talented speakers. To aid in this, here we present some of the best videos, interviews and presentations… read more

Interview with Sanjay Patel

Sanjay Patel is a animator and illustrator from Southern California who was born in the UK. Sanjay works as a supervising animator and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios, where he has worked on numerous films, including Monsters, Inc, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Ratatouille, The… read more

Can Flash Move Forward?

There has been a long debate about Adobe Vs. Apple, or even Flash Vs. HTML5. Whatever side of the fence you are on—you probably won’t be changing your mind anytime soon. Flash brings a lot of features and creativity for web designers, but then again the promise of HTML5, CSS3… read more

Create a Glowing Neon Sign using the Appearance Palette

This tutorial shows the potential the Appearance Palette in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be building an elaborate neon sign, utilizing the Appearance Palette to speed up the process and remove the need of drawing complex paths.

To understand what is possible with the Appearance Palette, have a look at the image below…. read more

Lightroom Pro Q&A with Nat Coalson

Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how they use and feel about Lightroom:

Today’s Guest: Nat Coalson.

Bio/Intro: Nathaniel Coalson is a travel and fine art photographer, teacher and writer based… read more

12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started With Photoshop

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

Adobe Photoshop, the ubiquitous and industry standard graphics software for photographers, designers, digital artists, as well as casual enthusiasts, can be a baffling application… read more

10 Questions Adobe Won’t Answer About Business Catalyst

10 Questions Adobe Won’t Answer About Business Catalyst

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Most Attractive (39) Corporate Website Designs Of Top Brands

World is changing rapidly and now people are making their fortune on the internet by virtue of a website, and due to this reason a professional website design is so important to achieve a solid and long-lasting impression on customers. It is a well designed corporate website which convey information… read more

5 Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools You Should Try

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

As mobile OSes — especially iPhone and Android — wax and wane, the pressing question remains: How do you choose which mobile devices to develop for and which devices to omit from… read more

Weekly Worth-a-click

A few things to check out while surfing the web today:

• DVD Contest Winner – I had a contest yesterday and the winner of my new Lightroom 3 Power Session DVD is Debi Anderson. Congrats Debi!

• onOne Software is hosting a series of free webinars

• Lightroom 3.2 is now available as… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of SlideshowBox (Amazing Photo Slideshows Using HTML & Pure JavaScript) Giveaway

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could Take A Chance To Win SlideshowBox (Amazing Photo Slideshows Using HTML & Pure JavaScript). We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them SlideshowBox.

Sandeep S
Mrs. gil
Johnny
Lili
Corker

SlideshowBox is an easy to use… read more

Lightroom – Filters or Smart Collections?

A Guest Post by Nick Rains

Once you have added more and more images to your Lightroom catalogue it becomes less easy to find a particular image from the many thousands you have imported. Fortunately, being a digital asset manager Lightroom includes some powerful tools for searching.

You could start with the… read more

Droid 2 Arrives on Verizon This Week

It appears that earlier reports were correct – Verizon has confirmed that the Droid 2 will be available online starting tomorrow, August 11, and in stores on Thursday, August 12.

Most of the details about the successor to the original Droid had already leaked out, but in a statement issued this… read more

News – My New DVD is Out!

I just got a copy of my new Lightroom 3 Power Session DVD today. The DVD is meant for anyone already using Lightroom who needs to get up to speed on the new features in version 3. It’s also available as a Kelby Training online course so you can check… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of July 2010

We’re a week late due to some server trouble last week. Now that we’re back to smooth sailing, we’re bringing you a new edition of Creative Bookmarks. Enjoy!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsCreate Beautiful Abstract Female Art in Photoshop

In this tutorial, from PSDTuts+, you’ll learn how to… read more

35 Fresh and Wanted Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop needs no introduction; everyone knows it — even those who do not have any design background. Knowing your tools inside out really counts. If you really know Photoshop, you can do almost everything with it — be it photo retouching, photo manipulation, creating fantasy scenes or creating wild… read more

Business Card Design Starter Kit: Showcase, Tutorials, Templates

Professionals in any field should always keep business cards on them because you never know when you’ll meet a potential client, partner or like-minded person. Despite their small size, business cards are one of the most powerful and handiest marketing tools. Not only do they create a link between you… read more

Create a Classic American Diner with Perspective Drawing Tools

With the release of Illustrator CS5, Adobe introduces the new Perspective Drawing tool set, which allows you to create images in accurate 1-, 2- or 3-point perspective. Perspective Drawing alleviates tedious measuring and scaling, letting you concentrate on artistry, not arithmetic. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to set up… read more

Samsung NX10 [REVIEW]

I suppose I should not have been surprised when I first set eyes on this camera at a press preview just before Xmas 2009.

Signs of Samsung’s photographic ambition have been evident over the last two years and the company’s release of a pair of very competent compacts (NV24 HD and… read more

30 Incredibly Useful & Fun HTML5 Mobile Apps

With a combined app count that exceeds about 400,000 in the app stores of Apple & Android, why would anyone want to use mobile web apps? Openness and a level playground are the two things that keep web developers going.

It might be in its infancy, but HTML5 is the next… read more

How to Illustrate Dynamic Hair Using Adobe Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool

This tutorial will show you how to create a dynamic hairstyle from a reference image. You will use the Paintbrush Tool, basic skin shading and transparent gradients.

Step 1

I’m going to use a stock image by the wonderful NikxStock, specifically Nervosa. The reason why I’ve chosen this image for the tutorial… read more

Lightroom Pro Q&A with Jeff Revell (JRev!)

Hi everyone. Here’s another in a series of mini-interviews with some of the Lightroom pros out there where they’ve answered a short series of questions about how they use and feel about Lightroom:

Today’s Guest: My good friend Jeff Revell (AKA: Tree Shooter – sorry inside joke)

Bio/Intro: Jeff… read more

5 Innovative Tech Camps for Kids and Teens

Remember in the 80s and early 90s when the kid who shipped off to computer camp every summer was considered a total nerd?

Well that kid probably made some serious cash during the dot-com boom. Those stereotypes have since subsided as new tech camps for kids and teens offer some of… read more

10 Free Web UI Kits and Resources for Designers

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

As designers, we often recycle the same fundamental elements when wireframing or mocking up a design. However, by utilizing a library of reusable web… read more

80+ Useful PSD Templates For Web Designers

Reinventing the wheel is rarely a good idea, and this is especially true when it comes to creative activities such as design. The less time you spend on tedious tasks, the more time you have for expressing your ideas and being original. Fortunatel,y the design community is very generous in… read more

Interview with Self Portrait and 365 Photographer – Anna Gay

I first came across the photography of Anna Gay on her Flickr Account when doing some research for a post on self portraiture and the 365 project. I don’t remember which image first grabbed me but do remember surfing through the work in her 365 day challenge archives and being… read more

Craft An Irresistible Price By Focusing On Your Users

Price influences behavior. In order to craft an excellent user experience, the price — and how your users interact with that price — must be central to the development of the product, especially applications. No user will welcome an application if the cost is prohibitive. This makes price every bit… read more

Using Creativity to Empower

In the constant ins & outs of new technology, creativity and being on the edge it’s refreshing to see something that touches you, makes you think or brings a tear to your eye. Cancer has touched every person at some point in their life, be it a friend, a family… read more

Phantasm CS Publisher

INVALUABLE PLUG-IN FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2-CS4

When working in Illustrator, have you ever thought that it would be nice to have Photoshop-type color adjustments? How about adding a few Acrobat prepress features? Well then, Phantasm CS is the plug-in for you.

Phantasm CS is a three-edition Illustrator plug-in, namely Designer, Studio,… read more

10 Fantastic Apps Used by the 6rounds Team

6rounds is a social entertainment platform that mixes webcam chats, interactive features & social games in a fun and playful video chat environment. If you are bored after keeping in touch with your friends in just 140 characters or with no real one on one conversation, it’s time for you… read more

100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming event listings,… read more

How to Design a Phone Icon in Photoshop

As modern people, we all have a certain attraction to the fresh gadgets offered by latest technology. Here we talking about Phones which I find usually amaze me more than anything. Phones are often reinterpreted by many artists according to their view or outlook of the type. Unsurprisingly, these interpretations… read more

FITC San Francisco 2010

This year I’ll have the chance to attend an FITC event: FITC San Francisco. It will take place from August 17th to 19th in San Francisco and it’s going to be awesome, especially since there’s going to be so many fantastic people attending and speaking at the event. Below you… read more

40 Creative & Brilliant Illustrations for Inspiration

When viewing other artist illustrations, it gives me a charge to improve my own work.  Creating an illustration can be a hard task since it rely s widely imagination and not so much on standards, so looking at others can help set a foundation for your own pieces.  In this… read more

50 Essential Mac Apps for OS X Beginners

So you just unboxed that shiny new Mac, fired it up and heard the glorious chime. Now what? It can be a little bit overwhelming to start from scratch and build a library of useful applications but we’re to help!

Today we’ll take a look at 50 awesome apps that are… read more

Cool Text Effect with the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop CS5

When Adobe started announcing some of the new features of the CS5 version of Photoshop they showed the Puppet Warp tool in which they played with an elephant’s trunk. I was really impressed with that tool but never used it that too much, because of that I decided to give… read more

3 Things to Know about Working in Adobe Bridge

Do you open photos direct into Photoshop or do you use Adobe Bridge? If you don’t use Bridge, there are some good reasons for changing your habits.

You may not realize it but some of how Camera Raw behaves depends on whether you open an image from Bridge or from… read more

Best of the Vector Web – July 2010

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, articles, and freebies for you all to take a look at. Included in this round up are some fantastic… read more

6 Online Tools for Expanding Your Video Strategy

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

Online video continues to be an area with huge growth and expansion for small businesses and brands. Video is such a great way to connect with users… read more

Samsung: Galaxy S Getting Android Froyo Update in September

Samsung has just confirmed that it will be bringing the Android 2.2 update — also known as Froyo — to its Galaxy S devices this September.

The confirmation came via Samsung UK’s Twitter account, which says that “it’s currently in development” and “will be released for all networks at the end… read more

SlideshowBox (Amazing Photo Slideshows Using HTML & Pure JavaScript) Giveaway

SlideshowBox is running a contest, where winners will get 5 Slideshow Box Premium HTML licenses (worth $99 each). Well, you guys know what SlideshowBox is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

SlideshowBox is an easy to use application that enables you to create amazing Flash and HTML… read more