Some Cool Links for Photography Addicts

Another fabulous week in the world of photography passes us by, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling this weeks list of tutorials, photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This comprehensive list contains some truly wonderful works by some talented artists and photographers, and the Toad hopes… read more

Useful Adobe Air Applications for Web Designers

Useful Adobe Air Applications for Web Designers

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Timely Tax Deduction Tips for Freelancers

The year is winding down and once the holidays are over, tax season is upon us. As a freelancer, there are certain things you should be thinking about before 2011 is over to set yourself up for some tax benefits in 2012.

We’ll delve into a couple of timely tips,… read more

Create a Kung Fu Panda Diptych in Adobe Illustrator CS5 – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Tuts+ Premium Tutorial, which is available exclusively for Premium members. In this tutorial learn how to create a WoW inspired Kung Fu Panda character illustration. It’s time for some vector kung fu. You can view some key images from this tutorial on our Premium Tuts+ site.

This… read more

Our 50 Favorite Web Developers Resources and Tools from 2011

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As a developer, anything that can save you just a little bit of time is well worth its weight in gold. If you agree with that statement, you will love this. What we have for you is our selection of the best, the most useful… read more

Quick Tip: How to Use the Transform Panel as a Calculator with Adobe Illustrator

I bet that you’ve been working in Adobe Illustrator and had to use a calculator for mathematically aligning elements and designs. Forget that,
with this Quick Tip you will learn how to use the Transform Panel as a calculator. This is a handy tip if you need to scale, position… read more

Goals and Achievements This Year and Into the Future

It’s coming towards the end of the year where traditionally people will set New Years Resolutions, which ultimately dooms them into failing and feeling bad and we become envious and joyful of those rare few who managed to keep them.

In today’s article, we’re getting nosey and finding out what people… read more

50 Useful and Free Seamless Pattern Sets

Employing seamless patterns are an extraordinary way to give your design some additional depth and personality. Either by delicately highlighting important areas or for producing a background that will elevate your layout design to top notch status.

In this post you will unearth all types of assorted patterns; for example fabrics,… read more

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15 Awesome Christmas Gifts for Digital Illustrators and Designers

As we count down the days until Christmas, it’s time to make our lists and check them twice. Today we have an awesome gift guide full of hand picked goodies for illustrators and designers. Make sure to link this post on Twitter, Facebook and G+ – you never know –… read more

Best Of 2011: Ultimate Collection Of High Quality Photoshop Tutorials

Every so often, you may discover it complicated to search for some of the highest quality Photoshop tutorials by means of search engines. Seeing that most of time, approximately all tutorials would tag themselves to be excellent, high quality or even the best Photoshop tutorial you can get. When exploring… read more

Create a Steel, Vector Power Button Set

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a steel vector power button set in Adobe Illustrator. A power button symbol can be used on a interface design or as a positive digital metaphor in your design work. Let’s get to work using numerous shape building techniques, combined… read more

How to Craft a Smart Startup Exit Strategy

Jason Lemkin is vice president of web business services at Adobe and former CEO of EchoSign. His operational experience spans the business development, sales, legal, human resource and finance fields, and he is an acknowledged expert in the field of electronic signature and electronic contracting.

Entrepreneurs often speak of their startups… read more

15+ Best Desktop Publishing Resources and Beginner Tips

Desktop publishing has become a critical business skill today, and the use of the Internet means that creation of print content is no longer the only consideration.

Now the documents you create likely have to be displayed in both print and on the web.

This article looks at how to determine… read more

How To Make A Website In Adobe Photoshop

Once or twice a week I like to come up with articles that really expose my viewers to the various types of tutorials that they need to get their latest design projects off the ground. I have rounded up an amazing collection of high quality tutorials on how to make… read more

Creating a Simple, Snowy Seamless Pattern

If you’re in the north of the northern hemisphere as I am, it’s coming towards winter. With the holidays coming up, we’re hoping for a white holiday! In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a very basic snowy seamless pattern. It is aimed at those who… read more

What’s new for designers, December 2011

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Why Apple Is Winning the Mobile Video Format War … For Now

Jeroen Wijering is the creator of the incredibly successful JW Player, which has generated millions of downloads since its release in 2005. In 2007 he co-founded LongTail Video, focusing on a full-fledged online video platform that includes encoding, delivery, syndication and advertising.

The mobile video space has begun to consolidate. In… read more

What It Takes to Build a Thriving Design Business on the Web

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Jesse Thomas founded the creative agency JESS3 as a student in 2007. In a few short years, he managed to climb an impressive entrepreneurial ladder. The company has completed projects for Facebook, Google and NIKEiD, among dozens of other… read more

Announcing the UPrinting Creative Suite Pillows Giveaway Winners!

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Hands on With Twitter’s TweetDeck

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Installation is now like a standard Windows application. No Air here.

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TweetDeck‘s conversion from… read more

Bug in Adobe Reader Could Endanger Your PC

Describing a vulnerability in some of its reader software as “critical,” Adobe identified a flaw that could “potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”

We’re not just talking about your mom’s e-books. Adobe says hackers have used this flaw in targeted attacks against at least… read more

Create a Cute Robot Using Adobe Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Tuts+ Premium tutorial, which is available exclusively for Premium members. This tutorial contains unusual technique for creating Opacity Masks and plenty of effective techniques that allow us to achieve stunning results. This tutorial is made by Iaroslav Lazunov and a professional and in-demand designer Sant Valentin…. read more

Create a Detailed Toilet Plunger Illustration

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a toilet plunger illustration. You’ll use basic shape building techniques, along with advanced Illustrator tools, to compose the best plunger artwork you’ve ever made. You can use these techniques you’ll learn to create numerous household tools as well.

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Create a… read more

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Creating a Realistic Curtain

Adobe Illustrator has an amazing feature that allows us create many realistic illustrations. Today we will have the opportunity to practice with the Mesh Tool once again. We will use it to create an interesting damask curtain. The Mesh Tool will help us to create the illusion of the silk look… read more

Create a Fabric Textured Web Layout Using Photoshop

This tutorial is another collaboration with a very good friend Ciursa Ionut. In this web design tutorial we will create a portfolio web layout using fabric textures. You will be taken through the process of designing the logo using Adobe Illustrator, creating spotlights for the "services" area and how to… read more

Lightroom and Retouching

Today’s post has two purposes: 1) To show you some retouching presets that I created a while back and, 2) to let you know I’m teaching a free live webcast tonight on retouching (part of NAPP’s Retouch Week). So… first. A while back I released some retouching presets for the… read more

Designer Spotlight: Interview With Illustrative Designer Von Glitschka

As we turn our designer spotlight on once again, this time we have it fixed on Illustrative Designer Von Glitschka of Glitschka Studios. With years of design experience under his belt, and an artistic background to boot, Von has made a lasting impression on the field where he has made… read more

Slow Motion Bullet – Shooting a detonator

A photomanipulation made using the photo of dynamite and a detonator / Adobe Photoshop

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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: 30+ Creative And Useful Tips

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful Adobe Photoshop tutorials from around the web from the month of October 2011. You’ll find everything from Creating… read more

Working with Orthographic Projections and Basic Isometrics

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Cody Walker was first published on November 25th 2008.

This is the first part in a series of tutorials about Isometrics. Isometric projections are a system of drawing… read more

Free Set of Adobe Photoshop Suite CS5 Folder Icons

Free Set of Adobe Photoshop Suite CS5 Folder Icons

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Check Out the New Tuts+ Premium

Over 45,000 people have joined Tuts+ Premium since it was first launched more than 3 years ago. Today, we’re very happy to announce a complete overhaul, including a beautiful redesign, 27 popular educational eBooks, member-only forums, and a collection of in-depth video courses teaching you one skill from top to… read more

Best of the Vector Web – November 2011

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating interactive magazines in InDesign, which are destined for the iPad. We also work with basic geometric shapes in Illustrator, learn the… read more

Tool Reveals Which Celebs, Models Have Been Photoshopped

Researchers have finally come up with the answer to a question that’s plagued us all for years: “Just how much Photoshopping did that magazine cover model get?”

Researchers at the Department of Science at Dartmouth College have developed a software tool that can rate photographs based on how much they have… read more

50 Fresh And Free PSD Files For Your Next Design

Adobe Photoshop has a prominent place among all the most advanced tools used in graphic designing and many designers cannot even think about creating a design without using Photoshop. With Photoshop installed on the computer, designers can save time by using high quality PSD files. Such PSD files also come… read more

20 Festive Holiday Theme Tutorials from Vectortuts+

With the holidays fast approaching we have bundled together a collection festive illustration and decoration tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from effects to illustration there’s plenty of projects to keep you busy during the silly season.

Quick Tip: Make a Cut Out Gift Tag with Adobe… read more

52 Superb Free Icon Sets For Mac

If you own a Mac, you probably know that the software on these machines is often stunningly well designed, and in particular Mac icons are renowned for being gorgeous, or even ‘lickable’ to borrow the words of Jobs.

These beautiful icons are made not only by Apple designers, but by designers from around the… read more

How to Make a Smokin’ Nightclub Flyer

Nightclub flyers are a staple of club events and parties. Like other promotional tools, they should provide the who, what, where and when of the event.  But in addition to providing the essentials, nightclub flyers are supposed to be eye candy that attract guests and help whet their appetite for the upcoming… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a Floral Repeating Pattern

Learn how to create a repeating floral pattern that’s perfect for gift wrap, desktop wallpapers or textile designs. This tutorial uses one of our very own free vector packs and is great for readers with a beginner to intermediate skill level.

Step 1

Create a new 750 px by 600 px CMYK… read more

Beginner Tutorial: Easy Clock Icon on Illustrator

Hi everyone, today we’re going to do a really simple exercise on creating this slick clock icon on Adobe Illustrator. If you’re beginning in using this software, well this tutorial will be very suitable for you, so let’s begin!

Just a little reminder: this is a beginner tutorial, even though some… read more

Choosing a Photography Workshop Or Tour

It’s in the gloom of the Northern hemisphere’s winter that many people start planning trips for the new year. It’s also a time some of us upgrade our cameras when the big sales hit in December and begin looking for a teacher to help them get more out of it…. read more

2011 Graphic Designer Survey Raffle Winner Announcement!

Thank you to everyone who answered our 2011 Graphic Designer Survey – we got around 10,000 entries, which was nothing short of overwhelming! As promised, we ran entries submitted within the qualifying time period through our electronic raffle, and now we have a winner:

Congratulations to Kim Getker for winning… read more

Artist Illustrates Finely Detailed Comic Book Magazine Cover [TIMELAPSE VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

In this 11-minute timelapse video, freelance designer Dei Gaztelumendi illustrates a cover for comic book magazine Xabiroi from start to finish.

In a post on his personal blog, Gaztelumendi says that he was given free reign to… read more

Quick Tip: Creating Live Captions in InDesign CS5

Live captions are perfect for adding descriptions to images placed within an InDesign document. InDesign uses the metadata from an imported file and generates a text frame. For example, if you have a contact sheet set up from an image library you can use Live Caption to automatically add descriptions… read more

RAW Processing for a Poppy High Contrast Look – Weekly Lightroom Edit Episode 1

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This is the written article for our Weekly Lightroom Edit – Episode 1 that was released on November 18, 2011 on SLR Lounge. To view this tutorial in video form, click here.

The nice thing about doing written tutorials is that I get to include a bit more explanation… read more

How to Improve as a Graphic Designer

One of the major threats to your career as a graphic designer is to let your work stagnate and your improvement slow down. It’s very easy to fall into a comfort zone where you stop exploring new design techniques and simply stick with what you know. This is why most… read more

Techniques in responsive web design

We’ve talked a lot about responsive design here on Webdesigner Depot, and shared a lot of valuable resources. Today we’re sharing another valuable resource: at the end of this article are details for getting a discount on Chris Converse’s responsive design course on MightyDeals.

CSS3 media queries allow us to dynamically… read more

Adobe Creative Suite Pillows Giveaway from UPrinting!

UPrinting is giving away two (2) Adobe Creative Sleep sets of 10 pillows to two (2) lucky readers of the You The Designer blog!

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Here’s what you need to do so you can win. All 3 steps are required!

1. Make… read more

Skip the Lines: 13 Black Friday Sales You Can Snag on the Web

When did Black Friday get so confusing?

Some deals are happening all weekend, while others are only taking place at specific times. Companies have merged traditional in-stores deals with web specials. Some even extend bargain periods all the way into Cyber Monday, the traditional big day for online shopping.

Technology has… read more

infinite sky

I participated in the Adobe Imagination Challenge
and they chose my image to be one of the 10 finalists, the picture that gets the most votes wins. So i need your help !
I would be very pleased if some of you could help me… read more

How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js

The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation.

The canvas element makes it possible to integrate drawings and animations… read more

Free Stuff: Brush Pilot Giveaway and Cyber Monday Coupon Code

Ok, we have a holiday on our hands soon and I’m feeling like some of of you might want some free software. It’s been a while since we’ve had a Brush Pilot giveaway here on BittBox, so I think Thanksgiving week would be a perfect time. I’m giving away 5… read more

40+ High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Once or twice a week I like to come up with articles that really expose my viewers to the various types of tutorials that they need to get their latest design projects off the ground. I have rounded up an amazing collection of high quality tutorials from around the web… read more

Exporting From Photoshop

Congratulations. You’ve just completed a pixel-perfect mock-up of an app, and you’ve gotten the nod from everyone on the team. All that’s left to do is save the tens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of production assets required to bring it to life.

It’s probably the least interesting part of designing… read more

Branding and the importance of consistent design

When you start working with clients you have to understand that the work you produce is not just about how good or bad a design is. It has a lot to do with the way the design fits into the wider spectrum of things.

Does this design fall in line with… read more

NAPP President Asks Adobe to Reconsider New Upgrade Policy

Yesterday, on his blog, in an open letter to Adobe, National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) President, Scott Kelby asked Adobe to reconsider a new upgrade policy that took most Photoshop users by surprise. The new policy would force anyone using CS4 or earlier to upgrade to CS5 before they… read more

40 Useful Photoshop Free Plugins And Filters

Traditionally plugins are an amateurish photographer’s best friend who used to take photographs, fired up Photoshop, and applied some preset filters in order to have a realistically professional image. Skilled photographers have been acknowledged to bring plugins into play as a base and after that tweak and include effects to… read more

Create a Business Icon from Scratch an Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Business icons are one of the most poplar vector illustrations. As with all vectors in general, business icons are scalable which makes them perfect for use in web design. The best way to create an icon is to use one of the vector based programs, such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel… read more

3 Mistakes Web Programmers Need to Stop Making

Jonathan Goldford is a partner at JG Visual, an Internet strategy company that works with organizations to develop and implement their online presence. You can connect with Jonathan on the JG Visual Facebook page.

Sometimes as programmers, we forget that 99.9% of the population doesn’t care how a piece of text,… read more

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

Create an Elegant Greeting Card with Vintage Christmas Baubles on Background in Photoshop CS5

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Sony SLT-A77 Review

In recent months it was obvious that Sony and Panasonic had left the upper end DSLR to others … such as Nikon and Canon.

Until now! And this one is a big mother… the Sony SLT-A77!

Loaded with battery, card and the supplied f2/16-50 SSM lens the camera weighed in at 1.3kg,… read more

How to Create a Cross-Stitch of a Picture Using Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a Cross-Stitch of a Picture Using Adobe Illustrator

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Learning to Code for the Web Interactively at W3Schools

As I progress in my path as a designer, I realized that it was probably time that I learned to make my own website. My instinct was to jump right into using Adobe Dreamweaver, but I remember an old boss telling me that most people have problems with that software… read more

Wacom Inkling Turns Sketches into Vectors — Should You Buy It? [REVIEW]

When we first heard about Wacom’s new Inkling device we got excited: Imagine picking up a pen and paper, drawing whatever you want, and having it magically show up on your computer in a variety of formats. Add to that the ability to create new pages and layers on the… read more

Quick Tip: How to Cell Shade and add Texture to a Vector Comic Character

This tutorial will show you how to create a cell shaded character in Adobe Illustrator, this is a fast technique utilizing the Live Paint bucket for block coloring, the gradient tool to add depth and form, and masked blended shapes for texture.

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We will begin with the outlines already made…. read more

Freelance Toolkit: How to Get Started Video Blogging

It was just a few years ago when the major bottleneck for websites was producing content — you had to be an expert in web design AND a good writer to put content on the web. Video production was even more difficult with bandwidth issues, dozens of formats to… read more

Nikon V1 Review

Micro, mirrorless cameras are upon us, with sales for the pioneers — Olympus and Panasonic — soaring as people welcome the small, clever, interchangeable lens models with open arms.

Nikon and Canon have dragged their feet on this evolution with the former only now recognising the market demand with a pair… read more

Create a 50s ad poster in Illustrator

It seems that the 50s are back, not just in advertising and design, but also on clothes, TV shows, and elsewhere.

I honestly think this is one of the most interesting and creative eras for advertisement; some ads are really memorable and funny.

So, inspired by that I decided to make a… read more

How to Draw Drapery in Photoshop

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners,… read more

How to Create a Vector Stamp Set in Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a vintage, vector stamp set in Adobe Illustrator. Learn how to build a stamp illustration, shape by shape. We’ll construct the stamp border vector shape, highlight the edges, create the branding, and give the vector postage stamp a vintage texture,… read more

How to Create a Bright Background in an Origami Style Using Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a Bright Background in an Origami Style Using Adobe Illustrator

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Photo Manipulation Tutorials: 50+ Wickedly Creative Tips

Since our last Photoshop tutorial titled:  Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: Collection of Amazing Tips And Tricks , we got so much positive feedback that we decided to put together another collection of tutorials concentrating on photo manipulation. In this post, you’ll find everything from How to Create Cityscape Concept Art… read more

50 Photoshop Tutorials For High Quality Photo Editing

Although for editing your photos digitally, there are numbers of different photo editing software and tools available yet Adobe Photoshop is the most commonly used and well accepted photo editing software that is being used all over the world not only by pros but also by the novices.

With Photoshop, it’s… read more

15 Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Isometric Illustrations

We’re all looking to improve our vector illustration skills, and if your focus is on learning illustration or icon design, then getting familiar with how to use Adobe Illustrator to create isometric drawings will improve your technical illustration skills greatly. Learning how to use Illustrator to create isometric diagrams, set… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.111)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our… read more

How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5

How to create an Impressive New Year 2012 card with Neon text in Photoshop CS5

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Quick Tip: Designing a Business Card with InDesign CS5

Today we are going to take a business card design from first idea to preparing the file for print. So whether you need a business card for yourself or a client read on.

Step 1

Start sketching out a few ideas for your card, think about any special attributes you want to… read more

Create a Vector Bamboo Forest with Blends, Brushes and Profiles

In today’s tutorial you’ll learn how to create a bamboo vector illustration with the help of custom art and pattern brushes, blends and profiles on strokes in Adobe Illustrator CS5. Vector bamboo is an excellent element to use in your work to give a classic Japanese fine art print feel,… read more

Create A Electric Guitar in Illustrator

When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

In the following tutorial you will learn to create an electric guitar. We will use vector shape… read more

Ode To a Wooden Spoon – How The Right Tool Can Help You Design Better

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Every chef has their favorite tool. Mine happens to be a wooden spoon I’ve had since forever. I call it “Suzie” (because I’m a weirdo). Some people actually keep their wooden spoons in the family for generations – talk about a collector’s item! Today, I’m… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Nov 7-Nov 13, 2011

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 quick… read more

Best of the Week #196

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

Adobe Admits: Apple Won, Flash For Mobile is Done, HTML5 is the Future

Adobe developer relations lead Mike Chambers has posted a lengthy explanation of why the company decided stop development of the mobile browser version of Flash.

The response comes as the health of the entire Flash ecosystem is in doubt. Adobe announced that Flash Player 11.1 would be the last version of… read more

Adobe Adds New Choices With the Adobe Creative Cloud; Changes Upgrade Policy

Earlier this week, Adobe revealed some new details about the Adobe Creative Cloud, a new initiative that they believe will "radically redefine the creative process." It will allow users to purchase a subscription for most of Adobe’s products for about the same price as your current monthly mobile phone plan…. read more

Create a Powerful Human Disintegration Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will create a powerful, and emotional human disintegration effect in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Character Sky Meteors Light (Obsidian Dawn) Splatters Step 1 Let’s start by creating a new document in Adobe Photoshop…. read more

Adobe Updates Flash Player for Android, Promises Future Security Updates

The Flash Player for mobile devices may be dead, but it’s not going to disappear just yet. Adobe has released Flash Player 11.1 for Android, bringing several security updates and fixes.

The new version fixes many critical memory corruption, stack overflow and buffer overflow vulnerabilities, and is recommended for all… read more

Community: Peer Review

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we’re launching a special community post that will help some of our readers take their images to the next level. Inspired by the Friday Photo Critique over on Phototuts+, we have gathered together some of the Vectortuts+ writers… read more

20 awesome and creative portrait ideas

Huge self portrait mosaic made of thousands of plastic bottle caps

Portraits in Ink and Tea

Portraits made with old cassettes…

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya.

Embroidered portraits

Geometric portraits

Pen portrait

The Self-Landscapes of Levi van Veluw

Written Portraits

Double Exposure Portraits

Muhammad Ali portrait created using 1,300 punching bags

Gradient mesh portraits

Paper portraits

Harley-Davidson ad

Adobe Mosaic Collection

Incredible pencil portraits

Family… read more

How to Create a 3D Film Strip Using Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a 3D Film Strip Using Adobe Illustrator

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10 Free Apps for Working with Video

Video has become a must-have for every website or blog aiming to enhance its presence online. It’s a common practice that video-related orders are often assigned to freelancers, and these are not only simple video editing tasks, but the preparation of how-to’s, demos, screencasts, video embedding and distribution as… read more

Firefox Turns 7, Releases a Polished Firefox 8 [REVIEW]

It’s a big week for Mozilla, as Firefox celebrates its seventh birthday and Firefox 8 hits the interwebs.

In recent years, Firefox has lost ground to browsers such as Google Chrome. Yet Firefox remains a significant and important part of the browsing landscape.

Firefox 8 is Mozilla’s fifth major release in 2011…. read more

How to Paint Clouds With Photoshop

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners,… read more

How to Create a Calendar Icon in Illustrator

Learn how to design a calendar icon in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial covers the step-by-step process of designing this vector icon in Illustrator using tools such as: shape building tools, brushes, a round corner script, and multiple gradient colors. This calendar icon can be used in the next design or… read more

Establishing Your Grid In Photoshop

Creating a grid is typically one of the very first things you do when starting a design comp. After all, it provides the basic structure on which the rest of your design will lie. In this article, we’ll provide two different methods for efficiently establishing a grid. These methods enable… read more

40+ Great Examples of Facebook Fan Pages

Facebook has become an essential part of promoting a website or service online. Small blogs, discussion forums and huge commercial companies such as Coca-Cola and McDonalds are all using Facebook to promote their brand and interact with fans and customers.

Facebook fan pages are at the heart of any Facebook promotion… read more

Fantastic Illustrations by Raynkazuya

Mario Wibisono aka raynkazuya is a digital artist from Jakarta; the capital and the largest city of Indonesia. Mario’s style is part of one beautiful fantasy world, armed with Wacom Intuos 3, optical mouse and of course Adobe Photoshop. Mario will take you on a journey where your imagination has… read more

The Most Popular Post Production Software [POLL RESULTS]

In a recent dPS reader poll we asked our community about the post production software that they use most. The results are in (with over 22,000 responses) and here’s the state of play in the post production world of our readers.

Lightroom is way out in front with Photoshop CS and… read more

Castle.so: Drag-and-Drop File Sharing For Your Browser

From email attachments to images you want to share on Twitter, files can still be frustrating to share. There’s dozens of file sharing apps, ranging from semi-shady sites covered in ads to popular desktop tools like Cloud.app that let you upload files and share them with a stylish landing page…. read more

Wacom Intuos4 review

As maybe you have read on my facebook fan page, i started a new awesome partnership with Wacom.
So, i’ll test some of their products and maybe we will make some nice giveaways :)

The Intuos4 model, which I tested for this first review, it’s a fantastic tablet… read more