Daily Inspiration #979

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

“Technology Hump” Is Perverted Fun From SNL [VIDEO]

Ever want to see an iPad get it on with an Xbox 360 controller in a diorama hotel room, and with voice “acting” from Saturday Night Live? If you just shouted “yes,” well, that’s an improbably strange, happy coincidence. Saturday Night Live is known for some pretty off-beat humor, but… read more

Matt Damon Talks Sh*t for World Toilet Day

ToiletDay.org and Matt Damon want you to donate your voice — that is your Twitter or Facebook voice — to talk shi*t about the global toilet crisis.

Starting Monday, individuals can authorize ToiletDay.org to post once daily status updates from either their Facebook or Twitter account until World Toilet… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Raven

Our featured sponsor this week is Raven, an innovative new web browser that turns your favorite sites into apps.

Our full review of Raven outlines how much I thoroughly enjoy using this amazingly unique site-specific browser. The app’s Smart Bar allows you to effortlessly switch between your favorite websites and… read more

Cascading Creek House by Bercy Chen Studio

Cascading Creek House by Bercy Chen Studio

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10 Explosive iPhone Fireworks Photos [PICS]

1. The Devil Inside by Jamie Pachomski

This amazing capture shows the glowing red heart of the firework.

Click here… read more

We have two copies of the book jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery to Giveaway

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Today we have two copies of the paperback book jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery, written by Dan Wellman, to give away to two lucky readers. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave… 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

Multimedia (audio, video) buttons PSD

Multimedia (audio, video) buttons PSD

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15 Most Popular Bird Tattoos

15 Most Popular Bird Tattoos

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Google: Mobile Holiday Shopping Searches on the Rise

A quarter of Google searches related to holiday shopping have come from mobile devices– at least in Australia. The search giant’s Australia site saw a 220% spike in shopping searches coming from mobile devices this year.

Australia has the second-highest smartphone usage in the world. Singapore is first. Google… read more

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

Top 10 Productivity Tools For Designers

Let’s face it: the life of the average freelance web designer isn’t always that rose garden you were promised by your drunken 9 to 5 friends down at the pub. You are responsible for everything, from designing to billing, while having to manage your time wisely and efficiently. Here… read more

20+ Ideal Gifts for Photographers

20+ Ideal Gifts for Photographers

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Astounding Chameleon Pictures By Igor Siwanowicz

Astounding Chameleon Pictures By Igor Siwanowicz

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36 Exquisite Mobile iOS and Mac App Website Layouts

36 Exquisite Mobile iOS and Mac App Website Layouts

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Beginner’s Tutorial Coding Web Apps with jQuery Mobile

Beginner’s Tutorial Coding Web Apps with jQuery Mobile

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Free Thanksgiving Clip Art from the Public Domain

Free Thanksgiving Clip Art from the Public Domain

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Grand Chamaco: Artist Of The Day

El Grand Chamaco is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these… read more

Along The Mississippi River Photography

Along The Mississippi River Photography

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4 Ways YouTube Has Changed Broadway

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software, including marketing automation tools.

As Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage.” Increasingly, that stage has grown to include the digital sphere — that means YouTube.

When… read more

Daily Inspiration #973

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

What Will the Next 40 Years of Technology Bring? [CONTEST]

This post is supported by Intel, Sponsors of Tomorrow™ and the world leader in silicon innovation, in celebration of the world’s first microprocessor: the Intel 4004.

In the past 40 years, technology has drastically changed our daily lives. Back then, the Internet was barely in its infancy. The smallest computer was… read more

Meet the New Social Media Correspondent for “The Voice”: Christina Milian [Q&A]

NBC’s The Voice — a singing competition that became a social media powerhouse on TV earlier this year — returns for another season Feb. 5 with added star power: Grammy-nominated singer Christina Milian.

She has been tapped as the show’s new social media correspondent to join host Carson Daly and celebrity… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Oct 31-Nov 6, 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

What You Need to Know About Behavioral Targeting

What You Need to Know About Behavioral Targeting

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What Facebook’s New Features Mean for Journalists

Most of the changes that Facebook announced at its f8 conference have gone into effect (even thought we’re still waiting for Timeline). Most of Facebook’s new tools also are media friendly and create opportunities for journalists to evolve their personal brands and beats.

At Friday’s Mashable Media Summit, Facebook’s journalist… read more

Siri: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Siri’s Debut

After acquiring voice-activated app company Siri in April 2010, Apple integrated the feature with its iPhone 4S…. read more

ALT/1977: We Are Not Time Travelers

ALT/1977: We Are Not Time Travelers

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Create a Nicely Designed Résumé in Seconds with Resume.io

Face it: we all hate writing up a new résumé. Whether you’ve had 2.5 million different jobs or have stayed in the same position for the past 45 years, it’s somehow incredibly frustrating to put down your skills and experience on a piece of paper and get it looking halfway… read more

50+ Creative Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

50+ Creative Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

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Daily Inspiration #970

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

10 Fantastic Typography-Based Calendar Designs

There are plenty of typographic posters that can be seen anywhere, from movie theater lobbies to outside of clubs. Then you have typography on album covers or in logos and, of course, in web design. But there are other items using the same method of font art that are… read more

What Makes An Effective Logo?

Logos are the single most important entity that make your company recognizable to people. This small design is used to identify a brand and set it apart from competitors. The main purpose of a logo is to leave a mark in the viewers mind and make it unforgettable. Logos must… read more

Daily Inspiration #968

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

How To Ensure That Your Product Images On Your Ecommerce Site Work Flawlessly

Running an online business successfully in today’s highly globalized and competitive era is certainly a daunting task.  There are tons of other websites vying to grab the top spots is yet another reason to put extra efforts in the maintenance of an online portal. The main purpose of a business… read more

Ho-Hum to Wow! in Gimp

Some time ago I wrote a blog post called “Turn Ho-Hum Color into WOW! with Photoshop” which involved using the LAB color space to adjust an image. In the interests of those of you who use Gimp, this blog post is a revisit on the topic of dragging color out… read more

How to Create QR Code: Best QR Code Generators

How to Create QR Code: Best QR Code Generators

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40 Free Fonts for Your Professional Designs

40 Free Fonts for Your Professional Designs

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Daily Inspiration #966

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

How to Design an iPhone App in Photoshop

How to Design an iPhone App in Photoshop

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Are Designers Better at Reading This?

Are Designers Better at Reading This?

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Fanpage On Facebook: 20+ Killer Templates To Spruce Up Your Page

Facebook has quickly become the number one social networking site in the world. Whether you use Facebook for business or personal use you know how important it is to driving traffic to your website or blog. Why not set yourself apart from the competition by sprucing up your Facebook page… read more

Siri Gives Apple a Two-Year Advantage Over Google, Says VC

Could Siri, the voice-based virtual assistant for every iPhone 4S owner, constitute a threat to Google’s Android operating system?

Absolutely, says Gary Morgenthaler, a partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, recognized expert in artificial intelligence, and a Siri board member and investor. Apple, he argues, now has at least a two-year advantage… read more

Samsung, Others Snap Up Nokia’s Declining Share of Mobile Market

Nokia‘s share of the global handset market fell 5% in the third quarter compared to the same period a year ago.

However, Nokia still owns the largest portion of the market, having shipped 106.6 million mobile phones — or 27.3% of all mobile phones sent to vendors — in the last… read more

Is There Room for a Klout for Professionals?

The 3-year-old Klout has already become the industry standard for measuring social media reach and influence, but the company no longer has that market to itself.

The Sarasota, Fla.-based PROskore is testing the waters for a sort of Klout for professionals, though PROskore CEO Bill Jura would likely recoil at the… read more

HP Announces It’ll Stay in the Tablet Business, One Way or Another

“We need to be in the tablet business,” said HP CEO Meg Whitman in a conference call with analysts, just after she announced HP would keep its PC business rather than spinning it off.

Even though the company killed off its TouchPad tablet that ran the WebOS software it acquired… read more

New Infographic: Browse ‘n Move – The State and Trends of Mobile Internet

New Infographic: Browse ‘n Move – The State and Trends of Mobile Internet

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The Evolving Role of Social Media in News Organizations [LIVE Q&A]

A few years ago, news organizations were unsure about social. Journalists were apprehensive to create Twitter accounts and media companies questioned whether a branded Facebook fan page was necessary.

Nowadays those uncertainties are irrelevant. Social media has become the driving force of many news organizations’ digital strategies. They don’t just want… read more

Quick Tip: Designing a Halloween Invitation with InDesign

It’s Halloween next week and if you are having a party you might need some last minute invites. Today’s tut contains the knowledge of how to design an invitation quickly. We are going to make the most of free online resources, including vectors and fonts.

You may want to print this… read more

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: 40+ Cool 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 Photoshop and Illustrator cs5 tutorials from around the web. You’ll find everything from Creating an Abstract Shining Text Effect… read more

5 Great Hidden Google Search Tips That You Should Know About

5 Great Hidden Google Search Tips That You Should Know About

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SNL Honors Steve Jobs, Skewers Netflix and Facebook [VIDEO]

It wasn’t just 60 Minutes that did a segment on Steve Jobs this weekend; Saturday Night Live celebrated the life of the Apple co-founder in its own way.

In an SNL skit parodying the PBS roundtable show Charlie Rose, Mark Zuckerberg, Arianna Huffington, Reed Hastings and Rupert Murdoch come together to… read more

20 Useful Tools for Responsive Web Design

20 Useful Tools for Responsive Web Design

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Photoshop Disasters that Shocked the World

Photoshop Disasters that Shocked the World

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Primary Colors: Weekly Photography Challenge

Image by Mitra Mirshahidi

This week your photography challenge is to take and share a photo on the theme of ‘Primary Colors’.

Yes – this week we want to see Red, Yellow and Blue featuring in your images. You can feature just one of the colours, two or all three.

Feel free to… read more

Create a Realistic Telephone Keypad Using Layer Styles

Creating real-world objects in Photoshop can be somewhat challenging. The key is to pinpoint and accentuate small details such as shadows, lighting, and extruding edges. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to achieve acutely life-like telephone dial buttons in Photoshop using shape layers and layer styles! Step 1 Let’s start… read more

Daily Inspiration #958

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

Alex Beltechi: Artist Of The Day

Alex Beltechi is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more

Microsoft Meets Estimates, But Stock Falls

Microsoft reported fiscal first-quarter revenues of $17.37 billion, a 7% jump over the year-ago period and a figure that met analysts forecasts.

However, Microsoft’s stock fell slightly in after-hours trading, indicating that analysts may have been expecting more.

Among the results was a 2% increase in revenues for the Windows and… read more

Masterpieces Of Recycled Art Made From Debris

Masterpieces Of Recycled Art Made From Debris

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Mister Sloff Commercial

Mister Sloff Commercial

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80 Examples of Minimal Product Design

80 Examples of Minimal Product Design

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Daily Inspiration #957

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

Olympus PEN E-PL3 REVIEW

For me, this camera is a bit of a puzzle. Why?

Having just spent a week or so with the Olympus PEN E-P3, and coming away very impressed, I wondered why the company launched another model that seems to be virtually identical, except for price and some minor mods. I am… read more

Amazing 3D Works by Mikael Eidenberg

Mikael Eidenberg a self taught Graphic designer and 3d artist from Sweden. Through the years he had the pleasure to work with agencies such as: Forsman & Bodenfors, DDB, King, Lowe Brindfors, Ogilvy, Akestam Holst, Scholtz & Friends & many others with both swedish and international brands. I truly enjoyed… read more

Awesome Landscape and Nature Photography by Raluca Mateescu

Awesome Landscape and Nature Photography by Raluca Mateescu

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15 Top Luxury Hotels And Resorts Around The World

15 Top Luxury Hotels And Resorts Around The World

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NASA and Japan Unleash World’s Best Topographic Map of Earth [PICS]

Example One From the Map

Images taken aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft helped NASA and METI update the world’s… read more

Are CSS Tables Better Than HTML Tables?

Are CSS Tables Better Than HTML Tables?

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More Bad News for Google+? Research Shows Sustained Downward Trend in Activity

Google+, the social networking service from Google, may have more than 40 million users, but traffic and activity levels are on a continued downward trend, according to a new research report.

“After a brief blip in Google+’s traffic surrounding the site going public, we saw a prolonged and sustained downward trend… read more

Occupy Wall Street Protesters and Police Clash [VIDEO]

Occupy Wall Street, the social media-spawned movement that has gone viral across the U.S., turned violent Friday morning after the New York City mayor’s office announced cleanup of Zuccotti Park would begin at 7 a.m. Protesters have held their ground in lower Manhattan since Sept. 17, and though this morning’s… read more

30 Useful Infographics for Web Designers

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Typically when it comes to learning something new within web design you have to refer to either the accompanied detailed documentation, the read-me or, if you are lucky, to a quick reference cheatsheet. Each of these options are really useful, but none have the ability… read more

50+ Fresh Photoshop Actions

50+ Fresh Photoshop Actions

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Panasonic DMC-G3 REVIEW

In spite of industry leaders Canon not following the trend, Panasonic and Olympus are certainly making hay with their Micro Four Thirds models as we watch Nikon’s exciting entrée with interest.

There is a demand for a faux DSLR that doesn’t break your back nor your budget and still allows access… read more

120+ Stunning & Frightening Real Life Post-Apocalyptic Urban Decay Photography from Chernobyl, Ukraine

120+ Stunning & Frightening Real Life Post-Apocalyptic Urban Decay Photography from Chernobyl, Ukraine

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Daily Inspiration #950

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 amazing paintings on wood of Audrey Kawasaki

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Amazon Launches Imprint for Fantasy, Sci-Fi & Horror

Amazon is continuing to flex its publishing muscles with the launch of its seventh imprint, for works in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.

47North is releasing 15 English-language books to start, all of which are available in print, ebook and audio formats over at amazon.com, as well as a… read more

Why Website Designs Fail And How To Fix Them?

A website is basically intended to draw and engage online users and at the end give them a good basis why to buy the website’s manufactured goods and services. If the website has bad website design, it fails to attain the goals for a commerce website due to the above-mentioned… read more

7 Essential JavaScript Typography Resources

When you think of web typography, CSS instantly comes to mind. And that’s great, because CSS is the primary option when dealing with the style/visual layer of your website.

However, when you hit a roadblock with CSS, take it up a level by using JavaScript (JS).

Open source JavaScript libraries can help… read more

Liberace Pug Plays Sad Sonata [VIDEO]

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

And now for something completely different: A black pug in a (superhero?) costume “playing” the piano. We’re not very good at Japanese but we’re assuming the video’s title translates to, “I’m so sorry we did this… read more

Twitter to Reformat All URLs With T.co

Twitter announced Monday that it will soon begin reformatting all links posted to its service with t.co, regardless of length.

Previously, only links that were 20 characters or greater were reformatted with t.co.

T.co is Twitter’s official URL shortener, which is designed to prevent malware and phishing attacks. Unlike other URL shorteners,… read more

Conde Nast Makes a Foray Into Film and TV, Led by CW Founder

Conde Nast is getting into the film and television businesses, the magazine publisher announced Monday.

Dawn Ostroff was appointed president of the newly formed entertainment division. She founded the CW’s broadcast network and led the channel from 2006 to 2011. At CW, she developed popular series such as Gossip Girl,… read more

Olympus E-P3 Review

Three months before its official release the photographic press caught its first sight of this new model. This was paralleled by close looks at two related models, near-identical in specs, but differing radically in appearance: welcome also to the Lite E-PL3 and Mini E-PM1.

Olympus considers the E-P3 to be the… read more

Best of the Week #191

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

Free Business Cards with PSD (Set #2)

Free Business Cards with PSD (Set #2)

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3d Models Download: 50+ High Quality Electronic Devices

Sometimes designing your own 3d models from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. I have scoured the internet in search of the highest quality electronic 3d models available to you at a very low cost. So if you are… read more

Social TV: How Content Producers Can Engage Their Audiences in New Ways

Rick Liebling is director of digital strategy at Coyne PR where he helps clients utilize social media channels to engage relevant audiences. You can follow him on Twitter @Rick_Now and read his blog at here.

As social media matures, new opportunities are arising for content producers. Social TV, for instance, has… read more

13 Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes

For many, the name Steve Jobs is synonymous with inspiration.

Throughout the years, he’s not only changed our lives with innovative products, but also with memorable words.

Among the ways people are commemorating Jobs’ passing is posting their favorite Jobs-isms. We took to Tumblr to track down what Jobs quotes… read more

Apple: 250 Million iOS Devices Sold and Other Huge Stats

As the world’s tech media waited for news about the new iPhone on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook took the opportunity of a captive audience to deliver a long list of favorable Apple stats.

Here’s the rundown of the numbers he revealed during his long windup:

Apple has six stores in… read more

Architect Day: P. Makridis + Associates

Today, with her two sons working in her office, Eleanna had degree in architecture in Greece and Thodoris formed in New York, Petros Makridis works with a team even more qualified, making the office P. Makridis + Associates a reference to the architecture in Greece.

pmakridis.com

Petros Makridis was… read more

Reader Tutorial: Flaming Car by Lincoln Soares

This week’s tutorial we will show you how to create a flaming car. We saw this effect before and it’s quite simple but it’s a good exercise and the result is quite good. You can also apply this effect on other images.

So let’s do that.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create… read more

Reader Tutorial: Flaming Car in Photoshop by Lincoln Soares

This week’s tutorial we will show you how to create a flaming car. We saw this effect before and it’s quite simple but it’s a good exercise and the result is quite good. You can also apply this effect on other images.

So let’s do that.

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create… read more

#OccupyWallStreet Takes Over Twitter & the Brooklyn Bridge [PICS & VIDEOS]

The Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of nationwide demonstrations that opposes corporate greed and social inequality, has caught fire in recent days. What started as a single protest in New York City has spread to multiple cities and resulted in hundreds of arrests.

The movement began in July after anti-consumerist… read more

25+ Cool Vintage and Retro iPad Wallpapers

25+ Cool Vintage and Retro iPad Wallpapers

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Top 10 Tech Stories We Almost Posted This Week [PICS]

We sniff out a boatload of tech stories every week, but this week was unusual — it was outlandishly rich in bounty and packed with punchy techo-goodness. There were so many stories, we couldn’t even get to them all, but we didn’t want you to miss out. So here they… read more

Interview With Matte Painter Leonk

Recently, we had the opportunity to chat with matte painter LeonK. In our discussion LeonK shares his views on several topics including why he decided to become a matte painter, and how he improved his technique. Please take a moment to review this excellent interview. Q Welcome to Psdtuts+, please… read more

Tips For Setting Up A Baseline Grid

Tips For Setting Up A Baseline Grid

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Various Artists – Photography Inspiration #03

Various Artists – Photography Inspiration #03

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