Vintage Vector Design Workflow: Creating a Retro Flyer Design

April 23rd, 2012
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Vector Tuts

This tutorial will cover the process of creating a vintage inspired retro flyer design. There are four main areas of concentration to achieve this look and feel: color, type, character and texture. We’ll review a complete vintage vector design workflow to create this retro flyer design. Let’s get started.

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Time Clash

April 23rd, 2012
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Creattica

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A Collection of Beautiful Joomla Templates

April 23rd, 2012
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Noupe

Originally a fork of Mambo, Joomla has grown into the second most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the web behind WordPress. In January 2012 Joomla was upgraded from 1.7 to version 2.5. It brought a lot of great new features such as notifications for easier updates, multi database support… read more

Helpful Code Paradigms for Frontend Web Developers

April 23rd, 2012
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Specky Boy

Coding a website takes a lot more time than just a simple design. You have to consider how each HTML element will be placed in the document and how you need to style them using CSS. Not to mention there are at least 4 browsers you should test… read more

A Photographers Guide to Havana (With 9 Gorgeous Shots)

April 22nd, 2012
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Just it’s name suggests cigars, 1950’s cars and of course Fidel Castro. Situated just 90 miles south of the Florida Keys, yet for all intents and purposes a different world, Havana is a photographer’s playground. From its people to its history, the city is so intensely rich in photographic possibilities,… read more

Daily Inspiration #1115

April 22nd, 2012
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Abduzeedo

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Celebrate Spring With 10 Blooming iPhone Photos [PICS]

April 22nd, 2012
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Mashable

1. Sakura 2012 by Junichiro Aoyama

Snapped at Eifukuji Temple at Kyoto, Japan, this flowery Instagram capture is especially… read more

5 Ways Preparing Your Resume is Like Doing Taxes

April 22nd, 2012
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Mashable

Josh Tolan is the CEO of Spark Hire, which combines a video job board and online interviewing platform to enrich interaction between job seekers and employers. Connect with him and Spark Hire on Facebook and Twitter.

As we bid adieu to yet another tax deadline, it got me thinking about… read more

‘One Day on Earth’: The Most International Movie Premiere Ever

April 22nd, 2012
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Mashable

Eighteen months after thousands of volunteer filmmakers in every country on the planet shot 3,000 hours of footage in one day, One Day on Earth will have the most widespread one-day premiere in history.

The film will be screened for free at the U.N. General Assembly in New York at 4… read more

Music Festival Tech Changes Drastically Since Woodstock [INFOGRAPHIC]

April 22nd, 2012
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Mashable

Concerts have changed a lot since the Woodstock days of the late 1960s. Here’s an infographic that compares how technology is used by fans at music festivals such as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California compared to the iconic Woodstock festival held in 1969.

Now, concerts incorporate… read more

Chasing the Light: Photography and the Practice of Seeing by Ibarionex Perello ~ DVD Review

April 22nd, 2012
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Digital Photography School

I went on a photo walk with Ibarionex Perello yesterday! Well, not exactly, but after watching his DVD Chasing the Light: Photography and the Practice of Seeing, I certainly felt as though I had.  Several months ago, I read his book, Chasing the Light: Improving your Photography with Available Light and it… read more

9 Digital Ways to Make a Difference This Earth Day

April 21st, 2012
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Mashable

Are you busy preparing for Earth Day this Sunday? Are you worried that you’ll end up being a slacktivist when it comes to saving the planet? Don’t fret — there’s plenty you can do to make a real difference, even if it’s only from your computer or mobile device.

Check out… read more

7 Apps Worth Checking Out [PICS]

April 21st, 2012
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Mashable

Lego Super Hero Movie Maker

Kids and adults will love Lego’s newest iOS app: Lego Super Hero Movie Maker…. read more

Best of the Week #219

April 21st, 2012
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Abduzeedo

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

Daily Inspiration #1114

April 20th, 2012
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Abduzeedo

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

How Streaming Video Is Killing the DVD [INFOGRAPHIC]

April 20th, 2012
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Mashable

Will the DVD die off like the LaserDisc and VHS Tape before it?

There’s a compelling case that streaming video is killing its predecessors. This year, it is estimated, there will be 3.4 billion movie views online, compared with 2.4 billion disc views.

Streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime… read more

Instagram Star Users to Document NHL Playoff Game

April 20th, 2012
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Mashable

National media photographers won’t be the only photojournalists packing Madison Square Garden for Saturday’s pivotal NHL playoff game between the New York Rangers and Ottawa Senators. Six popular Instagram photographers is being brought in to document the game with a social media twist.

And there’s a catch — the Instagrammers… read more

Create a website to go with Sidengo

April 20th, 2012
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Web App Storm

In this day and age, establishing your identity online is becoming almost as important as having a mobile phone. Whether you’re an individual looking to impress potential clients and employers, or a brand that wants to engage its audience on the web, an online profile is a must. Thankfully the… read more

Posing: Weekly Photography Challenge

April 20th, 2012
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Digital Photography School

Over the last few weeks we’ve been publishing a series of posing guides. So far there are:

Posing Guide: Sample poses for photographing Women
Posing Guide: Sample poses for photographing Men
Posing Guide: Sample poses for photographing Children

Today your photographic challenge is to choose one of the poses mentioned (there are 63 to… read more

Totally Rad! RadLab

April 20th, 2012
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Layers Magazine

Simplifying Photo Effects

RadLab is a Photoshop action set. With its own palette, you can start RadLab and decide whether you want it to work with your image on the same or a new layer, or as a smart object.

RadLab’s interface overtakes the Photoshop interface: On the left is the… read more

Introduction to Optimizing Your Photoshop Installation

April 20th, 2012
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Psdtuts+

Photoshop has a variety of tools to edit your images, and almost as many settings that you can adjust to get optimum performance from the software. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of the options available in the Preferences dialogue box. Let’s get started!

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Ask FreelanceSwitch: A Case of Nerves and File Ownership

April 20th, 2012
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Freelanceswitch

In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at a case of nerves and a question of file ownership. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered, send… read more

The EU Cookie Law

April 20th, 2012
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Specky Boy

In a little over a month, some major changes will be occuring in the European Union in regards to Internet privacy protection. On May 26, sites that fail to comply with the EU ePrivacy Directive disclosure requirements could be subject to fines up to £500,000.

These changes were outlined… read more

Is This The World’s Most Downloaded Man? [VIDEO]

April 20th, 2012
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How many times have you actually paid attention to the model in stock photos? Yes, you know they’re good looking, but could you pick them out of a crowd of models a day later? Probably not; several studies have shown we don’t actually record the characteristics of people on ads.

And… read more

The Underground World of Fake Products In 30 Stunning Images

April 20th, 2012
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The Underground World of Fake Products In 30 Stunning Images

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Waste a Few Hours With This Huge Collection of Photography Links

April 20th, 2012
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Another incredible week rolls by and we find the Toad busy hopping all over the internet searching for tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This week’s list presents a serious compilation of the best links he could find from some really incredibly talented photographers and artists. … read more

Why Politicians Should Talk About Technology

April 20th, 2012
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Mashable

Ethan Riegelhaupt is senior vice president for corporate and public affairs at Edelman. Previously, he served as vice president for speech writing and internal communications at The New York Times Company. He was also a senior staff member for New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo. Follow him at @Ethanriegelhaup.

The… read more

PinView Turns Your Facebook Timeline Into a Pinterest Board

April 19th, 2012
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Mashable

Ever wished that long, scrolling Facebook Timeline was somehow easier to manage — like, say, a Pinterest board?

Brand new Facebook app PinView displays items from your News Feed, Timeline, friends list and multimedia pages as small panels, just like social bookmarking site Pinterest showcases images on Pinboards.

The spiffy app launched… read more

Daily Inspiration #1113

April 19th, 2012
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Abduzeedo

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Keep the Best, Delete the Rest

April 19th, 2012
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Digital Photography School

A guest post by Lara White from PhotoMint.

It’s the one of those things that holds many photographers back. Each time you create a set of images, it’s more like a blooper reel than a best hits collection unless you cull them ruthlessly. Your image library grows and grows, each… read more

Create a Stop-Motion Masterpiece With ‘Lego Super Hero Movie Maker’

April 19th, 2012
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Mashable

Building block giant Lego has released a new iOS app that allows you to create your own stop-motion videos using your iPhone. Called Lego Super Hero Movie Maker, the app lets you bring your blocks to life through a short video and even add tunes to your creation.

Designed to be… read more

Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to get you Started with Photographing Children

April 19th, 2012
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A Guest Post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App.

After our previous articles on posing female subjects and posing men, let’s look at some starting points with photographing children. Little ones are definitely fun and very positive subjects to photograph! Getting those real and authentic emotions and showing through your pictures… read more

50 Awesome Examples of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

April 19th, 2012
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InstantShift

I read in a religious book, which was claimed to be written by a prophet of God, that God has hidden minor samples of heaven in this world itself. Well, I have not seen heaven but I feel if it exists, it won’t be too different from some of the… read more

Shave Video: Lightweight Video Editing

April 19th, 2012
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Mac App Storm

Video editing programs are big and bulky and take a lot of resources to run. I regularly use Adobe After Effects and Premiere, but my computer isn’t always happy about that. It doesn’t make sense to use Premiere or After Effects for the little tasks, but I don’t particularly care… read more

Design on the Go: Designer Apps for Android

April 19th, 2012
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Noupe

As smartphones have advanced, and the display and photo capture technologies have improved, many have desired the ability to design and to edit images on their mobile phones. In fact, today hundreds of design applications exist on Google Play (previously known as Android Market). So in order to help you… read more

CSS3 Menu and Navigation Tutorials

April 19th, 2012
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Specky Boy

All of the CSS3 navigation tutorials we have for you today are all fully functional and could easily be used on a live site. But we do prefer to think of them all as being more experimental and proof-of-concept rather than being a robust end-product (a sprinkle of… read more

Into the Sun – The Art of Stunning Silhouettes for Photographers

April 18th, 2012
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One of the first things you are told by non-photographers when you buy your first serious camera is “don’t shoot straight into the sun”. Listen to this advice and you will be missing out on some the most emotive and powerful images photography can provide.

So what is a silhouette?… read more

3 Ways to Know if Your Work is Good

April 18th, 2012
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Your family and friends are raving about your work. Your Facebook friends are giving you thumbs up when you post your images.  But is that enough feedback to know that your work is actually good?  Given how many different images we see every day, shouldn’t people be able to recognize… read more

App Store Deals This Week

April 18th, 2012
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Mac App Storm

Here’s Mac AppStorm’s picks of the best deals on the App Store for this week, 11 – 18 April (there is also a little surprise waiting at the bottom of the page as well…).

Happy downloading!

Calories 2

If you’re trying to keep to a diet, or simply wanting to eat less,… read more

The New Google Plus Interface

April 18th, 2012
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Freelanceswitch

Surprise, surprise! On 11th April Google+ made a new announcement. Google+ now has more than 170 million users!

This is not the only reason why you should consider using Google+ for your freelancing business. Another very important reason is that Google+ profiles and pages can make an impact on the… read more

Massimo And Lella Vignelli: Designs That Will Outlive Mankind

April 18th, 2012
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Noupe

There are two major things that had to be overcome in writing this spotlight on Massimo and Lella Vingnelli: One was how to approach the subjects in a different way as they’ve had so much written about them. Two, as with writing about other designers who are still living, one… read more

Lover.ly Makes Wedding Planning Simple

April 18th, 2012
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Mashable

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Lover.ly

Quick Pitch: Wedding planning made easy

Genius Idea: Lover.ly partners with bridal blogs and other editorial content… read more

Appcelerator’s Developer Platform: Now with Cloud-Based Tools

April 18th, 2012
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Mashable

Mobile platform company Appcelerator launched the latest version of its popular Titanium platform Tuesday, with cloud-based tools to help developers build more dynamic apps for Android and iPhone devices.

Titanium 2.0, which includes support for HTML5 mobile web apps, aims to help brands create apps quickly and efficiently for their businesses…. read more

Meme Management: Meet the Man Who Reps Internet Stars

April 17th, 2012
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Mashable

Ben Lashes is a meme manager — and as far as we know, he is the first and only of his kind.

Consider him an agent for the stars of the Internet. Lashes represents memes and their creators such as Keyboard Cat, Nyan Cat and Scumbag Steve, to name a few…. read more

Why You Could Be Prosecuted for Posting Olympics Photos to Facebook

April 17th, 2012
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Mashable

For an event being hyped by organizers as the world’s “first social media Olympics,” the summer 2012 games in London have some pretty antisocial policies.

Athletes will not be allowed to tweet photos of themselves with products that aren’t official Olympics sponsors or share photos or videos from inside the… read more

Daily Inspiration #1111

April 17th, 2012
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Abduzeedo

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Facebook Meets Instagram: What It Means for Your Brand

April 17th, 2012
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Mashable

Joshua Teixeira heads up the strategy discipline at Big Spaceship, helping shape engagements for active projects and prospective clients alike. Recent projects include work with clients like Crayola, Chobani, Google, Wrigley, General Electric, Urban Daddy, and Gilt Groupe.

When it comes to Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram, details are still… read more

Natural vs Artificial Light: Which Do You Shoot With Most?

April 17th, 2012
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Here at dPS we’re getting ready to release a brand new eBook next week. The topic is one that we’ve been asked to cover for years now – ‘natural light’.

One of the things that attracted me to the topic is that natural light is something that is freely available to… read more

Weekly Poll: How Do You Organize Your Photos?

April 17th, 2012
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How do you organize and view your photos?

Lately the world of Mac software has seen quite the surge in photo editing apps, many of which are banking on the retro photo craze that helped fuel Instagram to a huge user base and billion dollar sale. This increase in the… read more

5 Ways to Use Pinterest for Recruiting

April 17th, 2012
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Mashable

Sal Loukos is a sourcing manager at Seven Step RPO, where she builds and manages talent sourcing strategies for a variety of Fortune 100 clients. You can follow her @Sal_Loukos, or on Pinterest at sal_loukos.

Winning the talent war is a priority for every organization. Now, more than ever, it’s crucial… read more

Character

April 17th, 2012
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Creattica

Character design. Personal project. Photoshop.

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6 Tips for Creating a Better Blog Post

April 17th, 2012
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Freelanceswitch

Writing effective blog posts isn’t as easy as you might think. There are a ton of things to take into consideration, including creating a catchy headline, the length of your piece, even the words that you choose.

I’ve spent some time scanning the Internet to find some useful tips on… read more

8 Fresh Twitter Apps for 2012

April 17th, 2012
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Mac App Storm

Perhaps no other app category changes as fast and as much as the Twitter client one. They seem to merge, disappear, lose support and come up with new ones more than in any other app category. If you are into Twitter as much as we are, you probably already know… read more

20 Beautiful Nature Inspired Tutorials from Vectortuts+

April 17th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

There’s nothing like the seasons and nature to inspire great works of art. Today we have have bundled together a collection of beautiful and inspiring tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from landscapes to water drops there’s plenty of projects to help you imagine and create… read more

Pinterest: The Social Network You Didn’t Know You Needed

April 17th, 2012
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Web App Storm

You’ve likely already listed your favorite movies, music, and more on Facebook. You tweet and like new sites you come across online, and if anyone kept up with your online ramblings at all, surely they’d know your preferences in everything from software to soap.

Then comes Pinterest, the latest social network… read more

Pixa: Organizing Image Clutter the Smart Way

April 17th, 2012
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Mac App Storm

There are many tools available for organizing bits of information on your Mac, but if your goal is to get a grip on those many images and screenshots you assembled, there’s a new player on the horizon you should check out.

Pixa is a companion app for all designers and graphic… read more

Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

April 17th, 2012
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Smashing Magazine

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. Each year we abandon browser support and throw a “Pshaw” in the face of semantics so that we can play with… read more

Making of a Warrior Character in Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

April 17th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you’ll learn how to take exciting character drawings, and shape by shape turn them into vector illustrations. You’ll learn to color a character and control the highlights and shading to add drama and interest. If you are looking to take your skills to the next… read more

Street Photography: Taking Inspiration from Strangers

April 17th, 2012
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YouTheDesigner

When I started photography 4 years ago, I had a basic point-and-shoot camera that I brought everywhere. I took photos of trees, interesting cloud formations, even cats that are lounging on small patches of sunshine. I was also fascinated with buildings that have intricately-patterned arches, carved doors, and high ceilings…. read more

Extending the Web: Useful Google Chrome Extensions

April 17th, 2012
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Noupe

At the end of 2011 Chrome surpassed Firefox as the second most popular browser in the world. One of the reasons it has grown in popularity could be because of its expansive Chrome Web Store. The store has thousands of applications that help extend the functionality of Chrome and make… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.128)

April 17th, 2012
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Specky Boy

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 and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Pretty Your Pinterest With This New Photo Hack

April 17th, 2012
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Mashable

Following Pinterest’s new design, we’ve discovered an exciting new way to “hack” your boards.

Inspired by our previous Pinterest board hack, Eugene Chen of Vitamin Creativity made an incredibly easy tool, designed specifically to splice up images for the new Pinterest design.

SEE ALSO: 10 Awesome Animated Google+ Profiles [VIDEOS]

Take a… read more

Microsoft Reveals Its Plan to Sell Windows 8

April 17th, 2012
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Mashable

Microsoft just told the world what it’s going to call the next version of Windows, and — shocker — the official name will be “Windows 8.” It also revealed how many versions of Windows 8 there will be, and what the company will call them.

There are three main editions. At… read more

How to Use Facebook Timeline Without Reworking Your Brand Strategy

April 17th, 2012
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Mashable

Joe Chernov is the vice president of content marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing, and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand.

Within days of Facebook’s official launch of Timeline for brands, social strategists and brand marketers turned their Facebook strategies upside down and came up… read more

Millennial Consumers: Engaged, Optimistic, Charitable [STUDY]

April 16th, 2012
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Mashable

A study comparing Millennials with non-Millennials sheds light on some of the key behaviors and attitudes of the generation.

Currently numbered at 79 million — and growing in influence — Millennials are expected to outnumber the Baby Boomer population 78 million to 56 million by 2030.

The Boston Consulting Group recently… read more

Are Online Tools the Future of Disaster Relief?

April 16th, 2012
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Mashable

When disaster hits, many people break the news on Twitter or Facebook, often to inform loved ones that they’re okay. During a crisis, social media users take on the responsibility of communicating news, especially when they are at the scene of an emergency.

But how are these online sites —… read more

Holographic Storage: Coming Soon to a Cloud Service Near You? [VIDEO]

April 16th, 2012
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Holographic storage, once a pipe dream, may be headed to the market soon. A company called HVault has plans to turn the high-tech concept into reality this year.

In most cases, holographic storage is a write once, read many times data archival technique. Unlike other types of storage, holographic storage… read more

Daily Inspiration #1110

April 16th, 2012
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Abduzeedo

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Are Memes Art? [VIDEO]

April 16th, 2012
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Are memes art?

To Mike Rugnetta at PBS Idea Channel, memes are people “creating images and sharing them with strangers for the purpose of communicating their experiences.”

Which, he says, “Is art. Plain and simple.”

In quoting famous philosophers, writers and thinkers such as Tolstoy, he may have actually convinced us.

Are you… read more

31 [+10] Cool Photography Tutorials, Tips, Videos, Hacks and How To’s from Around the Web

April 16th, 2012
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Digital Photography School

This morning I spent some time trawling through some of my favourite photography blogs to see what they’ve been posting – the array of great tutorials, videos, hacks and advice I found was amazing! What a great time we live in where we have so many great resources to draw… read more

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM

April 16th, 2012
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Smashing Magazine

This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for… read more

50 Fresh And High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

April 16th, 2012
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Smashing Apps

Adobe Photoshop is an excellent tool that has been used in the graphics and designing field. It is such widely used even by the novices that it needs no introduction at all. Though everyone knows it and even uses it, the software needs some guidance to let you use it… read more

Do You Wear a Camera?

April 16th, 2012
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Digital Photography School

Perhaps the biggest challenge I hear many of our readers talking about when it comes to their photography is that they struggle to find time to practice their photography.

The real problem though is that so many of us don’t have our camera with us when the photographic opportunities present. Instead… read more

Quick Tip: How to Illustrate a 3D Drawing Pin

April 16th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

Do you want to illustrate a drawing pin? If yes then let’s get started this Quick Tip for beginner users of Adobe Illustrator, and you will learn the simple techniques of vector graphic design that will improve your skills and creativity!

Step 1

Take the Ellipse Tool (L), change the Fill color… read more

Create A Robotic Pony in Illustrator

April 16th, 2012
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InstantShift

Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your hands around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications like Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand.

In the following steps you will learn how to… read more

Create a Mobile Phone Music Player Interface

April 16th, 2012
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Vector Tuts

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a mobile phone music player interface. We’ll build the interface using pixel perfect alignment, quality vector shape building techniques, as well as gradient and lighting control.

Step 1

Hit Command + N to create a new document. Enter 640 in the width… read more

20 New and Free Minimal WordPress Themes

April 16th, 2012
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Specky Boy

All of the minimal themes we have for you below are free and will work perfectly well straight-out-of-the-box (albeit with a few option panel tweaks), also the vast majority of them being responsive. But, putting the minimal styling aside, the real beauty of these themes, for designers and… read more

21 Inspiring Examples of About Pages

April 16th, 2012
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Web Design Ledger

Advertise here with BSA

About pages are important because they are the place where the user goes to discover more about who/what is behind the site they are visiting. From design studios to apps and online shops, users like to browse a page to find the good old who, where,… read more

Brands on Pinterest: To $ or Not to $? [STUDY]

April 16th, 2012
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Mashable

Brands should be wary of attaching price tags to the products they pin on Pinterest, a new study from analytics startup Pinreach and Joshua Yang, a MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, indicates.

The two parties discovered that pins with price tags are just as likely to be shared as pins… read more

Daily Inspiration #1109

April 16th, 2012
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Abduzeedo

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, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Photoshop CS6 Beta: A Quick Look

April 15th, 2012
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As with other recent incarnations of Photoshop, Adobe have released a beta version of their latest image editing software. You can grab yourself a copy from Adobe here http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html If you don’t have one, you will need to register an Adobe account as once installed the software will connect with… read more

5 User-Friendly Tools for Building Your Online Portfolio

April 15th, 2012
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Mashable

Heather R. Huhman is the founder and president of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers. You can connect with Heather and Come Recommended on Twitter and Facebook.

In today’s digital world, your job search has to be as… read more

How to Host a Photographic Charity Fundraiser

April 15th, 2012
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Digital Photography School

A Guest Post by Chris De Bruyn

A fundraiser? With photos? For charity? Absolutely! One of the most rewarding experiences I have had as a photographer is hosting annual charity fundraising auctions with my photos. Hosting a fundraiser is a great way to give something back to the community, to… read more

Why and How to Write Better Graphic Design Tutorials

April 15th, 2012
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Specky Boy

For every single quality graphic design tutorial out there, another 50 just plain suck. They’re poorly written, use bad graphics, are about bad graphics, or just altogether skip important steps. It’s a shame, but bad tutorials also create an opportunity for those who are willing to take the… read more

Uranus Auroras Spotted by Hubble Telescope Scientists [VIDEO]

April 14th, 2012
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Conditions are bizarre on the peculiar seventh planet in our solar system, Uranus. Much is different from our planet, including auroras, which were spotted by the Hubble telescope last November.

The space telescope, Earth’s workhorse of observational power, snagged images of a couple of auroras on the surface of Uranus… read more

Advanced Portrait Retouch on a Male Subject in Lightroom 4 – Part 1 of 3

April 14th, 2012
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Digital Photography School

 

Introduction

This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom which can be purchased from the link above.

Lightroom can be a powerful advanced editor, and we often use it for portrait retouching. While it does not… read more

Elegant Photo Editing with CameraBag 2

April 14th, 2012
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Mac App Storm

With apps like Instagram and services like Facebook, it seems everyone now is taking pictures and submitting them out to the world via the Internet. Taking pictures is just one part of the equation though. Those who want a perfect picture know that editing typically follows the capture. Manipulating light… read more

These Contact Lenses Give You Superhuman Vision

April 14th, 2012
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Contact lens wearers can get a new perspective on their environment with the latest vision technology — contact lenses that let the wearer focus on two fields of view at once. Wearers can keep an eye on a projected image while their surrounding scenery can also be looked at… read more

Why Global Mobile Marketing Starts With Localized Apps

April 14th, 2012
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Mashable

Liz Elting is co-founder and co-CEO of TransPerfect, the world’s largest privately held provider of language and business services.

The world’s population reached 7 billion in Oct. 2011, and according to an IDC report, one in every seven of those people owns a smart device. By now, we’ve all heard,… read more

Pinterest Users: What’s the World’s Most Beautiful Country? [INFOGRAPHIC]

April 13th, 2012
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The world has fallen in love with Pinterest, the social network with beautiful images at its core. Now Pinterest users get to decide where they most love in the world.

A crowdsourced project created by travel site First Choice — living in an interactive HTML5 infographic — is asking globally-minded Pinterest… read more