A Beginner’s Guide to Using Aperture Priority Mode

Aperture priority mode on your DSLR is one of the things that most photographers have to use at some time or other. But one of the most confounding things about getting your first DLSR is the myriad of decisions you have to make about what that actually means… read more

30 Spectacular Sketchbook Illustrations For Your Inspiration

30 Spectacular Sketchbook Illustrations For Your Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #848

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

Interview with Radim Malinic aka Brand Nu

In design, we all have our heroes and this week let me introduce one of them, Radim Malinic aka Brand Nu, one of the most sought after designers in the industry. Radim is an art director, illustrator and graphic designer from London, England. He truly gave a proper boldness to… read more

TypeDNA 2

Much More Than Just a Font Manager

The text-handling tools in Photoshop are mostly adequate, assuming you know which fonts you want to use and have them activated. But what if you’re exploring and you want to try combinations of fonts that aren’t currently active, and maybe get a little… read more

7 Top-Notch Blogs for the Savvy Freelance Blog Writer

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In addition to FreelanceSwtich, there are a handful of blogs that stand out a cut above the rest, and are well worth reading for freelance blog writers. These blogs are dedicated to blogging, writing, utilizing internet tools and trends to maximize your freelance writing income, and… read more

Understanding Copyright And Licenses

The Web is full of creative and practical resources that we can use to improve our projects. Photography, fonts, music and code are perfect examples. Finding stock objects and existing implementations is often quicker, cheaper and more practical than producing your own.

Whether free or not, these resources normally come with… read more

Architect Day: Graemen Mann & Patricia Capua Mann

Office formed in 1990 by British architect Graeme Mann and the Swiss architect Patricia Capua Mann, in the city of Lausanne in Switzerland. With very similar backgrounds the architects have experience working in great offices like Richard Rogers.

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Interview with Andrea Austoni

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Today we are going to meet our old friend, great Italian designer Andrea Austoni, who wrote some brilliant tutorials for Vectortuts+. Andrea is a many-sided personality, beside design, he is interested in music, learning foreign languages, cooking, the eastern philosophy. “Only by partaking of a large spectrum of… read more

11 websites driven by powerful, dramatic photography

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.90)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

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

“The HDR Book” Now Available | Nik Radio Interview

Hey everyone! RC here just giving you guys a quick heads up on the book release front. I am ecstatic to announce that my new book “The HDR Book” is now available to order. 13 Projects all original files – The hows and whys of HDR and… read more

A Showcase of Beautiful Forms Designed With CSS3

A Showcase of Beautiful Forms Designed With CSS3

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Steve Jobs Set To Become Comic Book Hero

If you already have the Steve Jobs action figure, it’s possible that you’ve been lusting after an Apple-flavored comic book for a while now. Well, lust no longer.

This August, Bluewater Productions will be shipping a new comic book, Steve Jobs: Co-Founder of Apple, which will be on… read more

Planet Photoshop: X-Men Logo

Corey Barker is a Photoshop instructor and graphic designer who maintains a blog at PlanetPhotoshop.com. Visit his site for more tutorials and tips.

Corey shows you how to create a movie graphic for this tutorial.

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The Wonderful Illustrations of Angie Wang

Angie Wang caught my eye when she popped up in my reader multiple times from several of my favorite sites. I quickly checked to see if we’d featured her on here before and was really excited to have the privilege of sharing her work with you guys. Here’s… read more

The Story Of Scandinavian Design: Combining Function and Aesthetics

This article was written by Katrín Eyþórsdóttir, our talented and hard-working trainee from Iceland. As a designer with background in product design, Katrín is presenting her understanding of what has influenced the works of designers from Sweden, Norway and other North-European counties as well as the key attributes that these… read more

What’s new for web designers – Jun 2011

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A Graphic Design Primer, Part 1: The Elements of a Design

There are many elements that make up any visual design, whether it’s good or not. Becoming familiar with the parts of a design is necessary before you can start to apply the principles of good design to your own work, in the same way that a doctor needs to have… read more

Signup Form Usability and Design Best Practices

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Honest usability techniques when applied properly will expand your site layouts beyond the elite in web design. When you can open your mind to new ideas it’s possible to manifest brilliant visions into your web pages. This hierarchy plays double for user interface objects and forms.

I’ve… read more

12 Free Amazing WordPress Themes To Download

12 Free Amazing WordPress Themes To Download

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25 Mind Blowing Examples of Urban Exploration Photography

25 Mind Blowing Examples of Urban Exploration Photography

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Typography: Science, Art, Philosophy or Craft?

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As with any medium as widely used as typography, it can fit into many categories. Typography is a part of all of our lives, so let’s analyze it for a minute. Merriam-Webster defines typography at 1) letterpress printing, and 2) the style, arrangement, or appearance of… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Jun 6-Jun 12, 2011

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Best of the Week #175

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

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.92

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This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

500+ Highly Useful Vector Brushes For Photoshop

500+ Highly Useful Vector Brushes For Photoshop

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Glamour Gains a Digital Chief, Freshens Up Online Strategy

Glamour magazine announced the appointment of Mike Hoffman, the former editor of Inc.com, as its new Digital Managing Director Thursday. The announcement came on the heels of less than stellar newsstand sales, down 17% in the first quarter, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations Rapid Report.

So… read more

Top 3 Gaming Trends From E3 2011

Technology expert Scott Steinberg is the CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global and a frequent tech analyst and gaming expert for ABC, CBS and CNN. He’s covered the field for more than 400 outlets from NPR to Rolling Stone, is the founder of GameExec Magazine and hosts the video series Game Theory,… read more

Editorial Restaurant Photography

Chez Oskar in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY

The culture of food is a huge part of our lives in every corner of the globe. Photographing restaurants either in your home city or abroad during travel can be a great “sneak peak” into this cultural corner. Many of the same ideas and… read more

Useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript Tools and Libraries

Front-end development is a tricky beast. It’s not difficult to learn, but it’s quite difficult to master. There are just too many things that need to be considered; too many tweaks that might be necessary here and there; too many details to make everything just right. Luckily, developers and designers… read more

WordPress Competition – 3 Premium WordPress Themes for Five Lucky Readers – Comment to Enter

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We have another fantastic WordPress theme competition for you today – This time we have three premium WordPress themes to give away to five lucky readers (that is three themes for each of the winners). All of the themes have been designed and developed by jvanoel… read more

The Professional Photographer’s Bookshelf

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Photography is one of those “doing” fields. Meaning that you’d rather be doing photography than reading about it. Especially when the topic is the business of photography.

Nothing wrong with wanting to be a doer, but there’s much to be said for… read more

Retro Inspiration

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Retro is a word that derives from the Latin prefix retro, meaning “backwards” or “in past times”. I think extremely interesting that we look back and get inspired by designs produced a while back, or even some recent ones that use the retro style. Since Friday… read more

Amazing Jewelry Designs For Inspiration

Amazing Jewelry Designs For Inspiration

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170+ High Quality Swirl Photoshop Brushes

170+ High Quality Swirl Photoshop Brushes

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Hearst Unveils Think Tank for App Development

Hearst unveiled its fabled App Lab to members of the press Thursday. The lab is a plush, windowless, gadget-filled room designed to serve as a “think tank” for app development and advertising across the company’s many brands.

If you advertise with Hearst, expect to schedule a lot of… read more

NIKKOR AF-S 85MM F/1.4G

A Legendary Lens Updated

Nikon’s legendary 85mm f/1.4 lens has undergone a complete update. Designed as the ultimate portrait lens, the 85mm f/1.4G is that and more. It’s a tack-sharp telephoto lens that works splendidly in low light and has great bokeh when used wide open. New to the AF-S… read more

Apple Compromises With Publishers on App Subscriptions

Apple has quietly updated its App Store Review Guidelines, enabling publishers to offer free subscriptions to apps so long as those subscriptions are purchased outside of the app itself.

Publishers are also no longer required to sell subscriptions in their apps “at the same price or less.” In… read more

A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide

As a veteran designer, developer and project manager for more websites than I can count, I’ve identified a common problem with many Web projects: failure to plan. The same issues come up repeatedly in my work, so I’ve written this guide in order to help clients, other designers, businesses and… read more

25 Fresh Icon-Sets for Web Designers

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Once in a while we do like to highlight some of the latest and greatest free icon-sets that are available. And we do have an awesome and varied selection for you today, you’ll love it.
As well as a great selection of perfectly designed all-round… read more

10 More Places for Free Photoshop and Lightroom Plugins

Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are software programs that provide very robust editing capabilities for graphics, images, and photographs. But sometimes you want them to do just a little more. That’s why plugins were invented! Plugins are usually made by third-party developers and deliver even more graphical and photo… read more

Men’s Lifestyle Publication Thrillist Hits the iPad [PICS]

Thrillist, a lifestyle and product-focused e-mail newsletter for men that has since expanded to the web and smartphones, has stepped further into the mobile space with the release of its first iPad app.

Unlike Thrillist’s apps for iPhone [iTunes link] and Android devices, which are designed for on-the-go… read more

Daily Inspiration #843

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

12 best free wordpress themes of 2011 (so far…)

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BigSquare

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Upstart Blogger Futurosity Magazine

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Simply Delicious

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Pressure

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Bueno

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Journal Crunch

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Autofocus+ (free edition)

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Shaken Grid

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Swiss

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Structure White

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Spectacular

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Working with Nested Styles in InDesign

Using nested styles, InDesign users can create a single paragraph with multiple character styles inside of it.

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How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 2)

The default “category” and “tag” taxonomies in WordPress offer a lot of flexibility to those with imagination and in my development experience I have seen a wide range of creative implementations. With the introduction of custom taxonomies and their growing ease of use, though, we need no longer be bound… read more

Creating and Designing Custom Browser Themes – How To

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When you come right down to it, the humble web browser is the most frequently used piece of software in the world. It’s used for everything, from checking your bank balance online to interacting on today’s social networks. However, you’ll find that most browsers are also… read more

Creating a successful Home Office

Creating a successful Home Office

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40 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials

40 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials

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NIKKOR AF-S 28–300MM F/3.5–5.6G ED VR

All-in-One Lens for FX-Format DSLRs

Nikon has answered the call of FX (full-frame) camera users to provide a lens comparable to their ultra-popular NIKKOR AF-S 18–200mm f/3.5–5.6G VR II DX-format lens with their new AF-S 28–300mm f/3.5–5.6G ED VR. All it took for me to order one was a day… read more

Bergdorf Goodman & Lucky Magazine Host Casting Call on Facebook

Bergdorf Goodman is using Facebook to find models for its “Faces of 5F” fall advertising campaign, set to debut in Lucky magazine’s October issue.

The contest is one of a string of admirably progressive social media campaigns the Manhattan-based luxury retailer has launched in recent months, including a… read more

Geometric and Extraordinary Photography by Flavio Samelo

This year I went to the second edition of the Pixel Show Porto Alegre, one of the speakers was Flavio Samelo. I remember his work as photographer from many skate magazines I used to read when I used to skate more often. I must admit I got really impressed with… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.89)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

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

Interview with Bree Leman

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Bree Leman, presently based in Florida, is a fashion and glamour illustrator. In this interview she talks about how she started her career as an advertising graphic designer and evolved herself into developing her own illustrative fashion vector style.

Today she is a successful freelance designer working with some top… read more

Free HTML5/CSS3 WordPress 3.1+ Theme With Responsive Layout: Yoko

In this post we are glad to present to you yet another freebie: a responsive WordPress theme Yoko which was designed by talented designers Ellen and Manuel from Elmastudio and released for the Web design community. Of course, the theme is absolutely free to use in private as well as… read more

10 WordPress Plugins to Help Optimize Performance

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One of the biggest reasons behind WordPress’ popularity is the vast number of plugins that can not only extend its functionality but there are also many plugins that will improve the performance of a site. These plugins have the capability to make a site faster, that… read more

Texts, Tweets and To Dos: What’s New in iOS 5

The latest version of iOS 5 has finally been announced, and it has a bundle of new features — more than 200, by Apple’s count.

Several of the new features were poached from the best of Apple’s own app store, including reading queue apps like Instapaper, group messaging… read more

4 Facebook Marketing Tips for Entertainment Brands

The Facebook Marketing Series is supported by Buddy Media, Power Tools for Facebook. Fans see when you post content on your brand’s Facebook Page, right? Wrong. Cut through the mystery of Facebook’s Edgerank — download the white paper now.

While some businesses are still figuring out the value… read more

Steve Jobs’ Keynote: The Apple News You Need To Know

Greetings from our perch at Moscone West where Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at WWDC 2011, the Apple developers’ conference, is about to get underway. Luminaries milling around the stage include Jonathan Ive, Apple’s star product designer, and Walter Isaacson, author of the forthcoming official Jobs biography.

We’re… read more

Planning And Implementing Website Navigation

The thing that makes navigation difficult to work with in Web design is that it can be so versatile. Navigation can be simple or complex: a few main pages or a multi-level architecture; one set of content for logged-in users and another for logged-out users; and so on. Because navigation… read more

Useful Tools To Check Cross-Browser Compatibility Issues

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With today’s modern web it’s not uncommon for many visitors to be using a different browser. The options seem almost unlimited with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, and of course Internet Explorer. There are also many lesser-known browsers and 3rd party software for Mac and… read more

How to Pack Your Camera Bag for an Overseas Photo Trip

Workshops, commercial and editorial jobs, and travel assignments often take me to places like Vietnam, India, Jordan, Bhutan with camera equipment in tow. Depending on the assignment, I take as much or as little equipment as I need, but my packing procedure is the same for each photo… read more

30 Loveable Photographs of Heart

30 Loveable Photographs of Heart

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Top 10 Logo Designs Of May 2011

Top 10 Logo Designs Of May 2011

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Kids’ Online Game Moshi Monsters Hits 50 Million Registered Users

Two-year old online game Moshi Monsters has just reached a sizable milestone: 50 million registered users.

Moshi Monsters is a social online game/community that allows kids 6 to 12 to adopt virtual pets, tool around a virtual land called Monstro City, play games to earn virtual currency and… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week May 30-Jun 5, 2011

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100 Striking Examples Of Black And White Photography

100 Striking Examples Of Black And White Photography

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.91

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This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Daily Inspiration #839

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

Automatic Cross-Fading in Adobe Audition

RC shows viewers some tips for cross-fading in multitracks when editing audio files in Adobe Audition.

RC recommends incompetech.com as a great source for royalty-free music.

Also, RC has provided sample files as examples of tracks mixed with crossfade enabled and without.

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HP Z210 Small Form Factor Workstation

Entry-Level PC

HP introduces their newest workstation line with the Z210, available in Convertible Minitower (CMT) or Small Form Factor (SFF) models. The Z210 is designed to be an entry-level workstation for budget-minded folks working in photo or video editing, education, and similar fields. New Intel HD integrated graphics are… read more

MI6 Hacks Al-Qaeda Website, Attacks With Cupcake Recipes

British intelligence agency MI6 hacked an Al-Qaeda online magazine, replacing bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes, The Telegraph reports.

The joint action by MI6 and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters had agents insert into the magazine an encrypted version of “The Best Cupcakes in America,” published by… read more

Content Strategy: Optimizing Your Efforts For Success

Content strategy is a beast with many heads, names and trajectories. To approach it is to be sucked in full force. Even so, as crucial as content strategy is, conveying its gravity to a big audience, or to key administrators, is often hard. Being so inherently complex, it’s often easiest… read more

The ultimate HTML5 resource guide

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Competition→ 25 digital copies of the book Awwwards:The Best 365 CSS Websites Around the World to giveaway

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We have generously been given 25 digital copies of Awwwards: The Best 365 CSS Websites Around the World to giveaway to our readers, from the kind guys at Awwwards. Read on to find more…

What is Awwwards?

Awwwards are the awards that recognize and promote the talent and… read more

50 Best Condom Ads Of All Time

50 Best Condom Ads Of All Time

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The Secret to Working Effectively with Models

“It’s a wrap!” are three of the most important words for a fashion photographer. Knowing that you’ve done an excellent job and that the day has been productive, fun and creative makes it worthwhile to wake up early for 6.30 am call times and the lifting of some… read more

Daily Inspiration #838

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

3 Pressing Questions Facing the Future of Social Media

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga along with Zen teachers and others to explore living with awareness and wisdom in our modern age. He is SorenG on Twitter.

The conversation about social media in… read more

Octodome NXT: Extra Small Location Kit

Lighting kit for the photographer on the go!

For the active photographer who needs a portable light solution, Photoflex has introduced the OctoDome nxt: Extra Small Location Kit. Included in a single, easy-to-carry bag is everything you need to get started with a one-light studio. Beginning with the StarFire digital… read more

How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 1)

WordPress is amazing. With its growing popularity and continual development, it is becoming the tool of choice for many designers and developers. WordPress projects, though, are pushing well beyond the confines of mere “posts” and “pages”. How do you go about adding and organizing media and all its complexities? With… read more

Jill Abramson To Replace Bill Keller as Editor of New York Times

Managing editor Jill Abramson will become the first female executive editor of The New York Times beginning September 6, replacing current executive editor Bill Keller.

Abramson has operated as managing editor of the Times since 2003. She served as Washington bureau chief for the paper from 2000 to… read more

5 Lessons for Photographers from Memoirs of a Geisha

A Guest post by Andrew Gibson

I’ve just watched the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. The director went to great lengths of recreate the world of pre-war Japan – the movie is beautifully filmed and successfully evokes the atmosphere of a time and place that no longer exist.

It’s one thing to… read more

Ultimate Grunge Toolbox for Web Designers

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Grunge websites are a common web design style that can add emotion and depth of character to a website. Some of the most common elements include dirty textures, torn edges, aged paper, and handwritten text. Often, the color palette of grunge includes muted colors that are… read more

50 Must See Adobe Photoshop Tutorials For Designers

50 Must See Adobe Photoshop Tutorials For Designers

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7 Sites To Sell Your Stock Photographs

In the Information Age with all of its technological capabilities, stock photography images can now be bought and sold digitally in all corners of the world. Magazines, book publishers, interior decorators, home architects, website developers, service companies, and marketing companies all have a need… read more

Causecast Launches a Wikipedia for Brand Philanthropy

Causecast is aiming to become the Wikipedia of philanthropy with the launch of its Cause Integration Profiles.

The site allows any company to sign up and create a page listing its charitable actions, partnerships and grants. This data can then be searched and pulled up for a snapshot… read more

10 iPhone Apps for Planning the Perfect Wedding

Summer is right around the corner, and with that warmer weather comes wedding season. Seeing your friends and loved ones getting married is one of life’s greatest joys. For anyone who has planned a wedding, well, you know what it’s like. There’s the dress, the band, the… read more

Esquire Challenges iPad Owners to “The Hardest Puzzle Ever”

Esquire has released an iPad app the publication is calling “the hardest puzzle ever.”

It is certainly very difficult. The game [iTunes link] combines Rubik’s Cube-style puzzles with riddles — including those with and without Google-able answers — of scaling difficulty. After successfully completing each level, users can opt to print… read more

50 Excellent Photography Tips, Tricks And Tutorials From Early 2011

50 Excellent Photography Tips, Tricks And Tutorials From Early 2011

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Clipping Path Options in InDesign CS5

AJ Wood shows viewers how to use clipping path options to separate image subjects from their backgrounds when working with InDesign documents.

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The Beauty Of Typography – 25 Beautiful Examples

The Beauty Of Typography – 25 Beautiful Examples

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Editorial Travel Photography – Telling the Story of a Location

If you’re ever given a travel assignment by a magazine – or hope to get one – you need to learn how to tell the story of a location. Flip through the pages of any of your favorite travel magazines and you’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. It’s all… read more

CSS3 and HTML5 Toolbox Starter

As designers and developers we tend to always be on the look out for awesome resources to add to our virtual toolboxes. With the web design landscape moving in the direction of CSS3 and HTML5 we thought that we would help our readers find a few choice tools to start… read more

20 Inspiring iOS Style Icons

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iOS has inspired a whole new style of icon design since its debut, and it is a trend that’s only spreading further as more iPhone apps are developed and more designers bring this style to other platforms.

Let’s take a look at 20 attractive icons designed in… read more

100 Web Apps to Rule Them All

There’s so many web apps today, it’s hard to keep up with them all. From the apps we’ve all used for years such as Gmail to newer apps that just came out this year such as Flow, web apps have increasingly become a part of our daily lives.

Whether you’re just… read more

The Amazing Floating Markets of Thailand: And How to Photograph Them

When people mention Thailand, some of the images that come to mind are the postcard photos of beaches, the water festival ‘Songkran,’ or their favorite Thai food. For a photographer, Thailand has a lot to offer. If you are ever in Bangkok for a few days, one of… read more

Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

Photoshop and Lightroom Plug-in Creates Amazing Black-and-White Images

Nik Software recently released Silver Efex Pro 2, updating their powerful black-and-white conversion software with impressive new features and special algorithms for finer tonal control and faster processing. They’ve added new presets with image thumbnail previews, and now there’s a well-designed History… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: June 2011

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the… read more