An Awesome Collection Of 80 Photoshop Typography Tutorials

An Awesome Collection Of 80 Photoshop Typography Tutorials

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2 Clean Drop Down Navigation’s (PSD)

2 Clean Drop Down Navigation’s (PSD)

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60+ Ready To Use Free PSD Website Templates

60+ Ready To Use Free PSD Website Templates

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Sean Hodge Takes Over as Editor of FreelanceSwitch

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For those of you in the know, you’ve probably noticed that Amanda Hackwith has moved to the Rockable Press side of our business following the release of her successful book Freelance Confidential: The Whole Truth on Freelancing. She’s still a full-time Editor at Envato, but is… read more

How to photograph children {and other stuff} indoors

When you Google about photographing indoors, one of the most unmistakable feelings you come away with is that you can’t do it with your existing equipment. Kit lenses aren’t ‘fast’, they don’t shoot in a wide open f/1.4, you don’t have a big external flash. All of these things can… read more

Ask Dave Podcast: Make a Vignette Using Smart Filters

Ask Dave is a weekly podcast from Photoshop Guy, Dave Cross. In his videos, Dave answers viewer questions about Photoshop tools, actions, settings, etc. Check out the entire series on KelbyTV or subscribe to the feed.

In this video, Dave shows Photoshop users how to make a vignette using Smart Filters.

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Create an Eye-Catching Eco-Friendly Shoe Advertisement – Psd Premium Tutorial

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In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Wojciech Pijecki will demonstrate how to create an eye-catching, eco-friendly shoe advertisement using several stock images. This tutorial is available exclusively to Premium Members. If you are looking to take your design skills to the next level then Log in or Join Now… read more

Aol Offices in Palo Alto, by Studio O+A

AOL has presented us with lots of news to adapt even more to the changes on the online culture. As part of this effort, they also moved to a new office in Palo Alto, California, and brought the architects of Studio O+A to let them fully integrated with the other… read more

Useful, Free Smartphone Apps and Resources for Developers

Smartphones are everywhere, and people all over the world are using them because of the many useful and amazing features they have that people love. People use smartphones for their daily work because smartphones have loads of advantages over a PC or Laptop, portability being a major one. Smartphone based… read more

WDL Premium: Light and Textured Web Elements Kit

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For our WDL Premium members, here’s an awesome kit containing 60 web elements from WeGraphics. In this kit you will have at your disposal pixel perfect buttons, ribbons and icons to enhance your next website and realize eye catching layouts just in few minutes. Buttons are… read more

3 Minutes with Photographer William Neill

William Neill has long been an iconic nature photographer with work spanning classical landscapes to contemporary nature abstracts. A long time contributor to Outdoor Photographer magazine and an active blogger on William Neill’s Light on the Landscape Photoblog his photographic roots go back to working with Ansel Adams in Yosemite National… read more

Learn To Create A Ribbon Style Header

Learn To Create A Ribbon Style Header

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Essential Apps for New Chromebook Owners

Google, in association with Samsung and Acer, is launching the new Chromebooks today, a set of notebooks that run Google’s cloud-based operating system. If you’ve already seen all the coverage of what exactly the Chromebook is, including on AppStorm, you’ll know that a Chromebook has no local storage, and all… read more

Finally, Do Magic With Content Aware

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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we… read more

23 Free, Vector Icon Packs for Social Media

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It’s massive freebie time again! We’ve rounded up a huge collection of social media icons in, you guessed it, vector format. These designs are simple, clean, and versatile. They’re easy to integrate into your next app, interface, blog, web design, or anything you have in the pipeline that needs… read more

Creating Beautiful Appealing But Minimalist Web Design

Creating Beautiful Appealing But Minimalist Web Design

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Lightroom Q&A

Here’s the latest round of Q&A’s. Feel free to leave a comment and keep ‘em coming.

Q. After viewing the 100 reasons Lightroom is better that Bridge I made the switch and purchased Lightroom . I am trying to figure our how to move my ACR presets to Lightroom. I can’t… read more

How to create a Slick Pattern Embossed Text in Photoshop

How to create a Slick Pattern Embossed Text in Photoshop

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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

DW Premium: A Clean & Stylish Login Form (PSD)

DW Premium: A Clean & Stylish Login Form (PSD)

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Five Great Websites To Download High-Quality Design Freebies

There are many websites out there for us for design freebies, but getting by good ones and free is not that easy. That is why I am sharingFive Great Websites To Download High-Quality Design Freebies. Read… read more

Free Texture Tuesday – Blue Grunge

I’ve got a highly useful set of blue grungy textures for you guys today. I created these in Photoshop by combining paper and grunge textures in various blending layers to achieve the final effect. Let me know if you guys like them and enjoy!
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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

20 Incredible Speed Painting Videos

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Speed painting is the act of recording of an artist’s screen while they paint a scene. The recording is then sped up so that you can see the piece come together much more quickly. In this round up we have gathered some of the most impressive speed painting videos… read more

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

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

Filter Forge Launches 3.0 Beta and New Abdz Contest

Hey everyone! More good news from Filter Forge; after the great response and high participation we got on their last contest a few months back, they’ve decided to run another one here to celebrate the launch of their new 3.0 beta. If you didn’t catch it last time,… 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

Some Noteworthy Facts in Regards to PSD to HTML Conversion

Some Noteworthy Facts in Regards to PSD to HTML Conversion

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22 fresh Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials for the week

22 fresh Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials for the week

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Photoshop Tutorial: Absolute Beginners Guide to Matte Painting

Photoshop Tutorial: Absolute Beginners Guide to Matte Painting

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Daily Inspiration #847

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

Create Smart, Interactive Prototypes with inVision

I’m a web developer who’s not much for prototyping, at least not using some online tool. I’ve changed up my process a lot, but the only thing that’s still frustrating is the sketches phase. Sometimes I’ll dive right into code and start mocking up using just HTML and CSS. Other… 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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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, June

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

Create a Surreal Out of Bounds Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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In this tutorial we will combine several images of water, animals, and people to create a surreal out of bounds photo manipulation in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Head (no. 6) – ahrum-stock Sea – darkrose42-stock Sky… read more

Vector Purity vs Raster Live Effects: Where do you stand?

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Consider an artist using 90% vector in their work and only 10% raster live effects, would you class this artist as a “vector artist” or would you see them as a “mixed medium artist”? Do you think “vector art” should be without raster live effects? Today’s article looks at… read more

Win Over 60,000 Design Items From UltimateDesignerToolkit.com

Today we are going to giveaway 3 member accounts on UltimateDesignerToolkit.com to designrfix.com readers. Each account cost 99$ and it will allow you to download our existing resources, and the next releases. UltimateDesignerToolkit.com consists of design resources like Photoshop brushes, vector files, PSD layouts, Photoshop actions and other design resources… read more

Tips on taking your project from the paper to the wall

Sometime ago, before I got interested in street art and other tradicional medias, I was walking thru a street and stumbled with a graffiti artist painting a huge mural. I asked him how he could scale from such small drawing to a big wall like that, he said that this… read more

Create a Grungy Style Text Effect Inspired by “Infamous 2″ Game in Photoshop

Create a Grungy Style Text Effect Inspired by “Infamous 2″ Game in Photoshop

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Daily Inspiration #846

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

Freebie: 50 Sun Photoshop Custom Shapes

Freebie: 50 Sun Photoshop Custom Shapes

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More PSD Colouring Files for Photoshop: Useful & Educational

More PSD Colouring Files for Photoshop: Useful & Educational

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

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Wallpaper of the Week #155 by Nik Ainley

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by the master Nik Ainley. Nik wanted to do an isometric picture for ages, and to try something light and colourful. Nik is also featured in the Abduzeedo Book.

For more information about this image and Nik’s work visit http://www.behance.net/gallery/Cakes/1585451 and… read more

Basic Techniques to Constraint Text in Photoshop

Basic Techniques to Constraint Text in Photoshop

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PSD to Magento Template

PSD to Magento Template

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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

500+ Highly Useful Vector Brushes For Photoshop

500+ Highly Useful Vector Brushes For Photoshop

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Over 50 Photoshop Food and Drink Tutorials

Over 50 Photoshop Food and Drink Tutorials

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Daily Inspiration #845

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

Samsung Chromebook Could Redefine the Modern Laptop

The Gadget of the Day Series is supported by the Energizer® Inductive Charger, which brings you the next generation of charging with Qi technology. Qi is the new universal standard for wireless charging … now that’s positivenergy™.

Product: Samsung Chromebook Series 5 3G Notebook

Price: $500 (3G and Wi-Fi… read more

35 Cool Infographics for Web and Graphic Designers

Let’s be honest, we tend to get bored with reading too much text and it’s rather difficult to understand descriptive information especially if they signify numbers or statistics. To make things easier, we use graphs, illustrations and flowcharts to make them visually appealing yet, at… read more

All About Grunge: 60 Useful Examples, Tutorials and Free Resources

Grunge style and look is getting quite popular these days and it doesn’t look as if it is going to be disappeared soon. A grunge style stands apart from other design styles and mostly holds a worn or stained look that also can appear worn out, old or out of… read more

12 Common Mistakes Designers Make and How to Avoid Them

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Ahh mistakes. We all make them, and it’s not something to fear or be ashamed of. They are a great opportunity to learn, to grow your skills, and become a stronger designer for your clients and your career. After doing this for a number of years, I’ve made a… read more

Sites of the Week #157

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Climate Wisconsin and Abstraktion. Also we’re featuring a nice service called Kult, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… 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

50 Mind Blowing Photo Manipulations

Creating something out of the ordinary by combining two or more elements is not a new concept in the graphic design field. Photo manipulation is a true example of such collaboration that almost always brings astonishing results. Photo manipulation basically is a technique combining graphic design and photography.

In photo manipulations,… read more

Design an Artistic Watercolor T-Shirt Design

Design an Artistic Watercolor T-Shirt Design

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Creating the Alluring Photo-Manipulation ‘Lust’

Creating the Alluring Photo-Manipulation ‘Lust’

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Nice Freebie: Yin Yang Photoshop Shape

Nice Freebie: Yin Yang Photoshop Shape

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10+ Superb Photoshop Photo Effects Professional Tutorials

10+ Superb Photoshop Photo Effects Professional Tutorials

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50 Ultra High Quality Free Web Design PSD Files

50 Ultra High Quality Free Web Design PSD Files

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50 Killer Tutorials For Graphic Designers(Photoshop, Illustrator)

50 Killer Tutorials For Graphic Designers(Photoshop, Illustrator)

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170+ High Quality Swirl Photoshop Brushes

170+ High Quality Swirl Photoshop Brushes

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Daily Inspiration #844

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

Quick and Simple Vector Techniques from Vectortuts+

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Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest to achieve. The following collection of Quick Tips showcase some excellent finishes and techniques that will take you no longer than a lunch break to learn. You will find videos and tips about various vector tools and techniques. Find out more at… read more

Draw a Crysis Inspired Nano Suit – Psd Premium Tutorial

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Have you ever needed to skin an object with a metal surface? In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Ed Lopez will use digital painting techniques to skin a person with futuristic hard and soft metals to create a Crysis inspired nano suit. While this tutorial is meant to emulate… 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

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

Saving and Presenting Your Work

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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we… read more

ASU Polytechnic Academic Buildings by Lake|Flato

ASU Polytechnic Academic Buildings located in Arizona, it is a set of extremely well-finished buildings, with distinct visual characteristics that while architecturally interrelate.

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A project by Lake | Flato Architects in collaboration with the RSP, was developed to integrate with existing buildings at the University of Arizona. The new building also… read more

Now on Mighty Deals: Keynotopia App Prototyping Templates

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Right now on our sister site Mighty Deals, we have a great deal from Keynotopia that we think you’ll love.

Basically Keynotopia makes it possible to design interfaces and create clickable mockups for web, mobile, and desktop apps in 30 minutes or less, without touching a design tool… read more

The Useful Photoshop Tutorials of May 2011

The Useful Photoshop Tutorials of May 2011

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Create Amazing Photoshop Light Effect in 7 Easy Steps

Create Amazing Photoshop Light Effect in 7 Easy Steps

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Daily Inspiration #842

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

Exciting Custom Event Ticket Designs To Get Ideas From

Tickets more than sell and present important information regarding an event. They serve as mementos of a wonderful day or night out with your loved ones and friends, may that be a date, an exciting football game or an awesome dance party. Whatever the event, these printed materials… read more

Understand Flash Sync Speed so You Don’t Sink Your Photo Shoot

A Guest post by Marlene Hielema from www.imagemaven.com.

Several years ago I borrowed my piano teacher’s grande piano and her lovely home for a portrait shoot of an up-and-coming pianist. As I set up my studio strobe lights for the shoot I was inspired by Arnold Newman’s iconic photo of Igor… 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

A Look Into The Depthcore Collective

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Looking for visual inspiration? Look no further than the Depthcore Collective. With over 40 exhibitions dating back as far as June 2002, this group of accomplished artists of all mediums has been churning out digital art of the highest quality for nearly ten years. In today’s article we will… read more

The Truth About Converging Verticals in Architectural Photography

There is a long standing convention in photography that if a building has straight sides, then that is how it should look in a photograph. Almost any textbook you pick up about photography (especially architectural photography) will mention and stress this point. Now, while making sure your verticals… read more

Wooden graphic elements PSD

Wooden graphic elements PSD

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Lets make Basketball in Photoshop

Lets make Basketball in Photoshop

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15 brand-new Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials for the week

15 brand-new Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials for the week

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Daily Inspiration #841

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

Automatically Save Your Work With PsdAutoSaver

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We’ve all been there. You’ve been awake all night working on an amazing project. Everything is going perfectly, the design looks great, you’re proud of the job you’ve done, and then disaster strikes. Photoshop crashes and you lose all your work. Your first thoughts are “when was the last… read more

Design a Textured Button in Photoshop

Today I’ll be showing you how to design a neat little textured button in Photoshop. This is a basic level tutorial that will help you learn more about layer styles, texture and pattern overlays, and gradients. If you find this walkthrough useful and would like to see more like this… read more

10 Tips For Great Telephoto Photography

One of the most exciting aspects of photography is working with Telephoto and Super Telephoto lenses. While out of the price range for most to buy, this lens family is easily accessible through lens rental services online or through local camera stores. Telephoto and super telephoto lenses enable photographers to… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, June

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

Apply a Tilt-Shift Effect to a Video Using Photoshop

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Tilt-shift is an effect that when applied to an image or in this case, a video, will create the illusion of miniaturization, making it seem as if the video is shooting a model set and not real life. To create one of these videos outside of Photoshop would require… read more

Free Lightroom Preset – The Hangover Movie Look

WARNING: This preset contains photos and text that imply alcoholic consumption. If you’re under the age of 21 or otherwise offended by such photos and implications, then please leave this page… there’s nothing to see here.

Well, the movie season is gearing up and I snuck away last week to… read more

50 (Really FRESH) High Quality and Free Icon Sets

Every designer knows how valuable an icon set can be in the time of need. This is the reason why keeping a good collection of beautiful and high-quality icon sets is on the wish-list of many designers. Freebie icon designs is a must have in every designer’s tool kit. Keeping… read more

20 Free Top Shelf UI Kits for Web Designers

When it comes to web design, the UI elements that are included can, at times, make or effectively break (in more ways than one) the overall piece. Compromising the aesthetics and even the functionality of the design rendering it virtually useless. So we have to choose the UI elements carefully…. 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

Understanding Pixel Size in Photoshop

Understanding Pixel Size in Photoshop

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getting started with photoshop – Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

getting started with photoshop – Editing Keyboard Shortcuts

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Free One Page Pattern Resume Template (PSD)

Free One Page Pattern Resume Template (PSD)

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