Create a 50s ad poster in Illustrator

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

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

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

Free pack of beautiful grunge textures

Free pack of beautiful grunge textures

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56 Free Leather Textures

56 Free Leather Textures

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Quick Tip: How to Make a Retro Icon Style using the Appearance Panel

In the following Quick tip you will learn how to create a retro icon style. You will use a standard web symbol and the Appearance Panel to create a retro style that can be re-used on everything from icons to text. This is the perfect tutorial for beginners wanting… read more

How to Create a Vector Stamp Set in Illustrator

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

Free Texture Tuesday: Fur and Feathers

These 5 hi-res fur and feather textures come from scanning the materials used for creating fly fishing lures. Scanning these at high resolution really brings out some unique detail and surface quality that can’t be seen otherwise.

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50 Photoshop Tutorials For High Quality Photo Editing

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

With Photoshop, it’s… read more

Tuesday Total Textures 97

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

Create a Vector Bamboo Forest with Blends, Brushes and Profiles

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

Free Textured Patchwork Patterns

Free Textured Patchwork Patterns

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Freebie Friday: 5 Ink Smear Brushes

These 5 brushes were made by dipping a Q-Tip in red food coloring then simply “drawing” on a piece of paper with it. If you enjoy these, check out the Red Drops and Streaks texture pack on Valleys In The Vinyl. It was one of the first texture packs I… read more

Community: Peer Review

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

20+ Useful Photoshop Texture Tutorials

20+ Useful Photoshop Texture Tutorials

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Quick Tip: How to Create an Ornament Illustration for a Holiday Sale

Love it or loath it, the lead up to the holidays is often the busiest time of the year for designers and illustrators. It’s around this time requests come in for all sorts of promotions and sales. I’ve lost count of the number of baubles, turkeys and gift boxes I’ve… read more

How to Illustrate a Vector Kitchen Pot – Vector Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial, which is available exclusively for Premium members. In today’s tutorial well be creating a kitchen pot in a shiny, realistic vector style. Learn to use various Illustrator tools to create this high quality artwork, step-by-step, using a professional vector workflow.

This Premium Tutorial is… read more

Stunning Photo Manipulations Inspired by Nature

Nature is a popular subject amongst the Photoshop community, and subsequently is featured in a lot of photo manipulation work. Nature is really the perfect subject for photo manipulations as it’s so visually engaging. Think of the four elements, or a beautiful landscape, or a fierce animal. All these things… read more

50 Useful Paper Photoshop Brushes For Creative Designs

Photoshop is the best and most commonly used graphic designing tool in the field of graphic designing. With Photoshop installed on the computer, a designer can create awesome artwork that will simply mesmerize the human eyes. Among the tools of Photoshop, brushes are the most important one. Different types of… read more

Interview with Matthieu Bessudo (aka. Mcbess)

Today is the lucky day for some of you guys, because we got a exclusive interview with one of the highlights of the illustration area: Matthieu Bessudo aka. Mcbess. So, we tried to make some questions funnier to him, less formal than usual! So our conversation could be way more… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Slick Golden Text Effect with Adobe Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a slick golden text effect. Although it’s a pretty short tutorial, the sixteen steps cover many techniques and effects that can be used for other projects. The Pen Tool steps may be a bit challenging, but with patience and some… read more

How to Create a Calendar Icon in Illustrator

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

Infinity: A Responsive Portfolio WordPress Theme

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I’m happy to announce the launch of our latest WordPress theme at Theme Trust. It’s called Infinity, and it’s a responsive portfolio theme with a minimal style design and layout. With this theme your work will be front and center and look great across multiple devices… read more

80 High Quality Textures For Every Type Of Design

80 High Quality Textures For Every Type Of Design

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Thriller Cinematic background textures

Thriller Cinematic background textures

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Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Grunge Wood Textures

These 5 hi-res grungy wood textures have some great surface and personality. Each texture is 3600×2700.

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14 Ways to Improve Your Photography in a Few Days

Some might argue the point that photography is an art form.  Training your eye to see the world and translating your perspective visually takes time and patience. Yet, there’s also technique involved in creating arresting images. There are ways to quickly improve your photography and impact your creative vision. Let’s… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Glossy Downloads Folder Icon

Follow this quick tip and you will learn how to draw a folder starting from a single path with the help of the 3D Extrude&Bevel effect. You will play with multiple appearances, effects and shadows and you will use the Halftone Pattern effect to create a different texture for the… read more

Wireframing & Prototyping with Adobe Fireworks – Resources and Tutorials

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Adobe Fireworks is one of the most popular application choices amongst web designers for wireframing and prototyping. There are many reasons as to why you should use Fireworks over any other graphic editor, but we won’t go into them with this post (perhaps you could… read more

The Essential Shotlist for Temple Photography (With 17 Gorgeous Examples)

If you have traveled in Asia, you know that temples are on your itinerary. The rich cultural heritage of Asia’s religions means any tour you take in Asian countries will be peppered with temples! temples! temples!

How many ways can you photograph a temple? We learned about shotlists with Ralph Velasco… read more

15 Awesome Examples of Portrait Typography

I haven’t done an inspiration post in a while, and I was browsing Flickr this morning, so I thought I’d share some cool typography I found. I’m calling these “portrait typography,” but you may have a different name for them. I like using type as a texture, but this is… read more

Freebie Friday: 5 Subtle Wood Brushes

Happy Friday everyone, today I’m sharing these five subtle wood Photoshop brushes that can add some quick surface and texture to your designs. They offer some great attributes like knotholes and some different grain patterns. Each brush is 2500×2000.

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Take Control of PDFs on Your Mac with PDFactory

Way back in my unenlightened days as a Windows user, I spent a great deal of time using various PDF editors. In an effort to avoid conflict with our friends at Windows.AppStorm, allow me to clarify: I don’t hate on Windows simply to hate on Windows–and indeed there are a… read more

Enough Incredible Photography Links To Make Your Eyes Water

The world of photography has produced some great work this week, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy finding the best tutorials, photography and interesting blogs.  Truly great images have been produced by some awesome photographers, and all the links listed here will take you to see them.  We really… read more

Premium Vector Pack – Color Textures

Today we have a unique Vector Premium Pack which is created in collaboration with the stock artist FantasyStock. We have for you 25 Color Textures which are 100% Vector – available in .AI and .EPS format!

New Vector Premium Textures

There are 25 vector illustrations in this pack. The license allows you… read more

8 Free stunning wood flooring textures

8 Free stunning wood flooring textures

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Ultimate Collection Of Grunge Photoshop Brushes

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In this roundup we have a huge and useful collection of grunge photoshop brushes. If you like these brushes you might also want to check out our previous posts below.

2000 Free Photoshop Brushes

450+ Photoshop Grunge Brushes

Grungy Ink Splatter Sprays

Sujune Vivid Dream Set

4 black and… read more

50 Wonderful Free Fonts For Vintage And Retro Designing

Ever wonder why vintage or retro style is getting so much popular and is being adopted extensively? This is because vintage and retro style is the best way to express yourself in a unique way and take your audience back to the decades of 50’s. Designers make an effort to… read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums | Oct 23 – 29

Sorry for the delay folks! I’ve just come back from PhotoPlus in New York! The show was filled with all of those photographic delights (mmm Sony NEX 7) and sounds that I will never be able to afford *sniff* -> You can check out the little videos I made if… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Colorful Grunge Textures

I’m very excited to share these complex colorful grunge textures with everyone today. One perk of these is that they are ready to use right away without needing to edit or combine with any other elements. Of course they’re also great to tweak and combine with other pieces in your… read more

WDL Premium: Organic Web Interface Kit

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This week, for our WDL Premium Members, we present an awesome kit containing 50+ web elements from WeGraphics. This is definitely a beautiful set of pixel-perfect web elements, ideal for adding that extra something to your web designs.

Be sure to check out WeGraphics for more… read more

Reviews Of Blog Designs In The Wild

Like any designer, no website is without its merits and flaws. It is through critical analysis and thoughtful conversation that we grow as individuals. If we do not talk about our work and the work of others, then we will not grow as creatives.

We have evaluated each website in this… read more

A collection of creative beautiful app icons

As computers, phones and tablets have improved their designs, and as people have become used to apps being as beautiful and intuitive as they are functional, it’s become more and more important to fit in with the aesthetic.

An app may be well built, and can do a job well,… read more

The Rough Guide to Digital Photography by Sophie Goldsworthy

“The Rough Guide to Digital Photography is designed to help you get to grips with the technology, to work out what you need to know and the kit you really need (rather than what the manufacturers claim you need).” This is the claim made in the opening sentence describing what… read more

45 Realistic Gadgets Designs Photoshop Tutorials

This is the era of gadgets, and we all love them. Creating levelheaded gadgets designs in Photoshop that look real is not an easy task particularly for the novices. But you can definitely get better in your general skills in Adobe Photoshop and then can design your own set of… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: November 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

Best of the Web – October 2011

As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there were some excellent Photoshop tutorials and freebies to choose from so please take a moment to review our favorites from October 2011. Photoshop Tutorials Create a Light Textured Web… read more

Interview with Jacqui Oakley

Today we are going to have an awesome talk with Jacqui Oakley. For those who don’t know her, she is an amazing illustrator from Canada. Jacqui has a very unique style that mixes hand drawings and illustration with a hint of watercolor, and the result is always on point. Check… read more

Best of the Vector Web – October 2011

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating layered, limited color, vector style artwork. We also have tutorials on creating self promotional books, using Illustrator’s Brush tool to create… read more

RAWZ Light Effects in Photoshop

Last Friday we launched our new way for users to submit work for the Daily Inspiration at Abduzeedo. We call it RAWZ or Abduzeedo Raw Inspiration. Anybody can submit their work and we will select some to be featured on Abduzeedo. We also created a logo in Illustrator and then… read more

Giveaway: Hi-resolution floral paper textures

Giveaway: Hi-resolution floral paper textures

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Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers

Everyone who is a regular Smashing Magazine reader will know that we have a traditional habit of regularly researching the latest resources, tools and services out there on the Web, as productivity is a crucial asset of professional Web designers and developers. We could, and should, all integrate workflow optimization… read more

5 simple ways to beat designer’s block

Designer’s block is no joke and it always seems to come around when a project’s deadline is quickly approaching.

You just can’t seem to create anything with enough power or spunk—heck, you may just be staring at your screen or sketchbook for hours straight.

It’s truly no fun at all to feel… read more

94 Photography Links That Rock

What a huge week we’ve had here in the wide world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been very busy compiling this very comprehensive list of tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share.  You will find some great links here taking you off to see some fabulous works… read more

Quick Tip: Designing a Halloween Invitation with InDesign

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

You may want to print this… read more

Beautiful Negative Space in Monochrome

We have covered negative space collections before and we have covered monochrome collections before, but when you put them together, for some reason, they become even more effective as images. This collection shows what can be done when they’re in combination.

South Beach 5 by Stephen A. Wolfe, on Flickr

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Free Texture Tuesday: Grab Bag 11

Today’s Grab Bag contains 5 completely diverse textures taken from unique materials. Each one is 3000 pixels tall and over 4000 pixels wide. Click the thumbnails to go to the Flickr album where you can download each one at full size.

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Tuesday Total Textures 94

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

What is Vexel Art?

Vexel art has been mentioned on a variety of websites, be it talking about vector art and vexel art, or featuring the wonderful work created by vexel artists. However, do you actually know the answer to “What is vexel art?”

In today’s article I’m going to give an in depth look… read more

How to Get Both Staged and Candid Travel Portraits

There’s a great debate of sorts about posing strangers for a travel portrait.

Purists would scoff at this, perhaps saying that if you directed the subject to pose in a certain way it’s not really travel photography. Some folks believe that travel photography is documentary, capturing people doing what they normally… read more

Sound Design: Red Bull Academy World Tour

To celebrate the Red Bull Academy World Tour, the Academy produced a music film that encompasses musical styles from around the world. It was produced 8 soundtracks for some of the cities where the event will take place. The Sound design work was done by Elias Arts http://eliasarts.com/.

The visual design… read more

The 71 Coolest Photography Articles, Tutorials and Links Of The Week

Another fabulous week in the world of photography and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling a list of great links to tutorials, photography and interesting blogs to share.   We sincerely hope you enjoy viewing these great sites as much at the Toad did in bringing this list to you.

Check… read more

Freebie Friday: 8 Assorted Grunge Brushes

Happy Friday everyone, today I’m releasing this very useful set of 8 different grunge brushes. The source of these was mostly distressed wood textures I had lying around. The preview images below don’t do these justice, they will add some great texture and touch to your work. Each one is… read more

Inspiration from Packages & Bottles Design

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I have to admit that I’m a package lover and that I also believe that packaging is an art, the art of designing a beautiful “protection” for a product. I really like to browse packages and pay attention to details like typography, color schemes, materials and… read more

Essential Elements of a Design Agency Website Layout (with 30 examples)

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Today, I’d like to cover some really crucial tips to constructing a great template for your company. Design labs and agencies either work with set clients or tend to release a few products and maintain support from customers. Thus your website is intended to sell… read more

Texture Toolkit 1 & 2

Flavor and Flair at Reasonable Price

Four different Texture Toolkits are currently offered by Digital Juice. I reviewed Texture Toolkit 1 “The Essentials” and Texture Toolkit 2 “Different Strokes.” These are collections of patterns—all high-resolution and most seamlessly repeating—ready for use in your print, Web, animation, or video design work.

Each… read more

Easy Natural Light Portraiture Technique: Using Available Shade

This guest post on natural light portrait photography was submitted by Ed Verosky at About-Photography.com and author of the popular eBooks, “Taking Your Portraiture to the Next Level,” and “Taking Your Portraiture to the Next Level II.”

Using natural light can produce some of the most pleasing portraits, but it’s not… read more

20 websites that engage users with social media icons and links

The topic of social media is all over the web, and it is important to consider it when designing a website.

The way you display social media icons or links has a direct effect on user engagement.

You have to consider many details when laying out a page, including the layout, the… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: Inside Vintage Books

Today I’m sharing these 5 textures from inside the covers of a few different vintage books. There is a range of content, from blank pages through illustrations and handwriting. Each has its own personality. Each one is about 2500×4000 pixels.

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Tuesday Total Textures 93

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

Ultimate Round Up of Free and Fresh Photoshop Patterns

In today’s session, we are bringing a collection of some amazing and useful Photoshop resources that will help you in creating your own dulcet patterns in your designs. With Photoshop, designers can save themselves plenty of time and wind up with improved results by taking advantage of readily available freebies…. read more

Create 3 Retro MP3 Players in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create 3 retro MP3 players in Photoshop. Each design will include a different type of media, a CD, record, and tape. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets Patterns Canvas Texture Step 1 Create a new file. Set Width and Height to 900×900 at… read more

24 Examples of Texture Usage in Web Design

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Using texture is a good way to add depth, detail, and a layer of interest to a web design. Whether it’s in big doses or just a few subtle patches here and there, texture can help give personality to your website. So for this post we’ve… read more

Vintage Typography Experiment in Illustrator and Photoshop

We all love typography and especially the vintage/retro ones. There’s something on those artworks that catch our eyes and makes us really crazy about them. Despite the fact that some are quite old and done with rudimentary process the quality of the design is amazing and that’s why books are… read more

Freebie Friday: 6 Vintage Paper Photoshop Patterns

Today I’m sharing these highly useful vintage paper Photoshop patterns. These would work great for creating a lightweight and seamless web background, or a fast way to add some texture in your Photoshop project. In the download file I’ve included the core 200px jpeg files as well as the .PAT… read more

74 (More) Links for Photography Junkies

This has been a very active week online in the field of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy finding and creating a list of this weeks best links for tutorial, great photography and interesting blogs to share.  We sincerely hope you enjoy going through this list of incredible… read more

How to Photograph Flowers

Photo H@Ru

Earlier in the week I had the chance to sit down with a photographer whose specialty is photographing flowers. As I tend to do with pro photographers – picked his brain as we chatted and took as many notes as I could. Here’s what I gleaned from him and… read more

Construct a Framework for a Cross-Cultural Design

Nowadays Graphic Designers work globally in many different Countries. The designer should visually communicate symbols and colors. These elements are part of our social everyday life and come together with a various range of meanings which are different for each culture.This makes obvious how much the study of the cross-cultural… read more

The Amazing Canyons of Northern Arizona

Many people who follow landscape and outdoor photography will know of the amazing photographic opportunities afforded those photographers who make the trek to northern Arizona in the USA. The amazing rock formations are a photographer’s wonderland. And here’s why.

Sandstone, Slot Canyon, AZ. by SteveD., on Flickr

Twin Light Tubes… read more

A Collection of Inspiring Blog Designs

Since their inception, blogs have often had some of the most innovative, beautiful and creative designs in the web design community. This is perhaps because bloggers are naturally expressive individuals who enjoy visual and written expression.

Whatever the reason, blogs are always a great source of inspiration if you’re working on… read more

Rediscovering Backlit Subjects

Photo by naughton321

“Look where the sun is coming from – then position yourself with your back towards it so that it light up your subject’s face.”

This was the very first piece of photographic advice that I was ever given as a child entrusted with the family’s camera for a school… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: Dried Leaves

Hi everyone, today I’m sharing these 5 dried leaves textures from my archives. These seem fitting for this time of the year, especially in my corner of the world in Massachusetts. These textures offer a great cracked and brittle surface that looks like it will shatter if touched.

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Create a Jack O’ Lantern with Blend Art Brushes in Illustrator

It’s October and if you’re like me, you’re looking forward to the zombie apocalypse or Halloween, either are fun! So to celebrate the creepy occasion I’m going to show you how to create a jack o’ lantern, which can be used as an icon or as a decorative item. Not… read more

The Keys to Organic Designs

In the world of design we all tend to have our processes and approaches that rule how we craft our work. This is essential for most of us in the field to have in place. Our own systems that we have spent years honing and developing down to less of… read more

7 Photoshop tips for designing clean and modern websites

Clean, elegant, and beautiful web design is often a matter of personal perspective. I look at hundreds of websites every week, and several of them stand out to me, but not all of them are necessarily effective.

Too often designers boil a concept down too far, producing a final design that… read more

Halloween Stock Photos & Textures

Halloween Stock Photos & Textures

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Freebie: High resolution Fabric Textures

Freebie: High resolution Fabric Textures

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Mega Bundle from VectorPack.net Only $29! ($545 Value)

VectorPack.net has prepared a great Mega Bundle for designers. This is a limited time offer, available until the 12th of October. At such a great value you will not want to miss the opportunity! In this pack you will receive 650 high quality design elements and save more than $500!

This… read more

88 Photography-Junkie Links From The Last 7 Days

Toad Hollow Photography has been busy searching the internet all week for the best links on tutorials, photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  A very active week in the world of photography, this list contains some great work from some truly great people.  We hope you enjoy checking… read more

Examples of Textures in Photography

Examples of Textures in Photography

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Free Texture Tuesday: Polished Concrete

I recently moved into a new space with a business partner and we just finished polishing our floors. These textures are from that floor. Believe it or not, the images for the textures might look rough, but they are very highly polished (1500 grit) as you can see in the… read more

Epson Signature Worthy Exhibition Canvas Papers

Inkjet Papers for Photographers and Fine Artists

A big difference between the digital and traditional darkroom is the wider variety of paper surfaces available for the digital darkroom and the probability you’ll find a paper that best matches your vision. Epson just released three new inkjet canvas papers from their high-end… read more

Tuesday Total Textures 91

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

Free Stuff: 210 Grunge Brushes from VectorPack.net – Comment to Win

In honor of VectorPack.net‘s Mega Design Bundle 2, I’ve got 5 copies of 210 Grunge brushes to give away! For this contest, I get to give away part of the brushes from that bundle to 5 lucky winners. Make sure to read the rules, and good luck!

Contest Rules:

All you have… read more

The Whys And The Hows Of Textures In Web Design

Texture is becoming integral to design. It’s gone beyond being a trend — it’s now a simple and effective way to add depth to a website. Wielding the power of texture is a great responsibility. It increases the effectiveness of websites and is a quality tool in the arsenal of designers. It… read more

How to Illustrate An Abacus Icon

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a realistic, vector abacus icon, using 3D Renders, Brushes, Blends and other tools of Adobe Illustrator. The skills you will learn can easily be transferred to creating various objects. So let’s get started!

Step 1

Illustrate a rectangle by using the Rectangle Tool (M)…. read more

Best of Tuts+ in September

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start! Psdtuts+ — Photoshop… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 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

Best of the Vector Web – September 2011

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating paper-cut style work with vectors, illustrating isometric retro designs, putting together vintage text effects, and more. We have loads of tutorials,… read more

73 Cool Links for Photography Junkies

Toad Hollow Photography has been looking all over the internet this week for some of the best tutorials, photography and blogs to share with everyone here.  It’s been an active and exciting week, and the list contains some truly incredible works from some of the best photographers.  We truly hope… read more

How to See in Black and White [and how HDR can be a Powerful Tool for the Monochrome Photographer]

A Guest Post by Joseph Eckert

The very first photographs were shot in black and white. Decades later, even after the advent of color, many photographers—especially those concerned with creating works of art—continued to shoot in black and white. The format remains popular even today: nearly every consumer-level digital camera has… read more

25+ free unique business card PSDs

As designers, we sometimes deal with clients who may be on a budget but want a super cool business card, and want it quick. As designers, we might even be that client.

A business card is often viewed as the first image a person has about your business and the work… read more