30+ Impressive Email Newsletters for Inspiration

30+ Impressive Email Newsletters for Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #971

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

30+ Truly helpful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects

30+ Truly helpful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects

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Getting The Best Out Of Eclipse For Android Development

Getting into Android development can be quite a challenge, particularly if you’re new to Java or Eclipse or both. Whatever your past experience, you might feel tempted to start working away without checking that you’re making the best use of the IDE. In this article, we’ll go over a few… 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

50+ Creative Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

50+ Creative Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

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Essential Keywording Tips and Strategies for Photographers

Keywording is a tool to assign or tag meaningful words to your photos so people searching may find them. I often think of stock photography when I hear the word “tag” or “keyword” because it’s an important step in that industry — allowing photo buyers to find appropriate images. Although… read more

“Do a Barrel Roll” on Google, and You Won’t Be Disappointed

“Do a barrel roll” has become a trending topic on Twitter and elsewhere, thanks to an easter egg on Google Search.

Type the phrase in Google, and the screen will tumble around (it’s a barrel roll, after all). The same thing happens if you search for “Z or R twice.” If… read more

Show Off Your Talent! Enter the PhotoDune Photo Manipulation Competition

Last week we celebrated the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography marketplace with a series of photo effect, photo manipulation, and photo montage tutorials. Now that Photo Effects Week has come to an end, we wanted to give you the opportunity to put your newly learned skills to the… read more

Surreal Photo Manipulation Tutorial – YTD Exclusive

A surreal artwork, as its name suggests, is characterized by elements and situations that are dreamlike or out of this world. It would require someone to have a wide (or wild) imagination to come up with a Surrealist inspired concept. And it takes a whole lot of skill and practice to… 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

A Day in the Life of Freelance Designers

Ever wonder what freelance designers do all day? Do they sleep in, design in their pajamas and drink tons of coffee? How do they juggle design, social networking, admin duties, lunch, families, the gym and so on? As designers and developers, most of us have often wondered how others spend… read more

27 Bright and Colourful Macro Flower Photographs

Sometimes an explosion of colour and detail is just eye-candy. These great macro photos of flowers provide exactly that. Check out our articles on studio lighting for macro flower photography or our guide to take the perfect spring flower macro photograph if you want to try it for yourself.

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40 Typography Best Techniques – New Photoshop Tutorials

40 Typography Best Techniques – New Photoshop Tutorials

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5 Unique Ways to Promote your Brand using Personalized Products and Gifts

5 Unique Ways to Promote your Brand using Personalized Products and Gifts

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Seven Reasons for Returning to Film Photography.

A quick look on eBay will reveal thousands of low use, high quality film cameras for incredibly low prices. It is perhaps the best time ever to buy a film camera, but why would you want to go back to film when today’s digital cameras produce such stunning images. Well,… read more

New Book: Rockstar Icon Designer

What is one graphic element that you see dozens, if not hundreds, of times a day? Each of your favorite websites, applications, and software has at least one, and we’re betting it’s even had a major influence on what tools you decide to use. Any guesses?

If you guessed “icons,” you… read more

Book Suggestion: Ordering Disorder Grid Principles for Web Design

The book suggestion of the week is a must have for those willing to design nice web sites and pretty much anything. It is called Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design (Voices That Matter) and as the name says it is all about grid systems or the principles behind… read more

Beauty from the Commonplace: 27 Cool Photographs of Sparrows

“Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.” – Morley Baer

Sparrows may not be the most exotic species to photograph, but in the spirit of Morley Baer, these photographers show that it’s not all about the subject. With… read more

Must Have Tutorials for Photographers – Photo Manipulation

Must Have Tutorials for Photographers – Photo Manipulation

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How to Take Flash Photographs of “Blinkers”

We have all encountered them. Maybe you are even one of them. I have two of them in my family and they can be very challenging to photograph. I am talking about “blinkers”: those people who always seem to have their eyes closed in photographs when a flash is used.

It’s… read more

Best Of Web And Design In October 2011

Best Of Web And Design In October 2011

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Daily Inspiration #968

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Best of Tuts+ in October

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

Photoshop Text Styles: 20 Extremely Epic Free Effects

Adobe Photoshop is not only a great tool to manipulate images to produce amazing looking designs but it can also create text effects that make every design epic. There are lots of Photoshop text effects tutorials around the web that will help you in creating stunning  text effects. Following these… read more

15 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials for Designer

15 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials for Designer

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Design a Super Sleek Sports Web Layout

Design a Super Sleek Sports Web Layout

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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

16 Useful Javascript Tutorials and Libraries

16 Useful Javascript Tutorials and Libraries

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Planet Photoshop: Retro Text

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 goes back a few decades in style and explains how to create this groovy text design.

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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

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

Have Your Say in the FreelanceSwitch Survey!

We love the community of readers we have at FreelanceSwitch and your opinion is incredibly valuable. This week, we’re giving you the chance to have your say about the site, and win a few fantastic prizes at the same time! Read on to find out how to get involved… 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

Top 10 content management systems

There are dozens of great CMSs out there. Regardless of what type of site you’re building, there’s probably one perfectly-suited to it.

The problem is that most designers and developers don’t want to spend time learning a bunch of different CMSs. They want to learn one, or maybe… 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

40 Fresh and Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

40 Fresh and Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

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How to Convey Size in Landscape Photography

In landscape photography, you can very often take a shot of some immensely large scene (Grand Canyon, Ayer’s Rock etc) and get home to look at your shots only to see that the shot has failed to really convey how big the place was. It can be a little disappointing… read more

Daily Inspiration #966

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users.
If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Some Really Amazing Collection Of Logos

Some Really Amazing Collection Of Logos

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Linkswitch #90, Experience Based Rates, Explosive Blog Growth and Talent vs. Grit

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Wallpaper of the Week 175 by Rawz

The wallpaper of this week is the new logo created for RAWZ, if you don’t know what that is, RAWZ is the place where anyone can share their work and inspiration and it’s the place we will select the images from the Daily Inspiration.

For more information visit http://raw.abduzeedo.com

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6 Quality Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

6 Quality Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

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Photo Effects Week: Create a Planet Using Photoshop’s 3D Capabilities

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. The 3D tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended make it easy for anyone to add 3D elements to their… read more

Daily Inspiration #965

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

Photo Effects Week: Use Curves Adjustment to Turn Day Into Night

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. Adjustment layers are a powerful feature in Photoshop. They prove their usefulness time and time again. In this… read more

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

Photo Effects Week: Apply a Color Effect to a Photo

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. In this tutorial we will learn how to apply a color effect to a photo. The photo used… read more

Best Premium Joomla Template Providers

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Why would I use premium Joomla Templates while tons of free Joomla templates are available out there? You may be one of the people to ask this question.

If you notice, most Joomla providers offer both free and commercial templates; however, the number of purchases is… read more

35 Illustrator Tutorials All Designer Should Acquire New Techniques

35 Illustrator Tutorials All Designer Should Acquire New Techniques

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3 Tips for Improving Customer Engagement in SaaS Applications

Guy Nirpaz is the CEO and co-founder of Totango, which analyzes user actions on SaaS applications, providing sales teams invaluable information in qualifying prospects and prioritizing people to contact who are most likely to buy (or renew).

Customer engagement is key for software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses. Correct interpretation of consumer actions is… 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

Photo Effects Week: Create a Print-Ready Environmental Poster – Psd Premium Tutorial

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Mark Mayers will walk you through the entire process of creating a… read more

Painting with Fire Using Photoshop’s Liquify Filter

Painting with Fire Using Photoshop’s Liquify Filter

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Levels: Getting the Professional ‘Pop’

One of the more popular tutorials that has been written and shared in the dPS forums was the following one from one of our members – LeeR on ‘Levels’. While written last year it continues to be popular with readers so I thought I’d reshare it here on the blog.

One… read more

Creating a Fun Editorial Illustration – Vector Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial, which is available exclusively for Premium members. If you’ve thought of becoming an editorial illustrator, then this tutorial is a must read. It reviews the complete editorial illustration with loads of tips inside as well. The process from sketch, through research, communication with… read more

How to Create a Disturbing Scene of a Flooded Room with a Giant Hand Carrying a Fish

How to Create a Disturbing Scene of a Flooded Room with a Giant Hand Carrying a Fish

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Creating Awareness Through Photography

For decades the Kinsol Trestle sat deep in the heart of the Cowichan Valley, with the only sound near it being that of the occasional bird, bear or arsonist.  As things stand today, it has become one of the iconic places to visit on Vancouver Island and hundreds of people… read more

Daily Inspiration #963

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

Photo Effects Week: Create a Fantasy Miniature World in Photoshop

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. In this tutorial we’ll demonstrate how to create a miniature world using some interesting techniques. Many of the… read more

Drive Poster by James White: 3 Posters Giveaway

As you have probably seen, James White designed another great movie poster. This time the poster is inspired by the movie Drive. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, you should because it’s one of the best movies of 2011, especially in terms of style. James was also generous enough… read more

13 Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Successful Print Self Promotions

We’re all looking to creatively reach out to potential clients and secure new work, grab interesting projects, and expand our network of professional contacts. Designing self promo print materials are a proven way to get attention. The more creative your graphic design self promotion is, the better you will stand… read more

Interview with Antoni Tudisco

Today we’re going to interview a really young talented mate, Antoni Tudisco. Antoni is a graphic artist based on Germany, he started out on the creative area really earlier, however he already had the opportunity to work with some big clients as MTV and Kellogs and show his powerful skills.

Here’re… read more

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials: 40+ Cool Tips

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful Photoshop and Illustrator cs5 tutorials from around the web. You’ll find everything from Creating an Abstract Shining Text Effect… read more

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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Daily Inspiration #962

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

20 Photo Manipulation and Montage Tutorials for Photoshop

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, our new stock photography marketplace. Today, we want to present you with a list of some of our favorite photo manipulation, photomontage, and photo effect tutorials from our site and across the web. We hope that this list will inspire you… read more

Vectortuts+ Quiz: Adobe Illustrator Type Basics

Test your knowledge of Adobe Illustrator with the Vectortuts+ Illustrator Type Basics Quiz! How well do you know the basics of using type and text with Adobe Illustrator? Find out at the jump!

If you enjoy this fun mini-quiz, try the Adobe Illustrator Basics Quiz. If you want to brush up… read more

Photo Effects Week: Turn a Portrait Photo Into a Painting

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. In this tutorial we will turn a photo into a digital painting using several techniques to achieve a… read more

Nettuts+ Mac Apps: Structurer Pro and Builder

When I’m not writing Appstorm reviews or doing schoolwork, I’m a freelance web developer. A lot of what I know about web development I owe to the in-depth tutorials and screencasts over at Nettuts+, which is, in my opinion, one of the most reliable and richest resources for all levels… read more

Book Suggestion: Designing Brand Identity

The book suggestion of this week is about branding and it’s a recommendation from one of our favorite graphic designers out there, Roger Oddone. The book is called Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team and it covers everything you need to know about branding, from… read more

5 Common Photography Questions from Beginners (and Their Answers)

There are quite a few common questions that any photographer gets asked regularly. As they’re so common, we thought we would cover a few of them!

1) How Do I Get the Background Blurry? – So you have taken a beautiful portrait of your newborn child with beautiful light and a… read more

Daily Inspiration #961

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

9 Fantastic Tutorials That Teach You to Make Amazing Cinemagraphs

9 Fantastic Tutorials That Teach You to Make Amazing Cinemagraphs

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Creative Animated GIFs That Savor A Passing Moment

Creative Animated GIFs That Savor A Passing Moment

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30+ Halloween/Horror Digital Art for Inspiration

30+ Halloween/Horror Digital Art for Inspiration

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15 Brilliant Tutorials To Learn How To Draw Cartoons

15 Brilliant Tutorials To Learn How To Draw Cartoons

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Awesome Collection of Joomla Tutorials

Awesome Collection of Joomla Tutorials

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Photo Effects Week: Create a Cutout Photograph in Photoshop

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a cutout photo using simple selections and advanced transformations…. read more

Photo Effects Week: Create a Lamb’s Coat in Photoshop

This week we are celebrating the launch of PhotoDune, Envato’s new stock photography website with a series of photo effect and photo manipulation tutorials that showcase the images from our new marketplace. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a lamb’s coat in Photoshop using several stock photos… 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

25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts

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The most popular topic of discussion at the moment is undoubtedly responsive layouts in web design. Without going discussing too much what you will already know, a responsive layout allows you to offer a specific and optimised screen size based on whatever device (mobile, tablet…)… read more

Beginner Tutorial: Create Dexter on illustrator

Hi everyone, I decided to insert some nostalgia on today’s tutorial. Since I’m a guy born in the early 90s, I thought sharing how to draw Dexter would be really interesting and fun. If you’ve ever watched Cartoon Network you’ll probably recognize this little fella at first sight.

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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

Daily Inspiration #960

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How to Create a Vintage Circus Poster with the Photoshop Puppet Warp Tool

How to Create a Vintage Circus Poster with the Photoshop Puppet Warp Tool

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Wallpaper of the Week 174 by Abduzeedo

The wallpaper of this week is the image we created on last week’s tutorial called Vintage Typography Experiment in Illustrator and Photoshop. It’s a nice vintage experiment done in Photoshop and Illustrator.

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15 Top Tutorials To Learn How To Draw Cartoon People

15 Top Tutorials To Learn How To Draw Cartoon People

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Collection of useful illustrator tutorials #3

Collection of useful illustrator tutorials #3

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How to Create an Environmental Painting in Photoshop

How to Create an Environmental Painting in Photoshop

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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

New PS Tuts Released In The Last Three Months

New PS Tuts Released In The Last Three Months

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Sites of the Week #176

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Mightybell and 10k Apart. Also we’re featuring the beautiful Kitchen Sink Studios portfolio, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

Design a Print-Ready Beer Label in Adobe Illustrator

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Alan Ballard was first published on March 18th 2009.

Alright folks, it’s time to roll up the sleeves and get down to business with this full-featured Adobe illustrator… read more

A Collection of Innovative and Inspiring Typography

Typography is the art or technique of arranging type. It’s a broad medium, covering areas such as typeface selection, line length, line spacing, kerning, tracking, and of course wider design features such as color, lighting etc…

Typography is a growing phenomenon amongst graphic designers, many of whom have gone beyond the… read more

Daily Inspiration #958

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

10 Lesser Known Shot List Categories

This is a guest post by Ralph Velasco. Check out his very cool iPhone App – Shotlists for Travel!

As a travel photography instructor and international tour guide, I consider my job to help the participants of my classes and tours to bring home a more well-rounded and interesting portfolio of… read more

“Getting” The Latest WordPress Installation From The Command Line

“Getting” The Latest WordPress Installation From The Command Line

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Switch to Manual Mode

A Guest Post by Sam Levy from citifar.

In the past couple of years, the price for DSLRs and other fancy cameras has decreased dramatically and these cameras have become affordable to many more photo-enthusiasts. I often stroll Fifth Avenue in New York City and observe so many tourists using their… read more

Interview with Nicholas van der Walle

Today our guest is Nicholas van der Walle, the proprietor of Astute Graphics. Astute Graphics has become world famous thanks to its Phantasm CS and VectorScribe plugins that make our work easier and more convenient. Among their customers there are such world famous brands as Adidas, Apple, NASA, Nike, Philips,… read more