70 Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials of All Time

Creating photo manipulations using Photoshop isn’t as easy as you see here. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me. One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. Sky is the limit when you open image in… read more

Designing the Web: Photoshop Tutorials for Designing a Website

For those of us in the business of designing the web, one area of resources that always prove invaluable to have in our design arsenals is tutorials. Learning how other web designers have crafted their designs, and which tools they always rely on can always help to guide us as… read more

88 Links That Are Like Crack for Photographers

Back from a brief hiatus, the Toad has been busy hopping around the internet looking for the best tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This weeks list contains some of the very best images, tips and tricks from some of the most talented artists.  We really… read more

24 Creative Duotone Photographs

When you’re looking to create a certain mood or feeling in your imagery, many photographers turn to monotone or duotone. And while most go with subdued tones to evoke similar feeling to black and white photographs, duotone can also be used in a way to spruce up the feeling too…. read more

How to Illustrate a Handgun Using Adobe Illustrator

How to Illustrate a Handgun Using Adobe Illustrator

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Create a Peacock Illustration in Illustrator CS5 – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, I’m going to show you how I created a peacock illustration with mainly brushes and symbols. Learn how dividing an image into areas and remedying it with the use of art brushes, scatter brushes and symbols can make your workflow quicker and easier. If you… read more

How To Build a Handwritten Letter Style Contact Form

How To Build a Handwritten Letter Style Contact Form

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Why Birds Are a Photography Favourite

Bird photography is always a popular topic among outdoor photographers. The challenges presented in trying to get a good photograph of a bird though, are difficult to understate. Besides the skittish nature of the animal, problems with weather, wind, light and backgrounds always seem to throw themselves into your path…. read more

17 Adobe Flash Tutorials For Creating Menus And Navigations

The navigation and the menus of a website need to be easy to use as well as pleasant enough that user will like it. This is how you can define a user friendly website. For better and impressive navigation and menu, you can take the help of Adobe Flash. Thus,… read more

Tilt Shift Photoshop Tutorials

Tilt Shift Photoshop Tutorials

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Why Nobody Should Hate iPhone Photography

“Haters gonna hate” is an Internet meme that I’m sure everyone has seen at some point.  When there are a group of people large enough to actually hate something that usually means they are scared, jealous, envious or don’t understand what it is they are hating.  The iPhone has changed… read more

Community Project: Customized Name Tag, Round 1

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 1 of the Customized Name Tag Project. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.

Customized Name Tag Project, Round 1

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Creating a custom WordPress theme options page

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Black and White Flowers – A Study in Form

This is a guest collection by Tom Dinning. Download Tom’s latest book, “Learning to See” for free here.

They say you can win the heart of a woman with a bunch of colourful flowers. My success rate in that endeavour has been limited so I’m not one to comment. But I… read more

10 Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas You Can Get Online

So, you forgot about Valentine’s Day, huh? Whether you intended to or not, there’s still time to let your sweetheart know how much you care.

If you did forget to make those reservations in advance, just know you’re probably not alone. Zooey Deschanel lamented Valentine’s Day forgetfulness on Saturday Night… read more

Progressive And Responsive Navigation

Developing for the Web can be a difficult yet rewarding job. Given the number of browsers across the number of platforms, it can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. But if we start coding with a little forethought and apply the principles of progressive enhancement from the beginning and apply some… read more

What’s new for designers, February 2012

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Why Shooting to the Right Gives You Better Final Images

Some of you may have heard this term before, some not, but for everyone, it’s a great tip for optimizing the quality of the image coming from your sensor. So to understand how to shoot to the right, first we need to understand the camera’s histogram.

Virtually all DSLRs and many… read more

YouTube Beauty: Top 10 Channels to Follow

There is a whole subculture on YouTube devoted to beauty tutorials with an increasing amount of subscribers. Rather than asking your mother or a girlfriend to teach you how to French braid your hair, you can look it up on YouTube — and there are hundreds of videos on that… read more

Win 10 Unlimited Web Hosting Accounts from Zyma.com

Win 10 Unlimited Web Hosting Accounts from Zyma.com

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Wallpaper of the Week 190 by Abduzeedo

The wallpaper of this week is the result of our last tutorial. If you missed it, we showed how to create the poster of the movie The Avengers.

For more information check out the tutorial at http://abduzeedo.com/avengers-poster-photoshop

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Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are… read more

Best of the Week #209

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

40+ Valentine’s Day Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials & Freebies

40+ Valentine’s Day Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials & Freebies

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Upcoming Web Design And Development Conferences For 2012

We’re well into 2012, and many designers and developers around the world are planning their travels for the year, which may include attending one of the many Web design and development conferences that will be held in the upcoming months. To help you out with your plans, we’ve once again… read more

40 Constructive Tutorials Using AJAX Technology

40 Constructive Tutorials Using AJAX Technology

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Top Valentine’s Day Graphic Design Tutorials

Valentine’s Day is around the corner and designers are eager to try out their creative skills. With the holiday comes a time of bright colors, attractive graphics and shimmering effects which can make for some romantic manipulations. We have collected some very useful tutorials, which will help you use Photoshop… read more

35 jQuery Plugins & Tutorials To Efficient Your Development Skills

35 jQuery Plugins & Tutorials To Efficient Your Development Skills

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Winter on the Beach: 26 Chilling Photographs

While we often associate photographs of the beach of sun and fun, we often forget that winter throws up some amazing opportunities for landscapes and coastal landscapes. As you can see from the wonderful winter beach photographs below, just because it’s snowing doesn’t mean you should forget about the beach… read more

70 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

It has been almost eight months since my last post on Illustrator tutorials titled: Illustrator CS5 Tutorials: 70 Wicked Tips. Since then I have been scouring the web in search of fresh new Adobe Illustrator tutorials for you to try out. I am confident that these 70 excellent Illustrator Tutorials… read more

Create A Love Message On The Sand

Create A Love Message On The Sand

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Create a Super Happy Octopus Character

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Ryan Putnam of Vectips was first published in June 24th, 2008. This is one of the first tutorials we posted on the site and is a great… read more

40 Fresh Highly Creative Illustrator Tutorials

In this post, we’ll be sharing with you a collection of useful tutorials that will help you to to use Adobe Illustrator in a variety of new ways. Whether you are a pro or a budding novice, you are bound to find something that will help you.

Below we… read more

New Course: Creating Vector Art

In this Tuts+ Premium course, illustrator Von Glitschka teaches you a professional workflow for Creating Vector Art. Over 12 lessons and 2.5 hours of total video, you’ll get tips and techniques for sketching, using helpful plugins, Von’s “Clockwork Method”, working with shapes, using the pathfinder, layering heirarchy, coloring and detailing…. read more

The Sky in Landscape Photography: Making It Work

While wondering through the Tate Gallery in London many years ago lavishing myself on a feast of paintings by William Turner I came across a small note book of his, secured within a glass cabinet in a less than conspicuous corner of the foyer. It was not dissimilar to a… read more

Dolody: A new Design Dialogue – Plus a FREE ebook

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From the creators of BundleHunt.com and Noupe.com, a new design dialogue just launched today Dolody.com.

Dolody (@dolody) is a weekly design magazine that brings together the latest (and, yes, the greatest) tutorials, articles, freebies & webcasts on the topics of UX and UI design for the web… read more

16 Useful jQuery Tutorials to Enhance your WordPress Site

16 Useful jQuery Tutorials to Enhance your WordPress Site

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28 Amazing Outdoor Photographs from This Winter

It is very tempting in winter to put away the camera and hunker down inside. As these photographs show, that would be a mistake for the outdoor photography enthusiast. With a little skill, it is possible to capture some amazing photographs, just as these talented people did. Don’t forget to… read more

Daily Inspiration #1050

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 Take Incredible Photographs of Flowers

This is a guest post from Izabela Korwel. Check out Iza’s amazing macro photography on her blog, follow her on Twitter, Facebook and also on Google +!

Flowers are the easy subjects to come by and to photograph, even close to home. You can go to local park or find a… read more

6 Timelapse Photography Tips [You May Not Have Considered]

A Guest Post by Clayton McLaughlin

There are a lot of tutorials out there that introduce the practice of shooting timelapses with a variety of different cameras. All of which can help you get started. But as with any situation, I’ve found there are a few things that have helped me… read more

How to Create a Scratchboard Effect Bear Portrait

Today’s tutorial is aimed at those who are beginners with Adobe Illustrator CS (and later versions) and who also have access to a graphics tablet. In this Basix tutorial I’ll be showing you how to create your own scratchboard effect bear portrait, along the way giving you helpful hints on… read more

10 Photoshop Tutorial Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark

10 Photoshop Tutorial Resources Every Designer Should Bookmark

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Photographing Ancient Maya Sites – Tips for the Uninitiated

A guest post by Eric Seale of Seldom Scene Photography.

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve almost certainly heard that the ancient Maya long-count calendar rolls over in December this year. Along with spurring the release of a frenzy of apocalyptic books, this event is also helping spawn renewed… read more

Create Grunge, Metal & Sci Fi Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Grunge, Metal & Sci Fi Text Effect in Photoshop

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Wallpaper of the Week 189 by Jeff Huang

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Jeff Huang. Jeff is a freelance art director and illustrator based in New York who specializes in Creative Design, Abstract Art, Photo Editing, and 3D.

Jeff has been working professionally for more than 6 years now and has produced work… read more

35 Adobe InDesign Tutorials – Enhance your Print Medial Skills

35 Adobe InDesign Tutorials – Enhance your Print Medial Skills

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How To Do Levitation Photography: Amazing Tutorials And Images

How To Do Levitation Photography: Amazing Tutorials And Images

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30 Great Photoshop Text Effect tutorials

30 Great Photoshop Text Effect tutorials

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Book Suggestion: One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com

The book suggestion of the week is about Jeff Bezos and the history of Amazon.com. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com is a really good book, very inspiring and motivating especially about believing on what you are doing and focus on the long term when doing things…. read more

Free CSS3 Pricing Table.

Free CSS3 Pricing Table.

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Mac 101: Part 3, The Apple Ecosystem

When you take the plunge and purchase a brand new Mac, you’re receiving far more than simply a beautiful computer wrapped in svelte packaging. The modern Apple computing experience is complemented by various online services, features and products which Apple offer exclusively to their customers, in the hope of compelling… read more

73 Links and Photos That Will Make Your Photography-Loving Head Explode

It’s been a truly wonderful week online in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy collecting the best set of links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone.  This is a really great list highlighting wonderful work by some of the best… read more

Create a Vibrant Bauhaus Themed Artwork in Photoshop

Create a Vibrant Bauhaus Themed Artwork in Photoshop

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Create a Golf Themed, Vector Illustration – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a vector golf illustration. It includes creating a golf hole scene, complete with numbered flag for the hole and a cutout section of turf where the golf ball has landed. You’ll also learn to illustrate some dynamic text that… read more

Photography tutorial: Beautiful Afternoon scene

Photography tutorial: Beautiful Afternoon scene

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How to Make Your Company More Social

Mae Karwowski runs social media strategy and oversees community management at Gilt City, a subsidiary of the Gilt Groupe. She also consults for several startups.

Social networks are flooded with potential customers. Therefore, today’s companies need to foster a socially engaged culture within company walls.

A business becomes more inherently social… read more

How to Make Photoshop Actions [TIME SAVER]

I am sure, like me, many of you spend hours and hours sitting at Photoshop carrying out the same repetitive tasks on countless photographs, be it resizing, converting formats or applying the same color tweaks to a large batch. Well you may or may not have heard of Photoshop Actions,… read more

Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

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 Tutorials

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Photoshop CS5 Tutorials: 30 Must Have Creative 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 Adobe Photoshop tutorialsfrom around the web from the month of Jan 2012. You’ll find everything from creating a… read more

30 Illustrator Video Tutorials Every Designer Should See

30 Illustrator Video Tutorials Every Designer Should See

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Monkey Business: How to Photograph Monkeys

Monkeys are a hugely fun subject to photograph and can be the subject of some great shots for you. They do, however, present a few challenges for the photographer like any other wild animal (and possibly a few challenges unique to themselves). Lets look at what you will have to… read more

Best of the Web – January 2012

As you know, each month, we round up some of the best Photoshop-related content from around the web. This month, there was some excellent Photoshop tutorials to choose from so please take a moment to review our favorites from January 2012. Photoshop Tutorials Ice Cube With Cherry Inside In this… read more

Best of the Vector Web – January 2012

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 mixing vector techniques with photography, we learn how to create vintage style lettering that has a grainy retro style, dive deeper into… read more

Codecademy is 1 Million Strong and Launching a Teacher Tool

Codecademy hasn’t had much trouble attracting people who want to learn how to code — it has been used by more than 1 million people and signed up more than 100,000 people for its New Years resolution class alone, including the New York City mayor. Now it’s hoping to have… read more

Composition: When to Landscape a Portrait and Vice Versa

This is a guest post by Phil Hill, a travel photographer from the UK based in Australia. You can see more of Phil’s great work at his travel photography blog or follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

At first glance many will probably have tongue firmly in cheek and I might… read more

Valentine’s Day Special – 30 Exciting Photoshop Tutorials

Valentine’s Day Special – 30 Exciting Photoshop Tutorials

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35 Highly Advanced Yet Simple To Use jQuery Plugins

jQuery is a speedy, succinct library that make traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding AJAX simpler. jQuery imparts web developers the opportunity to make websites better with incredible elements without the necessity to write down dozens of lines of code.

In this compilation, you will find top 35… read more

45 Latest Photo Manipulation Tutorials for Photoshop

When we talk about image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is the first thing that comes to our minds. The software itself is hard to learn and harder to master though. Thanks to the many tutorials available though, even novices can learn the tricky tecniques used by… read more

Create a Creamy Ice Cream Poster on Illustrator

Hi everyone, before someone say it’s winter on the north pole, I gotta say it’s damn hot here in Brasil, so I though a tasty and frosty illustration would be a good exercise to do.

This is a step by step tutorial forwarding some of the previous tutorials. The idea is… read more

Should You Really Use a DSLR for Video?

In the last few years, there has been a plethora of DSLR’s being sold with video capabilities. As well as being photographers, my wife and I also produce short travel films so in 2010 after shooting for several years on a Sony FX1 camcorder, we decided to try out shooting… read more

Daily Inspiration #1043

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

35 Awesome Photoshop Background Tutorials

35 Awesome Photoshop Background Tutorials

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How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

How to Create a Love Heart Greeting Card for Valentine’s Day

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Wallpaper of the Week 188 by Sebastian Andaur

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Sebastian Andaur an young visual artist and graphic designer from Chile. Sebastian loves colors since he was born and when he got his first computer at the age of 12 he started to play with Photoshop.

Today, Sebastian works creating graphics,… read more

Roundup Of 26 Truly Helpful HTML 5 Tutorials

Roundup Of 26 Truly Helpful HTML 5 Tutorials

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Photoshop CS6 Turns to The Dark Side [VIDEO]

Attention, Photoshop lovers: Adobe is treating us all to a sneak preview of Photoshop CS6, and from what we can see, it looks amazing.

Adobe posted a YouTube video named “Sneak Peek #1″ on Photoshop’s official channel last week. In the video, senior product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes gives viewers a… read more

35+ Amazing & Creative Photoshop Tutorials For Designers

35+ Amazing & Creative Photoshop Tutorials For Designers

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15 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials

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Icons are a very important element of web design and play a big role in a website. Designing the perfect icon is definitely a challenge and is always good to have resources and tips in this matter. Today we decided to gather a few Icon Design… read more

Create a Stylized Performance Car in Illustrator CS5 – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, learn how to create a stylized performance car from a reference image using many gradients, custom art brushes, patterns, clipping masks and not a single gradient mesh or blur in sight! If you are looking to take your skills to the next level then Log… read more

Best Light effects tutorials for Photoshop

Best Light effects tutorials for Photoshop

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15 Best jQuery Images Galleries Sliders and Template Tutorials

15 Best jQuery Images Galleries Sliders and Template Tutorials

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9 Steps to Starting Your Freelance Web Design Business

So, you want to be a freelance web designer? Ah, the glamor of it all.

Your own boss, answering only to the call of your creative muse… get up, feel inspired, do some work, go for a walk, laugh knowingly with other freelancers who have also discovered The Secret… read more

Create a Golden Shield Illustration with Ivy Text Effect – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you will learn how to create a golden shield illustration and an ivy text effect. We’ll use vector shape building techniques to construct the main structure of our work and then Illustrator’s 3D tools to add depth. Then discover how to add polish to the… read more

Backup Plans for the Traveling Photographer

Backing up your files on the road can be a massive headache for many photographers. When you’re travelling, you have the compounded problem that you are probably shooting a lot, but you don’t want to take massive amounts of kit that will weigh you down.

Well, his is a response… read more

13 Important Resources for Learning How to Design Typefaces and Full Fonts

If you’re serious about creating a typeface design, then you’ll need some solid resources to get started. Learn effective typeface design workflows, how to take an initial spark of an idea from sketch, through Illustrator, into Fontlab, and then work your creation into a complete and custom font design. Here… read more

Create a Grunge & Textured Mixed Collage in Photoshop

Create a Grunge & Textured Mixed Collage in Photoshop

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30 Image Gallery of jquery Tutorials to Be Professional

30 Image Gallery of jquery Tutorials to Be Professional

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Awesome Light Effect in Pixelmator

Pixelmator is a really cool tool for image manipulations and editing. It is a really versatile tool for some photo manipulations and the new version of the tools, the 2.0 has a brand new text tool with more options. So I decided to create a light effect using Pixelmator.

In this… read more

How To Display a Message on Old WordPress Posts

How To Display a Message on Old WordPress Posts

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How To Create a Vibrant Abstract Shards Poster Design

How To Create a Vibrant Abstract Shards Poster Design

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Shooting at Shadows: The Secrets to Great Silhouettes

This is a guest post by Phil Hill, a travel photographer from the UK based in Australia. You can see more of Phil’s great work at his travel photography blog or follow him on Facebook or Twitter.

I was going through my archive the other day, organizing some latest images for… read more

20 Fun & Lively Character Design Tutorials from Vectortuts+

Mastering the art of character design is something that takes both a lively imagination and a good understanding of drawing techniques. Today we have have bundled together a collection fun and lively character design tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from sketching to rendering there’s plenty… read more

Create a 100% Vector, Painterly Illustration – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will use Adobe Illustrator to create a dynamic painterly textured illustration. This technique can be done using a mouse; however, a tablet will give you an extra level of control. We’ll cover the complete vector painting process from sketch to final illustration. If you… read more

14 Cinemagraph Tutorials – Provoke your Attentions

14 Cinemagraph Tutorials – Provoke your Attentions

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How to Use a Variable Neutral Density Filter for Better Portrait Photography

This is a guest post by Doug Pruden – a portrait photographer from Calgary. Check out his great photography blog for more tips.

The filter that I have come to appreciate more as time passes is the neutral density filter, or, more specifically, the variable neutral density filter.  This puppy can… read more

50 Beautiful Yet Free HTML5 And CSS3 Templates

HTML5 templates are getting very popular these days because all professional HTML5 templates are compatible to all browsers with its functionality and features, and with the release of HTML5 / CSS3 it has become even more popular among designers because of the additional and great features.

At the moment, HTML5 and… read more

How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

I’ve always been fascinated by smoke, and have experimented a lot with it. So in this tutorial, I explain how to create realistic smoke, make it into a brush and use it for type. Let’s light up our vector cigarettes and get started smokin’!

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Introduction To Linux Commands

At the heart of every modern Mac and Linux computer is the “terminal.” The terminal evolved from the text-based computer terminals of the 1960s and ’70s, which themselves replaced punch cards as the main way to interact with a computer. It’s also known as the command shell, or simply “shell.”… read more

Augmented Reality: the future of digital media

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50 Wonderful Black & White Photos with Partial Color Effects

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Taking a black and white photograph and adding partial color to certain key points of the shot is one of the most popular techniques amongst professional photographers. You can understand its popularity when you look at the examples we have for you below. This technique… read more