Posts from December, 2009
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Dec0Free High-Res Heavy Watercolor Spatter Photoshop Brushes
Watercolor effects are a pretty popular trend in web and graphic design right now. To come up with such effect, don’t think you really have to paint on an actual canvas and scan it
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Dec07 Must-See Web Design Videos and Presentations
By Louis Lazaris Not many of us will have the opportunity to attend or participate in a live web-related event, conference, or presentation. But that doesn’t mean we can’t benefit from the information exchanged at such events. Many of the sites associated with those events provide supplementary information, summaries, presentation slides, plus audio and video [...]
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Dec0A Designer’s List of New Year’s Resolutions
Like most people around this time of year, I’ve been silently proclaiming that 2010 will be my year. I’ve been thinking about new goals, and I even thought about reading The Secret and creating my own vision board to help me achieve those goals. Then I thought there must be a less humiliating way to ring in the new year.
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Dec0Coding a Band Website Created in Photoshop
In Part 1 of this tutorial, you learned step-by-step how to design an awesome band website in Photoshop . Now in Part 2, you’ll learn how to take that PSD and turn it into clean, working XHTML/CSS code.
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Dec0Beautiful Photographs of Winter
Winter is upon us (in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Few things in this world can be so solemn and magnificent at the same time, the winter season being one of those things.
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Dec0Data Tables In Modern Web Design
By Matt Cronin Being able to organize data and information is a skill not to be overlooked. The way you organize content and text, generally referred to as copy, has a direct effect on how that content is received by users. You must find a way to organize information so that it is scannable and [...]
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Dec0Tools And Techniques To Manage Creative Projects On Your Mac
By Matthew C. Gallagher So you have sold your idea, your client has committed to the project, the next step is – How do I manage this most effectively to successfully complete this job? There are generally 3 accepted rules of project management: time (delivery to client or launch of product), budget (cost to deliver [...]
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Dec035 Awesome Vector Illustrations
By Tim Mercer Unlike raster-based images, vector images are infinitely scalable. From the photo-realistic to the abstract, vector art is as varied as any other medium of expression. The artist featured here have taken their craft to the next level with these inspirational images. In this inspirational post we present 35 beautiful vector illustrations that [...]
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Dec0CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites
By Tim Wright and TJ Kelly CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. It’s simple, powerful, and easy to use. But even with all its simplicity, it hides some important capabilities. Ask any designer, and they’ll tell you that the majority of their code headaches are caused and ultimately [...]
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Dec0The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
Looking back this year (2009), we have had some incredible tutorials that have taught hundreds and thousands of people new skills in Adobe Photoshop. We’ve been searching the web from America to Germany to the UK and have managed to compile a list of the 50 of the very best Photoshop tutorials this year.
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