In Tips, Tutorials Apr 28, 200947

13 Tutorials & Resources for a Perfect Twitter Background

Twitter is probably the most hyped social network out there, all the mainstream medias are talking about it and a lot of celebrities are using the service. The popularity of the website means that you get to connect with tons of other users, but it also means that you’ll have to stand out to do so. For that, having a great Twitter background is recommended to make a great first impression. Learn how to do this with the following collection of tutorials. Read the rest of this entry »

In General, Tutorials Apr 23, 20096

22 Excellent Photoshop Brush Creation Tutorials

Photoshop brushes are possibly the easiest way to add style to your designs, there settings are endless, they increase your productivity, you can create a brush from almost anything, and the end result can be amazing. Below you will find 22 tutorials to help you create your own Photoshop Brush. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Apr 14, 200910

40 Tutorials to Create your own Photoshop Textures

Adding textures to your designs are fundamental, they bring digital art to life and without them they would be flat and, well, boring. Creating intricate textures can be time consuming and often difficult, it is now time to learn from the experts.

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In Tutorials Mar 27, 200925

Create an Amazing A.I. Robot Woman in Photoshop

Hi everyone, I’m Alvaro Guzman and this time I’ll show you some photo manipulation techniques to design a dramatic image depicting a “Artificial intelligence” concept. Let’s get it started! Read the rest of this entry »

In General, Tips, Tutorials Mar 25, 200912

CSS Image Map Techniques and Tutorials

A CSS Image Map by definition is using a single image with defining multiple clickable hotspots, whether to show information or as navigation. There are a multitude of solutions, below we have listed and demonstrated by far the best and the most helpful techniques and tutorials.

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In Tutorials Mar 6, 200926

How To Learn Photoshop In 24 Hrs

Quite a bold statement, Learn Photoshop in 24 hours. Its simple and you can.
Stepping into Photoshop at first can be quite daunting, were do you start? With these 20 tutorials we have given you some direction, you will start of with some very basic techniques and build towards the more advanced. By the end of it you will be an expert.
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In Tutorials Feb 18, 200918

Create Convincing Watercolor Effects Using Photoshop

Hi everyone, I’m Alvaro Guzman and this is a short tutorial about creating convincing watercolor effects in Photoshop. We’ll use a picture of a crane, several watercolor brushes and a texture to obtain this particular effect.
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In Tips, Tutorials Jan 27, 200920

jQuery Color Picker

Gone are the days of having to manually enter in hex codes to specify colors: with jQuery UI’s color picker, you can make your web application pick colors as smoothly as you would in desktop applications like Photoshop. When coupled with the visual appeal and functional benefit of color pickers, the ease of using jQuery UI’s gadget is something that’s hard to pass up.
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In Tips, Tutorials Dec 5, 200850

Premium Wordpress Theme Design – Part 2 – HTML + CSS + Wordpress Theme Files

Hi, I’m Alvaro Guzman and this is the second part of the premium wordpress theme tutorial continued from Part 1. This time you’ll learn how to slice the design and convert it into XHTML + CSS, then I’ll show you how to use the css files to mock-up a Wordpress template. This isn’t a basic tutorial, if you’re a newbie, maybe you should read some basic HTML+CSS tutorials, and undestand the basics of CSS tags and Wordpress features and structure.
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In Inspiration, Tips, Tutorials Nov 10, 200872

How I Learned To Build Wordpress Themes

Picture your finished custom wordpress theme live on your server, completely unique and fresh. By the time you have finished reading the resources in this post that scenario will be a reality. People love custom themes, they make a blog come to life with a personality of its own. It’s no secret that they’ll reward it you for it through links, subscriptions and bookmarks. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tips, Tutorials Nov 3, 200813

How To Make a jQuery Calendar

Whether you’re an airline, task manager, or just have a birthdate field on your registration form, a popup date picker makes selecting dates considerably easier for users, and overall enhances the functionality and feel of the site. jQuery UI provides a datepicker widget that can easily be incorporated into your site. Read the rest of this entry »

In Freebies, Tutorials Oct 28, 200875

Premium Wordpress Theme Design Part 1 – The Photoshop Mock Up

Making a premium Wordpress theme from scratch is an essential skill for designers to learn and will become increasingly important as Wordpress continues to become the web publishing tool of choice. In this two part tutorial will we cover how to make premium Wordpress themes happen. Part 1, covered below, shows how the photoshop mock up is created, and in Part 2 we’ll outline how to turn the psd into HTML/CSS and wordpress theme files. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Oct 21, 200821

jQuery & CSS Tooltip Example

Websites and web applications alike are slowly but surely transitioning towards an environment filled with rich user interface gadgets. Tooltips are amongst this vast array of gadgets that should be in every web application developer’s toolbox, as they provide useful hints and help messages directly to the user in a discrete yet obvious manner. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tips, Tutorials Oct 15, 200844

Icon Design Tutorial – Designing a New Icon In Illustrator

Following our free social icon giveaway, as promised, here is a tutorial explaining how they were made in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll try to cover the basics and give you an idea how things are rendered, how they appear in smaller sizes and the constraints we can find when using Vector (Illustrator) instead of Pixel (Photoshop) based image software.

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In Tips, Tutorials Oct 7, 200857

jQuery & CSS Example – Dropdown Menu

Dropdown menus and menu bars have been heavily used since the early days of graphical user interfaces. Their use has become ubiquitous, and even expected, in desktop applications, and the web has quickly followed suit. This article is intended to describe an extremely basic, yet extremely powerful, technique for adding dropdown menus in your application user interface or website design. Read the rest of this entry »

In Inspiration, Tutorials Sep 18, 200819

31 Breathtaking Planet & Space Tutorials For Photoshop

Creating stunning space scenes is a great way to practice many photoshop techniques. It’s amazing that many of these tutorials use limited source files and most effects are created with photoshop itself. Rock textures are used to help create surfaces. It’s time to create your own galaxy! Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Sep 3, 200879

50+ Excellent Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials

Making a photograph of a person look amazing adds an extra dimension of professionalism to your design. These photoshop body enhancement tutorials will help you transform your people pictures to stunning models in next to no time. Most techniques involve similar use of the photoshop tools. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Aug 4, 200831

10 Excellent CSS Tips and Tutorials

CSS is a technology that web designers use everyday, but yet it is something that most struggle with as well. Whether it’s keeping stylesheets for large sites manageable, or creating image effects that are cross browser compatible, there are plenty of things to cause frustration. This article is an attempt to provide you with a few resources that might help you with your CSS woes or introduce you to a few tricks you didn’t know about. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Jun 24, 200832

20 Excellent Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers

As a Web Designer, it is very important for you to stay on top of your game from a visual standpoint. The more Photoshop tricks you have up your sleeve, the more versatile you can be with your designs. Here is list of tutorials that will help you do just that. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Jun 15, 200831

Create an Interactive Stack of Photos

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build an interactive stack of photos using Flash. This is a great technique to display numerous images in a limited amount of space, and the best part is that it is extremely easy to execute. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Jun 2, 200855

ActionScript 3 Jpeg Encoder Revealed: Saving Images from Flash

Some amazing things can be done with images in ActionScript 3. One of these is the ability to encode a display object as a jpeg, and thanks to the JPEG Encoder included in the AS3 Core Library, doing this is actually quite simple. In this article, I will show you how to create a flash file that encodes a movieclip as a jpeg and allows the user to download it to their own computer. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials May 16, 200867

Create a Nature Inspired Painted Background in Photoshop

When I first saw the Viget Inspire Blog, I was very impressed. The background just grabs and pulls the reader right in. After studying it for a while, I still couldn’t determine if it was made from an actual painting or if it was all created from scratch in Photoshop. Regardless of how it was created, it makes for a great looking design. In this tutorial, I will you show you my own technique for creating this type of background. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Apr 29, 200895

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks in Photoshop

Lighting effects have become quite popular, and are an effective way to add bright eye catching details to a photo or illustration. In this tutorial, you will learn a simple technique for creating brilliant light streaks which can be used in different ways to add motion and brightness to your designs. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Apr 17, 200881

jQuery Examples – Horizontal Accordion

Up until now I have always used Scriptaculous / Prototype for any Java Script animation and effects, but lately I’ve heard a lot of good things about jQuery. So, I thought I would give it a try, and start doing some experiments. Read the rest of this entry »

In Tutorials Mar 4, 200866

Getting Started with 3D in Flash

As you probably know, Flash is a 2D program. However, there are a handful of open source 3D engines written in actionscript that allow real time 3D environments to be rendered within the flash player. Among these, is Papervision3D, which is probably the most powerful and widely adopted of the engines available. Read the rest of this entry »