Advertisements often display a lot of creativity in design, and Photoshop is an excellent tool for those who are designing advertisements. Fortunately there are a number of tutorials specifically for designing advertisements, and others that demonstrate techniques that are effective for advertisements. In this post we’ll feature 17 different tutorials that can help you in your own advertising design.
Create an Amazing Ad in Photoshop
Creating a web design with lighting effects can be made much easier with the help of some high-quality Photoshop brushes. This post features more than 25 sets of free brushes that you can use to create interesting light effects.
High Res Light Effect Brushes (29 brushes)
In this article, we are going to cover various ways designers and artists set up their portfolio site. We’re also going to look at some well-designed examples from each style.
At the beginning of the month, I released a free report called Authority Rules: The 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing. People seemed to really appreciate it, especially since:
No email address is required
You can read via PDF or the web
There are no affiliate links
There’s no pitch (other than subscribe to Copyblogger)
This led to [...]
Creating beautiful, unique websites seems to get harder every day. There are so many amazing website designs out there that coming up with something fresh and different is getting close to impossible. And even if you’re not looking for something entirely unique, creating beautiful designs that don’t look dated is a constant challenge.
Below are twenty [...]
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My name is Johnny Truant, and I am a comment addict.
A large amount of my self-worth as a blogger is defined not by my traffic, or readership, or income, or buzz. It’s defined by the relatively meaningless number below each post that counts the people who fill out a form and click Submit.
On [...]
My name is Johnny Truant, and I am a comment addict.
A large amount of my self-worth as a blogger is defined not by my traffic, or readership, or income, or buzz. It’s defined by the relatively meaningless number below each post that counts the people who fill out a form and click Submit.
On [...]
In this article, I will guide you through the re-creation of this astonishing effect using Ext JS, and I bet you that you will be surprised to see how easy it is to do it.
On September 12-13, Chris Pearson, Missy Ward and yours truly (along with our other wonderful team members) will be walking 40 miles in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Los Angeles.
Not only that, Chris and I are donating $20,000 on behalf of DIY Themes (at Missy’s request, we’re splitting the donation between Avon and [...]
In about 2 weeks (on september 12th) I’ll be keynoting the ThinkVisibility conference in Leeds, talking about WordPress, blogging, SEO, online marketing and more. If you’re in the area, or even if you’re not, ThinkVisibility looks like an awesome conference, with speakers and panelists like Judith Lewis, Patrick Altoft, Chris Garrett, to name but a few [...]
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I have a vivid memory of using the word “idiosyncrasy” in fifth grade during a group project. I didn’t know the definition, just the word. This enraged a boy named Chance to the point where he spit on me and encouraged everyone else to do so. We all fought on the floor until [...]
Flash application that enables developers to control the accessibility as an application is designed. It takes a thoughtful, user-centered designer to consider all abilities and disabilities of people who will interact with an interface.
The use of certain fonts is an easy way to give a design a hand-drawn effect. Fortunately, there are a number of fonts in this style that are freely available. In this post we’ll showcase 25 of the best. As always when you are dealing with freebies, be sure to check the usage restrictions from the designer.
Using lighting effects in design is a common trend at the moment. Designers who want to add some flare to a design can use Photoshop to create interesting lighting effects. In the past we have showcased examples of sites with lighting effects, and today we’ll feature 25 more. Although all of these sites make use of lighting effects, you will see different approaches and different types of effects from some of the sites shown here.
As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing ‘WordPress’ as an area of expertise. WordPress is incredibly versatile, it can be tweaked to add many non traditional features to run a more effective blog.
Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on 10 WordPress Theme ideas, [...]
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The written word is having a tough time.
It’s not just that literacy rates are surprisingly bad. (One source maintains that half of American adults can’t read an eighth grade-level book.) But even among people who can read, fewer and fewer want to read.
If you’re a passionate reader (as I am), this might bring you [...]
Last night, Carl Hancock of Gravity Forms was my guest on the 3rd episode of Press This. We discussed what this awesome new plugin does, how they went about developing it and a whole lot more. If you’re interested, listen to the show, or read the transcript. I wanted to talk a bit more about Gravity [...]
Gravity Forms on Press This is a post from Joost de Valk's Yoast – Tweaking Websites.A good blog needs good hosting, you don’t want your blog to be slow, or, even worse, down, do you? Use WestHost, and you’ll never have issues again!
This article is going to show you a process for making your site work for multiple resolutions by using a real-world case study.
Marketcircle has offered to giveaway two copies of Billings time tracking and invoicing app for the Mac. Billings was a 2009 Apple Design Award winner and includes lots of great features, especially for freelancers.
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