Adding texture to a design can create drastic changes and powerful results. Photoshop provides a number of different possibilities for working with textures, which allows designers to use their creativity. In this post we’ll features 25 tutorials that will help you to learn more about working with textures in Photoshop and how to create impressive results.
How to Use Texture and Lighting to Create Rounded Artwork
You’ve seen résumés, haven’t you?
What’s common to all the résumés on the planet?
Yup, they’re all created to make the candidate look wonderful. So what’s the first thing a company does when you present them with a résumé?
They go back and do some digging. They check the details. The smarter the company, and the more important [...]
Portfolio sites for designers and photographers that need to showcase their best work and land new clients. The level of creativity is often higher on portfolio sites as it would be on other types of sites, and Flash-based sites allow many designers to explore their creative ideas.
Recent improvements in the SEO capabilities of Flash, along with improved connection speeds of the average internet user, have made it more practical for designers to use Flash-based sites for their portfolio sites.
In this post we’ll showcase 25 Flash-based portfolios for your design inspiration, plus a few Flash portfolio templates.
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The National Geographic has been known for bringing awareness about natural resources and the planet since 1888. It has been educating people and has been the largest non-profitable scientific organization that inspired millions of people to pay closer attention [...]
Reliable web hosting is fundamental to the success of a web site. Not all web hosts understand that that the web has changed and now applications like WordPress are how today’s interactive sites are powered and managed. On this show we interview Nick Nelson of http://vps.net/ and discuss:
FlashMoto has offered to give a free license of their CMS to one lucky DesignM.ag reader. If you’re not familiar with FlashMoto it is a Flash CMS that allows users to easily manage the content of their Flash website. You can edit existing pages, add new pages, insert and manage image galleries, video and more.
Have you ever planned what you thought would be a brilliant, jaw-dropping week on your blog?
You pour your heart and soul into an ingenious post (or series) then sit back and wait for the praises to come pouring in.
But instead, you hear from just your usual readers, commenting politely and moving on.
Where are the trumpets? [...]
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By Usama Alam Charts and graphs provide the visual representation of your data and help you facilitate the understanding of whatever it is you are trying to deliver. Whether you are publishing a survey report, an election result or a [...]
Web hosting is a tricky business – there are a wide variety of options out there designed to fit a wide range of needs, but like with most things, there are trade-offs.
Shared hosting is usually cheap and easy, but the resources are limited.
Dedicated servers are powerful and customizable, but a certain level of technical knowledge [...]
Last week we published the post Keys to Getting Your First Web Design Clients. As I was writing that post a while ago I was thinking back to my own experiences and wondering how the experiences of other designers compared. I decided to reach out to a number of designers and ask their input about how they landed their first clients.
For those of you who are just getting started, I hope this will serve as some encouragement as you will see that a successful design career can start from very humble beginnings. In total there are responses from 18 designers to the question:
Danny Outlaw – Outlaw Design Blog
Being the cereal entrepreneur that I am, I was probably my own first client. Rather then building dummy sites to add to my portfolio when I first got started, I built websites for my own little online projects. As far as real first customers go, I got mine from browsing Craigslist. At the time, I didn’t really know where else to look for entry level design projects. It isn’t the ideal place to find design work from, but it is one of the places where many of the people looking for designers are on a tight budget. This translates to mean that they are usually much more willing to try out new talent.
Writing is difficult.
So is teaching it to distracted, hungover college students whose cultural touchstones are TMZ and the Twilight series.
But after years spent writing in professional newsrooms, I was surprised to discover how teaching college students actually helped make me a better student of the craft of writing.
And it’s not (just) because I now have [...]
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By Callum Chapman The 2009 Formula 1 season had an audience of over 520 million viewers, most of whom stayed up to date with the latest news on the official Formula 1 website, as well as their favorite teams websites, [...]
In this web development tutorial, you will learn how to code a clean and professional web page template from a Photoshop.
If like me, you often display some code on your blog, there’s a strong chance that you’ll enjoy today’s recipe: This handy piece of code will automatically replace all content within <pre> and </pre> tags by html entities.
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A few weeks ago we published a post, Learn Photoshop, that included links to well over 100 resources for mastering the basics of Photoshop and the use of the various tools. In response to reader request, we’re publishing this post to help designers who want to get started with Adobe Illustrator, or maybe just sharpen their existing skills.
Illustrator is a powerful program, but it can be overwhelming or confusing at times, simply because of everything that is possible. If you’re new to Illustrator, taking the time to understand the basics and how to use the specific tools will go a long way towards setting you up for success. In this post we’ve categorized more than 100 resources that will teach you everything you need to learn.
WordPress has been nothing short of spectacular for freelancers and clients alike. Of course, we all know it’s the go-to system for blogging, but these days it’s much more than that.
In this post, I’d like to cover how different types of freelancers can build their businesses around this great piece of open-source software. And I’m not just focusing on programmers! There’s something for everyone here, thanks to the flexibility and versatility of WordPress.
There are different styles of photography that can capture the beauty of life around us. In this collection, we share with you some truly gorgeous long exposure photos as well as some tutorials on how to take long exposure photos yourself.
There are different styles of photography that can capture the beauty of life around us. In this collection, we share with you some truly gorgeous long exposure photos as well as some tutorials on how to take long exposure photos yourself.
I know what you’re thinking. Here you thought it was Saturday, and yet there’s a new post on Copyblogger.
So either you’re drunk, or it’s actually a weekday and you stayed home by mistake and now you’re going to get fired and lose the family farm.
Or maybe this is a new feature. Maybe each Saturday, [...]
Announcement of the winners of the web templates from the TemplateWire giveaway.
You’ve been depressed for like a year now, I know. All the hardcore Objective-C developers have been having a hay-day writing apps for the iPhone. Good news: I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I’ll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? ~Woody Allen
You’ve got to feel for insurance salesmen.
They actually rank below used-car salesmen and bloggers on the list of people no one wants to hang out with. With only a slight edge over politicians . . . [...]
I receive a lot of emails and comments from designers who are just getting started in their work as a freelancer and looking for advice. With that in mind I thought it would be helpful to many readers to provide some tips or pointers for getting those first few clients.
This post is intended for those who are fairly new to design and not so much for designers that have been employed by an agency for several years before beginning to freelance.
This first point isn’t about finding new clients, but rather about preparing yourself for when you do find those clients. If you haven’t done any freelance work before, it can be pretty frustrating when a client wants something that you don’t know how to do. Having some personal projects to work on will allow you to gain some experience in an environment where it’s ok to experiment and maybe make some mistakes. With some projects under your belt you’ll feel a lot more prepared when you begin working with clients.
Personal projects can also help you to have some work to show potential clients if they want to see what you are capable of. Some designers have gained loads of exposure by having a personal project featured in design galleries, although this isn’t easy to do for new designers.
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By Aquil Akhter Caricatures have always been the great source of fun for almost everyone as it represents the essence of a person or a thing in a very exaggerated manner, a manner that creates a unique and very amusing [...]
I just returned from a Bobby McFerrin concert, and now I know how to run my new business. No, this post isn’t about “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Bobby McFerrin is much more than that.
You see, I’m a little nervous. For 23 years, I’ve made my income the same way — in a service business, as [...]
We try to provide readers with links to resources that will make designing easier, more effective, and more fun. Today we have a collection of free Photoshop brushes that will allow you to easily add spray paint effects to your design. Have fun experimenting and see what you can come up with!
High Res Spray Paint Brushes (18 brushes)
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