Let’s not forget that the Web 2.0 hype was not just about glossy logos and round cornered buttons; the added value of this new wave of websites is the social part and the huge potential to ?make things together’. So here’s a roundup of the most popular and interesting services that offer us the opportunity to find or submit designs or ideas.
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If you don’t have a portfolio site yet or are looking to create an easy to update, fast loading and slick looking portfolio than you should be using WordPress. Traditionally WordPress is a blogging content management system, but recently it has been used to be the back end for many cool types of sites such as portfolio sites for photographers and designers.
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Usually before I start to do a manipulation, I go through an initial process: sketches, looking for references, images, stocks, inspiration…I recommend that you do two things before you start to do the manipulation itself:
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This tutorial will teach you an easy method of turning your photo of a city into an amazing grunge city.
Let’s create a new file (File>New) of 1280×1024px/72 dpi.
Applying the Rectangle Tool (U), we’ll represent the background of the collage to be.
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Infrared photography produces some of the most amazing photographs on the planet.
In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used within a digital camera is sensitive to infrared lighting, which allows the camera to pick up any light that’s invisible to the human eye.
Objects that are normally bright in visible light look dark, while normally dark objects look especially bright.
In most cases, an infrared filter is used which lets the infrared light to pass through to the camera.
In this article, we’ll take a look at 100 inspirational examples of infrared photography that are sure to both inspire and amaze you.
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Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information.
Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means.
Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers.
Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day.
If you know of any good ones that we may have missed, please add them in the comments section below.
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As web design and design in general have evolved, rules have been established to ensure consistent and usable designs.
Some of these rules were created simply because website creators abused certain principles without regard for their users.
But these rules are not enforced by anyone and should be broken when necessary, especially when breaking them would lead to a stunning design.
In this article, we present 10 rules that you can break if it suits your design needs.
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Improve your Photoshop skills today with our round-up of 11 dazzling step-by-step guides from the Computer Arts archive
Let’s be honest, Photoshop is an essential package for anyone working in the design industry.
If you don’t know your layers from your curves, then you’re missing out big time. The only trouble is, it’s a behemoth – there are umpteen tools to master, and just when you think you’ve got it licked, Adobe go and bring out a new version with oodles of new functions.
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Here are the top 10 Vector Art tutorials of all time!
Ian Yates teaches some wonderful lessons on drawing illustrated maps in perspective. He goes into minute detail on all aspects of creating this very popular map format (I know I have seen them in the streets around the Envato HQ office in Melbourne!)
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Beauty speaks in all languages – with this post I wanted to show these words speak truth. You never can get enough inspiration and fresh wallpaper on your desktop is the best thing to do, if you want to cheer yourself up! Again I tried to select only high quality wallpapers excluding low resolution like 1024 and less. This list is just for this time – summer – a lot of warm colors, sunsets, skies, nature!
Just scroll through the list and pick Your favorite ones! Which is Your favorite desktop background? Mine is the first one ?Elements? and ?The other side?!
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