You have to take thousands of tiny actions into consideration if you want to succeed. Success can often boil down to one big question—will the site you’re building deliver a great user experience? READ MORE
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20+ Amazing Web Layout Design Photoshop Tutorials
June 17, 2013 • By Marie
Today most web designers will create the visual design of a website in Photoshop first and then once the design has been nailed down they will start to create the code from there. In this article we have collected 20+ amazing tutorials for creating web layouts in Photoshop. If you have used any other tutorials in the past feel free to share them with us!
With more and more businesses and business people handing out business cards to everyone and their dog it can sometimes be a little difficult to stand out among the crowd, on Monday we showed you some amazing business cards for inspiration, and today we will show you some of the best tutorials for creating your very own business card.
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Photoshop 101 – How to Work with Layer Masks – From Beginner to Pro
February 11, 2013 • By MarieWelcome to our new series Photoshop 101.
Each post will feature a new photoshop tutorial. This week we will focus on Layer Masking ability and what it can do to your designs, inspiration and work flow.
In this tutorial we will be creating a detailed iPod Nano illustation in Phoroshop complete with menus and on-screen icons. Througout this tutorial we will be utilizing the Drawing and Pen tools along with Gradient Overlay Styles to make our Nano as realistic as possible.
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Each avenue in the design world has its own unique challenges and tricks, and magazine design is no different. From style guides and gutters to editors and entry points, designing for a magazine comprises its own set of rules and considerations. Before jumping head first into the text-heavy, deadline-driven world of magazines, take a moment to get your bearings and familiarize yourself with the terrain. Using the road map below, your creativity, and a bit of luck you’ll have everything you need to produce a top-notch, reader-friendly magazine.
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In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to transform a photo of a person into a work of art – in this case, a highly illustrated sketch art piece.
Vector shapes and textures will also be added to our composition as this will give our sketch artwork more depth and character. Below are examples of what you could achieve even with the simplest of art forms (pop art etc) to create interesting and beautiful effects from a picture. The final images could used as e-cards, profile pictures/avatars, wallpapers and so on.
Textures can form a principal element in your designs. They add details to images, giving a great deal of depth to a composition. Textures could come in the forms of high resolution images such as detailed surfaces of rocks, fabric, wood etc or can just be regular pictures. We have produced 7 exclusive free metal textures for you to download along with a step by step tutorial showing how they were made.
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In this tutorial we will be showing you step-by-step how to create a photo realistic illustration of Apples latest crowning achievement, the beautiful and inconceivably thin new MacBook Air.
