Smashing Magazine recently posted an excellent roundup of powerful time savers for web designers — a whopping 50 of them. Funny, trolling through a list of 50 web design tools built to help you save time doesn’t seem very efficient. That’s why you’ll find a recap of 4 of the most helpful/innovative/time saving ones below. [...]
Clients and stakeholders — every project has them, and as much as some designers love to hate them, we need to ensure that we can work constructively with them. The better we can work with our clients and stakeholders, the easier the relationship will be, the more we will enjoy working on the project, and [...]
Remember when mom always told you to eat your vegetables? Little did you know she was giving you fantastic advice for managing your Web strategy. In these days of Twitter, Facebook, forums, blogs and more, it can be tempting to skip over the basics and dive headfirst into an oh-so-tempting dish of social media or [...]
Until recent history, the folks working in print were having all the fun with fonts. On the digital side, web designers have had to resort to workarounds and text-filled images to even come close to the richly diverse fonts available to print designers.
But the good folks at Google are working to change that, one open [...]
You can find a lot of tutorials how to paste another face to the picture. Here I’m planning to show you my own way how to do this step by step and explain how to process every small detail in this design. You will look as a real real star! Let’s start by finding the [...]
Are you hungry for new tutorials how to create objects in Photoshop? Ok, I have one interesting tutorial for you. Ok, let’s start! Create a new document sized 500×500 pixels. Drag a linear gradient with colors of #eaf8fb and #d0dee1 as shown on a picture below. It will be background for putting gear wheel on [...]It’s easy to let the creative juices cool off during the summer, what with all the sun and sand and vacation time. So how about a day or two of intensive inspiration therapy? Conventions can be a great way to put some fire under your well-tanned bum. You meet like-minded colleagues, hash out the latest [...]
After a rough year, the fashion industry is making a comeback–but not without some help from innovative new web concepts. Leading the charge is fashion mega-mag InStyle, which plans to complement its jam-packed fall issue with an online pop-up store powered by StyleFeeder, an online product recommendation service.
During its 5 week run, the online mini-store [...]
Today I will show you how to imitate evening eye make up in Photoshop CS3. This lesson will be very useful to those who process the photos for fashion magazines. So, let’s start by finding some appropriate picture of girl’s face. You can also use your own photos to experiment with, if you’re girl of [...]
In this tutorial I will show you how to create such a simple thing as a bar code in a few steps. Create a new document sized 500×300 pixels and fill it with white color. Then use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to create selection similar to mine on the picture below and fill it with [...]
Prepare to be inspired folks–the 14th Annual Webby Award results are in. Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the Webbys honor the best and brightest in more than 100 website, interactive advertising, online film, online video, and mobile web categories.
Indeed, the 2010 winners are an eclectic group, featuring everything from a [...]
Would you like to know how to make interesting styling and cool looking aerography for the car in Photoshop? If yes, then I can share with you some secret technologies how to do it. So, in the beginning we should find photo or picture of car to work with. Just go o the Google Images [...]