Archive for March, 2009
Amazing Retouching And Photo Enhancing Tutorials In Photoshop
Dainis GraverisAs graphic designer retouching photographies is essential skill You need to master. You could talk about principles, but at least I started with simple photo editing on Photoshop, trying to take off red eyes, lumps and change backgrounds of pictures I was using. In this You'll find everything You need - facial and portrait, teeth, lips, eye retouching, background remove as well as simple color adjustments in video and image-based tutorials. In fact for color adjustments I would suggest You look for some premade actions available on deviantart, very handy if You're just starting out. This list is not so big because it is carefully picked, I am starting to think it's better to get quality than quantity. Enjoy!
22 Professional WordPress Themes And Resources:Less Is More
This article actually should be considered as less is more. At first I thought I should create massive list full of newest WordPress themes, but then I thought again, how much actually of these themes I would want to use myself. Number was a lot lesser than I thought. So in this article I listed only very well designed,feature rich and truly impressive themes. And with so much themes available for free, it's really a hard task to find really good and not so overused theme, which could be right choice for Your own blog. I tried my best on this article, tell me how did I do!
The Best And Fastest Way To Create Blog Post
I've tested many different ways and weblog clients to create blog posts more effectively, but know I seem to find the best way and I wanted to share it with You. Maybe technique will seem very simple to experienced bloggers, but at least for me it was something I wasn't aware at start and found out just by testing. At first I would suggest to use any desktop editing program, because coding article by hand in my opinion takes too much effort, which is not worth it really. I have been using Windows Live Writer for some time, where I like to get automatic SpellCheker, but now I am sticking to another free weblog client BlogDesk. In my opinion these are the best choices if You're using Windows ( I don't know how about Mac).
101 More Quality CSS, XHTML Free Templates: Part 2
As promised second part follows, here I continue free XHTML and CSS template and free layout article, which actually at first was supposed to be one really long article, but WordPress doesn't allow to have such long posts. Anyway those post are directly linked with each other, together there are 202 templates, I picked only those which I found to be interesting for research for people just starting out and looking for new techniques. If You are really advanced user You should consider going straight to this post however - 12 Really Handy CSS Framework, Template And Snippet Sites For Smart Web Designer. Hope this helps in Your development process.
101 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1
If You have been following to latest articles, I compiled 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials article some time ago. This should be considered as next step to web development process. There are a lot of really professional and high quality XHTML, CSS templates available for free - if You are familiar with coding, You can learn many new techniques just by studying code. Those templates are free for charge, however don't forget to check license from each one of them before using. Don't forget that You don't need to copy those layouts, play with css, images to get complete fresh look. Here I represent to You the first part of free templates - every template is hand-picked, I picked only those templates I thought were interesting in code or really exceptional according to standard layouts.
33 High Resolution And Eye-Catching Spring Desktop Wallpapers
It has been a long winter, and actually I am still waiting for spring though it's almost March. If You are working with computer in daily basis, beautiful desktop wallpaper can significantly inspire and make Your coffee breaks a little more warmer with some eye-candy. I also tried to select and find high resolution wallpapers, but I was surprised, it was not easy - many people still forget to think about designers with huge monitor resolutions, I provided You with available resolution above each wallpaper, so You shouldn't waste any of Your valuable time. So here I present to You 33 beautiful spring related wallpapers which I hope will become handy, when You're struggling with lack of new ideas.
40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching
I am continuing Top DeviantArtist worth watching series and now I stopped to the best web designers I could find. I only listed those artists, whom layouts I found to be really unique and inspiring, taking classical web design actually to the next level. These layouts are really artworks with amazing details, You usually don't see browsing through the web. Consider this article as inspirational article now and if You choose to watch those artists, then inspiration blasts in long term. At first I wanted to pick only 2 website examples from each artists, but there was several so amazing webdesigns, where I couldn't stop and picked 3 or 4 examples. Enjoy this list, hope this will help to get inspired in regular basis!
Logo Design Trends 2009 – Showcase
As requested I created this article and tried to select the most appropriate logos based on LogoOrange equitable prognosis, which I think is very appropriate. However these are just prognosis and suggestions, where to go and inspire You to new designs, we'll see however where those logo trends will lead us this year. I invite You to critique my picks and justify them, so we both can learn. Just read whole article and be sure to return here and check out examples of each trend. I picked logos from LogoPond and FaveUp logo showcase sites, where You can by the way get excellent inspiration sparks.
