Category Archives: Tutorials
Create a Classic-Styled Portfolio Design in Adobe Photoshop
Dillen VerschoorHowdy, today we will be creating a nice design for your online portfolio. What we will learn here is how you can use a combination of textures and patterns to create a nice old-school look and how to use guides in a smart way. Here is what we will be making:
Current Trends in Social News Website Design
Salman SiddiquiTrends don't happen overnight. It is the gradual process of change in an industry that initiates new trends silently. We might not notice the "new" trends in an industry unless they actually become new trends. I covered the trends behind hotel web designs just because I could see a pattern emerging amongst all the well known hotel web designs. Nowadays, community based news sites have become very common. Such sites push the end user to share news and vote for news articles that are worth it. Digg lost its fan following but Reddit is still killing it. Somehow such news based community websites have followed a set pattern which has always been the success formula. This discussion will focus on such trends that have kept the community based news sharing websites going since a long period. From The Archives - While you are here, don't forget to check 45 Best Social News Websites To Garner More Traffic that we did on 1WD a long time back. Most of them are still as effective now as they were back then.
Create A Sleek Music Player In Adobe Photoshop
Davey HeuserIn this tutorial you’ll learn how to make a beautiful music player in Adobe Photoshop. It is important that you take the time when you are designing and do not rush things. I focused on the details so I invite you to look at every little thing carefully and think about why I did it and how you can learn from it! Good luck!
Create a Web Hosting Landing Page in Adobe Photoshop
Michael John BurnsIn this week's tutorial we are going to create a Web Hosting Landing Page layout for Besthost as an example. The template will have a simple logo, navigation, slider gallery, package, about us, services, testimonials and footer. Let's combine these all together to make an awesome template. I will try my best to make it easy for you to follow this tutorial. So let's get started!
40+ Fresh jQuery Image and Content Sliders Plugins
Jameel KhanIn this round-up, you will find the best of the freshest jQuery Image and Content Sliders Plugins so that you can take advantage of them and produce startling image and content sliders. You may find it quite difficult to figure out which plugin is best for you because all these plugins have different functionality. Keeping this in mind, we compiled this post. Let’s have a closer look!
4 Simple Steps To Make Silhouettes Using Photoshop
pritSilhouettes as an art form originates back to as early as 18th century drawing its name from a French minister Étienne de Silhouette who imposed heavy economic cuts on French people. Quite symbolically austere outline portraits which became popular in the same time period started to be referred as Silhouettes. Silhouettes art had tremendous popularity which has grown over years and is now associated more with images depicting fashion and fitness. Traditional ways of making Silhouettes are somewhat complex which involve cardboard and paints, but thanks to two wonderful inventions of mankind – Photoshop and Wacom things are much simpler now. In this tutorial I will take you through some beautiful examples for inspiration and then we will proceed to make a silhouette from scratch.
Creative Christmas Gift For Geek Lovers – Web & Mobile App
Rochester OliveiraOh, Christmas. The magic time when you spend all the money you've been saving the whole year. Oh, and we have all that Christmas Spirit, of course. Now, you probably want to spend a lot on your soul mate's gift, to show her how deep is your love. Yeah, money can buy cool things, but guess what: almost every year I make my own gifts for my girlfriend (but I always have to buy something else anyway). And I feel that she just loves when I do something by myself instead of just buying it (unless shoes, she wouldn't like if I made her a shoe). So I'll show you, dear Padawan, how to make a cool one-page-gift for anybody that you like. Our goal here is to do a simple "slider", where a lot of messages and pictures that you like are shown. In the meantime you'll learn a little bit about design, jQuery and CSS3. So, let's rock!
50 Excellent Text Effects Tutorials in Adobe Illustrator
We are all well acquainted with the power of Adobe Illustrator and how important it is to a designer. Be it creating appealing text effects or creating awesome characters, Adobe Illustrator is always there to help out designers. In this collection, we are presenting some amazing and helpful tutorials regarding creating incredible text effects by using Adobe Illustrator. With this selection, you can learn how to create blurry, sketchy, bubbly, sticky, sleek, glossy, retro, futuristic effects. Without further ado, let us move towards the collection of amazing tutorials. Kindly note that some of these tutorials may also require the use of Photoshop intended for finer details. If you think we have missed some cool tutorials out there, then let us know or share them with us in the comments. Enjoy!
Using Retro Style Images And Banners For Advertising
Retro style images and pop art graphics like those of Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol is a popular style adopted by graphic designers for web and print design. They are chic, fashionable, eye-catching and add to the 'cool' factor of the company and its products. Lots of stock images are available for download which can be used for web designing, however if you want something unique or customized it's better to grab a pencil and paper and do it yourself.
Definitive Mobile Guide – 40+ Tools, Frameworks And Tutorials
The mobile market is getting bigger and bigger. A lot of people are spending much more time mobile browsing than desktop. Sometimes I feel like developers aren't paying proper attention to mobile interfaces. Maybe because we don't have enough tools to do it, right? No, actually it isn't. Despite cool things like Safari Mobile that makes any (non-flash) website "browsable" it's easy to see that conversion rates are much higher on interfaces design for mobile viewing. So be ready to see A LOT of tools to help you create cool things for mobile with just what we know (HTML, CSS, JS).
