Freelancing can sometimes feel very lonely. You have left behind the finance department, the IT department and several layers of management. You have also left behind your colleagues – the friends you worked with, bounced ideas off, asked for tips, and borrowed inspiration from when you felt dry. There may be times that you miss all of those people – and all of that support. Many of you are freelancers because you are good at one thing – your craft, your art, your trade. Now you spend each day
Its Thursday! This week is almost over! I hope its going well for you! Today’s links are STUFFED With FREEBIES! There are also a ton of good CSS Tutorials and Generator tools, as well as other Greatness for Inspiration and Wordpress/jQuery Stuff too! Check them all out tho . Also, If you have noticed that there is a new look, Phase 1 of the redesign has been launched! So Look around! And Stay tuned for Phase 2 very soon!! Thanks everyone for all the love and support, I appreciate you all! Now
Todays top design news is dominated by CSS, with the first comprehensive CSS3 Cheat Sheet available to download and a great tutorial that will teach you how to create a keyboard using CSS and jQuery. Of course, we have some inspiration in the form of creative advertising from Thomas Lavezzari. CSS 3 Cheat Sheet This is a must download for all web designers, it is a CSS 3 Cheat Sheet has a complete listing of all the properties, selectors types and allowed values in the current CS
Don’t miss any of June’s best Tutorials: We got’em all right here! Over 40 outstanding tutorials, articles, and freebies for you to feast your eyes on! Quick Nav: Photoshop Tutorials Illustrator Tutorials Web/Blogging Tutorials Freebies, Inspiration, & Resources Photoshop Tutorials Design an Awesome Space Dancer Scene with Nebula Texture in Photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn the processes used to design this awesome space dancer scene with a N
Report from Scott Kelby’s Savannah Workshop (inspiration) How to Resize Images in Lightroom 2 Stylized Comic Book Effect Tutorial Suggestions for Lightroom’s Web Galleries 2nd Annual Worldwide PhotoWalk on Saturday, July 18, 2009 Sign up for Photoshop World newsletter Have you joined NAPP ? (Don’t forget promo code DAWN to get Corey Barker’s “Adobe Photoshop CS4 Design Effects DVD” as an added bonus!) A new feature has been added to the members-only NAPP website: The NA
It’s time to our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web, a bit of architecture, Ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuffs! So take a look on the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what is going on out there! We want to give a big thanks to our sponsors: Wix , Shutterstock , WooThemes , W3-Markup , PSD2HTML , Harvest , VectorStock™ , LightCMS , SiteGrinder and SPLASHnology . A special mention to Media Temple for
See I told you we would be doing the rundowns on Friday. And you thought we were just joshing you! Oh, wait. You didn’t? Well, the guy behind you did, so we were talking to him. But once again, we have compiled our favorite posts from the design community this week to present to all of those who may have missed them, or who would just like another opportunity to go through them. So dive in and swim through the best offerings we could find for you. As always, we hope you enjoy. Oh, and by the way
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible. You are welcome to share if you know more best of
8 Tips for Success When Freelancing On the Road | FreelanceFolder Awesome Tips for Success when Freelancing on the road! (tags: freelance advice travel planning ) 70 beautiful Drupal sites | Mogdesign Awesome Drupal Sites! Nice Designs! (tags: design showcase webdesign websites inspiration drupal css gallery development ) Does A Freelancer Need A Resume? Very interesting read – Do Freelancers need a resume? (tags: freelance ) FriendFee
Last week we lost Michael Jackson, a true legend and without any doubt, an inspiration to a whole generation. I grew up listening to his songs and of course, was amazed by his movie clips and dance moves. The moonwalk was something I always wanted to learn how to do and even today, it still impresses me. Also the light effects were always part of the Michael Jackson’s repertoire and of course, have influenced a lot in my style. In this tutorial I will show you how I created the wallpaper in tr
We once again have worked our way through another week, that even came complete with a family holiday over the weekend, and have arrived once more at time for our weekly round-up. As always, we have rundown through the design communities postedings from this past week to showcase those that we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and wanted to share with our readers. We wanted to ensure that these brilliant bits from the week didn’t somehow slip under your radar. So take a moment to sift back through th
Jun1525 Design Magazines Posted on Monday, June 15, 2009 in Desktop Publishing, graphic designEvery designer, whether a professional or someone who likes to design their own corporate literature, needs to be surrounded by inspiration to keep the ideas fresh. Keeping new tips and tricks of the trade handy is also important, which is why graphic design magazines are such a necessary part of any designer’s library. Print magazines are especially nice to keep around for flipping through during dow
Every website requires some sort of navigation / interface. Here I have compiled together a list of 30 outstanding Button And Interface Photoshop Tutorials. You could use some of these for inspiration, or follow them and use it on your website. Now I have layed this post out a little bit different. Basically, if you like what you see, click on it and it will take you to the tutorial on how to create it.
Hi Everyone! If you have been following GreyscaleGorilla, you may have seen some changes in the last six months or so. GSG has gone from a photo blog, to a fully fledged inspiration, productivity, review and tutorial blog. You may have also noticed that posts can be intermittent or non existent at times. Today’s video is all about setting a schedule for posting to the GSG blog and to committing to a certain number of posts each and every week. I also wanted to narrow down the focus of the site t
