This week on the Friday Fix we find some great blog designs, a print friendly website and some blue acorns. Design Articles 40 Inspiring Blog Designs – A great showcase of some cool blogs Beautiful Modern Vintage Illustrations – An amazing post, the illustrations are stunning, I need to compile a list of these to showcase. 40 Awesome Illustrative Web Designs – Great showcase of some nice illustration websites Tutorials Handy techniques for cutting out hair in ph

After the resounding success of Week 1’s showdown we are quite excited about this second installment. After a good while browsing through all the wonderful showcase pieces we decided we would put two Groovy Video theme customizations head to head this week. The Groovy Video is the mastermind of the designer Izuddin Helmi and is one of our most popular video blogging themes. The wonderful works in question today are TUT Candy and WCRIA Design Criativo . Without further ado let

With icons, web designers and graphic artists have a good opportunity to showcase their skills, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A well created, good looking icon set is a great way for designers to showcase their work and it may be a way to build up some reputation in the online sommunity. Creating professional Icons and allowing people to download them for free is a certain way to attract attention and visitors on a design portfolio or blog. But how how should you get start

In this post I want to showcase all the applications that are very important in my web design & development process. From commercial applications to Firefox plugins, this post will cover all my favorite web design tools. 1. Adobe Photoshop When it comes to web design, graphic design, photo manipulation and many other things – Adobe Photoshop is the best tool. 2. Adobe Illustrator From time to time, when I have to make some icons I use Adobe Illustrator. It has some great feat

Glow and Light effect is very popular now a day. You can see these effects sometimes on a posters or advertisements. There are some tutorials on the web where you can achieve this kind of effects using photoshop that’s why I collect the best tutorials for glow and light effect and showcase it in here. Here is 50+ Ultimate Collection of Glow and Light Effect Tutorials in Photoshop. Learn the techniques on how to create these cool effects.

In this post, we’ll showcase 50 Free high-quality & New (X)HTML/CSS template (some of them include the PSD-source files). You will also find among these elegant templates a very well written step-by-step tutorials showing you how to create your own. Hopefully some of these will meet your expectations and come in handy in your projects. You will have to check the license first for any restrictions or guidelines before using any template. Shape View Demo | Download 2 Breed

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

Taking things into the third dimension can be a fantastic way to add some character and flair to your typographical designs. However, it can be a huge detractor if say you are using it on a film. (seriously, give it up and just write a decent script guys, stop relying on the gimmicks. sorry, where was I? Oh yeah. Typography.) Typography is an important design element that we are going to focus on in this post. Typography that dares to tread into the third dimension to be exact. First in the post

Once again, the week winds down and gives way to the next, as we here at Arbenting take a look back at the one we are leaving behind. The design community shone once more with some amazing contributions, and we have gathered them for a showcase for our readers to enjoy once more. It was an especially busy week for the online design community, especially in the new launch arena! Some really great launches arrived this week, and in case you missed them, get ready for a few hours lost to the cyber-

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For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe After Effects tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done. Whether you want to learn how to create vibrant motion graphics, breathtaking special effects or cinematic footage, today we got it all. In this post, we want to showcase some of the best After Effects tutorials around to make your message stand out. You will find After Effects tricks and tec

Showcasing tilt shift photographs of miniatures and architecture, along with tutorials explaining how to create your own miniature fakes in Photoshop and how to take tilt shift photographs without cheating using your own camera.

If you browse through the portfolios of graphic designers, or through sites like deviantART, Flickr, and the Behance Network, you’ll certainly find some very interesting and inspiring text effects. This collection features a variety of different text effects from various designers. If you love typography and/or text effects, you may also be interested in the Typography Inspiration Showcase and 50 Essential Photoshop Text Tutorials.

Learn how to make photoshop 3d effect desing .Photoshop might not be the best software to design 3D elements, but most 3D effects you see out there are definitely achievable. we attempt to showcase you some of the best 3D design Photoshop tutorials we’ve come across. It’s probably not about memorizing all steps required to produce the output,

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