November 2009
15 Fresh and Quality Text Effect Tutorials
Text effect tutorials have always been popular amongst Photoshop users. However, many roundups tend to focus upon the same old classic posts. This post hopes to expose some fresher text tutorials to inspire you today. I’m sure you may have seen some of these before, but hopefully you haven’t encountered all of them (I know I hadn’t before compiling this post). Enjoy!
50+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Design Tutorials
We use posters at a lot of places. For example, we have posters for movies, games, events and books. Photoshop is a great application for poster design. With the help of Photoshop actions, filters, powerful features and tutorials from community, we can easily create beautiful poster.
If you are looking for tutorial to design your poster, then you had came to the right place. Today, we are going to share 50+ awesome Photoshop tutorials for designing and creating poster.
Best Of The Web November For Web/Graphic Design
Once again its that time the end of the month, this month i managed to collect a great collection of photoshop tutorials, illustrator tutorials, web and graphic design articles and some amazing freebies.
Wordpress Membership Plugins and Resources – Wordpress Tips …
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How to mark a drive as Active in Computer management or Command prompt Diskpart
In order to make a drive be able to boot an Operating system, you have to mark it as active in computer management > Disk management or use the command prompt in Windows. Tutorial for making your partition active in computer management or command prompt
Computer Management > Disk Management
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Marketplace API Round-up
What’s an “API”? A Pink Igloo? A Pig Itching? Not quite.
The Marketplace’s target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface">Application Programming Interface (API) allows the development of applications with access to a range of data from all the marketplaces such as the most popular and latest files. More sensitive data such as your account balance, recent sales, and monthly statements can also be accessed securely using your individual API key!
So what? I’m a designer – why should I be interested in geeky code interface stuff? Well, using the API you can develop apps/sites for your mobile, your desktop, or even your blog. Did I mention you can even design and style your applications however you want? Now that’s pretty cool, right?!
ThemeForest Week in Review
The Email Templates category is growing with great new items and they’re selling like hotcakes! We’ll take a quick peek at two new items in that category, check out this week’s interview with Hein and catch up on anything else you might have missed this last week.
Interview With Author and Buyer Hein Maas (Hein)
Hein is one of ThemeForest’s quickly rising rockstar authors, while also an author for GraphicRiver with a combined portfolio count of 20 items and growing. While Hein creates some really great work, the author also has a bit of an addiction to buying items.
I’ve asked Hein to answer this week’s interview questions as the author and buyer has a unique perspective on things at ThemeForest. Here’s what Hein had to say.
Give a Beer 1.0.6 Wordpress Plugin Tutorial | AppChain
Very short (because there’s not much to say) tutorial on how to use Give a Beer Wordpress plugin Version 1.0.6.
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Very short (because there’s not much to say) tutorial on how to use Give a Beer Wordpress plugin Version 1.0.6. The plugin is actually a widget that show’s.
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Top 20 Texture And Title Photoshop Tutorials
I often ignore Photoshop textures, mainly because I don’t use them often when designing. But recently I have seen them being used in many different designs, and website backgrounds. So I have compiled a list of 20 top tutorials that will teach you to create stunning textures and titles.
Im sure there are many other great tutorials out there that could have made the list, but I just don’t have the time to browse the internet top to bottom. So If you have found or know of another Photoshop texture tutorial that you think should make the list, feel free to drop us a link in a comment.
Rusty Metal Plate
Learn how to create a rusty metal plate in Photoshop.
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Mounting a VMware VMDK file in Sun VirtualBox tutorial
You downloaded a .vmdk file from the internet, but you learned VMware player can not play it. The best alternative is to play the virtual machine file with Sun’s Free VirtualBox virtualization program. However, you need to mount it in VirtualBox first. Tutorial for mounting a VMware VMDK file in Sun VirtualBox
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This WordPress tutorial from www.startablog.ca will show you to automatically upgrade your WordPress blog plugins using your.
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New Social Networking Wordpress Plugin | TheGermz.com
Today I was looking for a way to add social networking features to one of my blogs. I already know about Buddypress, but unfortunatly it only works for.
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60+ Creative And Mind-blowing Examples Of Photo Manipulation Art
Photo manipulation is an image editing technique that alters the original image/photo by adding certain elements into it. Photo manipulation normally requires extremely creative and unique design skills.
Creative photo manipulation can serve as our source of inspiration. Today, we are going to look into 60+ Creative And Mind-blowing Examples Photo Manipulation Art related to object, illustrative elements, artistic and painterly effects, natural images and fantasy effects. We hope this collection will help you to open your mind and enhance your creativity.
Install a Wordpress plugin with a web browser.
Sometimes you forgot your FTP servers password or user name because it is saved on your browser or FTP program like FileZilla on your home PC. But, you want to install a plugin for Wordpress on your blog. Well, you can login to your Wordpress Blog and upload it with its built-in plugin upload program. Tutorial for [...]
Essential Tips For Making A Passive Income As A Designer
As a freelance designer relying on one source of income can be a very risky decision these are some tips on how each month you can make a passive income from a career within freelance designing.
Entering Design Contests
Entering design contests such as 99 designs Is a great way to earn a bit of extra cash because the clients are already found for you all you need to do is create a design to follow their needs and requirements. The disadvantage of entering design competitions is that there’s a lot other good designers out their, which you may have to compete with in order for your design to be picked as the winner.
Command Line desk top shortcuts to speed up your command line tasks!
Command lines are very useful like ping, ipconfig, chkdsk, etc can help resolve a lot of problem with your computer. No additional software is needed to do this tutorial. In this tutorial, I will teach you how to speed up command line tasks by making a Windows Shortcut which launches, and types in the command [...]
ThemeForest Week in Review
This week we’re changing gears and getting some great feedback for our authors from this week’s interview with an avid buyer, chickscanfly. ThemeForest has also launched a brand new, long awaited category, Email Templates!
We’ll get started with our buyer interview, check out some awesome Email Templates and catch up on much more you may have missed this last week.
Interview With Buyer Annie (chickscanfly)
Annie has purchased over 150 items from ThemeForest from a wide variety of authors. I’ve asked Annie a few questions to help authors get a new perspective on their buyers to help optimize their offerings and achieve more sales. Here’s what Annie had to say.
Top 10 Tutorials To Learn PSD To HTML Conversion
Compiled here is another top 10 countdown. This time we count down the top 10 PSD to HTML conversion tutorials. These top tutorials teach you how to take many different designs in Photoshop, and code them out into HTML and CSS.
The list is in descending order leaving the best tutorial until last. Remember that this is WebDesignDev’s opinion about the order that the tutorials are in.
What tutorial is your favorite? And does number one deserve to be number one? If you have any suggestions on tutorials you think should have made the top 10, then please drop by a comment. Anyway, enjoy the list.
Quick tip: Creating Swirly Vectors Using Illustrator
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An illustrator video quick tip tutorial on how to create swirly vectors in illustrator. The techniques can be used to create swirly illustrator vectors, which could also be imported into Photoshop in order to create Photoshop brushes or vector patterns. Leave your thoughts and comments about tutorial in a comment below.
A Preview Of The Final Outcome
This is preview of what the final outcome of the tutorial will be and the tecnique which you will learn from the tutorial.
WP Remix Theme Dropdown and vSlider Plugin : Vibe Themes – Premium …
Many Wp Remix Theme users ask me or on the Wp Remix forum about their theme and vSlider plugin working together. However, they have discovered a problem.
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Top 20 Ajax Tutorials
Ajax is commonly overlooked as a language that many newbies to web design don’t really understand. Well the truth is, Ajax can do wonderful things and give your website that extra special something. I have rounded up a collection of the top 20 Ajax tutorials I think will help anyone get their feet wet with Ajax.
Let me know what tutorial you like best, and if you know of any other tutorials that have helped you master Ajax, then please by all means drop us a comment. Anyway, enjoy the list!
A simple AJAX website with jQuery
TutorialZine have posted this really great tutorial that teaches people how to create their very own fully functional websites that runs using Ajax. I have to say the finished result does look very nice! View Tutorial
Photo Manipulate a Beautiful Sunrise Landscape
Final Image
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
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So let’s start with a new document of 2000 px width and 1600 px height at 300 resolutions. Actually size doesn’t matter here; you can keep any size according to your preferences.
60+ Photoshop Tutorials For Icon Design
Icon design is an essential skill for every web designer. A website or blog with beautiful icons will definitely attract visitors’ attention.
Although we may download free icons or purchase stock icons from the web, but learning the skill of icon design will definitely brings you a lot of benefits. Besides brush up your Photoshop/icon design skills, you will also have custom made icons that suit your website’s design. Some of the free icons are only for non-commercial products or websites. So having your unique icons, you can get rid of these restrictions.
If you are looking for Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Designs, then you had reached to the right place. Here, we collected 60+ Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Icon Design. I am sure you will become a good icon designer after reading these tutorials.
Best Wordpress Ratings & Review Plugin?
Wordpress is a fantastic platform for review sites and with a ratings and review plugin , your visitors can actually add value to your site by providing real ratings and reviews of products. I tested out 4 Wordpress Ratings & Review …
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15 Books For Beginners To Learn Web Design
Around 5 years ago, I learn’t how to build websites by starting with simple HTML in notepad. I then purchased a book that taught me more about HTML. I thourght wow, if I can create this, think of all the possibilities. But my possibilities needed to be styled in a way that looked good.
So I went out and purchased a book on CSS that taught me how to make my web pages look half decent. I then went on to buy a book about PHP and MySQL. But I first got into web design using a simple book that I purchased down the local book store. Today I have wrapped up a selection of 15 top books for beginners looking to get into web design and learn how to create beautiful websites.
Let me know If you have any of these books and what you think of them. Also, if you have any book suggestions for beginners in web design, feel free to drop in a comment and let us know.
Blogger Tutorial (4/6): Must Have Addons for Blogger.com Blog
In the last tutorial – Blogger Tutorial (3/6): Writing Your First Post, we learned about writing our first post, attaching photos, and embedding videos. It is time to take things to the next level. In this “action-packed” episode, you are going to propel yourself from a beginner to semi-pro with the 9 free essential tools for a blogger! With these added elements, your blog will be more fun and exciting, while increasing your reader interaction. Need I say more? Let’s begin:
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The Best Illustrator Tutorials For Creating 3d Effects
A collection of the best illustrator tutorials for creating 3d effects and some of my own personal favourites. Illustrator is an amazing software which allows you to create some superb 3d graphic using simple tools.
ThemeForest Week In Review
It’s been a bit of a mellow week here in the forest but only in terms of blog and forum activity. As always, our amazing authors have been busy pumping out stunning new themes, templates and scripts for just about everything.
So let’s start with this week’s interview with one of ThemeForest’s rising authors, Chris Fay.
Interview With Author Chris Fay (chrisfay)
Chris Fay is one of ThemeForest’s fantastic rising stars with a growing portfolio of really great work. Chris was kind enough to answer a few questions for this week’s interview and here’s what the author had to say.
How to turn on Hibernation on or off in the command prompt in Windows Vista or 7
I disabled hibernation, but did not know how to get it back. I search Microsoft Site and Found a handy tutorial for getting it back. Hibernation is when your computer is off, but all the files stored in RAM is saved to a temporary file that stores your RAM files. so your PC can resume from [...]
November – A Thanks To Our Valued Sponsors For Their Support
Our November 2009 edition of our thank post to our sponsors for their support through october and November, its very much appreciated. As well as being our sponsors they each offer very valuable services so why not spend a few minuets learning about each one of our sponsers.
ThemeForest Week In Review
It’s November and the sales are rolling in for our authors while our authors are rolling out fresh, new themes and templates. This week we bring you news of an iPhone app for the Envato marketplaces, updated browser stats and more.
So let’s start with this week’s interview with author and reviewer, Kai Loon.
Interview With Author and Reviewer Kai Loon (kailoon)
Kai Loon is one of ThemeForest’s very own reviewers. He not only reviews for ThemeForest but for GraphicRiver as well. Kai Loon isn’t just a reviewer though, he is a skilled author who also runs two great websites–LoonDesign and ThemeTation. I’ve asked Kai Loon a few questions for this week’s interview and here’s what he had to say.
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New Featured Author of the Week: Maximus
- Author’s Username: Maximus
- Member Since: August, 2008
- Location: Sibiu, Europe
How Come?
A buying frenzy occurs on ThemeForest with every new template from MAXIMUS! The reason is quite simple: his templates are perfectly designed and solve problems. With 2700+ sales, he is easily one of our most consistent and top shelf authors!
Inside the Mind of ThemeForest’s Top Selling Author
Kriesi is ThemeForest’s top selling author; he, last month, broke the record of most sales in a single month, across all of the Envato marketplaces! It’s even more shocking when we consider the fact that he’s only 27 years old!
In this interview, we’ll dive into his work process, and hopefully steal some tips and inspiration!
Created a HTML sitemap for this blog, so users can more easily find my articles
Compurter Tutorials Sitemap
A HTML sitemap helps users browsing a website easily find articles/pages on a person website without using a Search engine or browsing the entire site. It also makes it easier for search engine spyders/bots find your articles easier and index them on their directory.
I also wrote a short description for each link, so [...]
Organized my Tech Help blog
I added a few more categories, and a HTML sitemap to help users bette navigate my site.
Check out my Computer Help Blog . It has tutorials on using Windows and Linux.
Interview with Chris Spooner
1. Thanks for agreeing to do this interview Chris. If you remember we actually published an interview with you roughly a year ago. It’s great to see that you’re still very much active in the design community! Today I would like to ask some different questions, and focus on what you’ve been
up to over the course of the last year.
Some designers and bloggers seem to have a habit of fading out of the public eye, and enjoying a very short-lived popularity. You’ve been regarded as an important figure in the design community for some time now. Could you share some insight into how you maintain your activity and ‘personal brand’ if you will, within the design community?
Thanks for having me back, Tom!
How to Create Favicon .ICO files using Adobe Photoshop
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20 Top Photoshop Icon Design Tutorials
Icons can spice up a website and make it look that extra bit special. I have compiled a list of 20 tutorials from many different websites that teach you how to create icons in Adobe Photoshop. There is a great selection of icon tutorials listed here, for beginners and also advanced Photoshop users.
If you want to add to the list with an icon tutorial you have found online that you find useful, feel free to drop us a comment and share it with us and the WebDesignDev community. Also, what icon tutorial did you enjoy best? (Title Image From Icon Dock’s Rocky Vector Icon Set)
Places I Use To Find Icons
When I want to find icons to use in various web projects, I often head over to one of the following sites…
5 Photo Gallery Plugins for WordPress | Flash | Tutorial Blog
5 WordPress photo gallery plugins for integrating photos into your blog.
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Using jQuery to make an Expandable Code Box for WP-Syntax …
You may have noticed that I’m using a new syntax highlighter for my code snippets.
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Top 30 Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
With only 2 months left of 2009, and the year coming to a close very soon, I thought it would be a good idea to showcase a list of the top 30 Photoshop tutorials of 2009. These tutorials are perfect for both beginners, and advanced Photoshop designers wanting to learn a few more tips.
Of course the top 30 listed here are my opinion, but if you think that some other tutorials deserved to make the list, or you want to tell us what you think of the list, then feel free to drop in a comment below to this post. We would love to hear what you think of our selection of the top 30.
Boxed Art Web Design Tutorial
Learn how to make this really swish website design using PhotoShop.
70 Of The Best Photoshop Actions For Enhancing Photos
WordPress Ecommerce Plugins, Themes and Tutorials – Wordpress Tips …
This one is a commercial plugin ($25), but it’s also more advanced than the simple paypal shopping cart plugin . eStore comes with premium features like instant digital product delivery, integration with WP eMember, Aweber and WordPress …
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