January 2010

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

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Step 1

Create a new document (600X800px).

Create a new layer called ‘black background’ and fill your entire canvas with black.

Step 2

Paste in this photo of a stone archway. Call this layer ‘arch’.

Photo: Stone Archyway

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Our first monthly edition of our monthly roundup in 2010 when we collect all the best design tutorials,article and design resources. Feel free to leave a comment to share you favourite aspect from the design/web design in January 2010.

What is Bokeh?

“In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— “good” or “bad” bokeh, respectively.

Bokeh characteristics may be quantified by examining the image’s circle of confusion. In out-of-focus areas, each point of light becomes an image of the aperture, generally a more or less round disc. Depending how a lens is corrected for spherical aberration, the disc may be uniformly illuminated, brighter near the edge, or brighter near the center. Lenses that are poorly corrected for spherical aberration will show one kind of disc for out-of-focus points in front of the plane of focus, and a different kind for points behind.”

The ultimate compilation of gimp design tutorials to take a novice and turn them into an expert, the perfect guide for anyone looking to learn or even master the ins and outs of Gimp.

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

If you want access to the downloadable .PSD file for this, and every other tutorial at PSDFAN, then join our members area for just $4.95 per month.

Step 1

Create a new document (600X700px).

Create a new layer called ’stars’ and fill your entire canvas with black:

Step 2

Now go to filter>noise>add noise, and add 10% amount.

Joomla, one of the most popular PHP CMS, has been used by tons of websites. It is very customizable and extendable through various plugins. Developers use Joomla to build Company websites, directories, personal blogs, e-commerce websites and etc.

Back to few months ago, we showcase beautiful Wordpress blogs. Some readers ask me to collect beautiful Joomla designs, as not everyone use Wordpress as their CMS. So, we decided to collect cool Joomla designs over the world and present to our readers.

SlideDeck is a very powerful jQuery plugin to present your content on mobile phones and browsers is a very simple and clean slideshow. This jQuery powered plugin is easy to customize, powerful and able to deliver a better user experience to your readers.

Still remember our tutorial about jQuery Content Slider? SlideDeck brings all these slideshow and content slider to you in no time!

A collection of 70 high quality PSD files including a range of templates, icons, mobiles, packaging cases, and a ton of other useful design resources. An essential resource for any Photoshop user or designer worth bookmarking for future reference.

Photoshop is predominantly know across the whole entire design community for its capability of being able to create simply marvellous designs. Photoshop has a wide range of features and functions which can be very difficult for a novice learning Photoshop being able to grasp.

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We use icons at a lot of places such as desktop application or favicon for our blog. For those who always change the Windows folder or application icons, you can always search for .ico images format, which is the icon files for Windows.

We had gone through a lot of articles that related to images and icons. But if you are new to our blog, then you may want to refer them back, which i would like to do a summary here:

A great little illustrator tutorial form Creative Nerds, which shows you how to create an iPod icon using illustrator. The perfect tutorials for beginners learning their way around illustrator simply because the whole iPod is created using only basic default illustrator shapes. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and feel to leave a comment to let us know how you got on creating the iPod icons.

Difficulty: Beginners

Time Estimation: 12 to 25 minuets

Program: Illustrator

We have another awesome Photoshop casestudy for you today. Instead of a traditional tutorial, this is a case-study of the steps involved in constructing the sleek Photoshop piece ‘Metropolis’ by Andre Meca.

You can see how every detail was assembled, and how the composition developed over time. I hope that this provides an interesting insight into this great designer! Please let me know your thoughts on the piece and its construction.

If you like this case-study you make appreciate some of our other case-studies:

Photoshop Case-study: Explosion of Colors and Shapes

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An awesome collection of some very slick iPod vector icons available to download for free within a range of various IPod colours. The file included is an EPS file therefore it can be opened in a range of various vector programs. I hope you enjoy and feel free to leave a comment to share your feedback it would be appreciated.

This is a great article which features an interview with 12 web/design blogs which were started up in 2009 and are essential design blogs to look out for in 2010.

Each design blog was each asked five questions in total in order to gain an understanding in what motivated them to setup their blog, to find out what they have learnt about blogging, what’s the perks of blogging about web/design, and tips where you can take your blog within the next 12 months.