February 2010

PSDFAN VIP Members Area!

Today we have a great giveaway to celebrate the launch of our VIP Members Area.

Simply leave a comment suggesting what kinds of tutorials or downloadable files you would like to see in the members area, and stand a chance to be one of 3 lucky winners!

Each winner will receive a full 3 month subscription to the VIP Area, giving them access to all of our 75+ source files and all members only tutorials/downloads.

Cartoon character designs is really interesting. Today, we have a lot of powerful graphic design software such as Photopsop, Illustrator and Corel Draw to help graphic designers create cartoon characters.

With the advance technologies, designers now can sketch the cartoon characters on paper first, and then use software to convert and edit them on PC. If you are using Photoshop or Illustrator, then they are powerful enough to create cartoon character. But if you don’t want to pay for them, there are still a lot of Free Photoshop alternatives where you can use.

Today, we are going to look into 50 cartoon character design tutorials where you can learn from basic to the advance skills to create and edit cartoon characters. We hope you enjoy reading them.

Welcome to day 2 of Creative Nerds huge 1st birthday giveaway today we will be giving away a Grafpedia VIP account, you have access to all the resources on the site: Photoshop gradients, layer styles, brushes, swatches, tutorial sample files, stock photos, textures, vector icons and EPS files, all you need to do is leave a comment to have a chance of winning.

There are a lot of ways to visualize your data. Using Pure CSS Graph and Chart is one of the best and easy way, unless you want to create a very good-looking graphs.

If you really want to create graphs and charts with fancy UI or features, then you should consider either Javascript Chart or using Flash.

In this article, we cover 11 tutorials and solutions for you to create graphs and charts using CSS. There are a lot of tutorials and sample about CSS graphs, but we hand-picked 11 best solutions. Let’s start to look into them one by one.

Better organize your files and make them easy to access by using your Windows Desktop Start Menu’s task bar to access and launch your frequently used files, and programs. It is very east to make a startmenu taskbar toolbar. There is no programming, or editing required to do this tutorial. You just need to know [...]

How to Create a Wordpress Options Panel | Nettuts+

“Today, we’ll go through the entire process of creating an admin options panel for a WordPress theme. Then, we’ll take things a step further, as we implement jQuery to improve some of the functionality.”

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One of the beautiful things about Wordpress is the high level of flexibility and input you as a designer can have, you can theme it yourself, hack it up and.

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6 Tutorials To Help Your Create Your Own Wordpress Plugin

This is a follow up of our post from back in October titled “24 Wonderful But Different Blog Comment Form Designs“. This time, we are showcasing the best of blog comment designs. Some comment layouts may be threaded, and some aren’t, but they all look great.

Let me know what comment design / style you like the best. I think my favorite has to be the Hicks Design. Anyway, enjoy the compilation, and feel free to comment with your style.

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The universe’s best WordPress , bbPress, TalkPress & BuddyPress tutorials, hacks, news, plugins , and themes. — WordPress tutorials, hacks, news, plugins , and themes.

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In this tutorial, I will teach you how to record custom sounds for your Windows 7, Vista, and earlier version of Windows with audacity which is a free sound recording program. You will learn how to set up audacity to record high quality audio from a mic. First, you need to go to edit > preferences in [...]

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Common Misconceptions about Web Designers

“As a web designer, I’m proud to be a part of an Apple-loving, forward thinking, technologically advanced group of people that devour tutorials and web design blogs, hoping to create a stellar design that that gets posted in every CSS gallery out there. Yep, we’re a group of people that works hard, plays hard and strives to meet our deadlines, while learning something new along the way.

“We’re also a misunderstood group of people, viewed as gothic creatures that shun the daylight because we’re just tragic artists.

“Well, I’m here to set things straight. Here are some common misconceptions about being a web designer that just aren’t true.”

Have you ever been misunderstood?

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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 (900X900px).

Create a new layer called ‘orange header’. Make a selection that’s 900X450px and fill it with an orange gradient:

Up until the release of WordPress 2.9, setting up “post-image” support for your blog was a bit more tedious a task than it really needed to be. Luckily, that’s no longer an issue. I’ll show you how to get setup in this four minute video quick tip. (via Quick Tip: How to Use the New “Post-Thumbnail” Feature in WordPress 2.9 | Nettuts+)

Fire Used in Digital Art

Fire is perfect for use in a visual medium as it’s incredibly intense and colorful. Many digital artist’s choose to integrate fire into their work for this very purpose, often giving life and energy to otherwise bland works.

The following works are anything but bland – we hope that you’re inspired by these 20 great examples of fire art!