August 2010
Create Unique Sports-Themed Lettering
Final Image
As always, here is the final image we’ll be creating today:
Step 1
Create a new document 600X600px.
Then paste in this image of a baseball:
Cut it out from it’s background. I selected it using the circular marquee tool, and then inverted my selection and hit ‘delete’ to delete the background part of the photo.
Our New Marketplace for Tutorials, Screencasts and eBooks
Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s not every day that I get to announce a new marketplace, and this one today is extra special! It unites our massive tutorial network Tuts+ with our kickass marketplace platform to form the Tuts+ Marketplace for Premium Tutorials, Screencasts and eBooks. This is an exciting new opportunity for people to share their skills with the world and earn an income doing so.
70 Tutorials For Learning And Mastering Light Effects In Photoshop
A collection of a range of different tutorials for learning how to master various types of lighting effects using Photoshop. There are a range of tutorials featured within the compilation which the end result can be achieved by a novice to Photoshop or even teach a guru of Photoshop a few new tips. A must bookmark resources for future reference hope you enjoy.
10 Good and 10 Bad Things About Adobe’s Dreamweaver
Written by Carl Heaton exclusively for WebDesignDev.com. Carl is the Director and Senior lecturer at WebCourses Bangkok, a leading web design school in Thailand.
Professional Retouching Tutorial: Dodge and Burn (Part 2)
Professional Retouching Tutorial: Dodge and Burn (Part 2)
If you’ve completed the Professional Retouching – Healing tutorial with your chosen image, you’re ready to jump into the next step in your professional workflow, Dodging and Burning. This is an advanced retouching tutorial, so stick with it and keep practicing!
Professional Retouching Tutorial: Healing (Part 1)
Professional Retouching Tutorial: Healing (Part 1)
Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on professional retouching. Ever wondered how commercial and fashion photographs have that beautifully flawless look?
Final Image
This two part tutorial will work towards creating this professionally retouched result:
It takes a while to master, but here are a few things to consider;
Author Interview: Cudazi
In our second author interview, we meet Cudazi (Curt Ziegler) from ThemeForest.
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Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, what do you do for a living?
Creating websites has been a part of my life since Geocities was popular and a 14.4 modem was at the top of my birthday list. I’m a full-time web designer and developer in the Fargo/Moorhead area located in the northern United States. I am currently employed full-time managing corporate internet, intranet and sharepoint sites.
50 Awesome Design Blogs Which Consistently Produce Good Content
last week we created a post on 50 fonts every designer must download. This week we thought it would only be right to follow up with another similar article this time 50 design blogs every designer should be reading. Not ascending or descending in any particular order but just a good list of blogs which may not get thousands of visitors every month but offer good valuable content on a consistent basis.
Subtle CSS3 Typography that you’d Swear was Made in...
Subtle CSS3 Typography that you’d Swear was Made in Photoshop
“Thanks to text shadows, outlines, transitions, and even text gradients, we can now create cool typography that you’d swear had to be made with a program like Photoshop. Nope, all CSS3 baby! Let’s take a look in this video quick tip.”
How to Create a Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie In Illustrator
Cookies, also known as biscuits, are probably the most popular bakery product around the world, and due to the variety of their flavours and aromas, it is extremely hard to resist the temptation of trying them. In this simple tutorial, I will show you how to create a super detailed cookie illustration inside Adobe Illustrator.
Create an Atmospheric Under-Water Text Effect
Final Image
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
Step 1
Create a new document (600X600px).
Paste in this great concrete texture.
Members Area Tutorial: Design a Last Airbender Inspired Photo Manipulation
Members Only Tutorial
This tutorial is available exclusively to our VIP members. In order to read the tutorial and download it’s original .psd source file you must sign up as a member.
If you sign up today you get access to over 100 .psd source files, as well as our weekly members only tutorials and other content!
Introducing Our Brand New Blog Vector Patterns
We launched an new website on Friday morning called Vector Patterns. If you have been following us on twitter you will be aware of the fact that we where currently in the process of putting together a new design blog. Finally we can reveal our new website Vector Patterns a design blog offering free high quality patterns, articles, inspiration, and tutorials.
Design an Abstract Photo-Manipulation Using Adjustment Layers
Final Image
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
Step 1
Create a new document (600X900px) and paste in this old paper texture.
16 Vital Checks Before Releasing a WordPress Theme
16 Vital Checks Before Releasing a WordPress Theme:
“Releasing a WordPress theme on a marketplace, such as ThemeForest, where the audience is so large and diverse, has some challenges. You cannot test a solution directly with the client. You need to plan in advance for all edge cases, and ensure that your theme is as customizable as possible. If you’re inexperienced, chances are that some things will unfortunately slip through the cracks. Luckily for you, we have drawn on our hard-earned wisdom to help you avoid repeating the same mistakes we made.”
An Exploration of Modern Typography
An Exploration of Modern Typography
I’ve always been a huge fan of experimental typography, as the most talented artists can produce some really unique results.
Today we look at some great examples of modern typography, as well as some useful resources and tutorials to help you create your own epic typography. Enjoy!
‘Typography’ (College Work) by Fabianohikaru
How I Got 30,000 Twitter Followers
Most of you already know my Twitter account @ WebDesignDev has 30,000 Twitter followers. I am extremely proud of this accomplishment because very few web design blogs command such a large following. I get 150+ clicks for every tweet that I send and tens of thousands of visitors from Twitter every single month. Today, I’m going to share with you my secret as to how I got my 30,000 followers.
When I just started WebDesignDev.com, I obviously didn’t have a Twitter following. As a matter of fact, getting Twitter followers isn’t easy at all – most of you already know that from experience. It wasn’t easy for me either. That is, until I came up with a strategy. After I implemented it, I went from some hundreds of followers to 30,000 now. You are probably thinking that you can’t get there, but I will prove you wrong. Read on to find out how I did it.
Design a Modern Portfolio Layout
Final Image
As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:
Step 1
Create a new document (1000X1000px).
Create a new layer called clouds, and download this great clouds brush. Then apply it (color: 8fc6ce) to the top of your canvas. Then reduce this layer’s opacity to 25%.
25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know
25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know:
“This industry moves fast — really fast! If you’re not careful, you’ll be left in its dust. So, if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with the coming changes/updates in HTML5, use this as a primer of the things you must know.”
Best Of Web And Design In July 2010
July was a great month in terms on new design tutorials being published, lucky enough where capable of capturing all the best tuts published all over the design community into one post. Next month should be a very exciting month as the Creative Nerds team are launching an new blog.
