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showcase featuring a beautiful web design trend which showcases beautiful well designed V-card designs, as well as explaining what exactly a V-card design is and what makes a good V-card.

Hello, today I’ll show you how to draw a samurai in Illustrator using shapes, free time and desire … keep your force and soul balanced and let’s start!

Another great month compact with lots of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials worth getting teeth sunk into, as well as some web related articles which are a must read. I hope you enjoy the monthly round-up, and would love to hear your thoughts in comments section.

Create a Fantasy Space-Age Light Angel Scene

In this tutorial you will create a beautiful fantasy landscape of an angel playing in the cosmos.

You will learn how to manipulate simple stock images into a fantasy scene. You will learn skin retouching techniques, how to paint custom hair, blending, filtering and much more.

You’ll also apply a variety of custom lighting effects to create a bold, fantastic outcome:

Final Image

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

A burger, the king of fast foods! Who doesn’t like burgers? Everyone does! For those designers that are hungry a new tutorial, how to draw a burger in Adobe Illustrator.

jQuery notification plugins play an important role in enhancing the usability of a website.  There are so many awesome jQuery plugins out there and if you’re a beginner web developer you’ll find them very useful. Today we’ve listed 10 jQuery notification plugins and tutorials but if you want to learn more about jQuery you should definitely check out these 10 Great jQuery Pagination Plugins and Tutorials and  10 jQuery Animation Tutorials You Want To Read. Hope you’ll find them as helpful as we did!

Master Advanced Drawing in Photoshop by Creating an Old Alarm Clock From Scratch

Drawing in Photoshop can be a scary learning curve to start with. Beyond the basic shape tools there are a host of more complex features that can make the difference between an intermediate and an advanced user.

Today we’re going to explore some of these features and learn how to create a realistic alarm clock vector. This will be an entirely non-destructive process, that results in a clean, scalable vector outcome. Simply put, you’ll follow the workflow of a true professional and learn how to use Photoshop’s advanced drawing tools the right way.

Each step is carefully explained, so you should be able to follow along with ease.

Let’s get started!

Final Image

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

Ninite is a great website app which let you easily install multiple programs at once by opening one installer file which will download and run all the installer files which you picked to install for programs like Libreoffiice, VLC,  Google Chrome, and a bunch of other programs which you checked to download and install with Ninite.

Once you checked the sites which you want to install on your computer, you click the “Get Installer Button” at the bottom of the website, and open the installer file with Windows. There is also a version of Ninite for Linux, but it has fewer programs for Linux than Windows.

Creating the Elegant Photo Manipulation ‘Out of Reach’

Today you’ll learn some handy photo manipulation techniques if you’re just starting out.

This tutorial will teach you how to create a really beautiful outcome called ‘Out of Reach’ in a few simple, clear, straight forward steps.

You’ll master blending various images together, applying adjustment layers, working with masks, brushes, light effects and much more.

Let’s dive right in!

Final Image

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