Web 2.0 can be beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you are planning on designing a web 2.0-project, you probably should know how and where to start from. Badges, Gradients, Mirror and Shadow Effects as well as Shiny and Glassy buttons are trendy. But do you know exactly how to design them?
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Graphics, Web dev
badges, Button, Effect, layout, web 2.0
Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of paper into lively and colorful digital images.
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Graphics
Adobe, Illustrator, Tutorials
Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A complex interface can disorient the user in a mild case and completely alienate them in an extreme case. But if you take measures first to reduce actual complexity and then to minimize perceived complexity, the user will be rewarded with a gratifying experience.
We recently faced this very challenge while designing two Web-based applications, including an enterprise-level content management system. What follows are several techniques that have helped us streamline complex applications into lightweight user experiences.
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Graphics, Web dev
Complexity, User Interface
At least five new Wordpress themes are introduced everyday on this free Net and that gives us a few good thousands of free Wordpress themes floating around the internet. Have you ever wondered which amongst are all time most downloaded themes? You will be surprised they are not as nice as you expected them to be, but check out this fact – The #1 most downloaded theme I’ve compiled here have got 47,000+ (and counting) downloads and #49 still maintain 6500+ (and counting) downloads. They are not overrated, I believe they are few of the best when they were firstly introduced and as time goes, they still pickup some downloads here and there.
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Graphics, Wordpress
Downloaded, Most, Themes, Wordpress
Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs use realistic motifs from everyday life, such as hand-drawn elements, script fonts, pins, paper clips, organic textures and scrapbooks. That’s not a big surprise as they serve the function that faceless, shiny, glassy 3D-buttons completely fail to deliver: individuality and personality. “Personal” designs appear more familiar and more friendly. Used properly, such elements can give a human touch to design and communicate the content in a truly distinctive manner.
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Graphics, Web dev
Creative, design, Layouts
Street culture and graffiti are well-known for being provocative, appealing, bold and uncompromising. Originally used by gangs to mark their territory in some urban area, graffitis have now become a rich medium for unrestricted expression of ideas and statements. In fact, creative designers and artists across the globe use this form of art to deliver their message and showcase their work.
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Graphics
Artworks, Beautiful, Graffiti, Tribute
Retouching images is an inevitable part with photoshoppers. In this tutorial I will show you some common techniques and take you through the entire process, simple to understand!
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Graphics
lady, photoshop, Retouch
We all know Photoshop is a very powerful tool to create spectacular effects, however, the software requires you spend much time to grasp. Maybe one of the ways mastering Photoshop is to read tutorials on the web. So, this article presents you some of the best Photoshop tutorials for Effect we have founded so far. Most of them are step-by-step tutorials and show you how to use common tools in Photoshop for best results.
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Graphics
Best, Effect, photoshop, Tutorials
This tutorial will show you how to use lighting effect to emphasize her face, skin and hair. Before that, some nice tips for retouching will be mentioned
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Graphics
Girl, Lighting Focus, Retouch
Lighting effect is very impressive and interesting. So in this tutorial we are going to bring some sunlight to a cloudy day. Read on to find out how, step by step
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Graphics
Best, Photo, photoshop, Sunlight
