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  40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

  With fall just around the corner, designers are looking for ways to complement their work with Fall imagery like water droplets, rain on leaves and fall rain showers. Including rain or water drops in a... More... 80 Comments

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  45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

  Photos taken with a camera do not represent a single moment of time. Due to technological constraints these shots stand for some scene over a brief period of time. This time frame depends on the... More... 222 Comments

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  70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

  Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced... More... 268 Comments

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  5 Pixel Popping Techniques

  David Leggett shares 5 Pixel Popping Techniques for Adobe Photoshop. Among them the 2 pixel divide effect, the pixel shadow and the shadow highlight. More... Be the first to comment!

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  Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

  Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project's layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code years... More... 133 Comments

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  Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques

  Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing and presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience by creating... More... 81 Comments

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  50 Designers x 6 Questions

  Some months ago we’ve selected 50 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows... More... 107 Comments

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  80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding

  Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we've used to give up the idea of. Modern... More... 378 Comments

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  40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS

  Web users love informative clues. Whatever questions and misunderstandings might occur - delivering precise answers immediately is the primary task a responsive user interface should be able to cope... More... 196 Comments

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  70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding

  CSS isn't always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren't sure which selectors are actually being applied... More... 388 Comments

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  Microformats: What They Are and How To Use Them

  Web 2.0 has its positive and its negative sides. Apart from tremendous technological improvements, provided by Ajax, semantically organized content and the growing popularity of RSS-Feeds, the term "Web... More... 65 Comments

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  Designing With Grid-Based Approach

  The main idea behind grid-based designs is a solid visual and structural balance of web-sites you can create with them. Sophisticated layout structures offer more flexibility and enhance the visual... More... 165 Comments

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  CSS-Based Navigation Menus: Modern Solutions

  Navigation menus have to be intuitive, precise and easy-to-use. One simple, basic principle, which is common for all kinds of nav bars you would ever want to use for your projects. In fact, navigation... More... 225 Comments

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  Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

  As a vector-based drawing program Adobe Illustrator has nowadays become the standard for illustration design. This tendency can be noticed in the Web as well as in Print Design. Few weeks ago we've... More... 113 Comments

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