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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... 72 Comments
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50 Photoshop Tutorials For Sky and Space Effects
Humans have always had an infatuation with the air above us and the space around our planet. With Adobe Photoshop we can create new images or enhance existing photos to include the sky and space as a... More... 86 Comments
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Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and JavaScript... More... Be the first to comment!
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Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon
Nowadays we can see icons everywhere, from a game console to web applications. Icons are getting more and more popular and play an important role, maybe the most important role in user interfaces.... More... 107 Comments
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Making of Fire Dragon
Tips about how the Fire Dragon Wallpaper was made. A Photoshop Tutorial. More... Be the first to comment!
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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Rainbows, Glows and Light Effects
Lighting effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows,... More... 117 Comments
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Adobe Photoshop Video Tutorials - Best Of
by Dirk Metzmacher The best thing about Photoshop video-tutorials is that they allow you to observe professionals just as if you were standing nearby and looking over their shoulders. You can see... More... 153 Comments
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Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads - Best of
Adobe Fireworks is the industry leader for prototyping and rapid site building. Some of you may not be aware of this, as you may be using Photoshop for each phase of web-site production. The articles,... More... 139 Comments
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Tutorial: Making a Grungy Business Card
There are many different ways to attack a business card design. Clean & corporate is always nice. This tutorial will walk you through setting up a vertical grungy business card template, front to... More... Be the first to comment!
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Illustrator Tutorial - Create a Colourful Abstract Wavy Ribbon
Chris Spooner shows you how to create a colourful abstract Ribbon Shape in Illustrator which can then be used as an element in your designs. More... Be the first to comment!
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Five web 2.0 CSS Menu Tutorials
This post is a compilation of the most visited posts on Antonio Lupetti’s Blog. It includes five CSS menu tutorials inspired to some Web 2.0 sites with round corners, scriptaculous and ajax... More... 1 Comment
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Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial
In this article I will explain step-by-step how I've designed an attractive character in one of our recent projects, namely for the company "Drunken Monkey Collectibles". I will review the entire... More... 84 Comments
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20 Free Tutorials to Create Your Own Flash Game
Flash is a very flexible tool for building games that are both entertaining and educational. Designerfolio presents a bunch of free tutorials for game development in Flash. More... Be the first to comment!
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Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of
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... More... 156 Comments
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