Posts Tagged ‘Graphics’
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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2011
- June 30th, 2011
- 151 Comments
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the ...
Read more...Eye-Candy For The Weekend: Particle Animation Music Videos
- September 12th, 2010
- 24 Comments
Just like a couple of weeks ago, this weekend again we’ve got something unusual and creative to lift up your spirits and challenge your creativity over a lousy Sunday. Particle animation is a beautiful concept from motion graphics. Using specialized software, you can simulate the movements of particles depending on ...
Read more...Graphics Package Standards and Practices
- March 14th, 2010
- 1 Comment
The term “graphics package” stands for the animated logos, text backgrounds, idents, screen bugs and lower thirds that make up the branding of a television show, television station or documentary. The are used to re-affirm what the viewer is watching. Especially with the growing number of reality and web ...
Read more...Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design
- January 7th, 2010
- 75 Comments
It’s always nice to go to a bookstore, grab a book of logo designs, sit down, inhale that new-book smell and absorb the goodness. But knowing where all of these designs, fonts and creative elements have come from is also good. In this article, we look at modern art movements ...
Read more...Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set
- December 8th, 2009
- 65 Comments
Christmas is coming and, of course, it’s just the right time to provide you with some nice freebies to fresh up your designs. To celebrate the holidays, our friends from IconEden designed “Smashing Christmas”, a free icon set, dedicated to the design community and released especially for Smashing Magazine’s readers. ...
Read more...Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: November 2009
- October 31st, 2009
- 154 Comments
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a ...
Read more...Clever PNG Optimization Techniques
- July 15th, 2009
- 172 Comments
As a web designer you might be already familiar with the PNG image format which offers a full-featured transparency. It’s a lossless, robust, very good replacement of the elder GIF image format. As a Photoshop (or any other image editor) user you might think that there is not that many ...
Read more...Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques
- July 1st, 2009
- 129 Comments
When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such as OptiPNG and jpegtran, manage to squeeze extra bytes out of image files. ...
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