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5 Simple Tricks To Bring Light and Shadow Into Your Designs

From Rob Morris
April 20th, 2009
112 Comments

There’s just no escaping light and shadow — it’s everywhere you look. Everything you see reflects light and casts some sort of shadow. Visually, light and shadow help us make sense of what we see and help us understand texture, dimension and perspective. So, as we try to make our designs ...

Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop

From Blair Mathis
April 3rd, 2009
229 Comments

GIMP is the favorite graphics editing program of many designers and graphic artists. It is free and compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux (the two big reasons for its popularity). It has a wide array of features, as well as plug-ins, filters and brushes. Documentation is primarily available in online ...

10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques

From Mark Praschan
April 2nd, 2009
82 Comments

Complex design techniques are often time-consuming and, well, complex. Some of these advanced effects can add plenty of depth to designs, but when used in the wrong place, they do little more than distract viewers from the project’s intended focus. These effects may be precisely what a design needs to ...

50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography

From Vailancio Rodrigues
November 16th, 2008
145 Comments

Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model. Below, we present 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography. All examples are linked to their sources. We strongly encourage you to ...

Image Caption Design: Techniques and Trends

From Cameron Chapman
November 4th, 2008
24 Comments

Image captions are an often-overlooked element of Web design. They’re often thought of more in terms of function than form. As long as they include the proper photo credits or identifying information about the image subject, not much more thought is given to them. But image captions are a great place ...

40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

From Glen Stansberry
September 25th, 2008
74 Comments

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 scene can be a nice effect because water is a very compelling element. As you’ll ...

45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

From Vailancio Rodrigues
August 24th, 2008
164 Comments

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 camera’s shutter speed. In motion blur, any object moving with respect to the camera will ...

Getting Creative With Transparency in Web Design

From Sean Hodge
April 16th, 2008
61 Comments

Arm yourself with the knowledge of how different file types of images can be used to achieve transparency on web-pages. It’s important to first understand these basics. Then learn how to push the limitations of browser support. Take a look at what others are doing with transparency on the Web; ...

Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques

From Sean Hodge
March 26th, 2008
42 Comments

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 predictable patterns for users to follow. From designer’s point of view they allow for an organized methodology for planning ...

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