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Dec 02 2009

39 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials Creating Web Layouts

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I haven’t found really good this kind of list article so I created my own. As being designer myself, coding part usually is hardest part in web development process. But there are so many great tutorials teaching how to use simple XHTML and CSS to get amazing layouts and they offer You to see what’s really happening behind the scenes explaining every step. Learn how to use CSS, how to create layouts in the right way, forget about table-layouts and enjoy CSS real power and put these 43 PSD to ...
by lava360 in Freebies, Tutorials
Nov 29 2009

Amazing Retouching And Photo Enhancing Tutorials

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As graphic designers retouching photography is essential skill You need to master. You could talk about principles, but at least I started with simple photo editing on Photoshop, trying to take off red eyes, lumps and change backgrounds of pictures I was using. In this You’ll find everything You need – facial and portrait, teeth, lips, eye retouching, background remove as well as simple color adjustments in video and image-based tutorials In fact for color adjustments I would suggest You look for some premade actions available on deviantart, very handy ...
by lava360 in Artwork, Photography, Tutorials
Nov 16 2009

15 features of Google Wave

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Google Wave is "a personal communication and collaboration tool" announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, for example, spelling/grammar checking, automated translation among 40 languages, and numerous other extensions.
by lava360 in Gadgets, ShowCases, Tutorials
Nov 11 2009

List Of Highly Extensible: Photoshop Plugins

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Photoshop plugins are very powerful addons to Adobe Photoshop, which many people seem to forget. Plugins are small extensions to make Photoshop even more extensive while retouching photos, adding simple filter effects and more. I selected separate plugins and featured them, however there were also many huge collections of plugins, so it didn’t make sense to copy&paste massive loads of text and images – I just put screenshot and link to them in that case. Hope You’ll enjoy this one and feel free to add Your comment about Your favorites ...
by lava360 in Artwork, Graphics, Tutorials
Nov 11 2009

Exceptional Apophysis Tutorials

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Fractals are getting more and more favorite between designers and they've a beneficial intellect for it -on computer program* like Apophysis such fractal origination Is not boring process, just act with settings, variables, scripts  plugins and have marvelous results. . To get your attention this post will be inspirational so You could see what can be done with such small program just by testing and playing with settings. Here I present to You 33 exceptional apophysis free tutorials. Apophysis tutorial part separated in 3 parts for beginners, basic and advanced users. ...
by lava360 in Artwork, Tutorials
Nov 11 2009

Ajax Downloads Directory Ajax Free Scripts

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Ajax, sometimes written as AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML), is a group of interrelated web development techniques used to create interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Ajax, sometimes written as AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML), is a group of interrelated web development techniques used to create interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from ...
by lava360 in Freebies, Tutorials
Nov 10 2009

Fastest Way To Create Best Blog Post

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I’ve tested many different ways and weblog clients to create blog posts more effectively, but know I seem to find the best way and I wanted to share it with You. Maybe technique will seem very simple to experienced bloggers, but at least for me it was something I wasn’t aware at start and found out just by testing. At first I would suggest to use any desktop editing program, because coding article by hand in my opinion takes too much effort, which is not worth it really. I have been ...
by lava360 in Gadgets, Inspiration, Tutorials
Nov 09 2009

35+ Useful Web Design Tools

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There are lots of web design tools available on internet, which will help you accomplish your tasks easily and quickly, and still more are coming. Every designer now has his/her own toolbox. I will try to make such toolbox for you too. I have collected 35 useful web design tools and if you know more feel free to add in the comments.   This article will showcase tools which should and could be used by designers daily. If you need some inspiration – you can visit the ...
by lava360 in Artwork, Freebies, ShowCases, Tutorials
Nov 06 2009

Create Apple iPod Nano In Photoshop

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Learn how to paint / recreate an object in Photoshop from an existing photo. This is a great exercise for working on your layer structure and pen tool skills. Breaking down the object and being able to separate and place in the correct order is what will take your artwork to a whole new level
by lava360 in Graphics, ShowCases, Tutorials
Nov 05 2009

99 High Quality CSS And XHTML Free Templates And Layouts: Part 1

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If You have been following to latest articles, I compiled 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials article some time ago. This should be considered as next step to web development process. There are a lot of really professional and high quality XHTML, CSS templates available for free – if You are familiar with coding, You can learn many new techniques just by studying code. Those templates are free for charge, however don’t forget to check license from each one of them before using. Don’t forget that You don’t need to ...
by lava360 in Artwork, Freebies, Random, Tutorials
Nov 05 2009

6 Steps to Building a Better iPhone App

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Brian LeRoux is Nitobi’s Software Architect, and is involved in shepherding the PhoneGap open source project. You can read his blog, or find him on Twitter. Thanks to increasingly powerful devices and cheaper data plans, the mobile app space is growing faster every year. Apple has been at the forefront of that growth with the iPhone, by both partnering with telecom companies to provide near-unlimited web access, and redefining application distribution with the App Store (App Store), which created a new industry and market for smartphone applications
by lava360 in Random, Tutorials
Nov 05 2009

Promote Your Blog in 15 Ways

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Promoting blog site is a skill. In fact, it takes time for someone to learn and understand about blog promotion, especially if you are a beginner. But, why do we need to promote blog? Well, one of the main reasons is to drive traffic to your site! Indirectly, you can increase revenue with high traffic that is being driven to your site. Hence, creating awareness about your blog site is truly an important to-do task for all blogging webmasters. There is a reason why search engines, particularly Yahoo! and somewhat Google, ...
by lava360 in Random, Tutorials
Oct 30 2009

Sneak peek of New Adobe Photoshop CS5 Technologies

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You can still be among the first to see a sneak peek of technologies from Adobe Photoshop Labs. What new Adobe Photoshop CS5 capabilities would to YOU like to see in the future? The new brush tools aim to match that found within Corel’s Painter application. The video shows ‘wet’ paints being smudged, smeared and blended. It also shows an on-screen representation of the 3D properties of a brush, showing how it has been twisted to lay down different stroke types. A similar system After Effects’ Puppet tool has been added ...
by lava360 in Graphics, Inspiration, ShowCases, Tutorials