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60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials & Resources

So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, textures, actions and .PSD downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next photoshop effect.

How to Create a Music Magazine Cover in InDesign

In this tutorial, we'll look at how to create a magazine cover in InDesign. You'll learn how to set up a page layout and add text. This is an introduction to InDesign and no previous knowledge is required. This is a simple project put together to help get you started with InDesign. Let's get to it!

Ralph Bakshi: Tips for Creatives on Thriving in Tough Times

Legendary animator Ralph Bakshi (of "Fritz the Cat" fame) thrived as an animator as the giants of the field like Disney were dying. Last year Bakshi gave an speech for animators on how to survive in tough times — but his insights can be applied to any creative professional or entrepreneur. And it all comes down to this: "Reinvent your Industry".

100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons

Want to increase your Twitter Followers? Here is a huge compilation of the Top 100 Twitter Icons And Buttons that you can use on on your site to promote your profile.......

20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)

Logos are everywhere. Because of this, only a few can rise among the noise -- and often it's the more unique logos that are most memorable. Sometimes to be unique, you've also got to be weird. In this post, we showcase twenty lovably strange logos that work.

Modern and Creative Bookshelf Designs (PICS)

Modern bookshelves and creative shelf designs from all over the world.

Google's New Year Logo - 2009

Google's New Year Logo - 2009

Why Mood Boards Matter

It has happened to everyone. You spend countless hours producing a beautiful, pixel-perfect comp only to have it rejected by the client because it isn’t what they were envisioning in their mind’s eye. It’s the dreaded “I’ll know it when I see it” curse.

Massive Aircraft Carrier made in LEGO, 200,000 bricks,350LB

Amazing aircraft carrier made in LEGO! It's a 200,000-brick, 350-pound aircraft carrier -- the Harry S Truman -- complete with electrical lights as well as moving elevators and radar dishes.

The 15 Most Twisted Photoshop Contest Entries - 2008

These Photoshop Contest entries weren't always the winners, and they weren't the most polished. But they were the ones that made me shake my head and wonder what the hell is wrong with you people.

The Best Worst Videogame Ads Ever

Sure, video game ads are (generally) a classy, expensive affair these days, but in previous days, things weren't so high-brow. They were dorky, they were cheap, they were low-brow.

70+ Resources for Adobe Fireworks

Resources for Adobe Fireworks seem to be few and far between, what is happening? Has Fireworks ran its course, or is it simply not cool any more? Was it ever cool? Photoshop was always the better and more powerful (definitely, harder to use), it seems to have totally taken over.

The Quest for the 300-m.p.h. Helicopter

This year marked the passing of Frank Piasecki, one of the pioneers of rotary aircraft. Piasecki was perhaps best known as the man who successfully developed the first tandem-rotor helicopter, paving the way for long-serving military aircraft like the CH-47 Chinook and the CH-46 Sea Knight.

Web Design Sketchbook

Clever sketchbook for designing websites and web apps from Hyper Interaktiv.

30 Unforgettable Christmas Advertisements Around the World

Now at the time of Christmas here’s a collection of 30 Unforgettable Christmas Advertisements from leading companies included are British Airways, HP, McDonalds, Mercedes-Benz, Pfizer, etc.

25 Stylish Website Footer Designs

Footers on web pages have evolved from being a simple section where you host your copyright information and additional links, to a multi-functional section where you can find a variety of site features such as twitter updates, a short bio of the author, and secondary navigation

40 Impressive Product Ads You Don’t See in Magazines

Check out some of the most Impressive Advertisements with Awesome Design & Color combination that you probably haven't seen before.

Create An Amazing Illustration Using Scraps [Photoshopped]

A stunning step by step tutorial on how to create a head made of scraps using Photoshop.

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008

Sometimes it's difficult to find the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines, especially since almost all tutorials label themselves as being the best. So in order to save your time Photoshop Lady has spent almost a whole year to bring you the best of the best. Here's the top 100 high-quality, most popular photoshop tutorials of 08

Designing Outside Your Comfort Zone

When you’ve been designing for a few years, it’s easy to fall into patterns. You carve out your personal style and find your inner voice. You figure out what you’re good at, and the world encourages you to play to those strengths.

Best Places to Find Multi-Monitor Wallpaper

Last week we asked you where you found wallpaper to customize multiple monitor setups. Most popular by a landslide, was Mandolux. The site has an extremely simple design, lacking even a search function. The newest wallpaper is displayed on the main page, all previous ones are available on the archive pages.

iStockfail [PIC]

Illustrate a Delicious Ice Cream Bar

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw an ice cream bar. Throughout this tutorial we'll have a look at various drawing techniques. We'll be creating everything within Photoshop from start to finish, except the font used. Let's jump into this tutorial.

19 Must-Have Collection Of Free Christmas Resources

Designers are also excited in this Christmas as well to come up with exclusive designs specially for Christmas.

40 Excellent Blog Designs

You'll find 40 beautiful blog designs for your inspiration.

Awesome Water Figures Photo Set

Some very cool high lens speed photos of colored water.

100 Websites With Outstanding Artistic Design [PICS]

In this post, we take a look at 50 websites that look really different from their peers and automatically captivate their audiences with their design of elaborate backgrounds, illustrations, and textures.

Black and White Fine-Tuning in Photoshop

A black-and-white photograph is all about the subtle matrix of tonal values that give shape and form to the image. Knowing how to precisely apply modifications to light and shadow is key to fine-tuning a black-and-white photo. Here are a few ways to shape and enhance the tonality of a black-and-white image with some quick and simple techniques.

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers

In this collection, you'll find 25 excellent Photoshop tutorials geared towards web designers. You'll find a variety of tutorials that include creating full web page templates, navigation menus, headers, and content boxes

Photoshop Disaster: Legs Akimbo [PIC]

...I think it may be all one organism.

34 Basic Tutorials To Get Started With Digital Photography

"Here’s a compilation of the best photography tips and tutorials found on the web. Starting with basics to make your first purchase, all the way to the inner workings of your camera."

DIY Fire Fighters Mod [pics]

Firefighters may like such mod for their home sound system made by Russian guys with the help of some old fire extinguishers.

60 Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

In this post, we present 60 beautiful Christmas Photoshop tutorials.

ASCII Art: Older Than The Internet

Newspaper clipping from 1948

10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs

Web design consists, for the most part, of interface design. There are many techniques involved in crafting beautiful and functional interfaces. Here’s my collection of 10 that I think you’ll find useful in your work. They’re not related to any particular theme, but are rather a collection of techniques I use in my own projects. Without further ado

Mastering Your WordPress 2.7 Theme & Admin Area

This post will highlight WordPress 2.7 HOW-TO get your theme working again by updating some settings and represent some of the best and significant features added to your Administration Panel.

21 Simple But Impressive Corporate Web Designs Of Top Brands

This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!

The Beauty Of Street Photography

Smashing Magazine celebrates the diversity and livelinesss of the world’s streets by presenting you 50 excellent examples of street photography, urban photography and photojournalism. There are links to the photographers’ websites and also some useful links to articles and tutorials at the bottom of the post.

Gmail Gets Its Own PDF Viewer; My Computer Applauds

Gmail has just added a solution to address this: its own viewer that lets you view PDFs in your Web browser. It’s blazing fast, includes a search feature, and lets you download or print the PDF if you really need to.