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Drupal Video Podcast. Screenr | Instant screencasts: Just click record. 35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement By Jacob Gube With the recent post on retro and vintage in modern web design1, it’s time to put the theory into practice. We’ve scoured the Web to find some impressive Photoshop tutorials that can help you achieve an "old-fashioned" look-and-feel in your designs.

In this post, we go back to the 1900’s all theway to the 1980’s to showcase a variety of vintage- and retro-inspired designs that involve poster art, collages and graphical elements. Whether you’re into print design or web design, you’ll find something you can use or build upon. You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Without further ado, we present 35 high-quality vintage and retro Adobe Photoshop tutorials that may help your design… well, travel back in time. Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials Colorization Tutorial7This short tutorial showcases a method for colorizing a black and white photo to achieve an aged, vintage look. 3D Retro Strip71Use the Pen Tool to create 3-dimensional retro strips.

80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look. Photoshop actions are great. With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a photo instantly. One of the most popular type of actions is the vintage or retro style. With the popularity of vintage-inspired Instagram filters and film emulation, the older style is desired with many photos. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality Photoshop actions that will help you to get vintage effects quickly and easily. In this article, I’ve rounded up over eighty Photoshop actions that will add very cool vintage or retro effects to your photos. Instagram Filters (13 actions) Lomocam (10 actions) Lomo Action Hard Lomo Action Holgarizer Vintage Light Leak Action Vintage Heaven Action Vintage Dream Action Retro Cross Action Vintage Matte Action Faded Film Action Old Film Action Retro Style Actions (10 actions) Instant Hipster (10 actions) Prestalgia (10 actions) Vintage Gold Action Aged Black & White Action Glory Days Vintage Actions (7 actions) Muted Colors Vintage Action Old Tones (6 actions)

Photoshop vintage effect. Back in October I took this photo, in front of our house. A cool scene, bright colors and a double rainbow. After seeing this picture on my Flickr page, I received an e-mail from Marco who asked me about the post process of this image. Now here is my answer… Choose your image carefully First of all I need to mention that some pictures are better suitable than others. It's a good thing to experiment a lot and find out if the result is to your liking.

Add contrast and saturation Place the image in a separate layer. Adjust curves Add another adjustement layer. Select Green from the Channel dropdown menu and adjust the curve as shown in the image above. Now select Blue from the Channel dropdown menu and adjust the curve as shown in the image above. Add Vignette effect Select the layer with your photo and go to the Filter menu and select "Convert for Smart Filters". Now go to the Filter menu and select Distort > Lens Correction. Add some Colorisation The final touch Before and after. Overview of the Page Manager Series. A circular menu with circular sub menus. Date : 10th November 2008 For all modern browsers Information A follow on from the simple single level circular menu, this one adds a sub menu level of smaller icons in a circular pattern within the top level circle.

There is also the facility to add a simple description of each icon. Tested in IE6, IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari (PC) and Google Chrome. The icons are taken from the Milky set. If you want a zip file of this menu then please email me, but check the requirements in the copyright information below. Copyright Because of all the time and effort spent in producing this demonstration I would ask that you respect my copyright. Terms and Conditions This demonstration can be used subject to the following terms and conditions. Sliding JavaScript Dropdown Menu.

This script has been replaced by a new with multi-level support here. This lightweight JavaScript drop down menu script (~1.6kb) allows you to easily add smooth transitioning dropdowns to your website. This can be used for navigation, dropdown lists, info panels, etc. The script has been tested working in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Opera and Safari. The markup for the menu including the mouse events looks like the following. You can have as many dropdowns on one page as you like. Just be sure and have a unique naming scheme for each menu (i.e. one-ddheader, two-ddheader, etc). The “look and feel” is fully customizable though the CSS and you can replace the unordered list with any content you like if you are not looking for a menu. This script has been tested in all major browsers and is available free of charge for both personal or commercial projects under the creative commons license. Click here for the demo. Click here to download the source. By Request: Slideup version demo. 25 jQuery Drop Down Menu Scripts.

Create a Fancy Search Box using CSS. Nowadays, most websites come with a search box to improve surfing experience. To make your website looks good, beside having a nice looking theme, you would need a fancy search box to replace the classic ones. Let’s start 1. Design your own search box In this example, I will use this as my search box. 2. Make sure the background color outside the search box is the same as your design. Result: 3. The picture above explained all. 4. Replace the “THE_BLANK_SUBMIT_BUTTON_IMAGE” with the image at step 3. 5.

Basically what’s going on :#searchwrapper wrap the whole search box, carrying the whole search box image as its background image..searchbox is the text area to enter search keyword, given a transparent background and no border..searchbox_submit is the submit button, also given a transparent background and no border. NOTE: Both .searchbox and .searchbox_submit have been given an absolute position, you should modify their position, width and height according to your own search box. That’s it. 38 jQuery And CSS Drop Down Multi Level Menu Solutions. Hello again, it’s time for the comprehensive programming article. Here you’ll find 38 mainly CSS and jQuery dropdown menu or just multi level menus with downloadable files and explanations as well. Mostly they are free. My favorite here is the first pick – Outside the box with a very unique navigation menu (free) and Mega Menu, which is premium. It’s always good to have such reference articles in your bookmarks and when you have to create some really big website with a lot of content and menu sections – just return here.

Oh..and little tip – shorten your developing process with already premade menus, which can be easily modified with a little touch of CSS. Table of Contents: Are The Best jQuery Dropdown Menu Solutions Free? But well, also be aware when each code has been created, has it got some updates through time? At least I am doing my designing process like this – What has been your experience? And while you are figuring answers – enjoy this quality article! Wait but before..here is.. 1. Adding a jQuery Image Carousel to your Node View | Eric London's Drupal Blog. The JavaScript Source: CSS : Style Sheets by Resolution 2. Benbarnett/jQuery-Animate-Enhanced. Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers. Advertisement Everyone who is a regular Smashing Magazine reader will know that we have a traditional habit of regularly researching the latest resources, tools and services out there on the Web, as productivity is a crucial asset of professional Web designers and developers.

We could, and should, all integrate workflow optimization into our working practices. Perhaps we should warn you upfront for the long compilation, but what can we say — there are so many excellent tools out there which deserve attention of the community, yet unfortunately remain obscure way too often. We love all the designers and developers out there for releasing and producing useful, valuable resources for all of us to use! We, for one, surely sincerely appreciate it in the name of the Web design community. Whether you like it or not, here are some of the most useful coding and workflow tools released recently.

Useful Coding and Workflow Tools DropKick.jsA custom drop-down jQuery plugin which degrades gracefully. Ad Unit Guidelines. Animation Using CSS Transforms < CSS. Tweet363 Shares Share0 Tweets37 Comments The examples on this page will work now in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer 10. In older browsers you will see either no effects, or the transforms taking place without any animation. The animations presented below involve setting up a transformation to take place in response to a mouseover or other event. Then, rather than applying the effect instantly, we assign a transition timing function which causes the transformation to take place incrementally over a set time period. There are also other kinds of animation available, including @keyframes for perpetual motion, and requestAnimationFrame which gives complete control over the timing and path.

Firefox and Opera now support these transforms with an almost identical syntax - just replace -webkit- with -moz- or -o- in the examples below. Internet Explorer 10 supports transitions with no prefix. To support all modern browsers, the following styles should be used for transitions: HTML and CSS Tutorials, References, and Articles. jQuery Animations with automatic CSS3 transitions when possible. 80 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials For Creating Awesome Websites | Cre. A sweet collection of high quality web design tutorials, which will enable a novice to a professional designer the skills in order to be capable of using Photoshop in order to create professional website. The post is great reference point for designers learning how to use Photoshop in order to construct a website simply because the post consists of the best tutorials all in one place.

I hope you enjoy the post. Feel free to leave a comment to share your thoughts upon the article and your favourite tutorial. 1. Beautiful Music Streaming Website Design in Photoshop In this tutorial you will learn how to create a beautiful and clean music streaming website in Photoshop. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. 2. Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.