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40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Designers. Whether you need to learn something quickly or need a quick refresher on how to do certain tasks, cheat sheets allow you to do either one with relative ease. Print them out and decorate your workspace or save/bookmark them for later use, whichever way suits you best. In this collection, you’ll find 40+ of the best cheat for graphic designers for either the Mac or the Windows operating systems. You’ll find cheat sheets for popular graphic design applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. These cheat sheets available in various formats including PDF, PNG, and web-based (HTML) formats. Photoshop and Photoshop Elements cheat sheets Adobe Photoshop Shortcuts Photoshop Quick Reference Card (Mac, Windows) Black & White Cheatsheet For Photoshop Adobe® Photoshop® CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts (Mac, Windows) Photoshop Secret Shortcuts Adobe Photoshop Cheat Sheet Adobe Photoshop Elements Cheat Sheet Photoshop Elements 5 Photoshop Toolbox Reference Adobe CS4 Help Illustrator cheat sheets I.D.E.A.S.

HOW TO: Make Your QR Codes More Beautiful. Hamilton Chan is CEO and founder of Paperlinks. With the free Paperlinks iPhone app, featured previously by Apple as the #1 New & Noteworthy app, consumers can scan and view QR code content with a native app experience. Paperlinks also provides a powerful platform for generating QR codes, hosting content and tracking their performance. The QR code: A thing of beauty or an eyesore? The magical barcodes that can be scanned by a smartphone to launch an offline-to-online experience are often criticized for their black and white checkerbox appearance.

Those who doubt that QR codes will go mainstream are quick to point out that the look of QR codes will deter marketers and advertisers from using them. Fortunately, QR codes are malleable and can be redesigned in truly extraordinary ways, while still maintaining their scanability. 1. The easiest way to add branding power to your code is to add color to it. 2.

One of the QR code’s greatest aesthetic flaws is its numerous hard edges. 3. 4. QR Codes: How To Create Your Own. Online Web Tutorials. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008 | Video Lectures. Hacker News | Ask YC: Best way to learn CSS/UI design? W3Schools Online Web Tutorials. 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.1. Powerpoint has produced more bad design in its day that perhaps any other digital tool in history with the possible exception of Microsoft paint. In this post we’re going to address the epidemic of bad presentation design with ten super practical tips for designer better looking and more professional presentations.

Along the way we’ll see a number of awesome slide designs from Note & Point along with some custom examples built by yours truly. Let’s get started! Also be sure to check out 10 Tips for Designing Presentations That Don’t Suck: Pt.2! Not a Designer? Most of the content on this site is targeted specifically towards professional designers and developers, or at the very least those interested in getting started in this field. You’ve chosen a visual tool to communicate and should therefore take the time to learn a thing or two about visual communications. Follow the ten tips below and see if you don’t start getting comments about your awesome presentation design skills.

Kuler Piknik. Top 10 Git Tutorials for Beginners. Tutorials. Making A Cool Login System With PHP, MySQL & jQuery. Martin Angelov Introduction Today we are making a cool & simple login / registration system. It will give you the ability to easily create a member-only area on your site and provide an easy registration process. It is going to be PHP driven and store all the registrations into a MySQL database. To add the needed flair, we are using the amazing sliding jQuery panel, developed by Web-kreation.

Step 1 – MySQL First we have to create the table that will hold all the registrations. Table.sql CREATE TABLE `tz_members` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `usr` varchar(32) collate utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL default '', `pass` varchar(32) collate utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL default '', `email` varchar(255) collate utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL default '', `regIP` varchar(15) collate utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL default '', `dt` datetime NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', PRIMARY KEY (`id`), UNIQUE KEY `usr` (`usr`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci; Step 2 – XHTML demo.php demo.css.

Beginners Guide to Flash. PSD/HTML Conversion: Code a Clean Business Website Design. In this PSD/HTML conversion tutorial, we will take a PSD web design template that I showed you how to construct in a previous tutorial and turn it into a functional HTML/CSS template. This is the second part of a tutorial on building a clean business website.

This second part will focus on converting and coding the PSD mock-up we created in the first part. "Clean Business Website" Series Final Result: Live Demo Here’s the template that we’re looking to create. Live Demonstration of the Final HTML/CSS template Before Starting Make sure that you have the Photoshop file (PSD) that we produced in the first tutorial — you’ll need this to extract the images that we’ll be including in the template.

If you haven’t completed the Part 1 tutorial yet, then I’d advise you to go through that first tutorial before starting this one (or at least download the PSD file from that first tutorial). Creating the File Structure 1 Create a new empty folder on your desktop called "template" (or whatever you prefer). <! 70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website. This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout you’ll learn how to make this sleek layout with a carbon fiber background that would look great as a landing page for a website. 2) Design Studio Layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for your design studio website. 3) Create a web 2.0 layout in photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a very fancy “Web 2.0″ website layout in Adobe Photoshop using beginners skills. 4) Watercolored design studio blog layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. 5) Corporate Business Layout 6) How to create a worn paper layout 7) Arhitecture layout.

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