Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials | Web Design Tutorials, Photoshop Tutorials, HTML5/CSS3 Tutorials Text is about the most important thing in your designs. Especially if you’re designing a website – in this case text elements will be that crucial something that will be delivering your brand message and eventually will impact your sales (or whatever other goal you may have). Internet these days is jam packed with awesome Photoshop text effect tutorials, and today we’re bringing you the first portion of the most spectacular ones. Regardless whether you’re a Photoshop professional or just a rookie, this collection of text effect tutorials for Photoshop will definitely be of great use for you, at least as a perfect source of inspiration. Funny Wooden Type Treatment in Photoshop Cloudy Text in Photoshop Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop Realistic Water Text Effect Tutorial Realistic Weedy Text Effect in Photoshop Eroded Metal Text With Photoshop Metal 3D Text in Photoshop Vanity License Plate Retro Text Effect in Photoshop Patriotic Text Using Displacement Masks Ice Text Effect with Photoshop
OverAPI.com | Collecting all the cheat sheets Interaction design and rapid prototyping with Fireworks In the following four short video presentations, I demonstrate how to use Adobe Fireworks CS4 for information and interaction design and creating interactive prototypes quickly, and how you can use Fireworks as a design tool that fits into your complete design process, from concept to development. Before creating an interactive prototype, you need to create effective wireframes that define the structure and organization of each page and include representative content. Fireworks CS4 allows you to build all of your pages in a single document by creating structured layout patterns with grids and guides. Fireworks includes reusable symbols for common user interface components, too—such as buttons, check boxes, and combo-boxes—so you can focus on crafting strong designs rather than drawing and recreating individual interface components every time. The design tools in Adobe Creative Suite 4 work well together for the entire design process.
CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites Dec 18 2009 By Tim Wright and TJ Kelly CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. It’s simple, powerful, and easy to use. All designers at some point in their career go through the process of encountering a weird display issue, searching for a resolution, and discovering a trick, technique, or hack could have saved them hours of frustration—if they had only known when they started. We’ve put together a list of the most frustrating and time-consuming CSS headaches and, more importantly, their solutions (along with examples and further resources). Resets & Browser Inconsistencies Not all browsers are created equal. The early stages of resets, designers dealt with differing margin and padding values, using a global reset: But, as more people used and discussed resets, it became clear that resetting only margin & padding wasn’t enough (and, applying the above rule to every element is taxing on the rendering engine). inputbuttonhr Resources for Resets Extras Floats & Clearing
The Ultimate Dropbox Toolkit & Guide Dropbox, the app we all (at least many of us) know and love, has a plethora of advanced uses to make life so much easier in managing data between multiple computers and online. We’ve posted several roundups of tips and tricks for Dropbox and now we present our ultimate toolkit and guide. We’ve pulled all our tips and tricks together and added quite a few more. Dropbox? Not familiar with Dropbox? Is Dropbox a web app? Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. Dropbox Tour The secondary component of Dropbox is the web app. So what else can you do with Dropbox? Tips & Tricks Dropbox seems to have an ever growing list of fun things you can do with the app, so instead of scrolling through one massive list to find something that interests you, use the list below to skip straight to the section you’d like to read. Basic Tips List Advanced Tips List Basic Tips Invite Others to Get Free Space — [tips list] Invite Friends Local Area Network Sync — [tips list] LAN Sync Mac
Make Photoshop Faster: 2 little tips to help speed up the tool web designers love to hate. Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for the web I'm using my ported version of Hiccup [1] to ClojureScript for a while now and share most of my templates between Clojure on the server, and ClojureScript on the client side with good sucess. It can sometimes get a little bit hairy to share code between the 2 platforms, but I hope something like Common Lisp's feature expressions [2] will make it into Clojure and ClojureScript soon. When this arrives, life will be a lot better ... Just for fun, I benchmarked my Hiccup port against the other candidates. Compilation Mode: Whitespace {:crate 7.076333333333333, :jquery 1.4643333333333333, :dommy 2.1186666666666665, :hiccup-str 1.985, :hiccup-node 2.3476666666666666} Running Hiccup and Dommy in advanced mode get's the time towards unoptimized jQuery. Compilation Mode: Advanced (Crate and jQuery don't run in advanced mode) {:dommy 1.3436666666666666, :hiccup-str 1.0293333333333334, :hiccup-node 1.3506666666666665} I can only agree.
Design Learning Guide for Fireworks Adobe Fireworks is a powerful web design and prototyping tool that provides robust features to create, edit, and optimize your artwork for delivery in a wide variety of file formats. This Design Learning Guide for Fireworks covers everything you need to know to import, scale, align, edit, slice, and export high-quality graphic files. Read how the new integration features allow you to work seamlessly with the other tools in Adobe Creative Suite, facilitating a smooth workflow with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Adobe Flash. Learn how Live Filters make it easy to add graphic effects to vector and bitmap objects. Find out how to design web layouts faster than ever before using specialized tools, such as 9-slice scaling, tooltips, and Smart Guides. Note: This learning guide introduces core concepts of Fireworks, and provides you with tools for developing your skills. Explore the sections below to dive into whatever topic interests you.
CSS Rounded Corners In All Browsers (With No Images) In the past two years, increased browser support has transformed CSS3 from a fringe activity for Safari geeks to a viable option for enterprise level websites. While cross-browser support is often too weak for CSS3 to hold up a site’s main design, front-end developers commonly look to CSS3 solutions for progressive enhancement in their sites. For instance, a developer might add a drop-shadow in Firefox, Safari and Chrome using -moz-box-shadow and -webkit-box-shadow, and then be comfortable with this design enhancement falling off for IE users. But wouldn’t it be great if IE users could see the better version of the page? Fortunately there are cross-browser hacks for the more common CSS3 attributes. These hacks not only allow CSS3 attributes to work in all browsers, but in turn allow designers and developers to use CSS3 in the central styling of their sites. In this article we’ll walk through getting rounded corners working in all browsers. The easy part – Firefox, Safari & Chrome
Boxee - Make a Boxee Create a realistic folded paper text in Photoshop Today we will learn how to realize a folded paper text effect from scratch in Photoshop. We will firstly create the background using a couple of patterns, then we will work on the type treatment with the help of the pen tool, layer masks and other useful techniques related to dodge,burn and the transform tool. This tutorial is very simple to follow, so I suggest to everyone to give a try. Preview: Click to enlarge Become a Premium Member and get unlimited access to source files and premium resources for only 7$/month. Step 1 Create a new document in Photoshop. *note for Mac users: ctrl=cmd, alt=option Step 2 Fill the background with a dark green (#41514c). Step 3 To create the textured effect of the background, I’ve used 2 of our soft grunge patterns created by Piervincenzo. Select the pattern2_380_hard and press ok to fill the background. Finally set the layer to overlay with opacity 50%. Step 4 Create another layer, this time fill it with pattern_9_380_hard. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10
Semantic Web W3C's Semantic Web logo The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by international standards body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[1] The standard promotes common data formats on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web, dominated by unstructured and semi-structured documents into a "web of data". The Semantic Web stack builds on the W3C's Resource Description Framework (RDF).[2] According to the W3C, "The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. While its critics have questioned its feasibility, proponents argue that applications in industry, biology and human sciences research have already proven the validity of the original concept. History[edit] The concept of the Semantic Network Model was formed in the early 1960s by the cognitive scientist Allan M. Purpose[edit] Web 3.0[edit] [edit]
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced Create an adaptable website layout with CSS3 media queries Getting started Creating the default layout The first step of this tutorial is obviously to create a HTML page. I chose to make a simple HTML5 page with only a header image, a title, and some text. Copy the following code and paste it into a file named index.html. <! Once done, we have to add a stylesheet to our index.html page. Right now, if you look to your index.html page through your web browser, you’ll see something like the screenshot below. Using CSS3 media queries to make our layout fit in all screen resolutions If you had a look to your index.html page with a screen resolution bigger than 800*600, you might find the layout is really small. This is what CSS3 media queries can do for you. Now, have a look at index.html again: The layout is indeed bigger. As you can see, there’s nothing complicated at all in implementing this technique. Now that we created a bigger version for bigger screens, what about a very small version for mobiles? Dealing with images Limitations Guess what?