The 47 best Photoshop plugins
In this article we've lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe Creative Cloud's photo editing giant. Photoshop is an amazing tool – capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and very passable renders for 3D art. All this power offers a world of possibilities – but occasionally it's worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment. There's a plethora of plugins available for PS users, but we've selected the best of those that you can download and use straight away.
40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation
Since our last Photoshop tutorial, Photoshop Tutorials: Compilation of some stunning text effects, we got so much positive feedback that we decided to put together another collection of tutorials concentrating on photo manipulation. In this post, you’ll find everything from Pencil Sketching Effect to Creating A Slow Motion Bullet Shot Effect in Photoshop. Now the hard part will be deciding which of these amazing tutorials you will use in your next creations. Hope you enjoy! Creating an Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper There are plenty of ways to create a Watercolor Effect in Photoshop.
14 Free Mobile Application Development Icon Sets
The gap between the desktop/laptop and the mobile device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has never been a better time for mobile app development – The market is huge, very lucrative and highly profitable. Our ever growing appetite for more powerful and better mobile devices has pushed the demand even higher for ever more powerful and better applications to accompany them. The expectation on the apps UI design is just as demanding. The design has to not only be consistent with whichever mobile OS you are developing for, it also has to be distinctive enough to be unique. And yes, we do love a well designed app. In this post we are sharing 14 free mobile application development icon sets.
Top 5 UX and Usability Books you should have read by now
Information architecture, user experiences, good conversion, user-friendly interfaces – every designer should know about the best practices and introduce them effectively in his work. Newbies, however, can be quite scared of all this. How to approach UX design and delight your customers? These books are not collections of tutorials that will help you make the best interfaces. The book authors do not uncover ready-made solutions. But what they do is provoke you to reach your own conclusions, based on their research and personal experience.
Download the 75 best free fonts
In this freshly updated free fonts for designers post, we bring you the world's best free fonts. We've filtered out the diamonds from the thousands of less perfectly designed free fonts available online, for you to use in your designs and illustrations. Get Adobe Creative Cloud now
IAMC Video Library
Clay Kaytis is a director and animator, making his film directing debut for Rovio Animation with The Angry Birds Movie, based on the number one app of all time. Before Rovio, Kaytis developed his talent as a film maker at Walt Disney Animation Studios, starting as an intern in the Talent Development Program in 1994. Kaytis animated on hand-drawn films including Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, The Emperor’s New Groove and Treasure Planet. In 2004, Kaytis transitioned to CG animation to animate on Chicken Little and Meet the Robinsons. He was quickly promoted to Supervising Animator on Rhino, the hamster, in Bolt. For his work developing Rhino for the screen, Kaytis was awarded a U.S.
28 Incredible Photoshop Image Manipulation Techniques and Tutorials : Speckyboy Design Magazine
The photo manipulation tutorials that we have chosen for this post are all aimed towards beginner and intermediately skilled manipulators. So if you are a Photoshop expert, there is nothing here for you, move along please. We are also not going to pretend that these tutorials will make you a guru, mastering Photoshop is hard, really hard. What they will do is teach you some new photo editing techniques and allow you to discover some truly time-saving tips. Ultimately, with a little bit of work on your part they will all allow you to expand your skillset.
35 Free Vector Illustrations Sets
Today, we bring to you a collection of free vector illustration sets — all suitable for varied usages. So go ahead, download the ones you like (recommended: ALL OF THEM), and feel free to use them in your upcoming projects! Doodle Vector Handrawn Doodles Download Page →
20 Beautiful UI & UX Designer Portfolios For Inspiration
A modern world requires new rules and you just can’t be a successful graphic designer without a personal portfolio website. Even when it comes to mobile user interface or user experience, without the ability to showcase your skills, you will have a hard time acquiring clients. In that thought, we have collected a showcase of breathtaking UI & UX portfolios by a few talented designers and carefully chosen a few work examples that bring out their true genius.