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The Elements of Retro Web Design

The Elements of Retro Web Design
The vintage and retro style is becoming more and more popular in today’s digital artwork. The use of retro and vintage themes in design is probably one of the most pervasive trends since the industry went almost completely digital. In today’s post, we’ll look at examples of work sourced from the wonderful Dribbble, which helps us focus on snippets of a piece, rather than the entire design or illustration. From here, it’s possible to identify what techniques have been used and to describe how they impact the overall design. To help you, short tutorials are scattered throughout the article. 1. Simple shapes are commonly used in vintage design. p This lovely illustration makes use of elliptical shapes to produce a sun and is finished off nicely with a typographic effect. Circlebox Creative’s branding is based on a circle and inspired by vintage ink stamps and badges. This design is a bit different because it relies heavily on simple shapes to make it pop. Mini-Tutorials And we’re done! 2. 3. 4.

978 Grid System for Web Design CSS Quick Tip: CSS Arrows and Shapes Without Markup Nate Cavanaugh is the Director of User Interface Engineering for Liferay Inc., in which he helps guide not only the interface for end user products, but also the interface for different development methodologies. Nate currently heads up Liferay’s AlloyUI project, which is built on top of YUI3. With an extensive history in UI design and development, he is constantly looking for ways to simplify the user and developer experience alike. While responsible day-to-day for everything from UI design and Javascript development to Java integration and code refactoring, in his off time he enjoys drawing, reading, watching movies and hanging out with his wife and two dogs. He sporadically tweets under the guise of @natecavanaugh. Often it’s useful to show an arrow or some sort of contextual indication of what element something is related to. Today I’m going to show you a way to add in these visual hints without having to create any markup. I’ll quickly cover the concept of what we’ll be doing.

Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Let's import another image, now of a girl opening the curtains. Step 3 With the Lasso Tool (L) or the Pen Tool (P) select the empty white. Step 5 Now select the hands/arms of the girl and the curtains. Step 6 Move the brick wall layer so it will be in front of the girl layer. Step 7 Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Hide Selection. Step 8 Duplicate the girl layer and delete the girl using the mask of the bricks wall for reference. Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13 Step 14

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Isotope 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials] Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur photographer. As long as you picked up a couple of Photoshop photo editing skills, it will still impress those who sees it. So the next time you want to publish some photos online, consider editing them so they look more impressive. Mental Wave Explosion EffectHow to create a crazy explosion, like a mix of Magneto’s ability with Peter Petrelli’s power.

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Pixel Proliferation: A Toolset For Managing Screen Resolutions | Punchcut In the digital world, change is constant. The device landscape is always changing and the device types are proliferating. With the increasing demand for more fluid and responsive experiences, it is becoming an even more arduous task to keep all of the device resolutions and screen sizes straight. So we have packaged up our set of tools that help us stay current and we are offering it for download. The device landscape is diverse, bordering on splintered. Screens vary in physical size and aspect ratio. Of course, it is important to remember, this is a tool, and only a tool. Our work demands we have elegant ways of presenting the resulting design concepts. We hope this toolset lets you acclimate to new devices and resolutions quickly, and let you spend more time addressing the opportunities they present. 1. 2. 3.

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