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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. Feel free to comment to this post and let us know how exactly you use these tools in your workflow and also share other tools you’ve found with others who may also find them useful and still haven’t run across them. Useful Coding and Workflow Tools Stripe: Easy Credit-Card Processing For Online StoresA website owner has many options for accepting credit card payments. Last Click Stay Tuned! You won’t regret it.

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. 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: -webkit-transition -moz-transition transition and for transforms: -webkit-transform -moz-transform -ms-transform transform 1. box 1 box 2 box 3 box 4 2. 3. 4. and the HTML: 5. 6.

benbarnett/jQuery-Animate-Enhanced 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. 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 Your photo should look pretty dramatic right now with a lot of contrast. The final touch Before and after Here is another example:

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. 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) Vintage-Inspired Actions (4 actions) Minty Tint Vintage Action

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. 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. Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design9Mesh vintage pop art with grunge to create a unique mash-up of the two popular design styles. Further Resources (vf) Footnotes

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. 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.

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. 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. Hope this helps!

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.

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. 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. Click here for a vertical flyout version of this menu. By Request: Slideup version demo. Update 4/28/2008 – I have updated the HTML and CSS to use a definition list and an unordered list in lieu of the previous div-based layout. The following two tabs change content below.

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. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a beautiful and clean music streaming website in Photoshop. 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. In this web design tutorial, we will create a beautiful and colorful portfolio layout using Photoshop. 4. In this tutorial, you’ll be designing a clean website layout using the 960 Grid System. 5. 6. 7.

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