100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration
Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you've been designing for years or only weeks. Below is a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print. These range from galleries of graphic and web design to online magazines and a few unconventional sources of inspiration.
The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2008
Under Articles Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials using search engines. As most of time, almost all tutorials would label themselves to be good, high quality or even the best photoshop tutorial you can find. When searching through all these tutorials, your time is wasted. In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you.
Ian's Blog: Bury it under the noise floor (Steganography)
Bury it under the noise floor (Steganography) 2013-03-22 01:59 by Ian Here is discussed a PHP program to hide encrypted messages and files inside of images without significantly changing the way the image looks. This is meant to be an instructional write-up to touch on some common ideas and mechanisms in cryptography. Source code: steg-img.zipI also have a repo out at GitHub.
Social Media Mini Icon Pack
No frilly styles, gradients or lighting effects — just the basics. This set of social media icons is optimized at 32 and 64 pixels in five different shapes (over 1100 icons). All files are semi-transparent bitmap PNGs.
10 Tips on How to Build and Manage Your Identity with Social Med
10 Tips on How to Build and Manage Your Identity with Social Media Posted by Madison Claire on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 @ 04:44 PM Are you doing everything you can do to build and manage your ecommerce identity with social media marketing?
40 (NEW) High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
Aug 06 2009 Adobe Photoshop is probably one of the most popular graphic editing program used extensively. There is one simple reason for that. Photoshop is easy to learn and offer a variety of advanced tools to optimize and emphasize some impressive results. In today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of new & high quality Photoshop tutorials that others have freely contributed to the design community for making your next photoshop effect. How to Create a 3D Leaf from a Texture Photograph
Animatable: One property, two values, endless possiblities
box-shadow From: 0 0 black To: 0 150px 10px -50px rgba(0,0,0,.5)
25 Font-tastic Type Resources for Web Designers
There have been quite a few good typography roundups posted around recently with varying levels of design focus. This roundup of resources and articles directly useful to the everyday web designer. Here’s a list of some interesting, eye-opening, and downright useful type resources for the web design world. HTML Ipsum
9 Tools to measure your Twitter Influence & Reach !
The fun part of Twitter is not always about having lot of followers. Of course, having more followers is good, but the real fun is in getting to know more people, sharing ideas, interacting with them and basically having lots of fun. Twitter’s “Opt in” mechanism makes sure that people fall in to similar groups and interact more with similar minded folks, thanks to the “unfollow” button. Now, if you’ve been wondering how effectively have you been communicating with your followers, here are nine cool tools that will help you find out your reach, communication effectiveness, popularity and analyze your twitter usage statistics – let’s call it Twitter Power ! 1.
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40 Sexy And Creative Typographic Logo Designs
I have always loved looking at well-designed logos and I like it even more when they feature great typography (hey, after all typography is sexy!) So, lately I’ve been looking for some inspiration for a new project and thought I’d check out some logo galleries to get those creative juices flowing. I hope you enjoy this post! Please take a minute to tell us which ones are your favorites in the comment section below! :)
How to Increase Conversions on any Website in 45 Minutes
If you’re anything like me, it’s easy to "finish and forget" when it comes to web development. Once a website is live and the boss or client is happy, we close the project, kick off our shoes and crack a beer. Part of the problem with this approach is the ever changing landscape online. Something that converts visitors today, might not be working two months from now (in some cases, it may not be working in the first place, but no one took the time to test it).
50 Really High Quality Photoshop Navigation Menu Tutorials
While waiting our SEO series to come out, I showcased for you pretty huge and comprehensive navigation, menu and button tutorial article. All of those tutorials are selected carefully just featuring here, the most high quality ones. Navigation is very important aspect in every web-design, because it is usually the place where people will click the most as well as notice creative and usable buttons.
