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July Desktop Wallpapers by SmashingMagazine
“Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months.” SmashingMagazine.com has featured a handful of wallpapers for July…
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Bright! – a free icon set by Frexy
Taken from min.frexy.com: “At Frexy, we really love icon design. In the past few months, me and Vu Tran have worked on an icon set called “Bright!”, and today, we happily release Bright! as a freebie for you.”“Bright! is a crisp, sharp and beautiful set of 148 hand-crafted icons in vector format, ideally for both…
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April design goodies, tips and tricks
Fonts & Typefaces 63 Must have Grunge Fonts Personally I love grunge fonts, and a nice list like that makes me all fuzzy inside. Head over to outlawdesignblog.com and download those baby’s. 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design A post by smashingmagazine.com Photoshop Brushes Grunge Photoshop Brushes Here is a huge archive of grunge Photoshop…
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Adobe TV launches
Adobe has launched it’s new video resource which includes original content, as well as segments from training firms and product experts. The site is divided into for channels; Photographer, Designer, Video Professional and Developer, each featuring programming from Adobe evangelists, trainers, experts, and “luminaries who pull in the crowds at industry events around the world.”…
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Adobe Photoshop On the Web
Via Photojojo.com We all knew this day would come sooner or later, but that doesn’t make it any less exciting, does it? Today, Adobe releases Photoshop Express for the web. Now before you go berserk, let us exercise some journalistic caution — it’s not everything you can do in Photoshop fit into a web browser.…
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Logo design trends of 2008
You like to design logos? Check out the article by Logoorange.com about the logo trends of 2008, you might even get an idea or two. “Logos are the ultimate mark of distinction and everyone loves them. We see logos everyday – on the highways, on consumer goods, on the Web and in the institutions and…
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Monday design and photography resources
Photoshop tutorials The good people over at psdtuts.com have been busy forking out high quality Photoshop tutorials for the past few months, and have now introduced a premium membership option where you can sign up and get access to premium tutorials and source files. According to the comments on their site, the majority of their…
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Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Best Of
Smashingmagazine has put together a list of the best Photoshop tutorials of 2007. “When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For instance, the concepts are not always intuitive and…
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How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer
I bought the ebook myself just now, and I’m going to read it over Christmas. I’ll post a review as soon as I finish it. Personally I am sure that this is a very helpful read for everyone that want to get into the freelance/entrepreneur business. 212 Pages of Expert Freelancing Advice Covering everything from…
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Photography, feed icons and brushes
I present you with my latest list of Photography and design tutorials, articles and tips. Shooting the new Smirnoff ad campaign PhotoshopSupport.com has published an interview with Mark Waugh and how he created the stunning “liquid scuplture like” images for Smirnoff’s newest ad campaign where water splashes are shaped as glasses. Mark goes through the…
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Free online tool to Vectorize your images
Vectorization (aka tracing) is the process of converting a raster image to a vector image. Vectormagic is an online engine that converts bitmap images to vector art – it’s an online auto-tracer. You can currently convert your JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF images to the following formats; EPS, SVG and PNG. I played around…
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50 Ways to Become a Better Designer
Article by www.gosquared.com/liquidicity Being a successful creative has a lot to do with the way you work. Sure, you can’t teach good design, but it never hurts to learn a few new tricks, or simply make the most of your talents. So without further adieu, here’s 50 ways to be more successful as a designer.…
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Web and Graphic Design Inspiration, Tutorial Toplists and Design Related Articles.