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The Best Photoshop and Design Tutorials from July 2015
Each month, the design community releases a variety of Photoshop and graphic design tutorials on the blogs across the web, sharing new techniques and guides for creating a certain type of effect. These tutorials are a great way for designers to expand their arsenal of skills, explore new ideas, or just get inspired. There’s so…
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30 Photographs of Concrete and the Urban Jungle
Concrete is one of the most important materials in modern building. It’s created using a composite of coarse particle materials and a cement or binding agent to hold it together. It’s commonly used in the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings. Concrete has a unique appearance and finish to it, but can vary depending on…
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Creative Examples of Book Cover and Packaging Design
While traditional print books may have lost some ground to PDFs, ebooks and other online media, they are still a major part of media and textual content in the world. However, because of the competitiveness in the editorial, printing and book industries, it’s more important than ever to have your book stand out, so that…
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30 Deep and Wondrous Cave Photos
Caves are natural formations caused by the hollowing of rock (usually by means of water flow) that extend into the Earth itself. Caves are home to a variety of creatures not found elsewhere on Earth, and they have been used as forms of shelter for years. Exploring caves can be dangerous, due to the lack…
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Eyecatching Fashion Web Designs with Video
In the world of fashion, being eyecatching is the name of the game. While obviously some aspects of clothing design are about functionality and wearability, for the higher end fashion houses, it’s all about making a visual statement. If you’ve ever seen a fashion runway show, you know how impractical many of the outfits are,…
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Fresh from the Oven: Baked Bread in Photographs
Bread, along with rice in Asia and corn in the Americas, is one of the staple foods that developed early on in human existence, primarily in Europe. Bread consists of a mix of flour (from grains) and water, crafted into a dough and then often baked. Breads vary by the flour type, the ratio of…
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Latest and Greatest Adobe Illustrator Vector Creation Tutorials
While Adobe Photoshop has added some support for creating vector illustrations, Adobe Illustrator remains the most powerful software and the industry standard for creating illustrations and vector artwork. Illustrator can be used to create icons, fonts, posters, logos and more, and because they are vectors, they are scalable without any loss in quality. The online…
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In Full Bloom: Flowers in Photography
Flowers are structures of certain plants, used by the plant for reproduction, and can create fruit and seeds that are harvested by animals for food. Flowers are naturally appealing to animals and insects, in order to facilitate the transfer of pollen and thus reproduction. As such, they often have bright, vivid colors, and eye catching…
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Free Texture Friday – Wooden Chips 2
Today I have another set of wood chip textures that you can use for your designs and illustrations. Enjoy! ps. This will be the last texture post until mid-august. Have a great summer guys!
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10 Fresh and Powerful jQuery Plugins
jQuery remains one of the most powerful languages for adding dynamic functionality and interactivity to your website. There are plugins for everything from lightboxes to animated loaders, form validation, timers, modal boxes and more, and with repositories like GitHub, many are available for download for free. For your next website project, consider using one of…
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30 Photographs of Arches Around the World
Arches are curved structures with a gap below them, often serving as entrances to buildings, but also occurring naturally in rock canyons and caves around the world. In architecture, arches are some of the most important structures, and the development of the pointed arch as a refinement of the rounded arch was a major development…
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Free Texture Friday – Falling Water
Hey guys, today’s textures are a bit different from what I usually post. These are taken a couple of years ago from a huge cooling mechanism from a power plant near the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. There is a constant flow of water from the top of the generator that creates a mesmerizing waterfall all…
