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Masterful Digital Painting Tutorials
Learning how to paint is one of the most challenging skills to learn, especially for digital artists who have become familiar with layered editing, photo effects and other digital manipulation in tools like Photoshop. Digital painting isn’t fundamentally from traditional painting, however, there are some unique advantages. Thanks to the undo button, it’s possible to…
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30 Beautiful Tattoo Portraits
Tattoos are popular in many cultures, as a form of artistic and personal expression, a sense of rebellion, or for religious purposes. Tattoos can vary in style, colors and even permanency. While a tattoo is generally a permanent surgical insertion of pigment under the skin, there are also other tattoo-style forms of skin decoration such…
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Beautiful Colors of Cuba
Cuba is my dream. This little country fascinates me with its beauty and brightness. Lovely beaches, incendiary salsa, tasty fruits and oldschool cars… all these elements create unforgettable and a slightly tipsy cocktail of Cuban life. This life is juicy and full of passion and love. On the other hand you can see a poor…
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Free Texture Friday – Vintage Paper Sleeves
This week set of textures consists of vintage paper textures from early 20th century books. I then scanned them and played around with them in PS to bring out the vintage feel even more. They’re perfect for your designs to give them that nice subtle vintage feel, hopefully you can find some great uses for…
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Pixel Perfect UI Kits for Designers
UI kits are one of the most useful resources in the web design community. Thanks to sites like Behance, dribbble, deviantART and a variety of design blogs, there are now a plethora of free UI kits available. Simply put, a UI kit is a collection of user interface elements that are created all with a…
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30 Beautiful Rain Photographs
Rain is often the bane of photographers. It presents a threat to cameras and other gear, causes disruptions to photography expeditions, and brings cloudy skies that often causes low, unappealing lighting conditions. However, for the enterprising photographer, rain can also bring some great photographic opportunities. It brings a variety of moods to a photograph, creates…
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Free Texture Friday – B&W Grunge Paper
Today’s textures are a set of homemade paper sheets that I colored with wet coffee grains and left them to dry for a few days. Than I scanned them, inverted and turned to black and white, plus some minor tweaks in Photoshop. The outcome boosts a great grungy and dirty feel, plus the details and…
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Fun and Instructive Icon Design Tutorials
These days, custom icons are everywhere, being used not only for web applications, but also desktop and mobile applications, application icons, favicons and even some icons that are adapted as logos. Being able to create quality icons is not as easy as it seems. It requires a minimal touch while still achieving enough detail for…
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30 Beautiful Starry Night Photographs
Ever since the dawn of time, humans have been fascinated by the stars. Ancient civilizations believed that the stars represented various mythological entities, and often referred to celestial events as omens. In more modern time, humans have begun exploring outer space with telescopes and space probes, and we’ve started learning more about the stars. Even…
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Free Texture Friday – Vintage Paper Sheets
This weeks textures consists of a set of vintage paper textures from early 20th century books. I then scanned them and played around with them in PS to bring out the vintage feel even more. I hope you can find a way to incorporate them into your designs. Enjoy!
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Fresh & Useful Photomanipulation Tutorials
If you have photographs and know some photomanipulation techniques, you can literally create anything. Photographs bring an instant dash of realism to your work, without the need for hand-creating individual details like you do in digital painting, or creating a realistic 3D model. You can combine, crop, extract, blend and layer photographs together to create…
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30 Amazing Wildlife Photos
Earth is teeming with life, and it comes in an incredible number of forms. Although various species are endangered or extinct, the wildlife that does remain is fascinating and also presents a great photography subject. The problem with trying to photograph wildlife is that, well, it’s wild. Usually, wildlife doesn’t respond particularly well to human…
