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Free Texture Friday – Subtle Grunge 2
Today’s textures are a highly useful collection of subtle grunge images created by mixing various textures together in Photoshop. They’re perfect for adding just a little bit of vintage or real-world feel to your designs and illustrations. Enjoy!
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Interesting Sites with Background Music
Music in web design can be both a gift and a curse. Many site visitors consider music to be intrusive, and quite frankly, obnoxious. It’s easy to agree with them, as many sites have banner ads and videos that automatically start playing and blasting music or other audio, which is startling and unexpected. However, music…
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30 Awesome Photos with Clouds
Clouds are often viewed as a nuisance, either due to signaling rain, or ruining your attempt at a sun tan. But for photographers, clouds are essential, as they alter and filter light to create some beautiful scenes. There are a lot of different types of clouds, and even within photography there are many ways to…
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Free Texture Friday – Vintage Book Textures
This Friday’s set of textures is a highly useful set of vintage book textures sourced from early 20th century books. They’re perfect for adding a vintage feeling to your designs, hopefully you can find some great uses for them. Enjoy!
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Moving Image Web Designs
As I’ve covered in a few previous posts, adding some motion to your website is a great way to create visual attention. This could be created in a low-tech way by using animated gifs, or it’s possible to use CSS trickery, Flash, or video backgrounds. Regardless of the method, it’s important to employ motion in…
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30 Majestic Canyon Photographs
Canyons are fascinating places. The result of thousands, if not millions of years of erosion processes, canyons are usually formed by rivers cutting away rock slowly, resulting in a steep valley surrounded by sharp rock faces. Because canyons have a lot of elevation changes, combined with their locations in the wilderness and river features, they…
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Free Texture Friday – Yellow Grunge Wall
I never get tired of cracked and worn concrete textures. That’s why I’m sharing with you a set of free textures I created a while ago. These textures have never seen the internet before, and can’t wait to be downloaded. The textures are rather plain, but have an old, grunge and worn feeling to them.…
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Interior and Exterior Location Design
Computer graphics have advanced an incredible amount in detail, and when combined with photography in a form of digital matte painting, near-lifelike scenes can be created as visualiziations, mockups or renders. While most of the CG renders of locations seem like they came out of an old videogame, some studios put in the time and…
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30 Lovely Flower Photographs
Flowers are reproductive structures found on plants, which often lead to fruit and seeds. Flowers are naturally colorful and usually have a pleasant smell, in order to attract animals to help them transfer pollen. For photographers, flowers are a great subject. They lend themselves to macro photography, as they are relatively stationary but have an…
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Free Texture Friday – Geothermal Rocks
This weeks textures are a set of dark, grunge, geothermal rocks that have been blended with multiple textures in Photoshop. My goal was to create a surface that is alien and gloomy, and should fit your dark photomanipulations perfectly, or be useful as overlays. Feel free to share this post, enjoy!
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Creative Examples of Animated Web Design
These days, with the use of HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery (or alternately, Flash), integrating animation into a web design is more possible than ever before. Integrating a bit of animation or motion in a design is a creative way to add visual hierarchy or highlight areas of interest. A few great ways to integrate animation…
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30 Gorgeous Forest Photographs
Forests are one of the most popular places for photographers to take pictures. Not only does the light play well with the leaves, trees and shadows, but forests are also abundant in wildlife, making them ideal for photography. One of the best times of year to talk photographs is fall, which recently arrived in the…
