Another week drops off the year, pushing us ever so slightly towards another change in season, and this past week was as wonderful a week in the online design community as ever. So many great tutorials and articles, not to mention other great content, was released into the internet aether to enrich and feed the design field this week, we had an easy time collecting the rundown. A big thanks to all the sites who made our list and those who didn’t for bringing it this week as fierce and as fantastically as ever. Here is our gathering of this weeks best and brightest. Now we know we may have missed a few, so leave us a comment with your favs from the week.
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Tutorial - Create a Dark and Grungy Poster in Photoshop - This tutorial focuses heavily on blending images together to achieve a desired effect.
Group Interview - Project Scheduling - 14 Designers Share Their Advice - Given the complexities of the various phases of the web design and development process - including many variables often revolving around pending client feedback - I have often wondered how other web designers go about scheduling their own projects.
50 Inspirational Web Design Blogs - In the following list, you will find some great web design blogs that publish showcases, techniques, tutorials, resources and in-depth articles.
53 Mind-blowing Uses of Typography - Typography is an ancient foundation of graphic design. As any good designer knows, the way that words are presented has a powerful influence on the way they are interpreted by the viewer. Here we've collected 53 stunning uses of typography by eight different designers. We hope you're inspired by this selection!
How To Avoid Making Twitter A Procrastination Tool - Twitter has become a common part of today’s online society. The problem with it however, is that we end up spending much too much time on the site and it takes away from other aspects of our life.
15 Excellent Places for Discovering Photoshop Brushes - This article attempts to bring together all the best places for Photoshop brushes, all in one nifty page. Here, you’ll find 15 resources for building your Photoshop brushes collection.
10 tips for highlighting previous blog posts - Highlighting previous posts is a great way to show some of your older content to readers who haven't followed you since you started blogging. Here are 10 tips that will help you to do this.
The Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs? - So we sat down this morning and decided that we would put together a list of all the graphic design blogs that we follow as a team.
6 WordPress plugins that help your blog’s maintenance - If your website is based on WordPress, here are a few plugins to help you keep a neat blog.
40 Places Where Freelancers Can Learn More About Business - People become freelancers for all sorts of reasons. Very few do it to get into business - that’s just a side effect. To be successful freelancers, we need to be savvy business people.
17 Statistics to Monitor on Your Blog - Today your task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge is to spend some time looking at your blog’s statistics/metrics package to see what you can learn from it.
10 WordPress Tips & Tricks for Your Comment Page - From a site owner and an avid bloggers perspective, if you create a blog and take the time to formulate useful content for your visitors to read, then you’d like them to share their insight and contribute to your collection of hard-pressed articles. Correct? Therefore, if by creating quality content this means that one will receive useful and valuable feedback, then why not bring creativity and uniqueness to that aspect of your blog?
Design Inspiration | 36 Fantastic Photo Manipulation Designs - Photo Manipulation is one of the most complex, highly detailed and creative art forms to come out of the digital age.
101 Techniques for a Powerful CMS using WordPress - This is the first article in the four-part series, “The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress“. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many WordPress Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing WordPress websites.
10 Essential Plugins Every Modern Wordpress Site Should Have - In this article we’re just going to point out the essentials… what I consider to be the bare minimum “can’t live without” list of plugins that should be installed with just about any new Wordpress installation.
The Ugly Truth Behind Starting a Web Design Blog - There is always a starting point for every major web site. No one reached where they are right now in one night. In this post, we will analyze what makes a good web design site and the role of the design community in this process.
Four Ways Ruby on Rails Can Help You - In this article, we discuss some of the ways Ruby on Rails can help you in rapidly building fully-featured web-based applications.
Marker Brush Set - Set of 20 vector brushes made from a marker on cardboard. Thick and thin brushes which will give any piece of art a grunge look.
Painting Textures-2 - The second set of HQ Painting backgrounds and textures.
25 Dry Erase Board Textures - Keeping the experimental textures going, today I have a big set of dry erase board textures for your guys.
Free Texture Tuesday: Tree Bark - I hope you guys can find some good uses from these tree bark textures!
Free Textures - 30 High-Res Paper & Plastic Packaging Textures - I decided to bust out the camera and make a texture pack. It’s a mix of paper and plastic, all of which are very high-resolution.
Interview with Go Media’s Jeff Finley - Go Media is a Cleveland, Ohio-based design studio that blogs and also sells high quality stock vector art.
Five Questions with Calvin Lee of Mayhem Studios - So who’s Calvin Lee? If you’re a designer who’s into social media then you really ought to know…
Override Inline Styles with CSS - This damn juicy CSS trick has been around for a while now, but I wanted to make a special post sharing it again to spread the good word.
How to Create a Web Site Mascot - In this tutorial, I'm going to give an overview of how developed a character from the initial brief through to the final site mascot and then to go on to create several poses for different parts of the site.
Fix It Fast: Rapid IE6 CSS Debugging - IE6: We all hate it, and we all have to work with it (well, most of us). The most frustrating phase of buildout is often the final struggle with this Browser From Hell, but maybe (just maybe) we're struggling too much.
How to Monetize Your WordPress Blog (and other blogs, too) - It’s all across the world wide web, people want to know how to make money with websites. People especially want to know how to make money using online advertising.
How to Create a Realistic Game Boy - In this tutorial we’ll be learning how to create a realistic Game Boy using Photoshop CS4.
Placing a CSS background image horizontally right on an h2 using a span element - How to add a background image to a heading 2 element and have it perfectly aligned on the right side of the text while keeping the default block element behavior.
110+ Massive Wordpress Video Tutorial Collection - On this list You’ll find all available WordPress video tutorials on Internet with a lot of links for every level of knowledge.
How To Build a Social Networking Site using Wordpress - BuddyPress is not a standalone social networking software. It is in fact a set of WordPress plugins and themes that enables the users to add social networking modules to their sites. You can either use it as an addon service to your existing blog, or convert your domain to a full fledge social networking site.
How To Build Your Own Single Page Portfolio Website - A great looking portfolio site is crucial for any designer to instantly present their work to potential clients or employers. A simple, single page site can do this effectively by displaying three key features of large header with short introduction, examples of your work and methods of contact all in one, extremely browsable page.
How to Create a Vector Sketchbook - In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a customizable vector sketchbook. This intermediate tutorial uses some basic shapes, Shear transforms, and Effects to create a leather texture.
Fuel Your Coding - Fuel Your Coding offers coding and dev tutorials, tips (inspiration as always), freebies and awesome interviews with amazing Front end & Back end developers.
I Heart Texture - My love for texture photography has blossomed into this website full of high resolution textures, and best of all: They’re Free. We’re going to have content being published on a regular basis and it could include anything from new texture releases, tutorials, ways to make money, inspiration around this community, and questions to our visitors.
Fantasy Photography
We here at Arbenting have a fondness for the Fantasy elements in art, as we have showcased in our Wednesday Web of Inspiration: Amazing Fantasy Photomanipulations post, but this takes it one step further. These photographers, with the clever use of filters, lighting, and make-up have created the fantasy element in their photographs without the use of graphic manipulation. We are simply in awe of these astounding artists!
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@Adelle — No problem, I’m really excited about the Fuel Your Coding!
Some of the photos are truly amazing.
nice articles and fantasy Photos, I like image 2 and 4 thanks..
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@Derek — Aren’t they!?!
@Joyoge — Thanks so much! Image 4 is one of my favorites as well.
the picture of the fire-eater is amazing !
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