Posted by Patrick Murphy on May 18, 2011 ·
It’s no wonder, Chrome is the current hotbed for designers to turn their creative attention. The Internet browser is the most frequently used application on a computer and Google Chrome is the fastest growing browser. Chrome has a minimalistic interface and boasts a variety of add-ons similar to Firefox, while attempting to maintain a smaller overhead and also integrating with other Google services.Despite [...]
Posted by Rafi on May 17, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s design resource is a balloons template in PSD format. The balloons come in 5 different colors to help you create amazing birthday graphic or greeting card. The balloons come in fully layered PSD file with each balloon organized in named folder. Scroll down and download the balloons template PSD and let me know your thought.
Preview of the Balloons
Author: Rafi
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Posted by Rafi on May 15, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s graphic download is a pack of 5 high quality dry palm leaves textures in JPG format. These palm leaves textures can be used for your creative web and graphic designs. Each texture comes in a JPG format with size 3000×2250 pixels. Download the leaves grunge textures and let me know your thoughts.
Preview of Dry Palm Leaves Textures
Author: Rafi
File Resolution: 3000×2250 [...]
Posted by Rafi on May 12, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s graphic download is an excellent login form in Photoshop PSD format. The 3D login form comes in fully layered PSD file so you can easily edit the form to fit your design need. Also, I have isolated the empty field graphic, login button on a transparent background along with a PNG submit button as a bonus. All you need to do is to scroll down and click the download link to [...]
Posted by Rafi on May 11, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s download is of four 3D social media icons in PSD format. The set includes Twitter, RSS, Facebook and Email icons that can easily be re-sizable as they are created with Photoshop shape layers. Also, each icon is isolated on a transparent PNG background in sizes 512×512, 256×256,128×128 and 64×64 pixels for use in your web projects. Download the icons and [...]
Posted by Rafi on May 10, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s free download is a pack of 4 abstract photos. These abstract pictures come in JPG format in size 2500×1875 pixels each. You can use them in your personal or client web projects, however, if you’d like to use them for commercial print purposes, please contact me. Scroll down and download the free photos zip file and let me know your thoughts.
Preview of Abstract Photos
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Posted by Rafi on May 9, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s download is a set of two sweet email icons in Photoshop PSD format. These email icons – open and close – come in fully layered PSD files and you can easily increase and decrease the size of the icons as they are created using vector shape layers. Also, each icon is resized to 512×512 pixels on a transparent PNG background for use in your web projects. Scroll [...]
Posted by Rafi on May 7, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s PSD download is a professional business card Photoshop PSD download. The business cards have an attractive business look in two PSD files (front and back) that are fully editable in terms of text and graphics. In addition to this, the business card templates come in 4 different colors and are CMYK print-ready in 2.25×3.75 inches with 300dpi resolution. Hope you’ll like [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on May 4, 2011 ·
Photography themed logos are used frequently by individual photographers, photography agencies and studios, as well as stock photography sites. Photography logos can play off an entire camera, or play off some other component of photography such as a frame, a viewfinder, a reel of film or a lens.In this post, we’ve collected 30 inspirational photography themed logos from companies and individuals [...]
Posted by Rafi on May 4, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s PSD download is a set of 3D text styles in Photoshop format. The text styles come in 3 different colors and background in layered PSD format. All styles are text based so you can easily change the fonts and text. Download the text styles PSD and let me know your thoughts.
Preview of the 3D Text Styles
Instructions on how to use the text styles
To use these text effects, all [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on May 3, 2011 ·
For truly aesthetically pleasing design, mastery of typography is required, and it can often transform a good design into a spectacular one. However, the world of web fonts is a tricky one, with only a few fonts supported by standard browsers. Some ingenious developers have managed to work around it using things such as @font-face and sIFR, and there’s emerging techniques with CSS3 to achieve [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on May 2, 2011 ·
At the start of every month, we check back through our bookmarks, archived links, friends’ sites and Photoshop roundups to find the best tutorials from that month. Since it’s May 2nd today, we gathered up the top Photoshop tutorials from April 2011.Last month was a bit of a slower month in comparison to previous, but there still were some high quality photomanipulation tutorials, as [...]
Posted by Rafi on May 2, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s graphic download is a pack of 5 high quality wood textures in JPG format. These wood textures are fresh and can be used for your wood-based web and graphic designs. Each wood textures comes in a JPG format with size 3000×2250 pixels. Download the textures and let me know your thoughts.
Preview of the Wood Textures
Author: Rafi
File Resolution: 3000×2250 pixels
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Posted by Rafi on April 30, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s download is a set of 17 content box shadows in PSD format. The graphic elements in a fully layered PSD file with each shadow box element neatly organized in named folder. The shadow graphics can be really useful in your web projects. Download the content box shadows Photoshop file and let me know your thoughts.
Preview of Content Box Shadows
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Posted by Whitney Cox on April 29, 2011 ·
So you’re a freelance graphic designer. A really good freelance graphic designer, as a matter of fact. But for some reason you just aren’t getting the business you want. You do everything you think you’re supposed to in terms of marketing, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Is it possible that while you are hitting all the right marketing buttons, you just aren’t hitting them the [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on April 29, 2011 ·
The Internet browser is the most frequently used application on the computer. It should never again be a passive vehicle for seeing the web.BT:Engage, created by Brand Thunder, gives you the power to transform the drab, and kind of boring, browser into a beautiful engagement tool for your business or community. In moments, you can build your own custom browser theme with images that you upload and [...]
Posted by Rafi on April 29, 2011 ·
Friends, today I am really happy to release the coded version of the email template that’s released in Photosop PSD format. The template is coded by Vincent (VincentYang.net). The download is a zip file that includes the HTML file and accompanying images. The HTML template was tested and working in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. You can use this coded template for your personal or client’s [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on April 28, 2011 ·
Learning Adobe Photoshop CS5 can be a bit of a challenge, even for experienced Photoshop users, because of the new features and functions available in CS5. As the Adobe Suite continues to grow, the products become more and more integrated, and new features are added to take full advantage of the progress in digital image technology.While Photoshop text tutorials can be invaluable for learning, [...]
Posted by Rafi on April 28, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s download is a pack of high quality brick wall textures. Each texture comes in JPG format in 2500×1875 pixels. You can use these textures for your web or graphic design projects as backgrounds, poster background, etc. Scroll down and download the brick wall textures pack in zip format.
Preview of the Brick Wall Textures
Author: Rafi
File Resolution: 2500×1875 pixels
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Posted by Eric Shafer on April 27, 2011 ·
Mudbox is a 3D sculpting and painting tool that is commonly used for character design for movies and games. First used in Peter Jackson’s King Kong, Mudbox has been rapidly gaining popularity and was acquired by Autodesk, Inc. in 2007, where it has been refined into a powerful competitor to software such as zBrush.In this post, we’ve scoured around the web to find the 30 best Mudbox [...]
Posted by Rafi on April 27, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s download is a set of useful GUI web elements in Photoshop format. The GUI elements set include buttons, slider, dropdown, options, check box, radio button, slider, login box and more. All the elements come in a fully layered PSD file with each element organized in named folder. I am sure these GUI elements come really handy for your web design projects. Download the web elements [...]
Posted by Patrick Murphy on April 26, 2011 ·
When it comes to frequently used computer programs, browsers lead the pack. It’s far more likely that a person will open their web browser and surf the Internet than do anything else on their personal computer. It makes sense when you think about it – to do anything online, you have to use a browser as your gateway.In the past, that meant suffering with a boring, plain, utilitarian interface [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on April 25, 2011 ·
Cakes are often used to celebrate special occasions, such as birthdays, weddings, and other notable events. While many of us opt for a standard cake (because hey, it’s going to be eaten anyway), cake does offer room for creative effects and decorations. Because of the unique occasion for the cake, as well as the meaning behind it, creating and designing unique cake designs is becoming more [...]
Posted by Rafi on April 23, 2011 ·
Friends, today’s download is a set of iPhone and iPad templates in PSD format. Both the templates come in vertical and horizontal format in fully layered Photoshop files. Along with them comes, transparent PNG icons in sizes 256×256, 128×128 and 64×64 pixels for use in your web projects. Download the iPhone & iPad templates and icons now!!!
Preview of iPhone
Preview of iPad
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Posted by Rafi on April 23, 2011 ·
Friends, last week we ran a contest giving away “stock photos for bloggers” subscription from Fotolia. The subscription includes one XXL account for images for one month (under XXL subscription option, not credits) for one lucky winner.
The Winner
As per the number of comments, seven persons participated in the contest. Among them, the lucky winner is #5. The winner will receive an [...]