Posted by Eric Shafer on August 1, 2011 ·
HTML5 and CSS3 are the future of website development, mobile app development and web gaming development. The advantage of having a standardized platform on which to develop is faster development time with cleaner and more efficient code. To help you achieve this, there are now a variety of HTML5 CSS3 framework options available to use.Here, I’ve selected 10 great web frameworks, consisting [...]
Posted by James Qu on August 1, 2011 ·
Hey guys, we have created a Youtube channel for PSDVault and will be uploading video Photoshop tutorials up there on regular basis. You can click on the link below and subscribe to it now, and get updated whenever a new video tutorial is uploaded. Hopefully this will be of help to you with some tricky parts of Photoshop!
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Posted by James Qu on July 31, 2011 ·
In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create Abstract Photo Manipulation with 3D Render Pack in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!
Along the way, you will learn how you can manipulate 3D renders in Photoshop and attach them to an existing photo, in order to produce some special effect. There will also be [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 29, 2011 ·
Free iPhone themes are a great way to customize your iPhone and turn the visuals into something more interesting, or a better reflection of yourself, just like a wallpaper. Installing iPhone themes is very easy, and there are tons of top iPhone themes to choose from all across the web. All you have to do is choose some of the best iPhone themes, download them and install them and you’ll [...]
Posted by James Qu on July 29, 2011 ·
Photoshop Brushes are great when it comes to add some extra flavours for your design – especially those unique, high quality ones made by some brilliant designers. In this post, I will showcase 15 Fantastic Free Photoshop Brush Packs Fresh From the Design Community that I collected recently from around the web. Check them out :)
All those brush packs are of very high quality and would be [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 28, 2011 ·
Infographic design has taken the web by storm over the past few years as one of the preferred ways to communicate statistics and information in a readable, meaningful yet interesting way. Born out of the YouTube informational videos on social and web trends, infographics now exist for every industry imagineable, and infographic designers devote countless hours to coming up with new ways to make [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 28, 2011 ·
Android icons are incredibly useful for designers and developers working on Android apps for their marketplace. Using a free android icon set can help you to maintain a coherent, professional visual for your application, all without having to spend extra money on a paid Android icon set.In this collection of the best Android icons, I’ve gathered up the best free Android icon sets for you [...]
Posted by Rafiq Elmansy (admin) on July 28, 2011 ·
Adobe Flash is one of the most important application to create cartoon animation especially for the web in SWF format. The Flash cartoon animation can be used in websites, banners, DVD, and video content.
In today’s premium resources post, I would like to provide two stock Flash cartoon animation sequences that can be used in your projects, banners and Flash animation.
The first stock Flash [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 27, 2011 ·
iPad web design requires knowledge of the iPad specific features and resolution, but it’s becoming increasingly popular because it does not require significant modifications, unlike iPhone web design. iPad and iPhone applications are the most frequent to adopt iPad oriented web designs, because of their target market.In this post, I’ve gathered up the best iPad websites in this collection [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 26, 2011 ·
Yesterday, we gathered up a collection of the 100 Best Android Live Wallpapers for Your Android Phone, but there’s more you can do with an Android than just have a cool wallpaper. Many Android phones have respectable cameras on them, and mobile phone photography is gaining in popularity among amateur and professional photographers alike, because of the light weight and ease of use. However, [...]
Posted by James Qu on July 26, 2011 ·
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Shattered Crystal Text with Great Lighting Effect in Photoshop. We will go over some simple Photoshop techniques such as the use of Photoshop brush settings, lighting effects, layer blending mode, and some filter effect, have a try :)
For your next business card printing press run, put your best foot forward with carefully thought out [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 25, 2011 ·
Last week, we brought you a new giveaway, where you had the chance to win 3 monthly subscriptions to DesignTNT – with unlimited downloads! Thanks to DesignTNT, an emerging leader in the design resources industry, we are proud to be able to bring you the results of sweet giveaway.The contest actually ran for a few days longer than expected due to unforeseen circumstances, but now the contest [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 25, 2011 ·
Android wallpapers are in high demand these days, as the explosive growth of Android mobile devices takes off and many users switch to the Android OS on their phones. Android has some distinct benefits as well as drawbacks compared to other phones, but nevertheless, many users are embracing Google’s Android and are in search of the best Android live wallpapers.In this post, we’ve gathered [...]
Posted by James Qu on July 24, 2011 ·
Welcome to the 11st volume of “Imagination Unleashed: Best of PSD Vault DeviantART Group”, which is a showcase I run regularly here on psdvault.com featuring some fantastic, highly-creative digital artworks in the PSD Vault DeviantART group.
When you look at those digital artwork, pay attention to their colour scheme, creative ideas, and manipulation techniques used. Try and learn from the good [...]
Posted by James Qu on July 22, 2011 ·
Time for another Photoshop tutorial showcase here on psdvault.com! In this showcase post, I will display 11 Latest Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Hard-cored Photoshoppers. These are fantastic tutorial written by some great designers and I think they’re definitely worth taking a look.
In saying that, if you’re a Photoshop beginner, you can still try out those tutorial as they all come [...]
Posted by anniewallace on July 21, 2011 ·
When I was asked to put together a list of ten of the best Flickr groups for self-portraits, I was a bit overwhelmed. Anyone who has ever done a search of the photo pools involving self-portraits will understand why: there are an enormous number available. In fact, there are so many it is a wonder they all have members, much less the hundreds or thousands that often gravitate to each one. Naturally, [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 20, 2011 ·
Brochure design is an area of design that requires expertise in typography, branding, information communication and proper use of available space. While many brochure design ideas jam as much information as possible on there, other brochure designs choose to be more of a minimal brochure design.In this post on brochure design inspiration, we’ve gathered up some great examples of minimal brochure [...]
Posted by James Qu on July 19, 2011 ·
One week ago I published a giveaway contest here on PSD Vault: Comment and Win a FREE one month subscription to Pixmac worth $199. Now it’s time to annouce the 3 lucky winners!
The following winners are randomly chosen from all commentators, as well as the commentators replied on PSD Vault Facebook page.
Jess
Stefan
Jegor Svensson
All winners will shortly receive my email containing further [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 19, 2011 ·
Choosing a WordPress music player plugin can be a total hassle. You have to choose between a Flash, Javascript or HTML5 music player, and each type is not supported by all browsers by default. Luckily, the newer WordPress music player plugins have fallback options to account for this. Still, you have to make sure you have a WordPress music player plugin that can play the music format that you [...]
Posted by Stephen Burns on July 19, 2011 ·
In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to use the 3D features in Photoshop to create 3D cruiser scene.
In this exercise we will combine three different landscape-type images to serve as a backdrop for the emerging figure coming forth from beneath the depths. We will start by combining the landscape image.
Then we will add custom-created clouds to enhance the scene. Next we will add the human [...]
Posted by James Qu on July 19, 2011 ·
Welcome to the 42nd volume of “Creativity Fine-Tuning: Best of PSD Vault Flickr Group”, which is a showcase I run regularly here on psdvault.com featuring some fantastic, highly-creative design works in the PSD Vault Flickr Group.
Hope you enjoy those works as much as I did and find them inspirational! Meanwhile, if you have some cool designs and would like to be featured here on PSD Vault, you [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 18, 2011 ·
Movie posters are somewhat less prominent than they used to be, but they are still widely used as promotional artworks for feature films. When designing a movie poster, some artists opt for minimalistic, other movie posters use computer graphics from the film as the basis. Some, all, or even none of the plot can be revealed via the movie poster.Here, we’ve gathered up some creative movie [...]
Posted by James Qu on July 17, 2011 ·
In this tutorial, I will show you the way I use to Create Quick Particle Photo Effect via Custom Brush Options in Photoshop. This effect is quite simple and would be great for beginner to learn. Have a try!
Along the way, I combine this particle creation technique into this tutorial, along with some other photo manipulation techniques, such as image adjustment, painting, and lighting. The primary [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 15, 2011 ·
Free WordPress portfolio themes are a great way for graphic designers, logo designers, photographers and digital artists to show off their collections, without having to fuss around with hiring a web designer or worry about creating their own. Many times, it is simply better for someone to focus on what they do best, as opposed to trying to multitask and focus on their hobby and building a site [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on July 14, 2011 ·
HTML5 CSS3 forms let you take your contact form designs to the next level. Web forms are crucial for interaction between a website and the user, and you’d be hard pressed to find a website these days that didn’t have a form somewhere on it. Even here on CreativeFan, we have a contact form and a comment form.HTML5 forms allow for cleaner, more semantic code, and CSS3 forms allow for [...]