Posted by James Qu on November 12, 2010 ·
Welcome to the 29th 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 [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 12, 2010 ·
There are a lot of elements that go into a successful web design, including navigation, lightboxes and showcases for featured elements, 404 error pages, and other informational elements that enhance usability. Designing each of these over and over again for web design can be a painstaking process, so sometimes it’s helpful to have some resources to use.
Here, you’ll find some fresh [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 11, 2010 ·
HTML5 offers a wide variety of advanced functionality over what HTML was originally capable of. Perhaps the most powerful aspect of HTML5 is the HTML5 canvas. The canvas element is a drawable region defined in HTML code with height and width attributes. JavaScript code can access the canvas through a full set of drawing functions allowing for dynamically generated graphics.
In this post, you’ll [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 11, 2010 ·
Last week, we teamed up with DesignPanoply to bring you an exclusive giveaway of Photoshop styles that can help you create metallic textures, glossy text, and a variety of other effects at just the click of the button. There are a variety of uses for Photoshop styles, with perhaps the most popular being text effects, although web design effects are also a popular use for them.
DesignPanoply is [...]
Posted by Mickel on November 11, 2010 ·
JavaScript is a very versatile language. It is becoming more and more used in modern web applications, and predictions say that this trend will continue. Knowing your language is a key to success when it comes to development. In this post we will show you some cool and useful features of JavaScript that most people are unaware of. See also...jQuery Bullseye – Viewport Detection Events
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 10, 2010 ·
Designers around the world are constantly creating new digital artworks and graphic designs, whether for fun or by commission. With constantly evolving techniques and new styles emerging, watching the newer emerging designs can be a great inspirational experience.
In this post, you’ll find 30 fresh and inspirational graphic designs from some of the top designers in the world. You can see [...]
Posted by Mickel on November 10, 2010 ·
In the 9th episode of Hump Day Motion you will get juiced by enough love to make you soft as a puppy. Enjoy these 7 hand-picked thoughtful short films and share them with your friends or someone you love. They will appreciate it! See also...Hump Day Motion #7: Inspiring Collection of Visually Stunning Morphing Videos
Posted by pg on November 9, 2010 ·
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Posted by Eric Shafer on November 9, 2010 ·
Aerial photography is usually not the most accessible type of photography for most people, as it requires that you get higher than most surrounding objects so that you can look down at them. Often, this requires having building that is significantly taller than the others, or it requires taking the photograph from a plane or helicopter. However, when aerial photography is possible, the results [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 8, 2010 ·
Everyone has an image of themselves, an identity that they associate with themselves, whether consciously or subconsciously, that affects their persona. One of the great things about self-portrait photography is that we can attempt to capture that persona to share with the world.
In this post, you’ll find some highly creative and interesting self portrait photographs, from photographers [...]
Posted by Mickel on November 8, 2010 ·
Photography is truly a form of art. The world along with everything that is in it is the photographers' canvas, widely open to his imagination. This post contains some very thoughtful and creative conceptual photographs for your inspiration! See also...20 Unbelievably Inspiring Sport Photographies
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 7, 2010 ·
Toys have a special place in people’s hearts, as most of us grew up playing with our favorite action figures, TV or movie characters, dolls, legos, or other toys. Although we tend to abandon our toys as we get older, the fond memories remain, and of course, some photographers decide to use this to their advantage in creative photography.
Here you’ll find 30 examples of creative toy [...]
Posted by James Qu on November 7, 2010 ·
Welcome to the 5th volume of the Mini PS Tutorial series here on PSD Vault! I created this series focusing on providing some easy and fun Photoshop tutorial for all Photoshop beginners.
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can easily create some awesome Fiery Particle Effect in Photoshop in just a few easy steps, which you can use for a wide range of occasions. Have a try!
Along [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 6, 2010 ·
Being able to upload files and images onto a website is one of the most common tasks in the modern web. Whether it’s letting a user upload a profile picture to their social networking profile, or complex file hosting and sharing services, users like to upload files. Uploading files is a relatively simple task, but there are a lot of improvements that can be made over the default to help [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 5, 2010 ·
Large photos are becoming increasingly popular in web design, particularly acting as a background for a website. They can help quickly establish mood, a color palette, and communicate the meaning and purpose of a website. However, because they tend to attract attention, it’s important to have a great photo to use as the background, which often requires some tricky photomanipulation. Additionally, [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 4, 2010 ·
In this week’s giveaway, we teamed up with DesignPanoply to bring you an exclusive giveaway of Photoshop styles that can help you create metallic textures, glossy text, and a variety of other effects at just the click of the button. There are a variety of uses for Photoshop styles, with perhaps the most popular being text effects, although web design effects are also a popular use for them.
So, [...]
Posted by Mickel on November 4, 2010 ·
As an computer graphic artist working with photo-manipulations you can get inspiration by looking at others' work. Sometimes it can be interesting to have look at what other people like the most when browsing art. Here is a list of 20 photo-manipulations that people from all around the world really love! See also...A Showcase of Popular Game Character Art
Posted by James Qu on November 4, 2010 ·
One more extra content for the VIP Member :) This time I have 10 High Quality Variety Textures Presented by Texturequality.com.
If you’re VIP member, you can log in to the VIP Members Area and click on the “Extra Goodies” button to download this pack.
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This texture pack [...]
Posted by TimothyBlake on November 3, 2010 ·
Today’s freebie is a seamless pattern which comes with a Photoshop pattern file alongside a high quality PNG file of the patterns. The pattern set in total includes 8 patterns just in a range of different colours. Hope you enjoy this pattern set your more than welcome to share your thoughts.Licenses DetailsThe pattern set can be used within commercial and non-commercial design projects. The pattern [...]
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 3, 2010 ·
CSS3 can allow for beautiful buttons and navigation with only a little bit of code required, and it can be made to degrade properly in older browsers. Especially when combined with jQuery, the possibilities are limitless and it can be a great way to improve usability and the overall aesthetics of a site.
Here, you’ll find 20 useful CSS3 button resources, tutorials and generators that will [...]
Posted by Madalin Tudose on November 3, 2010 ·
Another month has passed and another bunch of WordPress Themes has been released. The month of October was very innovative and creative for the community. I`m amazed how month after month, WordPress grows and is transforming from a simple CMS to a real phenomenon.
I managed to choose the best 40 WordPress Themes from around the web.If you`re ready to see what`s new, don`t hesitate to watch at each [...]
Posted by Mickel on November 3, 2010 ·
Welcome to another episode of Hump Day Motion! This time we give you a set of very unique, inspiring and fresh motion graphics videos that will most likely inspire you a lot. See also...Hump Day Motion #7: Inspiring Collection of Visually Stunning Morphing Videos
Posted by Eric Shafer on November 2, 2010 ·
Images alone are usually not enough for a print ad that is featured on a billboard or in a magazine or other publication. Usually, some text is required to communicate the message, or at least to illustrate the company’s mission and brand image. However, instead of putting boring text with an overused font, many designers elect to find more creative ways to integrate typography into their [...]
Posted by aquadog on November 2, 2010 ·
onOne Software announced 4 new software products at the recent PhotoPlus Expo, the DSLR Camera Remote HD for the Apple iPad, Perfect Layers and Perfect Resize 7 for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture, and Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom and Aperture.
The DSLR Camera Remote HD app will now include the ability to start and stop video on Canon and Nikon DSLR [...]
Posted by mktanny on November 1, 2010 ·
High quality fonts can add great feel and an extra touch to design, whether it be web or graphic design, or they can form the basis for a creative typography piece. While there are certain high quality paid fonts that are overused, such as Helvetica and Avenir, there are tons of free fonts out there just waiting to be used in design.
This post showcases 100 great free fonts for graphic and web [...]