The past days I was looking for inspiration in famous old paintings, and got interested on “Starry Night” of Van Gogh and thought: Can I apply this to web design? And the answer is Yes! Then after several hours of work, here’s my tutorial for you, an artistic web design depicting a “Magic Night” concept.

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Here is a list of links to the very best reading out there on Hacking Wordpress and building a better blog. I’ve also included a list of links to designers and others who are significantly advancing Wordpress through innovative theme development and plugins. If you know of a post or resource that I have not included yet, please add it in the comments! I’ll constantly update this list as I find more of the good stuff.

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In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own stock imagery.

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Premium WordPress theme developers Theme Galaxy are giving away two free licenses to their newest theme, Lyra. This new theme (shown below) features a creative illustrated design that may be just right for your blog.

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Lighting effects are often used in modern web design to give a site an interesting and different look. I’d like to share this gallery of sites that are putting those techniques into practice. They are pretty cool websites!

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In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a trendy poster in a special way. With this idea, you can rough them up with brush textures in Adobe Photoshop resulting in a cool and trendy design style. Have a go!

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In this tutorial, it shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man. At the end, the last adjustment is to draw focus to the centre by blurring the edges a little. Hope you enjoy!

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In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to draw an ice cream bar. Throughout this tutorial we’ll have a look at various drawing techniques. We’ll be creating everything within Photoshop from start to finish, except the font used. Let’s jump into this tutorial.

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In this tutorial, it is going to show how to create one smoking woman using a couple source pics, and just a few of the features associated with Phoenix. So follow along. With the magic of Phoenix, you’ve created the smoking woman of your dreams.

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In this tutorial, it will demonstrate you how to design the super abstract lines to your background. This is very easy and simple. You can create this with different color and style by amending the shiny angle or color pattern.

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