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25 Creative Packaging Designs

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:27:00 +0000

Here’s a collection of some of the most creative and inspiring packaging ideas.

1. Gnome Bread Packaging

2. Note Headphones

Designer Corinne Pant

3. Tea Hangers

4. “City Harvest” Grocery Bag

5. Honey Made by Bees

6. NYC Spaghetti

Designer: Alex Creamer

7. Ford Ranger Extreme: Matchbox

Advertising Agency: JWT, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

8. Creative Japanese Pastry Packaging

Designer unknown

9. Beehive Honey Squares

10. Origami Beer

11. Kiss: Fruit and vegetable puree

12. Kokeshi Matchsticks

13. Moustache Paintbrushes

14. Whitebites dog snacks

Designer: Cecilia Uhr

15. Zen Perfume

16. Fishing Boat Water Bottle

17. Juicy Juice Boxes

18. Mini Oliva Olive Oil

Source: packaginguqam.blogspot.com

19. Blood of Grapes Wine Bottle

20. Green Berry Tea

21. Fruit Juice Packaging

22. Coffin-Shaped Cigarette Case

23. Pink Glasses Wine Bottles

24. Butter! Better!

25. Smirnoff Caipiroska

Designer by JWT

Don’t Believe Your Eyes

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:05:00 +0000

Matthew Albanese is artist who fascinated with special effects and magic. Matthew own a stunning artwork collection of photographs that will blow your mind with their realistic presence. On the left side in gallery you can see the final image and on the right you will be able to see how image was created using his special effects. Scroll down and enjoy in today’s gallery with 15 beautiful artworks.

Box Of Lightning

Diorama for Box of Lightning.. Backlit etching in plexiglass painted black.

How to Breathe Underwater

Diorama made out of walnuts, poured and cast candle wax, wire, glitter, peanut shells, flock, plaster, wire, dyed starfish, compressed moss, jellybeans(anemones), sponges, wax coated seashells, toothpaste,
clay, figs, feathers, Q-tips, nonpareils.

A New Life

Diorama made using painted parchment paper, thread, hand dyed ostrich feathers, carved chocolate, wire, raffia, masking tape, coffee, synthetic potting moss and cotton.

Breaking Point

Diorama made out of tile grout, cotton, phosphorous ink. This model volcano was illuminated from within and underneath by six 60 watt light bulbs.

DIY Paradise

Making clouds out of drug store cotton balls. Diorama madre from cotton, salt, cooked sugar, tin foil, feathers & canvas.

After The Storm

This model is simply made out of faux fur(fields), cotton (clouds) and sifted tile grout(mountains). The perspective is forced as in all of my images, and the lighting effect was created by simply shifting the white balance.

Everything We Ever Were

It took two months to store up enough fireplace ash to create this lunar landscape. The darker rocks are made of mixed tile grout, flag crumpled paper & wire. The Earth is a video still projected onto the wall.

Salt Water Falls

Diorama made out of glass, plexiglass, tile grout, moss, twigs, salt, painted canvas & dry ice. The waterfall was created from a time exposure of falling table salt.

Sugarland

Made out of 20 pounds of sugar, jello and corn syrup. The crystals were grown in my studio over the course of two months.

Wildfire

Diorama made from wood, moss, yellow glitter, clear garbage bags, cooked sugar, scotch-brite pot scrubbers, bottle brushes, clipping from a bush in bloom (white flowers) clear thread, sand, tile grout (coloring), wire, paper and alternating yellow, red and orange party bulbs.

Icebreaker

25 pounds of sugar cooked at varying temperatures (hard crack & pulled sugar recipes) It’s basically made out of candy. salt, egg whites, corn syrup, cream of tartar, powdered sugar, blue food coloring, india ink & flour. Three days of cooking, and two weeks of building.

Tornado

Diorama made of steel wool, cotton, ground parsley and moss

Waterglass Mountains

This one is a mixture of many different materials, tile grout, moss, bottle brushes (pine trees) Actual clippings from ground cover and was built on top of standard outdoor patio table (water glass). The sky is canvas painted blue. Coloring was again achieved by shifting white balance.

Aurora Borealis

This one was made by photographing a beam of colored light against a black curtain to achieve the edge effect. The trees were composited from life ( so far the only real life element in any of these images) The stars are simply strobe light through holes in cork board.

25 of the Best Photoshop Illustration Tutorials of All Time

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:01:00 +0000

While Adobe Illustrator is the preferred tool by most designers for illustrating and drawing digitally, Photoshop can also be used for some types of illustration. This post includes a selection of tutorials that cover the process of drawing various objects in Photoshop. We have selected these tutorials because we feel they are cover a variety of in-depth styles and techniques that all Photoshop users could follow.

Paint an 80s airbrush portrait

How to Illustrate a Portrait in Photoshop

How to Create Detailed Wildlife Illustrations in Photoshop

How to Create an Illustrated Watercolor and Ink Photo Effect

How to Illustrate a Dreamy Fantasy Scene

How to Illustrate a Beautiful Moonlight Angel

How to Illustrate an Imaginary Car with Photoshop

How to Illustrate Illa from the Movie Noah in Photoshop

How to Create a Realistic Digital Photo Frame in Photoshop

Methods for Drawing the Human Hand

Methods for Drawing the Human Eyes

Illustrate Planetary Rings with Photoshop

How to Illustrate a Donut in Photoshop

Draw a Realistic Water Spash with Photoshop

Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Balloon Scene

Psychedelic Life Tutorial

Vanity License Plate

Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

Create a Vector-Based Zune with Photoshop

Aging Road Sign

Make a Realistic Football

3 Brilliant Free jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Plugins (And 14 Tutorials to Make Your Own)

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 05:12:00 +0000

jQuery image galleries (also known as homepage sliders, slideshows or image carousels) have become more and more common on websites since the inception of jQuery in 2006. Designers and Photographers are especially attracted to them because they allow you to present many beautiful images in an interesting way. You can easily load up multiple images in the carousel and present them in a single position on your site without taking up too much room.

However, there are several issues with using jQuery Image Gallery/Sliders that you should be aware of before you jump the gun and add one to your homepage. They aren’t ideal for every type of website, and in some instances they could actually hurt your website.

The Problem with jQuery Image Sliders

jQuery sliders can be great for certain types of websites, but disastrous for others if you want it to rank in Google. Back in April 2010 Google announced that website speed and page load times would be factored into their algorithm. Homepage sliders add additional code to your page and slow down loading times, which is bad for SEO.

There has also been a lot of discussion about how image sliders can actually lower conversion rates for B2B sites. Studies have shown they can create what one writer calls a “megaphone effect:”

So why do we keep using them? Probably because customers keep asking for them. The “wow factor” of beautiful images flashing before a customers eyes can give them sensory overload.

If you find yourself in a situation where a jQuery image slider is required, then you’d better build a good one, or use a tried and tested free jQuery slider that is brilliant on all levels.

Elements of a Brilliant jQuery Image Slider

All of the examples shown here utilize a combination of the following elements listed below. Not all the galleries are perfect, but the best jQuery image gallery/sliders have the following attributes:

Highly Flexible and Customizable. Creating a perfect slider can be a difficult thing. There many factors to consider, like the features it needs, the layout of the site etc. Finding one that is truly customizable is extremely important so you don’t paint yourself into a corner, so to speak.
Light-weight with smooth interactions. Having a gallery that takes too long to load, is full of bloated code and is noticeably choppy when you try to use it totally defeats the purpose of having a gallery.
Fluid Width for Responsive Layouts. Almost all sliders listed here are responsive. That means it will change widths based on the width of your website. It’s the direction the web is going. Mobile use will very soon take over desktop use. If your site isn’t responsive with a fluid width slider, you’re doing it wrong.
Great overall design. A well designed jQuery slider plugin will look good no matter how you customize it. Each slider listed below is beautiful inside and out.

1. SlideMe

Why it’s brilliant:

It is beautiful, powerful, and customizable.
It’s light-weight and easy to install.
It has many different kinds of transition effects, paginations and callbacks.
It has great support and a sense of humor! Just try reporting a bug :)
DEMO DOWNLOAD

2. Nivo Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Nivo can be easily customized and even has a Premium WordPress plugin with even more features.
It has a variety of beautiful transition effects ranging from slicing and sliding to fading and folding.
Small, Semantic and Responsive, it is only 15kb so it has a minimal impact on page load times.
With approximately 3 million downloads it is arguably the most popular slider plugin out there, so it is battle tested, bug free, and comes with excellent support and documentation.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

3. Gamma Gallery

Why it’s brilliant:

It provides adjustable responsive images by taking its grid layout and the full slideshow view into account.
It uses Masonry in a fluid mode where column numbers are defined depending on the grid containers.
It’s beautiful, and well documented. You can find it on Github licensed under the MIT License.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

4. Unslider

Why it’s brilliant:

Has keyboard support so users can cycle through photos with left and right arrow keys.
It’s been extensively tested and falls back very nicely to make it cross-browser compatible.
Responsive and touch support compatible for mobile devices.
Easy to use and customize right out of the box.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

5. bxSlider

Why it’s brilliant:

Fully responsive with built-in touch support.
Slides can contain images, video, or HTML content, and also offers horizontal, vertical, and fade modes.
Easy to use with simple 3-step installation instructions.
Small file size allows for faster load times.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

6. Slicebox Revised

Why it’s brilliant:

Has the “wow” factor. This slider takes the typical 2D slider visual a step further and presents images in a 3D effect for added depth and visual interest.
Customizable with multiple slider transition options.
Revised version includes separate containers for the image description for better SEO practices.
Licensed under the MIT License on Github.
Fully responsive
DEMO DOWNLOAD

7. Juicy Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Lightweight and fully responsive.
Automatically adjusts image size so it’s compatible with almost all browsers.
Open-sourced. Licensed under the MIT license.
Fully customizable with various effects, masks and other options.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

8. jimpress.js

Why it’s brilliant:

3D transitions presents images and content in a soft, unique effect.
Offers multiple layout options to fit a variety of site design.
Fully responsive design.
Has on-site tutorial with easy-to-follow installation instructions.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

9. Blueberry

Why it’s brilliant:

Fully responsive design.
Clean minimalist design allows for easy integration into your existing design.
Allows customization for various elements such as speed, hover function, etc.
Open source project released under GPL v3 license.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

10. zAccordion

Why it’s brilliant:

Unique accordion “slide and pop” effect grabs viewers’ attention and makes this slider to stand out from the rest.
Tried and true code base has been thoroughly tested and updated to fit today’s technological needs.
Touch friendly, and responsive design renders properly in any desktop browser size and on mobile devices.
It has great support with rapid response times to inquiries.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

11. Pikachoose

Why it’s brilliant:

It’s lightweight and easily to install and customize.
Has several nice design options to choose from.
Latest version includes API hooks for integrating lightboxes and other useful tools.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

12. Galleria

Why it’s brilliant:

Free and open source. Released under the MIT license, so there are basically no restrictions on usage.
Fully responsive design with touch support.
Installs easily with a single line of code.
Includes web app that allows you to upload, preview, and publish high quality images quickly and easily.
All images are cloud hosted by Galleria.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

13. Windy

Why it’s brilliant:

Unique fly away effect is eye-catching and beautiful.
Allows for displaying several images in one slider, many more than the typical jQuery plugin allows.
On-site tutorial provides easy-to-follow installation instructions.
Has multiple display options to choose from so as to fit horizontal and vertical image displays.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

14. Parallax Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Multiple visual layers gives your art framework added depth.
In-depth tutorial walks you through installation step by step.
Easily customizable. Has multiple backgrounds to choose from, and options for setting speed, animation, rotation effect, and more.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

15. Rhino Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Extremely flexible and customizable.
Large variety of styles and effects.
Can be controlled with keyboard arrow keys.
Can apply all effects to not only images, but HTML elements too.
DEMO & DOWNLOAD

16. Slippry

Why it’s brilliant:

Responsive and lightweight.
Modern code (HTML5 + CSS3) but still downgrades gracefully.
Beautifully simplistic yet customizable.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

17. Camera Slideshow

Why it’s brilliant:

Clean and simple presentation of images and text.
Responsive with multiple transition effects.
Lots of options to customize anything you want.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

18. jQuery Slider Shock

Why it’s brilliant:

Lots of features and fun transition effects to choose from.
Fully responsive, and mobile ready (premium).
Supports images and videos from YouTube playlists, RSS Feeds, Twitter Feeds, Flickr and Instagram images.
DEMO & DOWNLOAD

19. Slick

Why it’s brilliant:

Fully accessible with arrow key navigation.
Infinite looping and swipe enabled (or disabled if you prefer).
Fully responsive and scales with its container.
Has Autoplay, dots, arrows and callbacks.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

20. Crafty Slide

Why it’s brilliant:

Extremely simple and lightweight (2kb) slideshow.
Options to set custom width, height, fadetime and delay.
You can select whether to display pagination or not.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

21. Flux Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Utilises the newer, more powerful CSS3 animations yet still compatible with both jQuery & Zepto.js and supports more than just WebKit browsers.
Code and docs available on Github for additional support.
15 cool 2D and 3D transitions out of the box.
DEMO & DOWNLOAD

22. Basic Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Simple and lightweight so it can be easily customizable to suit your needs.
Code and docs available on Github for additional support.
Change to v1.3 offer responsive functionality.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

23. Wow Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Point-and-click editing for non-coders.
Drag-n-drop images for ease of use.
25 languages in the interface.
Add logo or watermark to slides to prevent image theft.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

24. EGrappler Full Screen Responsive Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Fully responsive and adjustable.
Offers full screen images.
Lightweight.
DEMO & DOWNLOAD

25. Flex Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Simple, semantic markup.
Horizontal/vertical slide and fade animations.
Multiple slider support and callback API.
Hardware accelerated touch swipe support.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

26. jQuery Slider2

Why it’s brilliant:

Small, simple and lightweight yet very powerful.
Works on all main browsers.
Lots of customizable features like autoplay, wait times, randomize, etc.
DEMO & DOWNLOAD

27. jQuery Blinds

Why it’s brilliant:

Smooth animated transitions
Customizable animation orchestration
Compatible down to IE 6
DEMO DOWNLOAD

28. AnythingSlider

Why it’s brilliant:

Slider panels can be any type of HTML content.
Multiple sliders allowable per-page.
Themes can be applied to individual sliders.
Responsive and lightweight.
Optional Video extension allows video to pause playing when not in view and resume when in view (if files are hosted on the web). This currently works for YouTube, Vimeo and HTML5 video.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

29. BlogSlideShow

Why it’s brilliant:

Designed specifically for blogs.
Comes with several nice transition effects right out of the box.
Very lightweight and easy to use.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

30. Sequence

Why it’s brilliant:

Moves multiple elements at the same time to create a very cool parallax effect.
Touch swiping and tapping supported to allow for navigation between frames.
Works on all modern browsers and is easily modifiable.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

31. ThreeSixty Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Great for e-commerce to help customers look at products in detail.
Lightweight and fully customizable with lots of options out of the box.
Supports all major browsers including IE 6.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

32. Adaptor

Why it’s brilliant:

Lightweight with cool 3D rotation effects yet falls back gracefully to simple fade transitions on non-webkit browsers.
Excellent detailed documents and support on Github.
All 2D slide transitions have been tested in IE 6 and all other modern browsers.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

33. Circular Content Carousel

Why it’s brilliant:

Beautifully simple design and very lightweight.
Images slide infinitely circular (hence the name).
Additional unique feature: Click on “more” to reveal another content area and move the respective item to the left.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

34. Minimit Gallery

Why it’s brilliant:

A library agnostic javascript plugin, built for advanced frontend developers.
Helps you spend less time during set up, and more time coding the animations.
Very customizable and lightweight.
DEMO & DOWNLOAD

35. ResponsiveSlides.js

Why it’s brilliant:

Small file size, 1.4kb minified and gzipped.
Fully responsive.
Compatible with all major web browsers including IE6+
Customizable. Options include pagination, controls, slides, etc.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

36. Sequence

Why it’s brilliant:

Unlike any other jQuery slider! Allows you to move, scale, rotate, and flip individual elements within the slider frame.
Responsive with touch support.
CSS3 transitions offer a smoother and more efficient user experience
Supported in all modern web browsers; plus includes a fallback theme for the more “historical” web browsers around.
Customizable with 40+ options available.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

37. Fotorama

Why it’s brilliant:

Responsive with touch support.
Out of the box ready for use.
Easy to install by copying and pasting code snippet. Also offers plugins for WordPress and Ruby on Rails.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

38. Hashslider

Why it’s brilliant:

Direct links to slider position via hashtags on window locations
Lightweight and easily to install
Supports large quantity of slides
Fully responsive and customizable
DEMO & DOWNLOAD

39. ayaSlider

Why it’s brilliant:

Very flexible! Can embed and/or animate any HTML element
Customizable. No predefined style sheet.
Responsive design
Licensed under the MIT license.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

40. Awkward Showcase

Why it’s brilliant:

The kid with the glasses in that demo photo is epic!
Supports more than just images. Can include captions, tooltips, video, and more.
Can also enable thumbnails, activate dynamic height and more.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

41. jQuery Immersive Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Sleek design! Background images transition along with viewing slide for a fully immersing user experience.
Easy to install. Just copy and paste code snippets.
Versatile use. Can include captions along with images.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

42. Really Simple Slideshow

Why it’s brilliant:

Images are loaded dynamically as each one is required, allowing for larger slideshows without having to pre-load lots of images at a time.
Very customizable and lightweight.
Detailed set-up documentation and support.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

43. Sudo Slider

Why it’s brilliant:

Can load any HTML content as well as AJAX content.
Supports IE6+
Fully responsive and lightweight.
DEMO DOWNLOAD

Free Photoshop Actions For Photographers

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 07:46:00 +0000

Free Photoshop actions give more power to photographers or designers and let them achieve various photo retouching effects quickly. Each Photoshop action pack comes with an unique photo editing or retouching techniques and you can easily apply them with the push of a button. Today we will showcase 500+ best free Adobe Photoshop actions for retouching and enhancing photographs.

1. Frost Bite :- This action will add vivid blue hues to your photograph or graphics and it was created in Photoshop CS2.

2. Regressive N :- This impressive action helps you to apply regressive effect and makes an ordinary photograph come alive.

3. Diabolic Action :- This action will add a tempting effect to your photographs and it can be used for retouching self portrait.

4. Dim and Jade :- This action will cool sepia tone to your photographs but make sure that RGB mode is running. Designer suggest you to use this action on stock photos with hi-contrast.

5. Foliage Action : This foliage action will help you to add depth to photographs and it will work better with dark stock photos with lots of contrast.

6. Infront Light :- This action pack will add amazing light effect on your photo and would be great for icon making.

7. Closer Action :- This action can be used to add awesome effect to portraits or your own personal photos. It can be used to achieve black and white Photoshop action effects.

8. Coffee :- This action will add beautiful look to your photographs in different color settings and this action has become very popular among Russian wedding photographers.

9. Retrograde Mint Action :- It is a best Photoshop action that helps you to add retro style effects to your photographs. This action can be used by professional photographers to cool effect to fashion stock images.

10. ColourCast Action :- This action can be used for retouching color adjustments and produce a nice color cast effect on stock images.

11. Photoshop Night Actions :- This set will help you to add blue night effects in your photographs and it is created with Photoshop CS2.

12. Photoshop Old Tones :- This action pack will adjust the tone and roughness of you images. This pack is created with Photoshop CS2 and should be used with Photoshop CS+ versions.

13. Sunlight and Sundown Actions :- This action pack gives you power to add some dazzling sun set and sun rise light effects to your stock images. This pack is designed in PS CS2 and working fine with all CS+ versions.

14. Photoshop Summer Actions :- This amazing season action pack will let you add some great summer effects to your portraits and photographs. This action pack will work with Photoshop CS+ versions only.

15. Photoshop Spring Light Actions :- This pack will help you to add warm spring light effect with little yellow burst. This ser will work with Photoshop CS+ versions.

16. Photoshop Rich Autumn Actions :- It is an excellent action set which allows you to add a good atmospheric effect to photos. This action is working fine with cs+ versions and it can be used for illustrations or paintings.

17. Photoshop Winter Action :- This action will help you to apply cold winter effects to your stock images and makes them look like winter season.This action is created with Photoshop CS2 and working fine with all CS+ versions.

18. Old Tones Actions PSD :- This pack will edit and apply old, dirty and dark effects to your photographs. This action pack is created for Photoshop cs+ versions and designer also added psd file of this stock photo in download pack.

19. Soft Nature Actions :- This set will helps you to process your images with less saturated and soft effects. You can use them if you want to add some soft and sweet effects to your photography.

20. Photoshop Foggy Actions :- This action adds fog effects to your images and enhance your photography results. This action is created with Photoshop CS2 and compatible with all CS+ versions.

21. Bright Haze Actions :- It’s really amazing action pack with creamy haze and white mist effects and they are compatible with Photoshop CS+ Versions. I think they will work great with panoramas and landscape pictures.

22. Photoshop Joyful Actions :- This amazing actions pack contains beautiful collection of heavy actions and designer included an option less color to reduce the intensity. This action set will work fine with Photoshop CS+ versions and you can use these Photoshop actions for portraits and digital paintings.

23. Photoshop Glow Actions :- This pack contains amazing glow actions with neon color effect. You can use them to add soft glow effects to enhance a photo or illustration.

24. Photoshop Haunted Actions :- In this pack you will get mysterious dark actions with purple/blue dark corners. These actions can be used for haunted photography concept or to add a dark color effect on digital paintings.

25. Photoshop Dark Actions :- Here is one more beautiful dark action pack for Photoshop CS+ users. You can use these actions to create a cool dark vintage painting or a dark night portraits.

26. Photoshop Blossom Actions :- In this set we have 8 lovely blossom effect actions for Photoshop cs+ versions. These soft actions can be applied in different photography forms like floral images, still life , portraits, photo manipulations etc.

27. Winter Breeze Actions :- This pack contains beautiful actions to generate freezing winter breeze effect in your photographs. These creative actions are created with Photoshop CS2 and compatible with Photoshop CS+ versions.

28. Photoshop Copper Actions :- These awesome copper actions can be applied to add an incredible effect to your macro photography images related to animals, plants and nature.

29. Photoshop Actions :- In this pack you will get 40 best free Photoshop actions for Photoshop CS2 or higher versions.

30. Dreamy Warm Black & White :- This set helps you to apply Black & White action on your photographs with nice warm effects.

31. Old Faded Photo :- One more action pack from uberactions and it will help you to achieve an excellent old faded effect on your photographs.

32. Wedding Enhancers Kit :- This set contains 12 Photoshop actions for wedding photographers which will help you to create many standard portrait effects, and specially wedding portraits. The set consists of 11 effects, plus an action with some brief instructions and pointers.

33. Vivid Vision Action :- This action will help you to apply a little zing effect to your stock images and bring life to your stock images. This pack is compatible with Photoshop CS4 and higher versions.

34. Film Urban Blue :- This action applies blue effect on a duplicate layer of your stock image and makes you feel like its winter. This action is created for Photoshop CS3 or higher. You can use this action to create a fine urban movie scene or to add a nice blue urban effect in street photography.

35. Rainy Day Action :- This set will add an amazing glass effect with raindrops & water to your photographs. This make your photos view as if they are seen through the windows while it rains.

36. Photographers Collection :- This action pack is developed with the photographer in mind and contains 4 different effects : Land lifter, Stylish Sepia, Print Art and Soft Overlay.

37. Photo Grain Effect :- This action will help you to shed that ‘digital look’ and gain a realistic photo grain effect on images.

38. Free Adobe Photoshop Vintage Photo Action :- This amazing vintage photo Photoshop action will apply a beautiful chocolate tone with classic look. Designed has left the separate layers intact so that you can adjust each layers opacity to taste before flattening and sharpening. This set can be helpful for wedding photographer and photojournalist.

39. Free High Definition Sharpening Photoshop Actions :- This action applies high definition sharpens effect and its crystal clear web resizing option make your photographs print ready. You need to signup a free account to download this action file and it is compatible with Photoshop CS, Photoshop CS1, Photoshop CS2, Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4, Photoshop CS5, Photoshop CS6, Elements 5 and up.

40. MCP Mini Fusion Actions :- This mini fusion action applies stunning color conversions to your stock images. This action pack is compatible with Photoshop CS2 to CS5 and Elements 5 or above versions.

41. Cancer Awareness Actions :- This action set applies a rich black and white effect to your stock images and it has 14 optional color tints. Designer dedicated this action pack to his father-in-law who was suffering from cancer.

42. Free JHP Actions Pack :- This set contains 13 awesome actions effects to enhance and retouch your stock photos. In this pack you will get six color changing actions, two contrast and tone defining actions, three image popper actions, one amazing black and white action and one retouch action. All these free actions are compatible with Photoshop CS-CS5 versions.

43. Free Photo Effect Action Set :- This set contains eight great Photoshop actions to apply various effects to your stock images. These eight effects are vintage, retouch, retro, monotone, old ,black and white, sepia and artificial lighting.

44. David’s Photoshop Actions :- This pack contains 3 different actions sharpening action, ChocCarmel Sepia action and Dream Glow action. These professional actions can be applied to create a stunning portrait or digital painting.

45. Skin Enhance Photoshop Action :- This action will improve your skin textures and enhance the photograph colors. Designer did not merged the layers and you can easily make the adjustment according to your requirements.

46. Color Burst Photoshop Action :- This free action pack will help you to lift color adjustments on your photographs.

47. Creamy Inspired 669 Actions :- This pack will help you to enhance color tones of your photographs and achieve a beautiful vintage effect like Polaroid 669 film.

48. Magic Skin Action Set :- This action pack helps to correct skin glare and blemishes easily with few clicks. This action pack can be used for wedding photography to create excellent portraits and it is compatible with Photoshop CS and higher versions.

49. Joel Olives Photoshop Actions :- In this pack you will get four “tone and light” actions, three custom vignette actions, and two web resize/sharpening actions.

50. Free Black & White Action Set :- In this pack you will get seven creative black and white actions and they are compatible with Photoshop CS2 and higher versions. This set is free to use for personal and commercial use.

51. Color Swap Action :- This pack contains some great Photoshop action which helps you to swap your photograph colors easily. This set is compatible with Photoshop CS2 + higher versions.

52. Redwall Photo Vignetting Actions :- This set contains 5 different colorful vignetting actions. This set features the standard black vignette, a blue vignette, a red/yellow vignette, a red/pink vignette, and a green vignette.

53. AMY’S Workflow Actions :- Here is one more beautiful action for better tone adjustments and enhancing your image colors.

54. Free Photoshop Actions :- In this pack you will get four professional Photoshop actions and they can be used to enhance wedding photos, portraits and digital paintings. These actions work fine with Photoshop CS2 to CS5 Version.

55. Pioneer Woman Photoshop Actions :- This source contains two different amazing Photoshop action sets to boost your photograph qualities. These great actions are compatible with Photoshop CS4.

56. CoffeShop Photoshop Actions PowderRoom 2 :- This action pack allows you to adjust exposure, fix blotchy red skin and enhance skin color with auto skin smoothing.

57. CoffeShop Photoshop Storybook Vintage Actions :- This action applies a vintage color tint up with the Vignette effect. You can easily change the settings and adjust them according to your portrait or photograph needs.

58. Caitlins Portraits Action :- This pack contains 5 amazing Photoshop actions and they are specially designed for portraits.

59. Cross Processing Actions :- This action will help you to apply cross processing with oddly skewed colors and increased contrast and saturation.

60. Hipstamatic Effect Actions :- This action allows you to apply Hipstamatic effect to your photographs like the iPhone Hipstamatic App do. This action bundle is really great and you must try it for personal photographs or portraits.

61. The Fab Actions Pack :- This Photoshop action pack is specially designed for wedding photographers to add special effect/treatment to photographs. This action pack will give you 23 different B&W, Mono- & Color effects with 22 amazing frames. So if you are looking for some professional wedding Photoshop actions for improving your photos and adding some special effects then try this pack.

62. 50 Photoshop PostWork Actions :- This pack contains 50 cool actions for awesome tone, contrast and color processing. Action included in this pack are: seven Retro & Vintage, two camera damage, three color enhancers, two mood treatment, five smart bw/sepia/duotone, two smoothing methods, three fashion mag, three extreme vintage, three psychotic, three argenta, three oldschool, three smart contrast methods, three smart desaturators, six experimental algorithms and two final touch & frammings.

63. Photo Enhancement Actions :- In this pack you will get 15 new Photoshop actions that will help you to apply great effects on any professional or amateur photograph.

64. Landscape Actions :- In this pack you will get 5+ free landscape Photoshop actions and they can by used for urban and rural photography projects.

65. Cool Vintage Action :- Here is one more professional vintage style action which helps you will alter your images and give them a professional vintage look. This action can be used for designing vintage style posters, glamor or fashion photography projects.

66. Photoshop Dream Blur Action :- This action will apply blur effect to your photographs and it is compatible with Photoshop CS2 or above versions.

67. Rose Glow Photoshop Action :- This action will apply a rosey glow to your photographs and it can be used for all types of photography like: landscapes, portraits, wedding and still life.

68. Free Photoshop Actions :- In this pack you will get actions for watermarking, storyboards and textures to enhance your stock photos.

69. Fake The DOF Action :- This action will apply background blur effect to your photographs and you can control how much and where you put it. This action is compatible with Photoshop cs version.

70. Photoshop Action 21 :- Here is one more amazing action pack to improve and enhance your photography results with Photoshop CS.

71. Color Action :- This action will help you to adjust and enhance the color settings of photographs. This set is working fine with Photoshop CS versions.

72. Ten Powerful Colors :- This set contains 10 great actions to enhance the color settings of your stock images or digital paintings.

73. Powerful Colors 3.1 :- In this set you will get 5 new color enhancement actions for Photoshop CS. These actions will be helpful for enhancing portraits or other stil life photos.

74. Actions Clyck :- This set contains 3 cool action effects: snow white, wonder blues and pink light. You can use them for fashion photography or for enhancing your own personal pictures.

75. Polaroid Generator V3 :- This set contains ten new Photoshop actions inspired by films and other nine post processing actions will apply emulsion voids, dust and other effects. This action pack is compatible with all Adobe Photoshop CS versions.

76. Portrait Action :- You can use this free action to add some amazing effects to your portraits. This action is working fine with Photoshop CS and above versions.

77. Photoshop Action Set :- This set contains 9 free Photoshop retro vintage actions created with Photoshop 7 version. You can use this action pack to add some cool retro vintage style effects to your photos.

78. Summer Actions :- In this set you will get some amazing action effects based on season theme. This action pack is compatible with Photoshop 6.0, 7.0 , Photoshop CS + and PSE.

79. Cool Photo Effect Action :- You can use this action file to apply a wonderful photo effect to your stock images. This action style might be helpful for fashion photography project.

80. Actions Pack :- Here is one more amazing pack with 11 cool colorful actions for Photoshop users.

81. JJ’s Essential Actions :- This action pack contains 25 free actions to apply great effects like: image sharpening, brighten & darken, vignettes and rounded borders, grain & smooth blur, desaturate and contrast. This pack is designed in Photoshop CS2 but working fine with Photoshop 7 and above versions.

82. Dark Hero Pro Pack :- This set contains four pro Photoshop actions which helps you to apply awesome effects like: Dark Hero Black, Dark Hero Ice Skin, Dark Hero Green Lantern and Dark Hero Red Blood. This set is compatible with Photoshop CS or above versions.

83. Dragan Photoshop Action :- In this folder you will get one Photoshop dragan action for Photoshop CS or above versions. Dragan action can be applied on portraits to achieve a dramatic makeover and cool HDR-style effect.

84. Glamour Split Toning Pro Actions :- This pack contains seven pro Photoshop actions for retouching and glamorizing your photos. Here is the list of 7 amazing Photoshop glamor actions in this pack: Glamour Blue, Glamour Hot Ice, Glamour Vivid Blue, Glamor Fresh Green, Glamor Sweet Pink, Glamor Sexy Purple and Glamor Red Hot. This action pack is designed to apply split toning to picture and can be helpful for fashion photographers.

85. Fantasy Wedding Portrait Actions :- This pack contains 3 cool Photoshop actions for wedding photographers to enhance portraits and other pictures.

86. Black and White :- In this pack you will get five black and white actions with great contrast effects.

87. NoiseLess RetroFit Actions :- These professional actions will apply a wonderful change in color adjustments and mood of photos. This pack will work perfectly for photos with a decent contrast.

88. Vibrant Water Action :- This action pack will help you to enhance your water scenes. This action pack can be helpful for nature photography projects.

89. Photoshop Various Effect Actions :- This pack will help you to add more darkness, add more contrast and noise for older effects. This set is created with PS CS2 and working fine with Photoshop CS+ versions.

90. Large Action Set :- This pack contains 40 useful actions for Photoshop CS2. This large collection can be helpful to edit and enhance your personal pictures or portraits.

91. Retro Vintage Actions :- This pack contains 6 colorful retro vintage actions for enhancing you photographs and they are created in Photoshop CS.

92. 30 Photoshop Actions :- In this pack you will get thirty different actions like: b&w, sepia, pop art, retro, dreamy b&w, realistic film grain, old photo effect, pencil sketch, urban photo effect and many other color balance actions.

93. E6-C41 B-W Cross Process Set :- This action will help you to convert your colorful images into black and white photos with unique darkroom effects. If you are working on Black & White photography project then this toolkit will be helpful for you.

94. Free Pro Essential PS Actions :- In this pack you will get 7 pro Photoshop actions to retouch and enhance your pictures. This Essential set contains seven different actions: soft blur glow, cinematic movie effect, cool matte paint, dramatic TV scanlines, creative detail sharpener, soft light luminosity and sweet deep light glow effect.

95. Lovely Bones Action :- This beautiful action can be used to adjust color setting and some new effects to your photography.

35+ Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:49:00 +0000

Creating posters with Photoshop can be a lot of fun and there are unlimited opportunities. In these tutorials you’ll learn some new ways to enhance your Photoshop skills while creating posters for all kinds of purposes. A lot of different styles of design are represented, and each one takes a different approach to get to the end result. You can follow some of the tutorials step-by-step, or browse them and find parts that you want to use in your own design projects. Either way, you’re sure to be able to learn some new skills and techniques if you’re interested in improving at Photoshop and poster design.
Design a Gorgeous Geisha Art Poster in Photoshop
This poster has an awesome textured watercolor effect that looks great and is pretty easy to accomplish.

Create an 80s Style Poster Design with GoMedia

This is a beautiful space-themed design that could be used for a variety of different purposes.

How to Create a Colorful Retro Poster in Easy Steps
Another space-themed retro design with some nice light effects.

Create an Amazing Summer Flyer Design
Through this tutorial you can learn how to design this trendy flyer/poster.

Design a Quick and Easy Indie Rock Gig Poster
This tutorial shows the process of designing a beautiful poster to promote a band’s gig.

Design a Retro Inspired Sci-Fi Film Poster
This space-themed poster design can be created rather easily by following along with this tutorial.

How to Create an Amazing Mixed Media Poster in Photoshop
Learn how to create this awesome poster with a lot of color and abstract design elements.

Create a Colorful Retro Poster in Photoshop and Illustrator
This tutorial covers the process of using both Photoshop and Illustrator to create this poster design.

Creating an Old Collage Effect Poster
This tutorial leads you through the process of creating an awesome poster with a great sunburst background. This type of approach could be used for creating posters for a wide variety of purposes.

Gig Poster Design (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)
A nice textured, grungy poster is the result of this tutorial. Again, a sunburst background is used.

Create a 60′s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster
This retro poster would fit right in with actual gig posters from the 60′s.

Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)
Inspired by the Obama campaign, this poster tutorial shows you the process to duplicate the popular style.

Quick Grungy Poster
This textured poster has a retro feel thanks to the color scheme and the lines.

Create a Constructivist Inspired Poster
With this tutorial you’ll use images, textures, text, and colors to create the sample poster design. Nice techniques that you can use to design other posters as well.

B Movie Post Art
B-Movie posters have their own unique look and feel, and this tutorial shows how to duplicate it.

Photoshop Indiana Jones Poster Tutorial
Ever wanted to create your own Indiana Jones-style poster? If so, you’re in luck. Use a photo of yourself and you’ll feel like a movie star.

Lord of the Rings Poster Photoshop Tutorial
A great tutorial that shows how you can create an authentic looking movie poster.

Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration
The sunburst backgrounds are back, and this time incorporated into the woman’s hair. You’ll learn how to easily design a poster with a nice retro style.

Abstract Poster Effects (Uses Photoshop and Illustrator)
Wow, this tutorial leads you through the process of creating a colorful post in Illustrator and Photoshop! It’s an abstract style that could be used for plenty of purposes.

Political Poster Art in Photoshop
Here you’ll learn how to create a unique political poster.

Blending Images Like a Hollywood Movie Poster
A sepia poster with a large photo blended into another photo. An interesting technique that you could use with your own photos.

Spiderman Poster
The simple spider web creates a nice poster,

Wanted Poster
A fun poster that could be used for fun.

Love Poster
This tutorial combines a lot of different graphics and images (including a sunburst background).

Dirty Grunge Poster
A sunburst background with some drippy spray paint effects.

NoPattern “Jumper” Effect
This tutorial shows how to create an awesome poster with lighting effects to replicate the movie poster for Jumper.

Big Typography Snowboarding Poster
Grunge typography is the primary design element of this poster. Learn how to use it in your own designs by following along.

Design a Sin City Style Poster
By following this tutorial you can create a dark poster inspired by Sin City.

Create an Edgy, Colorful Fashion Photo Manipulated Artwork
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to design a poster with some awesome abstract design elements.

Making of “The World is Bleeding”
This case study walks you through the steps of creating this chilling poster design.

Create a Horrific Flesh Eating Movie Poster in Photoshop
This poster would be ideal for a horror movie or for a Halloween event.

Create a Poster Inspired by the Movie “The Bourne Legacy”
This movie poster can be designed by following along with this step-by-step tutorial.

Create an Electrifying Music Poster with Geometrical Elements in Photoshop
This abstract design uses a lot of color and could be useful for a lot of different types of posters.

Design a Retro Typography Poster in Photoshop
Typography is the focus, but this poster design also features plenty of color and some abstract design elements.

How to Create a Medieval Movie Poster in Photoshop
Here you’ll learn how to create a great movie poster.

How to Create an Intense Movie Poster in Photoshop
This is another useful tutorial for those who are looking to design their own movie posters.

How to Create an Anti-Smoking Ad Concept with Photoshop
This tutorial shows how you can design a poster for advertising purposes.

Create This Gorgeous Moonlight Poster of a Girl Walking on a Railway
This tutorial includes lighting effects and texture to create a nice poster design.

25 Tutorials for Business Card Design

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 05:44:00 +0000

For those who primarily focus on web design, designing for print can be a little bit intimidating at first. If you’ve been wanting to design your own business cards but have been hesitant to make the jump to designing for print, you may find it to be helpful to follow a tutorial. There are a lot of tutorials available that will lead you through the process of designing a print-ready business card. Following a few tutorials will teach you the basics, and then of course you can use that knowledge to create a more personalized design of your own.
Here you’ll find 25 different tutorials (for Photoshop, Illustration, and even InDesign) that teach the essentials of business card design.
Create a Retro-Inspired Business Card

How to Create a Sophisticated Business Card Design

How to Design a Print-Ready Die-Cut Business Card

Create a Print-Ready Business Card Design in Illustrator

Create a Fun Print-Ready Doodled Business Card Design

Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

How to Design an Abstract Business Card in Photoshop

How to Make a Space-Themed Business Card in Photoshop

Make a Swiss Design Inspired Business Card in 30 Minutes

Creating a Cartoony Print-Ready Business Card in Photoshop

Creative Business Cards Illustrator Tutorial

How to Create a Business Card Using Different Blend Modes

How to Create a Creative Card with a Splash of Color and Light Effects in Illustrator

Design a Cool Print-Ready Business Card in Illustrator and Photoshop

How to Create a Colorful Business Card Template in Illustrator

How to Create Old Grunge Style Print-Ready Business Card

Creating a Colorful Vibrant Business Card

Designing a Business Card with InDesign

Business Card Design Walkthrough

How to Design a Stylish Business Card in Photoshop

How to Make a Business Card in Photoshop

How to Create a Stylish Business Card Template in Photoshop

Create a Stylish Business Card

Creating a Dark Business Card

Design a Print-Ready Business Card in Photoshop

25 Illustration/Drawing Tutorials for Photoshop

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:59:00 +0000

30 Outstanding Tutorials for Learning the Art of Character Design

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Sat, 03 Aug 2013 04:31:00 +0000

Characters and mascots are often used by brands, products, and websites to help with identity and communicating a specific message to customers/visitors. For many web designers character design is not an area of particular strength. Fortunately, there are a lot of quality tutorials that are readily available to explain the ins and outs of character design and to lead you through the process of designing a sample character.
Being able to design characters and mascots for your clients can be a great way to allow your services to stand out and to offer something that can make a big impact for your clients. If you’re looking to get started with character design or to improve your skills, here is a collection of 30 tutorials on the subject. This collection includes tutorials for Illustrator and Photoshop, and CorelDRAW is even represented.
Creating a Simple Kawaii Yeti with Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Cool Vector Robot Character in Illustrator

How to Create a Fun, Red-Haired Boy Character (Photoshop)

Draw a Pirate Character in Photoshop

Draw a Cartoon Monster Character in Photoshop

How to Create an 8-Bit Pixel Character in Illustrator

Fun Vector Monster Character Illustrator Tutorial

How to Create a Cool Vector Yeti Character in Illustrator

How to Create a Cute Hairy Vector Monster Character (Illustrator)

Create a Cute Vector Penguin Character in Illustrator

How to Create a Cute Robot Game Sprite Using SSR in Adobe Illustrator

How to Illustrate a Super Cute Monster with Custom Brushes (Illustrator)

How to Create Vector Mascot Characters Using a Graphic Tablet (Illustrator)

How to Create a Web Site Mascot (Illustrator)

Create a Cute Creature Character from a Sketch (Illustrator)

Create a Happy Sun Character (Illustrator)

Create a Cute and Simple Hippo Face (Illustrator)

Draw a Funny Cartoon Character in Photoshop with Shapes and Pen Tool

How to Create a Very Scary but Cute Monster in Illustrator

How to Create a Cute and Cuddly Vector Dinosaur Character in Illustrator

Create a Lady Bug Using Adobe Illustrator

How to Create Angry Birds Characters in Adobe Illustrator

Create a Cute Twitter Bird Character in Illustrator

Design a Business Chick Character (Illustrator)

Create Monstrous Characters with Illustrator CS5′s Bristle Brush

How to Create a Happy Drummer Using Adobe Illustrator and VectorScribe Plugin

Using Gradients to Create a Slick & Fun Cartoon Worm in Adobe Illustrator

How to Draw and Vector a Kawaii Vampire Chibi in Illustrator

How to Create a Geek Zombie Mascot in CorelDRAW

How to Illustrate a Cute Basketball Player with Simple Shapes (Illustrator)

35 Photoshop Tutorials That Teach Photo Manipulation Techniques

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 02:50:00 +0000

Photo manipulations allow you to explore your creativity and create stunning and surreal works of art. If you like experimenting and learning new techniques in Photoshop, following along with some photo manipulation tutorials can be a great exercise. You’ll learn techniques that you can put into practice in your own manipulation experiments, not just for following along with the example in the tutorial.
Here you’ll find links to 35 outstanding tutorials that will teach you how to create a photo manipulation in Photoshop. With the skills and techniques you develop through these tutorials you will be able to stretch your creativity and create beautiful works of your own in Photoshop.
Create a Surreal “Parting of the Sea” Photo Manipulation

Photo Manipulate a Beautiful Snow Queen Scene

Wasted Time – Easy Manipulation Tutorial

Create a Fantasy City Using Architectural Photos

Combine a Crocodile and a Frog in Photoshop

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Create a Battlefield Scene Using Stock Photography in Photoshop

Create a Red Riding Hood Themed Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create a Serene Fantasy Photo Manipulation

Create a Futuristic Matte Painting Landscape

Photo Manipulate a Mysterious Steampunk Man in a Victorian Setting

Creating the Elegant Photo Manipulation “Out of Reach”

Create a Lone Ranger Photo Manipulation

Welcome to Ghost Town – Manipulation Tutorial

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Alone – Surreal Manipulation Tutorial

Dramatic Photo Manipulation Tutorial

Solitude Manipulation Tutorial

Coming Home Photo Manipulation

Advanced Lighting – Manipulation Tutorial

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Create a Post Apocalyptic Scene in Photoshop

Combine a Crocodile with a Car to an Exotic Crocomobile

How to Create a Surreal Gothic Artwork in Photoshop

How to Create An Amazing Space Battle Scene in Photoshop

Create This Breathtaking Photo Manipulation of a Tightrope Dancer in Photoshop

Create “Surreal Head Stack” Photo Manipulation

Snow, Ice, and Overpainting

Create a Fantasy Photo Manipulation

How to Create an Awesome Splashing Sneaker in Photoshop

How to Make Angel Wings and Change Skin Colors in Photoshop

How to Create This “Into the Wild” Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Make a Surreal Loneliness Scene in Photoshop

Song for a Raven – Manipulation Tutorial

Photo Manipulate a Surreal Sky Station Scene

Create This Incredible Surreal Photo Manipulation of a Dancer in Photoshop

How to Create an Autumn Fairy Photo Manipulation

How to Create an Emotional Photo Manipulation of an Angel

Showcase of Flyer Designs for Inspiration

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:55:00 +0000

Looking for some amazing designs to spark your own creativity? We’ve got a collection of more than 31 examples of stunning flyer designs that can be just the spark that you need. Browse through the collection of flyers in this post and you’re sure to be inspired to create something of your own.
This showcase includes a variety of different design styles, so regardless of what you are looking for you will find at least a few examples that can provide some inspiration. These designs come courtesy of many different talented designers from around the world.
Miami MC Culture

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Take it Happy

Sci+Tech & Supernature Showcase

Event Flyer for Mehrblick

Rock You!

Night of the Wolf

Future Sound

Silent Mountains

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Bass and Space

Emerald City

Pravda

Processing Cultural Compounds in Design Chart

Pullens Open Studios

Forever Yelp Loves Atlanta

Mark Eitzel

Elephant

Concert Vol. III

Cine Cabaret

Lucha Libro

5 Years of Akbal Music

Vans Off the Wall Spring Classic

Bassport

Method Presents Island Knights

Aloha State of Mind

Dead Rappers

The Black Panther Party

Cultive Dub

Rock & Roll Pig Roast

Eight Bit Tiger

Paint the Streets

Traumfahrer

30 Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:11:00 +0000

Photoshop opens up all kinds of creative possibilities for designs. Those who are looking to learn more or to improve their own Photoshop skills often look to text effects and styling as an area of focus. Whether you are working on a typographic design or simply using text for something like a poster design, knowing how to create beautiful text effects can have a big impact on the end result of your designs. With that in mind we have compiled this collection of 30 outstanding tutorials that will teach you how to create a wide variety of different types of text effects in Photoshop.
How to Create Colorful Wooden 3D Text

Design Fluid Typography on Watercolor Background in Photoshop

Create a Magma Hot Text Effect in Photoshop

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Create Inspirational 3D Gold Text with Photoshop Extended

Vintage 3D Text Effect

How to Create a Metallic Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

Old Signage in Photoshop 3D

Create a Stitched Denim Text Effect in Photoshop

Create a Neon Text Effect in Photoshop

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50 Creative Ways to Repurpose, Reuse and Upcycle Old Things

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 06:14:00 +0000

If you’re like me, you probably have a lot of old stuff just lying around your house. It’s not doing anything but taking up space, but you’re either too busy (or lazy), sentimental or just have more important things to deal with. Well if you’re looking for a little inspiration or a new DIY project, here are 50 creative ways to repurpose, reues and upcycle old things.
There’s a pretty broad range in this list but hopefully a handful jump out and spark an idea for you and your home!

1. Reuse Toilet Paper Rolls to Organize Cables and Chords

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2. Turn Old Credit Cards Into Guitar Picks

3. Create a Window Cover Using Old Picture Slides

4. Upcycle Old Light Bulbs Into Candles

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5. Repurpose Old CD Holders Into Bagel Storage Device

6. Fill a Box With Skewers and it Becomes an All-Purpose Knife Block

7. Turn Old Picture Frames Into Serving Trays

8. Reuse Ketchup Bottles as a Pancake Squirter

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9. Use Paperclips to Organize Your Cables

10. Turn Old Wrenches Into Wall Hooks

11. Repurpose an Old Suitcase Into a Medicine Cabinet

12. Use Your Old Computer Tower as a Mail Box

13. Use Marbles to Plug Holes in Fences

14. Reuse Old Kleenex Boxes as Bag Dispensers

15. Turn an Old Door Frame Into a Coffee Table

16. Turn Old Bulletin Boards into a Jewellery Organizer

17. Use Post-It Notes as a Collector when Drilling

18. Repurpose a Card Catalogue Into a Mini Bar

19. Use Old Lego Pieces As a Key Holder

20. Upcycle a Shopping Cart Into a Rolling Chair

21. Turn Old Suitcases Into Side Tables

22. Upcycle Old Mugs, Bottles and Bowls Into Light Fixtures

23. Use Lifesavers as Candle Holders on Cakes

24. Use a Paper Clip as a Key Chain and Money Clip

25. Use a Pipe with Valves as a Coat Rack

26. Use Old Books as Shelves

27. Reuse Old Cassette Tape Cases as Gift Card Boxes

28. Use Old CD Cases to Store and Organize Cables

29. Turn an Old Bike Into a Bathroom Counter

30. Turn an Old Mini Fridge Into a TV Stand and Storage Unit

31. Turn Old Utensils Into Wall Hooks

32. Turn an Old Wine Box Into a Shoe Rack

33. Use Shower Hooks in Your Closet as Bag Holders

34. Turn Old Suitcases Into Accordion Folders

35. Turn Old Tennis Rackets Into Mirrors

36. Use Old Picture Frame Corners Like Tiles

37. Turn an Old Door Into a Frame for a Standing Mirror

38. Use an Old Paper Tower Holder as a Ribbon Holder

39. Turn An Old Bathtub Into a Love Seat

40. Use Frisbees To Reinforce Disposable Plates

41. Repurpose Old Barrels Into a Drum Set

42. Use Cupcake Wrappers to Prevent Posicles from Dripping

43. Use An Old Hanging Shoe Rack to Organize Your Pantry

44. Make a Chair from Old Waterskis

45. Use Old Books to Create a Desk

46. Turn a Six Pack Into a Condiment Carrier

47. Transform a Chair into a Towel Rack and Shelf

48. Use A Cupcake Tray as a Jewellery Organizer

49. Use Mason Jars to Carry Your Salad

50. Turn an Old Piano Into an Outdoor Water Fountain

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34 Beautiful and Inspiring Package Designs

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:57:00 +0000

The design of a products packaging can have a significant impact on how consumers view the product. Having skills for creating high quality package designs can help to make your own services more valuable to clients. For designers, creative package design can serve as an excellent source of design inspiration. In this article we’ll showcase 35 examples of beautiful package designs from various designers. You can see more images at the source by clicking on the images or the credit links below the images.

by Charlie Davis

by Hovard Design

by Sanyukta Kothari

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by Esther Li

by Igor Manasteriotti

by Christos Zafeiriadis

by Aleksandra Kulecka

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by Steve Simpson

by Isabela Rodrigues

by Anna Sofia Vasileiou

by Alina Kazachuk

by Michelle Wang

by Simon Langlois

by Noemie Beaulieu

by Keshia Anindita

by Eda Sy

by Ian Gilley

by Isabela Rodrigues

by Alice Bouchardon

by Katalin Bartfai

by Jimmy Gleeson

by Ramiro Carranza

by Anders Drage

by Nicole Merrie

by Melissa Archer

by Amber Newman

by Charlotte Estelle Littlehales

by Happycentro

by Isabela Rodrigues

by Marianne Johnsen

by Eva Bakacs

by Robert Urban

by Matija Blagojevic

by Steve Simpson

Make Your Own Business Card Template Photoshop PSD – With Dimensions and Size

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:53:00 +0000

We need business card to promote our brand with attractive logo & word art to make a stand in the market. Company should recognize us with our creative thinking. It’s just like single word art trying to impress the owner of house to keep doors open. Free business card template design with standard business card dimension(3.5 × 2 inches) helps you to create an effective business identity with unique graphic design.

Today in this article, we will showcase 90 high quality free Photoshop business card templates in .PSD format and you can use these fully editable psd templates to design your own professional business card. Most PSD files comes with fully layered front & back designs and they are CMYK print-ready in 3.5×2 with 0.25” bleed with 300dpi resolution.

1. Business Card PSD Template :- This professional 2 sided template design comes with 3.78×2.4 inches, 300dpi resolution. Template has a modern look and can be used to promote your design agency, business or corporate firms.

2. Business Card PSD Templates (front & back) :- This free printable business card design is avialable in 4 different colors and it is fully editable.

3. Corporate Business Card :- This unique colorful modern style template design is perfect for corporate identity. You can use Adobe Illustrator CS4 or any other free vector graphics editor ti edit template file.
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4. Creative Business Card :- This modern black and white business card design with cool typography art is ideal for design studios, artists and freelancers.

5. Corporate Business Card :- This amazing minimalist style card template with classic texture can be used for corporate companies.

6. Creative Business Card :- This beautiful business card template is ideal for design agency, artists and freelancers.

7. Psd Business Card Mock-Up :- This free psd business card design mock-up is perfect for business owners offering services like printing press, wall and floor textures, paintings etc.
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8. Psd Business Card Mock-Up II :- Here is one more psd business card mock-up with modern and fresh layout design.It is print-ready at 300DPI and you can use Photoshop CS to edit it according to your design needs.

9. Creative Business Card Layout :- A great colorful business card layout design with fresh outlook. You can use Adobe Illustrator CS3 to edit the text and color settings.

10. Black and White Business Card Template :- Two sided template design with standard dimension 88.9 × 50.8 (mm) or 3.5 × 2 (in) plus bleed.

11. Eco friendly Business Card :- This two sided green business card layout design is based on eco friendly theme. This template is ideal for florist running plant nursery and flower shops.

12. Boutique Business Card :- Free two sided customizable business card layout design with black and red color combination. This print ready template design is perfect for Boutiques, fashion designers etc.

13. Stylish Business Card Template :- Two sided print ready stylish Photoshop template design with brown abstract background and refraction effects.

14. Blue Cloudy Sky Business Card Template :- Beautiful two sided print ready Photoshop template design with a nice blue cloudy illustration in the background.

15. Free PSD Business Card Template :- A set of free artistic business card psd templates in 10 different color variations. These colorful psd template designs are print ready and made in 300dpi, CMYK color model.

16. Minimal Business Card Layout PSD :- Simple template design with a nice combination of black and yellow color and thin fonts. Designer have added all possible contact information like Office address, mobile number, web page adress and social media contact list for Twitter, Facebook and Google+ account.

17. Free Company Business Card PSD Template :- This dark layout design is updated with all important information’s like name, work position, email address, contact number and website address.

18. Free Photography Business Card :- Free business card layout design for photographers with two impressive variations on both side.

19. Facebook Business Card PSD Template :- This stylish template design is inspired from Facebook theme and designer used its features very well to grab others attention.

20. SEO Business Card Design :- Unique business card template design adapted from Google theme and dedicated to all webmasters, SEO gurus and service providers.

21. Free Digg Business Card Template :- This two sided business card design is adapted from social news website Digg. I think such social media inspired designs are ideal for freelancers, SEO and SMO service providers.

22. Twitter Business Card PSD Template :- Free Photoshop business card layout design inspired from twitter theme. This template is ideal for social media optimizers and marketing experts.

23. Retro Business Card PSD Template :- This fully layered retro business card psd template is dedicated to graphic designers and graphic is 3.78×2.4 inches with 300dpi resolution.

40 Stunning Doodles for Inspiration

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 03:04:00 +0000

When it comes to art and design sometimes the best way to boost your own creativity is to browse inspirational works of art from others. In this article we’ll showcase 40 examples of amazing doodles. The hand-drawn style is one that can be used in a variety of different ways and on all kinds of different projects. You could incorporate doodled elements in a web design, business card, poster, t-shirt, or just about anything.
The items shown here come from various artists. Most of them are available for larger views at the source, which you can reach by clicking on any of the images or credit links. In some cases, the source will also showcase additional work by the artist.

By lei-melendres

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Photo Manipulation and Digital Art Inspiration, May, 2013

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Mon, 27 May 2013 07:09:00 +0000

Welcome to the second article in the new series that showcases inspirational photo manipulations, and here we are back with some amazing works or art that will amaze you once again, as promised. So without wasting any more time, let’s dig in, and see what we have here for this month.

TV Bots

Computer Man

Light Lady

Revealing Identity

Space Expedition

Guitar Imagination

Zebra Formation

Ice Cream Watch

Holding Cup

The Juggler

Golden Man

Erasing Door

Biker Wolf

Skeleton Family

Astronaut on Fire

Speed Lovers

Young vs Old

Thunderbeast

Insect Ride

Road to Victory

Poison Ivy

Well then, we come to the end of this month’s photo inspiration article, and I hope that you have enjoyed this article, so see you next time. Don’t forget to leave in your comments and let us know your thoughts regarding this collection.

20 Surreal Photo Manipulations for Inspiration

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:42:00 +0000

Many of us love fantasy and seeing photos that cannot be or aren’t real, as they tell us that we can be more than this. As many of us know, such photos are called surreal, and now in this article I am going to present some awesome surreal photo manipulations that you might not have seen before.

So, don’t wait and start scrolling down to see some wonderful and astonishing photos that might leave you wondering why these things cannot be true.
The Flying Saucer

Nature OS

The Explorer

Stellar Tiger

Floating Inside a Bubble

Striking a Matchstick

Flying Pegasus

Water Gods

Reaching for the Stars

Levitating Chairs

Fire Breath

The Sunken City

Flying Trees

Powering the Earth

Crashed Space Ship

Sitting on Clouds

Story Unleashed

The Hollow Soldier

Cycling Through Clouds

The Rat’s Bar

Free Vector Backgrounds

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:27:00 +0000

Free Vector backgrounds can be used to create a website design, colorful banners, posters, print projects and design elements. Designers use vector background illustration files because they don’t have fix resolution you can can easily resize them without loosing the graphic quality. In this article, we will showcase 50 free vector backgrounds for illustrator and you can access the download page by clicking on given images.

1. Futuristic Abstract Background Vector :- It is a futuristic style abstract vector illustration with blue background design.

2. Game Background :- This vector background illustration is created for sports theme and designer added different games like football,bowling, car racing etc.

3. Sweater Texture Background :- This is a cool stock vector ornament for knitting and this illustration is created from sweater textures.

4. Sweater Texture Vector Background :- In this file you will get seamless knit pattern Vector background design for textile.

5. Octagon Abstract Vector Background :- It is an abstract background design illustration with floating octagons.You can use this graphic for personal and commercial use.

6. Abstract Colorful Background Vector Image :- This awesome abstract background illustration file is decorated with colorful circles and bubbles.

7. Free Splatters Vector Shapes :- It is a nice free background illustration with colorful paint splash design. It can be used to create banners, posters, flyers and creative wallpapers.

8. Abstract Golden Bubbles :- It is a free abstract background vector created with amazing gold and red gradient. Designer used white swirls, stars, bubbles of light and few other shapes for decoration.

9. Light Glow Effects :- Here is one more cool abstract background design with amazing light effects. Designer used a nice combination of blue, red and dark backdrop with ribbons, white swirls and swooshes effects.

10. Abstract Squares Vector Collage :- This amazing smokey gray background illustration is design with colorful 8-bit inspired rounded square design and drop shadow. Designer used white grunge textures to softened the background Illustrator.

11. Squares Frame :- It is a light blue vector background with colored rounded squares frame design. This frame section can be used to add product image, logo design or other presentation graphics.

12. Green Clover Background Graphic :- It is free green vector background designed with cool and stylish clover graphics.

13. Autumn Background Vector :- This awesome nature theme background illustration is created with different colored leaves. This background design is perfect for creating seasonal flyers, fall welcoming cards and decorative posters.

14. Colorful Boxes Background :- Light colored background vector with floating rectangles and white dots effect. This graphic can be used as desktop wallpaper or to design postcards.

15. Free Vector Carbon Fiber Background :- It is dark black background vector illustration of carbon fiber or metal texture.

16. Vector Cubic Metal Texture :- Here is one more amazing metal texture background illustration with cubic design.

17. Free Flowers Background Texture Vector :- It is free background vector illustration created with simple flower textures. This seamless vector can be used to design banners, wallpapers and other digital art works.

18. Urban Card Background Design :- This is free urban card background vector illustration created with colorful triangles, numbers,lines and letters.

19. Underwater Abstract Vector :- Free abstract underwater background vector with glittering bubbles in a dark liquid scene.

20. Free Vector Roses Decoration :- This free vector illustration is created with a collection of rose flowers, buds and petal arrangements. If you are looking for simple clean background with flowers design then you can try this one.

21. Free Abstract Background Vector Pack :- This set contains four beautiful abstract vector backgrounds in different colors ( blue, green, pink and orange) and design versions.

22. Free Repeatable Black Vector :- In this pack you will get a free seamless vector pattern with black floral elements and dark gray background.

23. Scientific Background :- This black vector background can be used for scientific theme illustrations. Designer used blackboard design and written various chemical formulas on it with white text.

24. Strand Background :- Free vector background design created from different color strands. You can use this illustration to add beautiful retro look and vintage style to your artwork.

25. Colorful Ripples Background :- Free black background vector illustration with beautiful combination of colorful wavy lines and circles.

26. Colorful Tiled Background :- This free tiled mosaic vector illustration is designed with the large number of small colorful squares. This beautiful abstract vector background can be used to create wallpapers banners or background designs.

27. White Flower Pattern Vector :- Beautifully designed white vector background graphic with lots of colorful simplistic flowers. If you are searching for free floral seamless patterns then you must try this one.

28. Purple Floral Background :- It is free light purple vector background graphic and it is decorated with lots of abstract swirls and floral design elements.

29. Abstract Violet Background :- It is high quality encapsulated post script background design with excellent looking rumpled vector surface..

30. Abstract Flowers Background Vector :- Here is one more free abstract floral background vector illustration with colorful leaves.

31. Abstract Design Flower Vector Art :- Free beautiful flower vector background graphic with light color leaves and blue water drops.

32. Abstract Blue Style Flower Vector Illustration :- Light blue flower vector background illustration decorated with colorful leaves and circles.

33. Vector Colorful Floral Design Graphic :- Here is one more light blue floral illustration with colorful leaves and white dots design.

34. Blue Stage Lights Vector Background :- Perfect vector illustration for designing music background, posters, flyers and party theme projects.

35. Transparent Heart Background :- Free Grey background vector illustration with lots of colored heart shapes in transparent design. This graphic can be used for Valentine’s day theme.

36. Abstract Green Design Vector Background :- Free green vector background design created with beautiful flowers, glitters,bubbles and other decorations.

37. Abstract Red Vector Background Graphic :- Free red abstract vector illustration with lots of waves and white dot patterns.

38. Abstract Wave Lines Pink Background :- Free pink vector background design with lots of abstract wave lines.

39. Vector Heart Collage :- In this pack you will get amazing free heart collage background illustration with colorful ribbon shapes.

40. Free Spring Vector Backgrounds :- In this pack you will get 15 beautiful free vector backgrounds for illustrator. These graphics are created on spring season and nature theme.

41. Vector Social Media Background :- Free vector illustration with lots of social media websites icons and big blue twitter bird.

42. Colorful Floral Illustration :- Free colorful background vector graphic with lots of flowers, leaves and other decorations.

43. Steel and Nature Textures :- In this pack you will get six free steel and nature vector textures. You can use these patterns to create beautiful background graphics and wallpapers.

44. Colorful Psychedelia Background :- Free colorful background vector illustration made up of circles and spheres bursting with psychedelic colors.

45. City Square Landscape :- Beautiful city landscape background vector illustration with various objects like man riding a bike, aerostatic globe, square seat and street light.

46. Cutty Dog :- Free dog illustration graphic with great vector sun ray background design and decorative stars.

47. Feminine Feature Scenery :- Free vector illustration of feminine background decorated with stage, flowers and curtains. This will work great if you are looking for pink background with girly design needs.

48. Elegant Rooms Background :- This pack contains six high resolution free vector backgrounds of empty room with elegant walls. These graphic are created by mixing various popular textures like wood walls and floral patterns.

49. Backgrounds For Flyers :- In this pack you will get four colorful free vector backgrounds with raylights and symbols radials. These graphics comes in four excellent party theme colors (blue, orange, red, turquoise) and you can use them for creating party flyers and posters.

50. Carbon Fiber Background :- Here is one more free realistic metallic style carbon fiber texture design for technology and other digital artwork design projects.

51. Vector Backgrounds :- In this pack you will get two fully customizable free vector backgrounds for illustrator and they comes with neatly organized grouped layers.

52. Guilloche Elements :- In this pack you will get 35 free vector backgrounds in both Vector (AI) and PNG images formats. You can easily increase the size of these decorative guilloche elements and use them as background designs for your artwork.

53. Beautiful Cartoon Background Vector :- Beautiful background illustration with girl cartoon and other decorative items like flowers, butterflies, patterns, leaves etc.

54. Mosaic Light Background :- Free background illustration with cool combination of blue and purple colors.

55. Blue Splash Background :- It is a scalable blue splash background illustration with colored squares. This illustration is designed with Adobe Illustrator CS3 and you can use it to create cool wallpapers designs, flyers, posters etc.

56. Grunge Ultima Lines :- Here is one more grungy stock vector background illustration made in Adobe Illustrator CS3.

57. Floral Background Vector :- This is a free black colored background illustration with white vector flowers designed in Illustrator CS3.

58. Summer Sale Circles Vector Graphic :- Free summer sale background illustration decorated with colorful circles and discount margin texts.

59. Hair Style Vector Graphic :- Free hair style background illustration for hairdressers or beauty saloons offering girl hair dressings.

60. Birds in Love :- Free love birds vector graphic decorated with lovely heart shape and simple background color. This cute love birds illustration can be used to create greeting cards, wallpapers and love theme artwork projects.

61. Orange Abstract Background :- This orange abstract vector background illustration can be used as background for presentation, ecard, business card, folder designs etc.

62. Vector Bird Wallpaper :- Free vector bird wallpaper illustration for your design projects and it is free for personal and commercial design works.

63. Cool Background Images for Web Designers :- In this pack you will get three awesome free vector backgrounds futuristic design created with blends, lines, blur effects and gradients.

64. Free Abstract Stock Vector Backgrounds :- This pack contains 5+ beautiful abstract background illustration files in eps vector format. These illustrations can be used to design backgrounds for blogs, websites, social network like twitter, youtube, facebook and myspace.

65. Red Grunge Background :- Free red vector background design with grunge effect.

66. Abstract Urban Background Texture :- Free illustration of urban abstract background texture for your art and designs.

67. Free Urban Background :- Here is one more cool urban background vector illustration for your design projects.

68. Colorful vector Background :- This pack contains two colorful free vector backgrounds with nice light effects and file is in EPS format. These stock vectors can be used as background design for music theme artwork.

69. Abstract Vector Leaf Background :- Free high quality background vector illustration of leaves. Amazing abstract vector have some realistic water drops on them.

70. Free Red Starburst Vector :- Free red vector background with lots of colorful rays and some small star elements coming out of it.

71. Vector Disco Background :- Free disco vector background illustration with lots of people silhouettes, rounded square designs and light effect. This vector graphic can be used for creating party flyers, banners, posters, wallpapers and other digital artwork designs.

72. High Resolution Vector Wallpapers :- This set contains four large free vector background illustrations in different colors ( blue, green, black and orange ) and these files comes in .Ai , .SVG , .Jpg formats. You can use these illustrations as desktop wallpapers or use them to design banners, website backgrounds and other design printing projects.

73. Magic Lights :- Free abstract background illustration with magic colorful lights. This background can be helpful for party and dance theme design project.

74. Valentine’s Day Vector Graphic :- Beautiful and shiny heart background vector illustration dedicated to Valentine’s Day.

75. Funky Background Vector :- This free background illustration can be used as desktop and mobile wallpapers. You can also use it to create beautiful background for websites, blogs, twitter, YouTube and other social media networks.

76. Colorful Backgrounds :- This pack contains three colorful free vector backgrounds in the form of 3D cubes, lines and dots. They are in EPS format.

77. Love Vector Illustration :- Free romantic love illustration made up with lovely couple silhouettes, planet, tree and starts. This awesome love vector illustration can be used for designing flyers, banners, posters, wallpapers and any other digital artwork design.

78. Abstract Background :- Free vector background illustration in abstract style. You can edit your text, logo or any other product info for advertising. You can use this illustration for personal and commercial projects.

79. Abstract Background Vector Art Graphic :- Here is one more cool free abstract background illustration for printing projects or any other digital artwork.

10 Apps for Working Remotely

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:43:00 +0000

Teamwork is about sharing ideas, finding better solutions, and having more productive work. Collaboration tools for designers are essential to improve their work with other team members and clients. The apps listed below will let you share your ideas and designs, so that you can communicate easily with clients or other co-workers.

FileSquare

Impress your clients with prototypes and simple feedback. With FileSquare you can share your work with developers and others designers, show it to clients and collect feedback with clear annotations in real time. This application could also perform usability tests with mobile interactive mockups. FileSquare is a tool for web agencies, software houses, freelance developers and designers.

IdeaScale

IdeaScale is a tool to practice brainstorming even at a distance. Designers should have a lot of good ideas. Why not to try a bit of brainstorming, involving co-workers everywhere? If you are heading for bright, creative ideas, IdeaScale is the perfect application. It can improve the generation of new ideas, comments, opinions. IdeaScale offers a suggestion box software and a platform to share, vote, and discuss feedback.

Marqueed

Share images the easy way with Marqueed. To allow a team to collaborate in the best way it may become necessary to share images. Marqueed does this with a simple drag n’ drop move. There are many other features, all interesting and essential in this kind of applications. However, there is also the possibility to work with external tools, as Google and, maybe, in the next months, Dropbox.

Cage

Keep track of revisions, upload images and videos, archive old projects with Cage. Cage is a very well known application for designers. It’s a collaborative tool that lets designers share their work. You can upload images or videos, create to-do lists, manage and assign tasks, and organize revisions. An interesting tool of Cage allows you to have contextual discussions on a frame or video directly in the timeline. Clients could approve work within the application. And when the project is over, you can archive it.

Draftboard

Draftboard is the collaboration tool made by designers for designers. This is another good application, with a simple interface, that allows easy upload of multiple file types. It makes the process of approving mockups between client and creative people very easy. The app lets people add comments and notes directly to the drafts, share the drafts, and create to-do lists. Draftboard offers a free plan and a free trial on paid plans.

Piktochart

Useful infographics for everybody. It’s likely that you’ll need infographics at some point in time, maybe for a presentations. Piktochart can be useful to design a professional, but quick, infographic. It has a powerful, very good editor and more than 50 design themes. It offers a free trial.

ConceptShare

A lot of tools in a professional app. ConceptShare is very good for sharing files and communicating. It’s a fast tool to collaborate on creative work online. Designers in different places could work together by uploading documents, commenting on them, and receiving feedback. ConceptShare is one of the oldest collaborative apps for creative professionals. Its interface is easy and elegant, while the app contains dozens of features. A free trial is available.

Conceptboard

Conceptboard is a simple white board at your service. Conceptboard looks a bit like Scribblar, but it is a bigger, more professional application. It offers the typical collaboration tools, as the possibility to draw freehand, to upload a document, image or other file, to edit them, to share ideas and files and to collaborate. Another good point of Conceptboard is the user-friendly interface.

Canvasdropr

Canvasdropr is the application that make navigating easy. Images, photos, MS Office documents get uploaded fast with Canvasdrop. The name of the app tells how it works: you “drop” on the “canvas”, as it were a blank sheet of paper ready to be filled. The interface is very simple and friendly to navigate. As in Marqueed, you can use external tools, as Google Drive, Instagram, Flickr, etc.

Cozimo

Cozimo is an elegant and friendly app for team work. Do you want to add notes to videos? Cozimo is the perfect application. Obviously, it is also possible to add notes to images and organize virtual interactive meetings in which team review projects. Another feature of this elegant and friendly app is the chance to specify the role of each member of the team and make files accessible accordingly.

5 Light and Free Image Editors

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:22:00 +0000

While Photoshop, Fireworks, and Illustrator may be the most feature-rich and popular options for web and graphic designers, sometimes there may be situations where a lighter option would be preferred. Opening Photoshop for very simple image edits isn’t always the most efficient option. I have searched and reviewed these 5 image editors that are easily available for download. These software are light, fast, really easy to use, and have all the necessary image editing tools required for simple jobs.
Now I do not disagree that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks are the life blood of the industry. But having said that, all these software are also complicated for some users, strains the CPU, have really large sizes, and most importantly carry a price tag. So if you are a small time user who wants to perform relatively simple edits to images, you would certainly hesitate in shelling out for such software. And that’s quite understandable.
After all, why would someone pay hundreds of dollars for Photoshop if he/she just has to change the color contrasts or lighting of an image?
Also the number of available free image editing software is also quite large. So large that it may confuse you beyond measure. In an effort to work around this confusion we present yo 5 free image editing software that are light, fast, easy to use, and gets the job done.

1. FastStone Image Viewer

This software meets all the criteria that we have set for it. It is light (only 5.13 MB), fast, free, and have loads of important features. The most striking amongst them is its ‘full screen’. When you go full screen and move your mouse to the edges of the screen, different types of tool menus will drop down.
The available features include Clone stamp, different types of lighting adjustment, a screen capture tool, conversion to grayscale, sepia, and negative colors, red-eye removal, an image comparing facility, a great image viewer, a versatile slideshow feature, and some other significant smaller features. In addition, this software has an astonishing amount of tools and controls to retouch the color of an image.
Now when I list down the features like that, it may seem very long, but when you compare it to Photoshop and other such software, it lags behind by miles in a number of features. But the comparison with Photoshop is unfair. This software is only 5.3 MB and when compared to size of size of Photoshop, which is in GBs. It’s beyond belief to see so many features packed in so less a size. This software has an easy user interface, is light weight, and works fast making it the best software for performing simple edits.

2. PhotoScape

PhotoScape is another free image editing software that is steadily gaining popularity among professional photographers and designers. It has a great feature of converting digital camera image formats like RAW into PNG, JPEG and other main stream image formats. Just like FastStone, it is also a great image viewer and has the standard image editing features such as clone stamp, crop tool, lighting adjustment tool, and color adjustment tools. However the most important features of PhotoScape are batch editing functionality, a color picker tool, and file rename tool. It’s a little bulkier than FastStone, around 20 MB (still way too lighter than Photoshop), but the number of features are comparable to its size.

3. IrfanView

First launched in 1996, IrfanView has now become a widely accepted choice of an image viewer by many photographers and designers. It is really small (1.6 MB), fast, compact, and really easy to use. IrfanView is one of the best options to view PSD files without opening up Photoshop, which takes lots of time to open. Thus it’s a very useful tool in watching the contents of multiple PSD files at a glance. It is also a good image editor with powerful and efficient conversion tools that can convert multiple files at once. It’s a great tool for embedding a watermark, cutting, cropping, effects like sharpen and blur, and metadata editing.

4. Inkscape

Inkscape is an open source freeware that could be used to create and edit vector graphic files. It is the best free option to create and edit SVG files and have features that are comparable to bulkier and paid software such as Adobe Illustrator and Freehand. Its size is only 34 MB and the image sizes it creates are highly optimized to facilitate usage in web. Inkscape is small, fast and light. It uses an open source vector graphic format known as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and is already a choice of web-designers for creating vector images. Its number of features is not comparable to illustrator, but it has some features that illustrator doesn’t have; such as direct editing of SVG sources, one click paint bucket fill, and direct painting of objects.

5. GIMP

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is your all inclusive, free solution to all types of basic image editing needs. It’s free, fast, small (only 77 MB), and has so many tools that will make a graphic designer forget Photoshop. While that might be an intended exaggeration but atleast dramatically reduce his/her dependency on it. For all other non-graphic designers, it is a complete image editor with all the most used tools of Photoshop and could be used to perform varieties of edits to all types of raster image formats. And the best part is that its open source, thus free for use.

Photoshop Chalk Brushes for Photoshop

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:33:00 +0000

Photoshop chalk brushes are used for developing excellent textures, digital painting, drawings and especially to add rough chalky effects. If you are bored with the default Photoshop chalk brush and want to try some new strokes then this collection is just for you. In this article, we will showcase 50+ chalk brushes for Photoshop and you can access the download pages by clicking on given images.

1. Chalk Brush Pack :- This set contains 10 chalk brushes for Photoshop and they can be used to add great dusty and crumbly feel to your designs.

2. Photoshop Chalk Board Brushes :- In this set you will get 15 high resolution chalkboard Photoshop brushes. They can be used to apply a chalkboard effect in Photoshop and you can also use them for adding amazing textures to your digital paintings or other design elements.

3. Crayon and Chalk Brushes :- This set contains total 20 free brushes and this includes 9 crayon brushes with 11 Photoshop chalk brushes. They are compatible with Windows and Macintosh systems and working fine with Photoshop 7.0 and above versions.

4. Chalk Charcoal and Graphite Brushes :- This fully customizable brush pack contains seven Photoshop chalk brushes, four Photoshop charcoal brush, four dry brushes and five sketchy graphite brushes.

5. Chunky Chalk Brush :- In this pack you will get three beautiful chalk brush for Photoshop in .ABR file. These brushes can be used for creating digital paintings pr to create some cool texture effects in your design work.

6. Chalk Pastel Brushes :- This set contains 20 free downloadable Photoshop chalk and Chalk pastel brushes. They can be helpful to enhance your strokes in digital paintings and other drawing projects.

7. Photoshop CS Chalk Brushes :- This pack contains free Photoshop chalk brushes in three different sizes with blackboard brush, eraser brush and you can use them to add chalk effect in Photoshop.

8. Chalk Decorative Brushes :- This set contains 10 high resolution decorative chalk brushes for Photoshop CS3 and above versions. These free brushes can be used for both personal and commercial projects.

9. Chalk Brush Set :- Here is one more amazing free brush pack and you can use them to apply chalk effects in Photoshop.

10. School Dayz Sketches :- In this pack you will get 27 high resolution sketch brushes designed with chalk effects in Photoshop. These free brushes can be used with Photoshop 7+, Photoshop Elements 2+ and Gimp 2.2.6+.

11. Chalk Brush :- This brush pack contains two variants of the chalk brushes and you can use them for creating nice textures and to apply chalk or pastel look in your design work.

12. My Brush Pack :- This set contains useful collection of downloadable adobe Photoshop brushes for digital painters. Brush pack includes various brushes like: Chalk Brush, Standard Brush, Lighting Brush, Detailing Painting Brush, Glass Brush, Texture Brush, Pore Brush, Hair Brush/Smudge Brush, Fur Brush, Hard Ink Brush, Debris Brush, Cloud Brush, Speckle Brush and Abrams Lighting Brush.

13. New Chalk Brush Pack :- Here is one more beautiful brush pack dedicated to photoshop artists and digital painters. This free brush pack includes: Pallet knife mk.2, Chalk brush, Ground texture brush, Clumped leaves, Palm leaf brush, Circle brush, Dot texture brush, Building brush, Textured pallet knife, Ripple brush, Leaves brush, Rocky grass brush, Abstract texture brush, Shape brush and Fire escape brush.

14. Natural Media Brushes :- In this pack you will get 70 free Photoshop brushes created from scan of random ink, chalk, pencil and marker strokes.

15. Valentine’s Doodle Brush Set :- In this pack you will get 50+ beautiful chalk doodle brushes for Photoshop CS5 and they are dedicated to Valentine’s day theme.

16. Chalk Scribble PS Brushes :- In this pack you will get 15 chalk scribbles brushes and they are free to use for personal and commercial projects.

17. Scratchboard Brush Presets :- In this pack you will get 10 Scratchboard rake brushes for Photoshop CS5 in .tpl file. You need to load these brushes as Brush Preset in Photoshop CS5 or other versions.

25 Amazing Winter Photos to Inspire

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:05:00 +0000

It’s the time of year when holiday music is playing in most places, and winter scenes are prominent in advertising and on the web. Some websites will even change or tweak their designs to have a winter or Christmas theme. Winter photographs can play a significant role in providing inspiration for your own winter designs, and with that in mind we decided to compile this collection of beautiful photos.
In this post you’ll find 25 outstanding examples of winter photography. The photos come from various photographers, and if you’re interested in seeing larger versions of the photos or more work from the photographers, click on the photos or the credit links and you will be led to the source. Hopefully these photos can provide some inspiration that can be used in your own work this winter.

Photo credit: Mikko Lagerstedt

Photo credit: Navid Baraty

Photo credit: Mikko Lagerstedt

Photo credit: Vladimir Zivkovic

Photo credit: Krystal Sweeney

Photo credit: Lori C.

Photo credit: Christos Tsoumplekas

Photo credit: Giovanni Orlando

Photo credit: Eric

Photo credit: Mathias Erhart

Photo credit: Oliver Latta

Photo credit: Jakub Polomski

Photo credit: Liliana

Photo credit: Hartwig HKD

Photo credit: Trey Ratcliff

Photo credit: Ari Salmela

Photo credit: Grytr

Photo credit: Michelle Jones

Photo credit: lunamom58

Photo credit: Giovanni Orlando

Photo credit: Marko Kivela

Photoshop Texture Brushes – 500+ Free Textures

adilraja83@gmail.com (Unknown) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:51:00 +0000

Photoshop texture brushes are excellent resource for adding subtle effects and textures to your graphics in just few steps. These texture brushes can be used for creating cool backgrounds for websites, banners or touching up your photographs and painting realistic skin textures. In this post we have showcased 50 texture Photoshop brush packs and I hope that you will find them useful.

How to install brushes in Photoshop :- Download your favorite Photoshop brush pack and paste them in folders mentioned below (according to your OS). Now go on brush tool and load new brushes.
Installing Brushes in Windows – C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop\Presets\Brushes.
Installing Brushes in Mac – /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Presets/Brushes.

Photoshop Texture Brushes

Note: All images are linked to the download source.

1. Fractalized Grunge Texture Brushes :- This set contains five high resolution vintage fractalized grunge brushes in set and you can use them for personal and commercial design projects.

2. Assorted Texture Set :- This free brush pack contains 15 high res brushes created from various textures stock photos.

3. Scratch Texture Brushes :- This set contains 17 brushes made in Photoshop 7 and designer also provided stock photos in zipped folder.

4. Crumpled Paper Texture Photoshop Brushes :- In this pack you will get 9 free high-res brushes created from of crumpled paper stock photos.

5. Random Texture Brushes :- This pack contains 16 Photoshop brushes created from various textures like dirty carpet, velvet, corderoy, wall and much more.

6. Random Texture Brushes II :- This second update contains 29 free brushes created from different random textures. This set is compatible with Photoshop 7+, Gimp 2.2.6+ and Photoshop Elements 2+.

7. Light Grunge Texture Brushes :- In this pack you will get 14 high resolution brushes and you can use them to add the subtle grunge effect to your design work.

8. Acrylic Texture Brushes :- This set contains 15 high res brushes and size is around 2500px wide. This brush set can be helpful for digital artists to creating cool background surface for paintings or graphics.

9. Wood Floor Texture Brushes :- This set contains 8 free brushes created from wooden floor stock photos and made in Photoshop CS3.

10. Texture Brushes :- In this pack you will get 10 free large brushes and can be used for making new background designs or desktop wallpapers.

11. Texture Brushes for Photoshop :- In this pack you will get 8 free high resolution texture brushes for Photoshop CS2 and CS4 version.

12. Old Wall Textured Brushes :- This set contains 10 old grungy wall textured brushes and they are 300 dpi measuring 1024 x 1024pixels each.

13. Paper Textures :- This set contains 5 free texture brushes for Photoshop CS3 and they are 2500 x 2500 pixels in size.

14. Photoshop Texture Brushes :- This pack contains 2000px x 2000px brushes and small brushes with shape dynamics for Photoshop CS3, CS4 AND CS5.

15. Brick and Mortar Textures :- This pack contains 12 large (2500 pixels) brick texture brushes for Photoshop CS3.

16. HD Lost Texture Brushes :- In this pack you will get 10 high resolution texture brushes for photoshop cs5.

17. Subtle Textured Ps Brushes :- This pack contains 8 high resolution subtle textured brushes for Photoshop CS5.

18. Subtle Grunge Painting Texture Brushes :- This pack contains 15 high res texture brushes and 20 subtle grunge painting stock photos.

19. Tempest Texturizers :- In this pack you will get 18 free brushes with different shape and designs.

20. Paper Textures Set :- In this pack you will get 10 high res paper texture Photoshop brushes and they are compatible with CS3 and above versions.

21. Leaf Textures Set :- In this pack you will get 10 free leaf texture brushes for Photoshop CS3 and above.

22. Grunge Textures Set :- This pack contains 10 300dpi 1000x1000px large grunge brushes for Photoshop CS3 and above.

23. Free Photoshop Texture Brushes :- In this pack you will get 8 free brushes created from stock photos of leather seats and old ladder. All brushes are high quality 2500px and you can use them to create nice background design or desktop wallpapers.

24. Wildlife Texture Brushes :- In this pack you will get some amazing free brushes created from fur, feathers and scales.

25. Sponge Textures Photoshop Br :- This set contains 10 high res brushes and compatible with Photoshop 7 to CS4, PS Elements 2+ and GIMP 2.2.6+.

26. Texture Brush Pack :- In this pack you will get 5+ free brushes made from scratched plastic, lichen x3, scratched varnished wood and created in Photoshop Elements 9.

27. Speckle Brush Pack :- In this pack you will get 10 free brushes created for Adobe Photoshop 7.0+. These brushes are perfect for adding new textures into your graphics.

28. Fabrika Textures :- In this pack you will get 33 texture brushes for Photoshop 7 and above. These brushes are varied in size and created from foam, paint, flooring, carpets, fabrics etc.

29. Monoprint Texture Brushes :- This set contains 23 texture brushes for Photoshop CS. These brushes are in 72dpi quality (A3) and compatible with Photoshop CS or above versions.

30. Skin and Hair Texture Brushes :- In this pack you will get 8+ free skin and hair texture brushes Photoshop designed by castrochew and he recommend to use a graphic table for better results.

31. Photoshop Texture Brush Set :- This pack contains 5 free brushes in which top two brushes are 2000+ px and the bottom 3 are various sizes, meant for rougher fill textures.

32. Photoshop Texture Brush Set I :- This pack also contains 5 free brushes for Photoshop and you can use these royalty free brushes for anything.

33. Grid Brushes :- In this pack you will get 10 free brushes for Photoshop 7, Photoshop CS+ and Gimp. These brushes are 2500 pixels large in size and can be sued for creating sci-fi effects.

34. Grass Brush Pack :- In this set you will get 10 high resolution brushes created from seamless grass textures. These brushes are compatible with Photoshop 7, Photoshop CS+ and Gimp new versions.

35. Rock Brushes Set :- This set contains 10 free brushes and they are created from rock textures. These brushes are 2500 pixels in size to help out with background texture in your design project.

36. Fabric Texture Brushes :- This set contains 11 high resolution fabric texture brushes for Photoshop. You can use them for adding new textures in your design work or to create cool background designs.

37. Subtle Grunge Textures :- In this pack you will get 42 free grunge texture brushes for Photoshop. These brushes can be used for adding realistic textures design in your artwork.

38. Texturitus Photoshop Brushes :- In this pack you will get 35 different texture brushes for personal use. They are compatible with Photoshop 7 and above versions including Elements, CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS etc.

39. Texturitus 2 :- In this pack you will get 31 random texture brushes and zip folder also include stock photo pack. This brush pack is compatible with Photoshop 7+ and with Elements too.

40. Skin Texture Photoshop Brushes :- This set contains 30 texture brushes from three separate brush packs. You can use these brushes for creating realistic flesh and skin textures for your photography or digital art.

Blogspot Templates for Photographers

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Blogspot Photography templates are used to showcase stock photographs and to create a nice web portfolio free of cost. Photography themes are mostly developed in gallery style layout designs, which improve the presentation of their photographs. Today in this article, we will showcase free photography blog templates for blogspot users and you can access the download page by clicking on given images.

1. Photography Blog Theme :- It is highly customized free blogspot template for photographers with cool jquery header slideshow. Designer used Blogger’s built in Template Designer with minimal HTML/CSS modifications and you can easily edit most elements of the layout design with built in designer tool.

2. Axis Blogger Template :- It is a free photography blogspot template for photographers with dark black background design and tumble style post. Layout design comes with a very nice fullscreen slideshow and you can use template to showcase your photographs, graphic or other digital artwork.

3. Shutter Shot Blogger Template :- Here is one more free blogspot template for photographers with little different options comparing to above one. This layout design can be used to develop a photography websites or to create a web portfolio and showcase your artwork.

4. Wallbase Blogger Template :- This amazing blogspot photography template design is adapted from wordpress layout. Layout design is widget ready and updated with all new features needed for photo blogs or portfolio sites.

5. Nomad Blogger Template :- It is 2 columns gallery style blogger photography template designs adapted from wp theme. Layout design has a featured slideshow developed using jquery and it is perfect for photographers or graphic designers to showcase digital artwork.

6. Pegasus Blogger Template :- Here is one more beautiful gallery style photography template for blogger with black and white background layouts. This 2 columns layout design is updated with all useful features like: drop down menu, page navigation, social widget for content promotion.

7. London Creative :- It is 2 columns free photography template for blogspot users with amazing red and black layout design. Theme comes with unique slideshow slider to showcase your artwork and stock images. This theme is perfect for photo blogs and for showcasing graphic designs , digital paintings and illustrations.

8. Simplex Photo Gallery Template :- It is single page free photography template for blogspot with dark black background design. Layout design is widget ready and you can only upload one stock photo in each blogpost. This template is perfect for photographers and digital painter to just showcase their work or create portfolio site.

9. Glamour Neue :- It is gallery style blogger template dedicated to photography niche. Photographers, artists and graphic designers can use this cool layout design to showcase their artwork and to create online portfolio.

10. Focus Point Theme :- It is a gallery style photography blog templates for blogger to showcase your artwork and stock photos. Layout design has four columns footer section and supports popular posts thumbnails. If you are looking for girly style background design for your photo blog then you can try it or you can easily change its background textures by replacing its background image url with your texture links.

11. Simplex Photography 2 :- It is professional template design created for blogger photography blogs.It is a free photo blog template for blogspot users which show full gallery in the homepage and show like blog post for each image in gallery.

12. Simplex Portfolio :- It is gallery style blogspot template design for photographers and graphic designers. This layout design is easy to configure via widget system and you can use menu widget for adding new sub categories for your photo galleries.

13. Picfotoplate – Template for Photographers :- It is gallery style photo blog template for blogspot users and it comes with nice dark background texture design. Blog layout is perfect for design studios, artists, digital painters and photographers to showcase their work.

14. Lightroom Advanced :- It is gallery styled free blogger photography template with dark black background. Layout has 2 style template designs with great feature and it is suitable for photographers and graphics designers for showcasing artwork.

15. Lugas Blogger Template :- It is 2 columns free gallery styles blogger template and the developer of this layout took inspiration from social networking website “Pinterest“. Blog theme is perfect for photographers and graphic designers to create photologs and creative studios for inspirations.