Incorporating nature-inspired elements in web layouts is a popular design trend. By making use of organic parts of nature such as trees, leaves, the sun, the sky, and fauna, you can give your designs a more realistic and down-to-earth look and feel.
In this collection, you’ll find some of the best web designs that take inspiration from nature.
Textures are used to create some of the most beautiful photoshop works and web design. Here we will look at a wide variety of textures picked from the best places on the web, these textures are free to use by the terms specified by their respective owners. Let us know your best pick!
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create an interesting photo effect by taking an image and turning it into a series of interweaving strips. We’ll be using a few layers and layer masks in the tutorial, as well as a couple of clipping masks and a layer style, and we’ll be turning on Photoshop’s grid to help us out.
The first time I saw this Photoshop effect, I thought “Wow, there’s some really advanced stuff going on there!”. But as with most things in life, after thinking about it for a few minutes, I realized just how simple it really is, as we’ll see!
Here’s the photo I’ll be using for this tutorial. It’s the same image I used in the Ghosting An Image tutorial but it works great with this effect as well:
You want a new business card, don’t you? Of course. This is the most important element of your visual identity. It’s the first thing people see when they meet you.
Here is a collection of cool business cards to inspire you.
50 Excellent Free Wordpress Themes. Over a year has passed and Wordpress development has progressed very fast and gained even more in popularity. We felt it was the right time to put together an updated post and offer our readers the best free themes that Wordpress can offer.
High quality free Wordpress Themes have become harder and harder to find in the past year, with the influx of premium themes, more and more designers and developers are selling themes (and rightly so, they do amazing work). But, that aside, the quality is certainly there, and we are sure you will be impressed with this Wordpress theme compilation for 2009.
Simulating any material in Photoshop and getting it to look real is largely a matter of surface texture and lighting. This tutorial will show you a very easy method for making rock and stone that’s incredibly photorealistic.
No special artistic skills are required here. We’ll just be using Photoshop’s built-in filters and tools. Here’s a look at what we’ll be creating:
When choosing one product over another, the design of the packaging probably influences your decision far more than you realize.
Effective packaging design breaks away from the standard rules and conventions that we are accustomed to, giving the product a unique edge to stand out from the rest.
The packaging should appeal to your target market. It’s also vital to ensure that you’re conveying the necessary information about the contents and quality of the product, while triggering the desired emotion in your customer.
Here are 50 beautifully designed packages that you can draw inspiration from.
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Still looking for the very best free Wordpress themes? You’ve already come to the right place. Things left to do are just browsing, previewing, (and maybe directly) downloading and using our high-quality themes. We wish you enjoy your WP themes journey on our site.
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.
In this selection we’re glad to present you Junction, Nadia Serif, Nilland, CartoGothic Std, Bergamo Std, Comic Serif, Birra Stout, Vegur and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time.
James Kazan resides in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He took his first photo class in 1967 where he learned to shoot and develop film using Graflex 4×5’s. Mr. Kazan continued on to the university level, where he worked with large format, 35mm, film, and video. James is a graduate of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He spent his entire career around cameras working the past thirty-three years as a television engineer at the national and local levels. Mr. Kazan has recently retired from Fox Television, having previously worked and freelanced for ABC, CBS, and NBC television networks. James has been quoted as saying, “Well, it sure beat working for a living”.
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