Monthly Archives: July 2008
- July 26, 2008
- Nice Cork Texture - Free Download at stock.xchng
A cool freebie you can download from the free stock photo resource, stock.xchng: Cork Texture.
The original image is a little strong, but it’s a very large size and I’m sure you’ll be able to adjust it to your liking with a little Photoshopping Lately a lot of beautiful website designs use textures in the [...]
- July 17, 2008
- Learn Adobe Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days!
Yep, you read right! iStockDiary has started something unique, it’s a Learn Illustrator CS3 in 30 Days Crash Course. So far only 3 days of reading material are up, but there’s going to be one more lesson added each day.
If you haven’t learned Illustrator yet, get goin’!
- July 16, 2008
- Designing Vector Flourishes in Photoshop
Taken from aivault:
After recieving many requests of how to create floral brushes in photoshop here is a tutorial , this tutorial has a source psd file with all the shapes in layers as wellas a brushes file which we will be creating by the end of the tutorial.Myself being a beginner with vector stuff I [...]
- July 15, 2008
- 27 Best Photoshop Web Design Tutorials
Taken from DzineBlog:
For beginner web designers - design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design!, Here is a collection of 27 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website. Some of them are really good!Definitely worth a look if you’re just getting into designing web templates [...]
- July 13, 2008
- Kreativuse: Creative Resources and Inspiration
Kreativuse — another awesome blog you guys should check out. Browsing through a few pages of content this place is chock full of awesome designs. They cover mostly inspirational designs but also different design resources
- July 12, 2008
- Top 10 Speed Painting Videos
A short list I’ve composed of the most popular Photoshop/other speed painting videos.
10. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean) Speed Painting9. Jessica Alba Speed Painting
8. Indiana Jones Speed Painting
7. Beyoncé Knowles Speed Painting
6. Kate from LOST Speed Painting
5. Jigsaw (SAW IV) Speed Painting
- July 11, 2008
- My First Wacom Bamboo Tablet
So I’ve finally taken the plunge and gotten myself a Wacom Bamboo tablet. It’s only a small one, but it works fine for me, and besides, it’s all I could afford!
The only thing is, when I first set it up I was getting a few error messages, at first I thought maybe it [...]
- July 10, 2008
- BgPatterns: Design and Share Patterns
I’ve just been to Design Float and discovered a new gem, BgPatterns. I must say, it’s blown my mind! I can think of a million uses for an app like this, and after exploring it for a while I’m still finding more features!
I remember a little while ago a somewhat similar website was [...]
- July 8, 2008
- Swanky Designer Clothes
Nope, I don’t mean designer as in name-brand, I mean designer as in made for web designers, graphic designs & web developers. Here are a few of my favorites, and quite a few are on my to-get list!
WordPress (I have this one in black)Digg (for the digg fans. I have this one)
I’m blogging this (not [...]
- July 7, 2008
- Skout: Design Resources for Everyone
Yep, even you! If you’re the owner of a quality design resource website, you should submit by sending them an email (share [at] skout.co.za)
At Skout you’ll find an extensive list of websites for almost everything. It’s absolutely worth a bookmark!
Visit Skoutâ„¢
