Orb Social Media: Icon Pack

Orb Social Media: Icon Pack

This icon set, perfect for blogs and social-centered sites, has 32 different icons for popular web services such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, and even icons for Apple, Windows, Evernote, and much more. Each icon is 256x256px and in PNG format, which can be resized down to your needs.

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Make a TRON-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Make a TRON-Inspired Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial goes over the creation of an action scene inspired by the movie, TRON. We will discuss surreal photo manipulation techniques that give the illusion that the subject’s arm and other parts of his body are disintegrating into light. The techniques in this tutorial use different transform tools, filters and adjustment layers to give phenomenal results. Great lighting techniques and atmospheric effects will also be demonstrated in this tutorial.

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Visual Inspiration: 30 Clean and Elegant Web Designs

Visual Inspiration: 30 Clean and Elegant Web Designs

One of the hardest traits designers must master is restraint. Designers are creators, and we want to create as much as we can. We want to display our abilities, our tricks, and our techniques in all the work we do. But the best designers know that simplicity–knowing how to use just the right design elements, and nothing more–is effective in conveying a powerful message. This collection features clean and elegant web designs for your inspiration.

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Font Collection: 10 Free Bold and Beautiful Script Fonts

Font Collection: 10 Free Bold and Beautiful Script Fonts

Script fonts are designed to mimic the fluidity, capriciousness and irregularities of handwriting, and thus, they appear to have a congenial and organic aesthetic when juxtaposed against the systematic and precise characteristics of, for example, traditional sans-serifs. The free script fonts in this collection are strong, powerful and ready for professional use, and they’re free.

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Code a Vibrant Professional Web Design with HTML5/CSS3

Code a Vibrant Professional Web Design with HTML5/CSS3

In this second part of this web design tutorial series, we will convert the vibrant and professional design we designed in Part 1. We will use HTML5 and CSS3, as a proof of concept and as a way for you to learn these upcoming W3C standards through practice. We will also use the 960 Grid System to speed up development time.

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Create a Vibrant Professional Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Vibrant Professional Web Design in Photoshop

Developing a workflow that lets you create web layouts quickly and easily while still satisfying your clients’ needs is crucial. In this Photoshop web design tutorial, I’ll show you a way to create a slick home page layout in the fastest time possible and with minimum web design skills. Let’s go!

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How to Make Vibrant Cosmic Light Effects in Photoshop

How to Make Vibrant Cosmic Light Effects in Photoshop

This Photoshop tutorial features one of my favorite subjects: sneakers! We will take an awesome vector image created in Illustrator that was imported into Photoshop, and we will turn it into a fresh and modern design using layer styles, blend modes, and more. We will be exploring a few techniques for incorporating brilliant light effects into your artwork.

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