Archive | November, 2008

15 Free Reverb Plug-ins That Totally Rock

Reverb is an effect that you’ll find in any mix, and you can never have enough options when it comes to crafting the right reverberation for the sound. That’s why I’ve scoured the web to come up with this list of completely free plug-ins you can try. Some will say you can never get the [...]

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Paint a Realistic Yet Illustrative Portrait

Paint a Realistic Yet Illustrative Portrait

Learning how to paint portraits that aren’t only realistic, but also capture emotion and feeling can be difficult. A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the [...]

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50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

Any way to efficiently attract more RSS subscribers?

Sure there is. Many people wrote about this topic in the past, but I wanted to give my take on the issue too. I wrote those 50 ideas as they were coming to my head, as briefly as possible. Enjoy.

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Valentine’s Day 3D Text Effect

Valentine’s Day 3D Text Effect

3D Text effects are an essential part of design. There are several techniques for accomplishing this, so here’s a really great tutorial on putting the finishing touches on 3D text made in Xara3D. http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/valentines-day-photoshop-style/

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13 Inspiring Artworks

CSSBuilt compiled a nice little collection of 13 inspiring artworks from deviantART.  The effects and results are absolutely stunning.  Hopefully they will inspire you on your own artworks. http://cssbuilt.com/2008/11/23/inspiration-13-stunning-art-design/

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27 Excellent Web Design Tutorials

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! http://dzineblog.com/2008/07/best-photoshop-layout-design-tutorials.html

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The 50 Best Firefox Add-ons for Designers

The 50 Best Firefox Add-ons for Designers

Mozilla Firefox is becoming more and more powerful tool in these days. Using right add-ons it will start to become a tool, You can`t live without as web-developer! Each of these plugins can make certain things easier and that`s especially important for web-developers, because searching for errors and optimizing your pages can be pretty painful [...]

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