Archive for November, 2008

15 Free Reverb Plug-ins That Totally Rock

Nov 30, 2008 Audio

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 same quality reverb with a free plug-in and others will say it doesn’t really matter, but at the end of the day it comes down to your taste and what sounds good in your mix. So, download a bunch and try them out!

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Paint a Realistic Yet Illustrative Portrait

Nov 30, 2008 Photoshop

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 person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.

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50 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers

Nov 30, 2008 Wordpress

Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?

Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribers consistently.

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Valentine’s Day 3D Text Effect

Nov 30, 2008 Photoshop


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

Nov 30, 2008 Photoshop

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

Nov 30, 2008 Photoshop, Web Design

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

Nov 30, 2008 Web Design

Firefox

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 and time-consuming process. And that`s the reason, why I looked over 100+ pages, to get overview which add-ons are used and recommended by amateurs.

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/the-best-50-firefox-add-ons-for-web-developers/

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