Community Links
July 1, 2008
Welcome to community links, this page will bring you some of the very best resources from the design sector of the web including tutorials, top lists, freebies, downloads, new websites and articles.
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An archive of some better Gimp Tuturials.
An interview with the head of Eden Creative Communities
Over at Smashing Apps there is a great countdown of 42 very creative advertisements
Learn how to create a user link feed like on Help Developer and PSD Tuts
A collection of 43 fantastic Wordpress Templates
Another 34 sites to get some design inspiration both online and offline
DzineBlog and shows you 36 truly amazing business card designs for your inspiration
Cnet are redesigning again, take a look at the new outcome
A list of the best articles, tutorials and resources from June 2008
A collection of my work and some tutorials
Graphic Design & Web Design Links & Tutorials
A list of web development links and resources
A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework
A collection of 55 high quality free icon sets from Smashing Magazine
An icon set of 128 free icons
A look at some of the best web designs from June 2008
Learn How to Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone From Scratch
These 15 examples are simple and successful logo designs.
See, not all sins are active; sometimes, you can be humming right along at your freelance business, thinking things are going swell.
A list of the best Wordpress tutorials for the developer/designer or just a simple blogger.
16+ Top JavaScript/Ajax Effects for Modern Web Design featuring sliders, tabs, accordions and more
View the top 40 amazing, beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008
How do you use Twitter to find clients? Do you see Twitter as a cool marketing and networking tool or as a complete time-waster? Did potential clients ever contacted you via Twitter? Did you get the gig?
An open thread asking freelancers what their worst part of freelancing is
Learn how to create a great moonshine text effect in Photoshop
Qbrushes.com - Quality Brushes for Photoshop
Totally free stylish webdesign in PSD file
Getting the word out on Digg/Stumbleupon can be tricky when no one knows your blog, but luckily for design related articles, there are many high traffic blogs that have community link features where you can submit your design articles and receive decent amount of traffic.
Check out these stunningly beautiful web administration interfaces!
A list of beautifully designed logos with script elements for you to enjoy and be inspired.
50 free Photoshop gradient sets that contain many gradients
Create a big typography poster based off a quote and win cool prizes!
I’m happy to announce our first exclusive vector sets for QVectors.com. The 4 sets are Nature oriented designs with tens of floral and flowery elements in each set.
Learn how to get known to a huge audience within 10 minutes by promoting your posts free to more than 30 of well visited websites.
Ajax examples and tutorials from all around the web
I just launched the 4th list for Web Design trends on CssLeak. The Websites Using Character Illustrations : There is already 38 websites.
In this tutorial you will learn how to convert a photo into a retro comic. You can use this technique with your own photos and get surprising results. Even more, you can create entire comics with this.
We’re stepping well into the third week with another 20 logos that will make you show respect for their creators and their creations.
Free Stock Photos, Free Vectors, Design Materials, Design Articles and more.
Free to download and use for commercial and private use royalty free textures.
Insightful article discussing the differences between absolute positioning and floats and when to use which technique
9. Week 9. Inspirational. website design inspirational. yeah, 30 sites. now ‘morse’ these CSS and Flash sites into your freaky imagination.
A New Website Where You Can Submit Your Design Links…
There’s not much to say about him. He’s drawing, he’s illustrating, he’s getting into advertising and also identity and branding. Well… se it for yourselfs.
Designer Matt Owen about his life and work
20 Photoshop tutorials hand picked from the serious tutorial sites. Some text tutorials, a planet tutorial, a few interesting effects, a few tutorials about speedpainting and other interesting things for you.
Plain and Grunge Paper Textures, 3000px wide, free for personal and commercial projects. Download and get creative!
In the pack you can find 24 different colours 32-px png files.
The weekly logo design showcase where you can see 20 company logos or other kind and get inspired in creating your own logo. If not, you can always hire someone
It’s an amazing collection of the most popular and most recognizable robots in movies of all time. Enjoy!
Amazing Vector Illustration of retro-car from the legendary 70’s! Don’t miss an opportunity to download it for free now!
It’s art? It’s graphic design? It’s typographic? It’s exploding with colors and imagination? It’s… all these and more. Eye candy overbrimming portfolio of Maciej Hajnrich
First showcase Inspiration site for blogger powered blogs built on blogger.
Click here to give your inspiration a real ‘Boost’! 15 beautiful examples of the best 3d abstract art.
Yes, we had to have such a thing. If you’re learning Photoshop and maybe Illustrator, why not Flash? 20 tutorials hand picked to help you learn Adobe Flash and Actionscript.
Collections of illustrations and graphic designs from artists around the world.
Free Photoshop Brushes with the shape of real trees, for design.
How can you tell which coding service is the most advantageous for you, the person who’s having a certain budget and a certain time to have it finished?
I got some inspirational websites designs that’ll keep you in the same drooling estate as the last week’s article because of these 30 CSS and Flash good sites.
A nice collection of vintage advertisements from the 50’s and 60’s to spark your creative juices.
My selection of CSS design for September. There is 16 websites design in no particular order.
Week 19 of this section with 20 Photoshop tutorials that’ll help you learn Photoshop, of course, for free. Enjoy the ride in our tutorial express.
20 Fresh baked logo cookies for your need-of-inspiration eyes. Look, admire, get inspired.
Mathieu Raynault is probably one of the top 10 film matte painters in the world having worked for movies like Lord of the rings, 300, The day after tomorrow, Matrix, Star Wars, The mummy returns and many others.
A few hours of listening altogether that will help you advance your knowledge in web design!
Design your way offers the chance to promote yourself and to share good design related material with our readers. The material is represented by: Photoshop tutorials, Flash tutorials, Illustrator tutorials, logos, an excellent CSS or Flash website or even a good quality free icon pack.
I thought it would be better to make a collection of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials of the month that were on Design your way. Of course, these are all text Photoshop tutorials, some for begginers, some for advanced users, every one of them very well explained, and most important all of them free.
Another 20 Adobe Flash and Actionscript tutorials ment to help you learn easier some useful techniques and improve your skills. This week there isn’t any flash game tutorial but there is an mp3 interface tutorial and some serious stuff instead.
Not always fun to be your middle guy
We find ourselves in this section once again in this day of the week, every week, with 30 great CSS sites to please your eyes and enrich your imagination.
15 examples of original yet reliable menu designs created to easily guide you through the website.
Loic Sattler is a French Art Director experienced in web, multimedia, print collateral, clothes styling and corporate identity. Loic works with special emphasis on aesthetics, creative ideas and communication goals, with a very high attention to details. Inspired by everything, everywhere. Interested and enthusiastic, he is in complete love with visual creation.
Free Photoshop Brushes horror themed, useful for Halloween. For design.
20 Photoshop tutorials hand-picked from all around the web belonging to different categories in order to keep a variety of tutorials and not be boring for the viewer. If you want to learn Photoshop this is the place to start. Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials are your tutorial heaven.
Learn how to present your designs for a website using Photoshop layer comps to produce a PDF slideshow.
A huge round up of over 400+ links of high quality tutorials, useful and informative articles, inspiration, designer assets (brushes, vectors, stock images etc…), designer blogs, tutorial sites, galleries and more! This contains all the vital links that are very important for a designers reference.
These Starter Themes provide a simple canvas on which you can create your custom themes.
20 inspirational well designed logos showing off their creator’s skills in front of your amazed or admirative look.
Emre Durmu? is a turkish design artist which impresses with his photomanipulations. Besides the prints he also gets into identity and branding, website creation and a little bit of photography. He’s not offering tutorials on how to make that kind of illustrations but he’s offering in exchange a good photomanipulation gallery.
Philip Straub. Art Director, Illustrator, Concept Art Teacher and Writer.Read the exclusive interview with him to learn more!
An inspiring assortment of incredible DVD box art designs from the Criterion collection.
Yann Arthus Bertrand is a professional and internationally recognized photographer. You’ve probably seen his amazing aerial photographs here or there but never knew they were his. I know some of them look like hdr photography but they aren’t, they’re just amazing art meant to make you admire his talent.
20 tutorials for MX Flash 8, Flash CS3 and actionscript 3 that’ll help you learn flash. Starting with button tutorials, animation tutorials and so on and ending with essential actionscript 3.0 tutorials.
A CSS and Flash gallery providing some of the best site designs on the internet meant to offer you design inspiration. In this way you’ll be able to create your own site design which hopefully will be one day among these top CSS and Flash sites present in this web design gallery.
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a horror or sci-fic movie DVD cover. Beginning with a photo, it will be altered adding elements to create the desired effect
A collection of free, and paid templates for your custom CMS.
Best free quality drupal themes that you might want to consider for your next drupal site.
A collection of inspirational Coca-Cola brand designs from all over the world!
Would you like your business to look positive, slick and professional? Then you couldn’t come by this beautiful vector illustration!
CLD Tutorials is a selection of the best tutorials available ob the web, regarding these topics : Corel Painter, CoreDRAW, Fireworks, Flash, Gimp, Illustrator, InDesign, Paint ShopPro, QuarkXPress, ASP, ColdFusion, CSS, Dreamweaver, HTML, Javascript, MySQL, PHP and Ruby on Rails.
When I hear around ‘digital artist’ I can’t stop thinking of a very talented designer and that designer is Justin Maller. He has some photo manipulations that would make you stare at them for hours and still don’t figure out how he made them. This is graphic art at its peak, digital design made with a lot of work and talent.
An awesome big typography poster design contest on MyInkBlog. Check out these beautiful winning designs!
Freelancing can be your ticket to freedom — but it can also be a terrifying ride if you have a hard time getting a steady stream of clients.
We find ourselves in this weekly Photoshop tutorial roundup with some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials that’ll help you learn Photoshop and it’s tricky techniques, all for free, of course.
A great article on what defines us as designers : money or the passion for design ?
Learn how to get known to a huge audience by submitting your artworks to more than 30 of well visited art magazines and portals. This is a totally free kind of self promotion.
The place where you get your weekly logo design inspiration in this gallery with 20 of the best recent and maybe so called ‘classic’ logos.
22 great fonts that you can download from myfonts.com for free.
Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen is a 26 years old graphic designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. As you will see in the following He’s not only a graphic designer, he’s a graphic artist because after he finishes his works they can only be named art, digital art, graphic art, whatever you want to call it.
Comprehensive list of must have RSS feeds.
Flash tutorials, actionscript tutorials, 20 of them here to make you learn flash easier. You have some oldschool text tutorials and also flash video tutorials.
Learn how to create a realistic outer space scene in Photoshop using no stock images, but only filters!
This is an article discussing the classic conundrum of time management for freelancers worldwide.
Free high resolution textures and backgrounds for graphic designers, web designers and digital artists. The site includes both stock photos and handmade textures.
In this week’s web site gallery there are some hand drawn css sites, some with a little bit of Flash touch, all of them with excellent design and with inspiration to come with them.
Professional illustration with cute and fun mummy is just the thing for unforgettable Halloween celebration on your blog or website.
What makes a good, accesible, well-designed portfolio? Read ahead.
A look into how retro designs can affect newer trends.
So you say you’re searching for good Adobe Photoshop tutorials so you can learn how to work easily and with style? Well. Search no more. The helpful tips and techniques are here.
A collection of nostalgic and inspirational retro car ads!
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a Halloween wallpaper, and how to unify elements from different kinds using layers, create spectral glows with a basic brush…
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create light beams in Adobe Photoshop.
Using the table feature in CSS level 2.
A little something for freelancers to consider: residual income.
Learn an abundance of ways of marketing yourself effectively both offline and online through your portfolio.
A small collection of Adobe Flash tutorials that’ll give you some help in understanding and creating interesting works with Flash and actionscript techniques.
Design blog dedicated to inspiration and design articles
Adobe’s Photoshop does have a whole lot of users, but that’s no reason for the company to break out the champagne. Why? Because more than half of these users have not purchased their copy through legitimate means.
Ready for Halloween? If not yet, we present especially for you 88 artworks, tutorials and free icon sets which you can use to inspire for creating something crazy, something horror, something special for Halloween.
Interview with number one Russian designer Artemy Lebedev!
Having a tough time freelancing and need a few pointers? Welcome.
Qbrushes released 3 high quality brush sets, Watercolour brushes, splatters, and brush strokes all totalling 21 brushes.
This month was a really busy month for us, we released many vector packs and t-shirt designs also we sponsored a few giveaways/contests on some very popular design blogs.
Hurry up for a new spine-chilling free illustration. Halloween magic is coming into force!
An idea, create animated jQuery menus using Sliding Doors technique
Free Photoshop brushes of cats
20 of them are here. Yes. Some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials which appeared in the last weeks and some old but very good ones, you can call those oldies but goldies.
Is the upgrade to CS4 worth it ? Why ?
I’ve gathered 21 great inspirational design logos for this week’s article. Don’t forget to submit a good logo if you want it to be in the next week’s article (note: not all submitted logos will be accepted, only the ones as good as these shown in our section).
Blogging is something that has taken the Internet by storm. Everyone’s doing it - but do you think blogging is a good way to get more exposure as a freelancer?
My selection of CSS design for October. There is 16 websites design in no particular order (just the submission date)
Today we would like to present 70+ Impressive artworks where autumn was as an excellent source of inspiration. Let’s take a close look at some of the most breathtaking artworks we’ve found on deviantart and flickr.
CSSBuilt choose 21 sites as Best of CSS Design as of October, 2008. Check them out they are awesome sites!
Fbrushes.com is a collection of FREE and high quality photoshop brushes.
Another week, another article, some more Flash tutorials here to screw up with your free time and to make you dream Flash even when you’ll think it’s gone. Some kind of good/bad dream
Top 5 design trends that are sure to give you a few extra votes in t-shirt competitions
Whether you’re looking to get into freelancing, or in the thick of it, there always exists the topic of rates a freelancer should charge for his/her work. How do you come up with a price for your work?
Welcome back to our weekly CSS and Flash gallery that’s always ready to give you some of the best designs on the internet.
Textures include: snow peas, snap peas, taros, green onions, grapes, tomatoes, potatoes and garlic.
CSSCount round up a 25 Gorgeous Websites in October. We found several websites out their but we only collect the most outstanding one and now we already completed them and showcase here in our gallery. Most of this websites are already showcase in other CSS Galleries and we gather it into one place.
You may be tired, you may not have slept in a while but you gotta have time for some Adobe Photoshop tutorials and not any of them, some good quality ones.
Free Photoshop brushes of horoscope signs and names, with glows
Believe it or not it’s the 10th week of this inspirational logo design gallery. The 20 logos for this week are here to please your eyes.
The challenge for those with a background in web business is to figure out how to create compelling, effective print design to advertise their online presence
The popularity of Photoshop Brushes on todays design is dramatically increase, that’s why
CSSBuilt brings you 17 resources for photoshop brushes that you can download from for free.
There are 21 list of best CSS design as of October, 2008 in no particular order. Awesome sites isn’t it? Enjoy!
It is an interesting collection of 3D images gathered all over the Internet. Hopefully, you’ll enjoy it and find something new and exciting for you.
In this post, I’ll show you 7 different Wordpress Themes to create a CSS gallery
Enjoy this sweet Indian Summer illustration and relish last warm autumn days. Don’t miss an opportunity to download it for free now!
Having trouble establishing yourself as an industry professional? Read ahead.
You won’t find many information about Evertt on his site but you’ll find out what he does. And that is: extremely good vector graphics. You’ll see that he can also manage with some interface designs which have a good illustrator’s touch.
This is a list of the majority of site listed in the TUTSEARCH database. I am constantly added new ones.
Well… they’re here. I know… I can’t believe it either but the weekly Adobe Flash tutorials are here, sneaking into your bookmarks and more important, into your memory.
The art director, senior designer and founding partner of Bleed designstudio is answering 15 Questions about his life and work.
Take inspiration from the likes of Carsonified and Contrast who have been known for their ‘drop everything else for a week’ approach to work on other projects
30 inspirational web designs, some based on CSS and XHTML, others on Flash are in this article. As you probably know there are here every week some of the most brilliant designer’s portfolios as well as other web 2.0 sites full of vibrant colors.
41 websites to promote your design articles, resources and tutorials.
This versatile effect help create a feeling of depth by adding highlight and shadow to layer shapes. Depending on where these highlights and shadows are placed, a 3D effect can be quickly generated
The collection of stylish gray web designs, both formal and not!
Free Hi-Res fire and flame texture pack (1600 x 1064)
Every WordPress blog user should use and customize their permalink structure. What permalink means and stand for? Permalinks are the permanent URLs to Your individual blog posts, categories, archives and others.
Set of custom functions for WordPress to help you to easily develop and fast deploy custom themes.
Don’t den up! This group of funny characters is especially for those who have a fit of the mopes.
It’s a collection of amazing, stylish digital graffiti and graffiti style works created by different artists. So, enjoy!
Finding it hard to continuously produce creative and fresh work? Here are a few pointers to help you out.
Nathan Beck discusses some of the pros and cons of buying and selling blogs, whilst examining the blog buying market.
In no. 25 of this section you’ll see some Photoshop illustration tutorials as well as some web design ones with some buttons and menus but also an icon design tutorial and more.
It’s very important to keep up with forever-changing design community - this profession requires regular learning, if You don’t want to fall back. And that’s why I am presenting this list article.
Practical tips for working with a committee while still retaining creative control.
This time we present the works of five professional matte painters who have the colossal experience in film industry. They are: Dylan Cole, Frederic St-Arnaud, Yanick Dusseault, David Luong and Chris Thunig.
A lot of startup freelancers ask me how to get more clients - it’s the question that’s on everyone’s mind. Here’s how.
Here we go guys we have some websites for you to increase your site statistics and submit your design news, We already post here in our blog about 15 sites to promote your website and now were posting another half of it. This websites help you boost your websites traffic so submit now and increase/promote your website.
It is very important to promote your work and you need to know where to showcase that. Listed below is a very useful websites to showcase your work so that people can notice you art work. Submit to these websites and you will gain so much exposure.
A little bit late for this article but had to be here. It’s some kind of selection “best of the best” if you want. You’ll see in the following list articles that’ll teach you how to work your magic with Adobe Photoshop in illustrations, digital drawing, photomanipulation, typography and even on a blog design.
Come join and share your work with the rest of us.
Hand-drawing websites are very popular on today’s design. CSSBuilt.com collects 40+ hand-drawn websites for your inspiration. Be inspired and enjoy!
Kerem Beyit is a digital painter from Turkey. Besides the usual werewolves or the dragons from his drawings done in Photoshop you will also see interesting and mystical characters. The quality of his drawings made him receive awards and recognition from the computer graphics communities like CgSociety, CgChannel, CgGallery, 3DTotal and CgArena.
I’ve decided to make the web design showcase themed as it is more easy to find what you are looking for. You will be surprised but there aren’t many quality red CSS and Flash sites. I’ve gathered in this showcase article 22, and 23 more are waiting for the release of Part 2 so they can show off their red design.
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a space scene from scratch, create glowing effects, and glowing shapes.
Marta Dahlig is one of the most known deviants on deviantart.com with nearly 4 milion views on her profile and who knows how many on all her deviations. She is known for her 7 deadly sins drawings of women.
How do the Top Coffee Brands websites smell? The stimulating collection of web designs!
Inspiration site are always a great resource of web designers to get their next design inspiration for their projects. So we have come up with a list of design inspiration resources for web designers.
Welcome (once more) in my Adobe Photoshop tutorial garden where you can learn various PS techniques which will improve your designer skills and make your level go from beginner to advanced.
19 amazing textures. 3264×2448. free for personal and commercial use .
This is a collection of free Magento themes created by different web professionals.
Adorn your website with this sweet Thanksgiving fruit and flower piece!
Learn how to list your WordPress users with a custom query.
A mixed collection of talented illustration artists some using 3D programs, oil paints, Illustrator and Photoshop to produce there creations
The collection of amazing postage stamps from different years all over the world!
List of 30 News Resources gathered by Mabucplus gallery.
Dark Photoshop manipulations are a trend these days. This is the reason why I made this dark gallery with 51 pics of fantasy girls. Black, dark, gothic, morbid call it however you want.
I would like to share with you the 13 Stunning design from deviantart.com, these are really awesome works that makes your inspiration burning. Check them out.
After Daniel Conway, Marta Dahlig, Kerem Beyit and Jason Engle it’s time for Dobák Zsolt to enter the digital art inspiration gallery from Design your way. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you much about Dobak because his personal site is down for the moment. What I can do is let this hungarian guy leave it’s creations speak for themselves.
I listed few resources, I prefer to learn from and hopefully You’ll learn something too. This article isn’t very long, because I think You should choose just one place, where to learn from.
Wordpress theme Equilibrium, which is aimed at those who want a clean and simple magazine styled blog. Plugins are not required and widgets are supported.
It’s a collection of attractive, original and high quality Magento templates gathered all over the Internet for those who is already using Magento.
Collections of 20 most elegant Web Interface Design from Deviantart. All listed web interface are very gorgeous came from very talented website designers. I hope you like this list guys and dont forget to share your thoughts here. All list are showcase from Deviantart. These designs are very inspiring.
This video tutorial will show you how to create photoshop actions and more specifically how to create an action to create a folder structure for your web design layouts
Great 3rd party iPhone apps that can really help you and your business succeed.
As I promosed last week in part 1, I’m bringing you now the rest of the red CSS and Flash designs I’ve gathered. Enjoy the red delight of good designs.
The 4 textures are all high resolution 2504×3842px in size and could be used for many different types of designs.
Here again guys 20 Gorgeous Corporate Designs that may inspire you and gives you more knowledge and idea in designing corporate type.
Unique and Really beautiful Christmas vision tutorial and high quality wallpaper available for download!
Ever wanted a gazillion free icons … here ya’ go.
21 free vector trees made from india ink drawings. They got a nice grunge and destroyed feel. You’re free to use them in personal and commercial projects.
Week 27 of the Top Quality Photoshop tutorials section brings 20 Adobe Photoshop tutorials with beautiful Photoshop effects.
Hurry up for a new free illustration with funny characters for joyous Thanksgiving Celebration!
Most popular best online photo management and sharing application in the world is Flickr and now we are proud to introduce you our 10 collection.
Templates.com is glad to present a new Free Illustration of the Week! It’s a bright illustration of Thanksgiving Day symbols done in cartoon style. And it’s absolutely free!
Logo design is commonly believed to be one of the most important areas in graphic design, thus making it the most difficult to perfect. The logo, or brand, is not just an image, it is the embodiment of an organization.
I created one more wallpaper related article, but this time totally related to this time feeling, sense and let’s be honest - everybody love Christmas, snow and winter!
It’s an amazing collection of women’s illustrations. Our intention was to show different views of the artists on female beauty.
28 beautiful and creative portfolio for your inspiration. Check them out!
There are a lot of lists of color tools out there, but how many turn out to be of any use? The best tools are user friendly, easily customizable and provide you with every code or file format that you need.
Textures is very popular on today’s web design specially for big backgrounds. So here’s the 6 high quality textures free for download.
David Waters is a student at Graphic Design with the University of Idaho and he’s providing today’s inspiration with his photomanips, print creations and a website design that has a touch of creativity.
Free vector icons for web designers
Quality design and features you would expect in a paid/premium wordpress theme for free.
CSSBuilt choose 10 sites as best of CSS design as of November in no particular order. Enjoy!
The color green is predominant in the sites of our days, either being represented by leaves, landscapes or by not very ordinary characters. Among the CSS and Flash sites found in this article as well as in part 2 or part 3 you will find some that were simply touched by their designer’s creativity and which pushed them to true web art and also sites which impress with their usability.
Whether you are a freelancer or you work for a design agency, getting your name spread in the design community should be a top priority
Christmas is now coming and its time to change your desktop wallpaper, with this list of wallpapers you can choose any of the 30 Gorgeous Christmas Wallpapers in no particular order
Even the biggest websites (including Google) don’t validate. Does your site validate and does it matter?
Jacek Yerka is a Polish surreal artist and painter from Toru?. Yerka studied art for a short time at University, but then learnt from direct study of Northern European masters, the Van Eycks, Dierck Bouts, Robert Campin, Bosch, and surrealists such as Magritte.
I would like to share with you the 24 stunning and very creative digital art that I’ve collected from deviantart.
It’s a selection of the most beautiful smoky web designs for your inspiration.
I’ve included in this Photoshop tutorial article roundup a tutorial on how to make images like the ones found in 51 Dark fantasy girls as it was requested. In rest, a few digital art tutorials, text tutorials and misc ones are filling the bucket o’tuts.
Here you are a compilation of resources for design and developing that will be of great help for your computer and projects.
A set of 16 High Resolution Trees Brushes for Free. check this out!
A selection of the best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes and Textures of November 2008.
Count down the days remaining until Christmas!
Today’s article is abundend of logos filled with color and energy, in which a lot of work was invested but also a lot of imagination. On the other hand, there are a lot of good gradients, lots of them and well positioned on logos like ZLK, Shift, Play, Lamasat, Imaedia, ecarus, digitalphenom and Butterfly. The authors are to be appreciated for their incredible work.
It’s a splendid collection of illustrations created by different CG artists united by one great passion - Art!
This tutorial will show you how to use batch processing with Photoshop actions and more specifically how to create an action to crop and resize images using batch processing in Photoshop.
A step-by-step guide to creating a CSS-based webpage navigation bar, similar to the Mac OS X menu bar
29 beautiful Christmas wallpaper for you guys, as we all know Christmas is near. So check this out!
Choiceness, class, style. I’d like to think that the work of Slovakian Rado Javor could be resumed to these 3 words but that’s not possible. We find out that this digital painter from UK has an apetite for classic, for moments and scenes from the past and what’s extraordinary is that he succeeds in imortalizing those superb sceneries with his Wacom and Photoshop.
Check out these inspirational fliers and posters from the rock genre.
Enironmental, natural, organic, earthy, trust, jealousy. That’s what green is expressing. As I said I’m going to continue the green CSS and Flash gallery articles with part 2. Don’t forget to see part 1 as well.
We live in a technology driven world. That’s why upgrading your website can be one of the most important things you can do to help your business
20 List of Awesome Digital Art from DeviantArt, this list is based on Digital Art Category in DeviantArt and all in this list are awesome.
There are plenty of CSS bar graph interpretations, but none of them do stacked bar graphs. So I’ve done it here. Based off Alen Grakalic’s Pure CSS Data Chart.
Rik will attempt various artistic styles to try and progress until he succeeds creating his own, unique style. Since he aproved a lot the last years from a unknown person into a respected artist he’s been into freelancing and earned a huge dose of experience, from print design to clothing design.
Styled Menus offer high quality designed professional css menus for instant web use for free.
Jeffrey Zeldman speaks on his work in web design, what drives him to go on, and how he goes about his day.
Free Christmas Vectors for download. A collection of free Christmas Vectors.
Free Photoshop brushes of snowflakes
Logo design is an important area of graphic design, and one of the most difficult to perfect.
Check out total 60+60 Best CSS Directories you would die to watch from all around the web.
Here are 6 alternative work spaces to explore for getting out of the house.
Get to experiment with some ‘real’ 3D!
While designing We Are not Freelancers we had one goal in mind. Our goal was to get featured on as many web galleries as possible.
Showcase of all the layer blending modes applied to 3 different images. great reference and a must read for beginners.
20 Really Stunning Art Design. Enjoy and be inspired of these works.
We’re at the last part of the Green themed series which included sites who have in their composition the color green. I wanted to be in this article the best of all 85 CSS and Flash designs so there is nothing for you left to do but to enjoy.
This is probably the biggest list of Photoshop freebie sites ever so check it out … you’ll find free Photoshop brushes, plugins, actions, textures, shapes, gradients, psd files, and more.
The techno/house genre has some awesome flier inspiration. Check out this awesome roundup and be inspired for your next project.
A single image navigation rollover tutorial with drop-downs using nothing but CSS that works in all necessary browsers
Take advantage of this collection of regular expressions cheat sheets and quick reference guide.
Participate in HUGO Create round 7 and win some amazing prizes.
15 list of 3 Dimensional artifact that naturally occurring object includes man-made objects such as models, dioramas, games, puzzles, simulations, sculptures and other three-dimensional art works.
Css Globe founder interview about social media websites.
This is a list of some of the best freeware that is available out there for 3D. Many of them are open source, and other are freeware applications.
A look at the websites used to promote iPhone applications, what trends exist, and what makes the sites successful.
A Very creative texture arts for your inspiration. You should check them out!
One of the most Important in art design is Texture because you can use it as your website background, All of this showcase are came from DeviantArt.
22 high quality free Wordpress Website is showcase here. This themes owned by different web designers. Clean and Gorgeous sites, so it suits in your needs.
Probably the last gallery-article with logo designs for this year. You’ll find here 20 good logos. Don’t forget to check the logos that were featured in 2008 on Design your way.
Awesome compilation of flyer inspiration for your viewing pleasure. This genre provided a cool mix of colors, retro and urban vibe. Enjoy!
It’s a wonderful collection of winter illustrations and 3D images that fully reproduce all winter charm and delights.
The final part of a 3 part series in which we acquire user input to create images with php.
Christmas Giveaway #1 - Win 3 Flash Text Effects Collection license of your choice - PJ, Supreme, Astro and Elite.
Christmas Giveaway #2 - Comment and win 2 Premium Plus 1 year Banner Snack Licenses worth 149$ each.
This is the final post of a 5 part series showcasing creative fliers by genre. In this post you will find fantastic examples of style, color and typography.
Design Shard now has a user link feed so you can now submit your latest design links and they will appear at the top of the blog.
Do you realize how far digital graphics tablets have come in the last few years? Find out about the amazing new features that digital graphics tablets offer now and which ones I suggest for professional designers.
I think most of us loves 3-Dimensional Arts, So here they are 41 Stunning 3D Arts. You must check them out!
PSD is the newest category in ThemeForest and has now a total of 62 Gorgeous themes.
The collection of Templates.com was enriched with free fractal wallpapers. These are awesome 3D Fractal Art Works created by Serdar Camlica and 3D Fiction Studio.
A collection of top Christmas movie posters!
Vector freebies and tutorials
Today we will showcase you the list of 45 Website with Sunlight Design that has Beautiful look.