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Fortunately I don’t end up on 404 pages very often but when I do, it’s nice to see something that had some thought put into it. Actually I’m usually just happy that a site actually has a 404 page so when a designer goes above and beyond, I think we should recognize it. Below are some great examples of what I’m talking about and if you look closely, you may notice a little self loving too (cough).

In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a scene with a plane crashing on a mountain. I will use ordinary images, and with simple techniques I will create an explosive horror scene.
Even with basic Photoshop skills, you can quickly find a path to create such photo manipulations.
Try to find good stock images with the same perspective, and you are on the good way.
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Wacom tablets are preferred tools for many graphic designers because they can be much easier than working with a mouse for some types of design. Learning to work effectively with a tablet can be a little tricky, but fortunately there are a number of tutorials that can help. In this post we’ll feature a selection of tutorials that will help with learning how to design specific things, and some that will help you understand the Wacom tablet and to get the most out of it.

Have you ever wanted to create clean and nice portfolio design? In this tutorial I will show you how to design clean blue portfolio layout.

As I mentioned in my The Third Month of Blogging post this month I want to release my first photoshop tutorial. And this is it. I created it very easily but when I come to explaining phase it took some time to complete. I hope that you like it and you’ll learn something new doing this tutorial.

Really awesome work over there which we just receive from an Dzinepress lover who want to share with others an greatest artist work which is unforgettable and amazing Caricatures, excellent design inspirations for newbie’s of digital artists,  we proudly introduce him…

Color wheel pro says: Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.

Basically high speed photography is a technique of capturing images with a remarkably quick shutter speed and mostly used for the scenes which cannot be seen with naked eyes. For high speed photography, you can use more or less any SLR camera, but an expensive camera can reach a much faster shutter speed and high speed photography is the game of shutter speed. Today, we will show you 40 Stunning Examples of High Speed Photography.

1. There is a bird in my tea!

Presenting the dfTheme 2.0 for DRUPAL CMS. Currently Drupal is one of the best CMS and if you have not taken a look at it… it is time…

One of the coolest features of Coda is the ability to save code snippets and keep them organized. Coda is our primary editor for almost every work (other than JAVA).

Finding inspiration for your work can come in a variety of different shapes and forms. In today’s roundup, i browsed DeviantArt to find some of the best surreal and dark photo manipulations to give you a boost of creativity.

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In today’s post I’m going to show you some really cool images done in “Droste effect.” “Droste effect,” is named after a 1904 package of Droste brand cocoa. The Droste effect illustrates a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar photograph would realistically be expected to show. Only in hypothesis could this go on without end, but virtually it will go on only as long as the resolution of the image permits, which is relatively short, since each cycle of repetition is exponentially diminish the image’s size.

Abstract photoshop brushes are one of my favorite brushes which I use in my designs. Abstract brushes are very appealing and suites all kinds of design work and it is one of the best and useful resource used by designers. Using a photoshop brushes saves you a lot of time when you come want to give an effect to your design work. In this post I have collection 20 awesome and High quality abstract photoshop brushes sets. Each set contains several brushes that will be more than 270+ awesome abstract photoshop brushes!

There is one thing web designers are always in need of and that is good high quality inspiration. I thought it would be a great idea to share some Awesome Websites for your inspiration. So here is Developers Paradise compilation of the Awesome Vintage Website Designs. Hopefully these beautiful and creative art work will revert back to you in your past.

Combination of alphabets makes a whole sentence if its a combination in particular manner. But alphabets are not just use for only making sentences, sometimes it can be used as art. Now just check this images below, aplhabets are used to create art.

Light painting is one of the best known techniques in photography and is usually only carried out by enthusiasts and professional photographers. It’s a technique that is primarily used at night outdoors to make scenes look more dramatic than they would under normal conditions. Light painting is not a new thing either, it’s a technique that has been used for over 100 years.

If you planning to launch new online project or your new site then coming soon pages can be handy tools for you as under construction page proven to get most out of these early announcements.

Now days Creative Designs is one of the key aspects for improving your website’s future traffic and pagerank. Getting a site featured in some of the popular WordPress/CSS galleries can bring thousands of visitors and many valuable inbound links with excellent SEO benefits.

If you are blogger and since now it’s like trend – everybody is blogging, you should know, writing through WordPress Rich Text Editor isn’t that fastest and easiest way. Most importantly you must think about ways how to automate and fasten your work process. Choosing desktop blogging client is one of the most important aspects in my opinion – forget about standard Wordpress editor and start using something a lot more faster and handier.

There is an old adage that taught us: “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” but in a world where there are thousands of competitors for any one specific product, this does not hold true. We are raised in a society, where generally, looks are often perceived as most important and this instance, it holds true.

Consumers generally tend to automatically go for a product where the packaging is most intriguing or appealing. Designers are now thinking outside of the box to make their products stand out the most. For our designers, to help you we’ve picked 50 of the best packaging designs we’ve seen. That stand out and make you want to grab the product.

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It was planned to release those Apple related tutorials in different order, but however it’s not so bad in this way as well. If you have been following you will remember 15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials, but if you haven’t be sure to check it out.

The variety of plugins and tutorials available for jQuery never cease to amaze me. I’ve been looking for some new plugins for an ongoing project, so I extended my research a bit to share these cool jQuery plugins with you. If you need more, you can take a look a these jQuery scripts to improve your site’s interface, or at the jQuery scripts for your portfolio.

Designers can never get enough resources. Fonts, tutorials, source files, plugins, stock images, icons… you name it we love them. Especially when they are free!

Thankfully within the design community there are no shortage of designers willing to offer free stuff, it just about finding them. That is where we can help.

In today’s news round-up we have collected exactly what you want, some fresh and free design resources.

Rating and voting features are one of the ways to encourage user interaction with the website. I have gathered a few of javascript rating plugins that are built with jQuery, Mootool or prototype framework and a few of tutorials if you want to know how it works or implement it by yourself.

CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers. However, sometimes it’s difficult to come up with the one excellent idea that would solve a problem that you are facing right now. Good news: almost every day designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques and share them with other developers online. We regularly collect all these tricks, filter them, sort them, revise them and prepare them for Smashing Magazine readers.

A website is like your receptionist! They need to look good for making a good first impression on your client. Most of us like a dynamic partner and Flash websites are perfect partners for your business.

Flash sometimes makes websites look cool, attractive at the same time professional. The main glitch in Flash is nothing but using the software to piece the perfect website as it consumes a lot of time and money. Here is a quickfix for that problem: go shopping for to find your favourite flash apps at these places. Although they are not free, but some of them are really bargain, which can saves you hours of development time.

Finding the right typeface or font for a design can be a tricky process. So it’s good to have a nice selection of fonts at your disposal. With this article, we’re tying to help you out with that and give you some typographic enjoyment. Here are 20 free fonts that are super clean and would be great to use in your next minimal style design.

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave.