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25 More Places to Become a Photoshop Expert

As you’ve seen in our part one of websites you can visit to learn Photoshop, there is plenty of resources available for the Photoshop expert wanna be. Because you never get enough of knowledge sources, here are a few more places where to get educated about Photoshop.

1. PSD Fan

psdfan screenshot

2. PSD Learning

psd learning

3. Photoshop Lab

photoshop lab screenshot

4. PS Wish

pswish

5. Photoshop User TV

photoshop user tv

6. Planet Photoshop

planet photoshop screenshot

7. PSD Core

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25 Places to Become A Photoshop Expert

The Internet is the perfect place to learn pretty much anything, Photoshop is no exception. The popular image-editing software gets quite a few evangelists ready to spend their time to teach their techniques. In this collection you’ll find some of the best websites to become a Photoshop expert.

1. PSD Tuts+

psdtuts screenshot

2. Photoshop Lady

photoshop lady

3. Tutorial9

tutorial9 screenshot

4. Photoshop Roadmap

photoshop roadmap screenshot

5. Photoshop Tutorials

photoshop tutorials screenshot

6. PSD Vault

psd vault

7. Photoshop Star

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25 More Free Photoshop Texture Packs

Photoshop textures are very widely used in modern web design, and hopefuly you don’t have to create all your textures by yourself since a great choice is available freely on the web. In the following collection we have selected some of the best free Photoshop texture packs just for you.

1. Book covers

book cover textures

2. Brown paper textures

brown paper textures

3. Anatomy of a really old book

anatomy of book

4. Bark textures

bark textures

5. Rusty textures

rusty texture

6. Vintage bum textures

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25 Great Free Photoshop Texture Packs

Photoshop textures are very widely used in modern web design, and hopefully you don’t have to create all your textures by yourself since a great choice is available freely on the web. In the following collection we have selected some of the best free Photoshop texture packs just for you.

1. Old film

old film

2. Tree Bark

tree bark

3. Cracks and dirt

cracks and dirt

4. Rocks

rocks texture

5. Wood textures

wood textures

6. Old Books

old books

7. Clouds

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50 awesome free fonts for professional design

Good graphic designers don’t underestimate the importance of typography in their work. Classic fonts from major foundries are great, but if you want to vary often, they are too expensive for freelancers. These free fonts will allow you to bring some variety in your designs without spending.

1. Capricorn OSF

capricorn osf

2. Capture it

capture it font

3. Serif Beta

serif beta

4. Champagne & Limousine

champagne and limousines

5. Deja Vu

deja vu font

6. Karabine

karabine

7. Bienetresocial

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20 free Wordpress themes with premium-like functionalities

Wordpress is all over the place nowadays, with an endless number of free themes published every day by web designers. Some even took it a step further and published some premium Wordpress themes that you can buy on their websites or marketplaces. What we have for you is even better, a great collection of free Wordpress themes with functionalities just as good as the ones premium themes have.

1. Subtly Made

DemoDownload

subtly made

2. Magasin

DemoDownload

magasin wp theme

3. Phyto

DemoDownload

phyto wordpress theme

4. Bright White

DemoDownload

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The newbie freelancer’s guide: 10 tips to start out as a freelancer

Starting out as a freelancer can be quite tough, especially in these rough economic times. If you are going to take your chance anyway, you should take a look at the following advice.

1. Build yourself a solid portfolio

You are not going to convince anyone to work with you if your prospects can’t see what you are capable of. Of course if you are starting out right after design school you may not have so much real-life work to show, in that case don’t be afraid to put your school and personal projects in the portfolio. Also don’t forget that the portfolio design itself can be what convinces the client to work with you.

jason reed

Jason Reed’s website is a great ...

The evolution of web design

The internet is now more than 25 years old, and the least you could say about is that the art of designing websites has evolved a lot over that time. The way pages are designed changed is tied to the evolution of technology, let’s take a look at how it evolved.

From 1993 to 1996: The web is a boring place for designers

Trends: Plain text and blue underlined links.

Mosaic was the first web browser to display images inline with text. It could support gifs and webforms, which was a huge step forward for that time. Design wasn’t very elaborate due to browser constraint and limited bandwidth, so websites were pretty much designed by programmers and nerds, not by designers.

Websites at that time look quite boring: simple text, links and a ...

WordPress theming for beginners, an introduction

WordPress has become the most popular blogging platform for a while now, and you’re probably using it if you write on a self-hosted blog. One of the key reasons of WordPress success is its templating system. In fact, thousands of free WordPress themes are available on the Internet. However, if you want a truly unique theme, you’ll need to create your own. This article will give you a basic understanding of a WordPress theme’s structure.

The basics

WordPress themes are the standard layout system that define your blog’s appearance. It consists of template files, functions, template tags and images. To install a WordPress theme, you just need to upload it and activate it in your WordPress admin.

WordPress page structure

Most of the time, a ...


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