Text effects seems to open up a can of creativity within artists that is unrivaled with any other aspect of graphic design. By taking the simplest form of text and a blank canvas you can create something amazing and at times awe-inspiring.
For today’s news round-up we have a small collection of amazing text effects and tutorials for Photoshop.
3D Typewriter Text
In this tutorial you’ll create some 3d typewriter hammer keys in Illustrator and mix them together with some painting techniques and the Vanishing Point Filter in Photoshop to create a stylish multi-dimensional wallpaper.
View the tutorial.
Photoshop Grungy Metal Effect
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a text effect using textures from stock images. The final ...
I will be hosting a workshop with Refresh Events on advance WordPress theme coding. The event will take place in Toronto, March 25th 2010 at Rich Media Institute, 156 Augusta Ave. This workshop is for designers with CSS skills who want to learn how to convert a HTML template into a WordPress theme (no PHP skills required). You will learn how to advance themes using conditional tags, page templates, custom fields, and more. Details and registration.
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Grunge fonts and textures are used in a wide range of web and graphic designs. There is much less of a limit when it comes to using these elements, and they’re a great way to make any of your web, graphic, or print designs stand-out. Some of these fonts or textures may seem useless as a standalone, however, once meshed with a beautiful idea, who knows what can happen.
Here we have a collection of over 50 dark grungy fonts and textures for you to use any way you’d like!
Akoom
[ank]* font
Inked God
Soul Mission
Zombilaria
Vtks good luck for you
Black Oak
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Today I would like to talk about blogs that have a unique design for each post. They break the traditional blog layout by designing a different theme for each post based on the topic. Designing a different layout for each topic requires a lot of time and creativity. So, we should appreciate these blogazines who spend their extra time to make your reading more pleasurable. If you would like to join this unique post trend, below are some excellent examples and WordPress tips on how to implement it.
Where would web design be without the wonderful jQuery and its marvelous library of free plugins? Of course there are other Javascript libraries, but none of them have had such a dramatic impact on modern web design as jQuery. It really is indispensable.
For today’s news we take a look at four very different recently released jQuery plugins and, as we try to do, keep you up to date with its development.
jDigiClock – Digital Clock (HTC Hero inspired)
jDigiClock is a jQuery plugin that has been inspired from the distinctive HTC Hero Clock Widget.
For such a complex looking plugin it is surprisingly easy to install and offers a multitude of options that control the appearance and behavior of the clock.
jDigiClock Downloads & Docs
Quicksand
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In this tutorial, we’re going to create the possum (one of the possum brothers) from the animated cartoon-Ice Age. In the first part of the tutorial, we’ll focus on creating a fur coat for our eccentric creature and in the second part of the tutorial, we’ll be creating a dark environment around the possum.
I must add that this tutorial would have been a lot more easier with the use of a graphic tablet (I’m saving for one myself). Nevertheless, everything is still very much workable with a mouse.
Before I started with the project, I decided to sketch out some mock-ups for the subject. I explored various postures and expressions of the possum and decided to stick with seventh sketch. If you can’t draw, you may trace out the drawing by placing ...
I’m back into the WordPress theme design. Check out my latest release — the Notepad theme. Inspired by the iPhone’s Notes app, Notepad is a modern theme with a subtle touch of the sketchy and texturized background. The theme is widget compatible with threaded & paged comments, social media buttons, and multi-level dropdown menus. It has been tested on WordPress 2.9 with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE7+. Users with CSS3 compatible browser will see the nice visual enhancement such as drop shadow and rounded corners. Check out the demo site and share your comments.
This is our weekly review from our web design Q&A web site Design Reviver Answers. It gives us a chance to highlight our favorite questions and share with our readers some of the insightful answers.
It has been another good week with yet more members, more questions and, most importantly, plenty of answers.
“Have you asked a question yet?“
How Do I Add My Feedburner Text Count On My Sidebar?
This question was asked by Autobots:
Answer from Rollback999?:
“You can do this by inserting the following code within the side bar div or sidebar menu. Edit the code to match up with your feedburner account.
Found on: yoast.com”
What Is The Correct Way To Set Opacity Using CSS3?
This question was asked by Themans:
Answer from Joel Reyes?:
“CSS3 allows you ...
There are an abundance of free tools available for every conceivable job, the only problem is you can never find the perfect one! To help you find that exact tool we have compiled a list of resources offering all of your web app solutions – as the saying goes, “we have an app for that”!
20 Fantastic Usability & Conversion Analysis Tools
Usability and conversion analysis tools, such as the examples listed in this article, will help you design or redesign your site to make it easier and enjoyable for visitors to navigate around. Such tools can be expensive, but they needn’t be. Amongst the pricier ones listed you’ll find many that are cheap or completely free to use.
20 Fantastic Usability & Conversion Analysis Tools
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The CSS3 trend is getting more and more popular. In fact CSS3 new features open a lot of new possibilities. Check out my previous post on "CSS3 Animation Demos" to see the things that you can do with it. However, don’t get too excited so soon because it is not fully supported by all browsers yet. But this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it at all. So, when should you use CSS3 new features? Well, continue on this post to see some excellent examples.
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