Archive for July, 2009
75+ Excellent Collection of Tutorials, Inspirations And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In July
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web†on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 75+ Excellent Collection of Tutorials, Inspirations And Resources For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of July which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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145 Ultimate Round-Up Of Photoshop Tutorials and Resources
35 Unbelievable Smoke-Themed Designs and Tutorials
Web Design Tutorials: The Ultimate Roundup
40+ Vector Characters Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials
Three Short Tutorials for Photographers and Photography Lovers
Creative Photoshop Animal King Photo Manipulation Tutorial
Tips & Tutorials for Creating Custom Designer Toys
Creating an Abstract Watercolor WallpaperÂ
22 Very Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Design a travel PSD layout with Adobe Photoshop
52 Excellent Cinema 4D Tutorials
50+ Ultimate Collection of Glow and Light Effect Tutorials in Photoshop
How to Quickly and Effectively Clean Out Body Hair in Photoshop
24 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials
Design an E-Commerce Website in Photoshop
How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene
20 Amazing Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Icon
70+ incredible HDR images with photoshop and photomatrix tutorials
How To Create a Retro Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop
26 Professional Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Tutorial Videos
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 beautiful and creative typography designs to inspire
25 Large Photo Background Websites
23 Inspiring And Colorful Examples Of Digital Art And Manipulations
110 Fresh Logo Designs For Design Inspiration
27 Inspirational Horizontal Scrolling Websites
100 Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in South America
22 Eye Catching Colourful Logos
20 Inspirational, Clean E-Commerce Website Designs
Business Card Design: 100+ Creative Examples, Useful Tutorials and TemplatesÂ
44 Advertising Posters with Clever IdeasÂ
30 Awesome and Well Designed Mac App Websites
30 Awesome Twitter Inspired Logo Designs
Animating Design Elements: 7 Unique & Creative Practices
21 Popular Brands That Are Using WordPress
Before & After: Alex Justino Photo Manipulation
25 Inspiring Examples of Sign-Up Pages
30 Wonderful Examples of Shoes Advertisements
70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme Web Designs
55 Fresh Examples Of Corporate Website Designs
25 Beautiful Examples Of Typography Portraits
50 Fresh Portfolio Websites for Your Inspiration
20 Incredible Sunrise Wallpapers Caught in Space
55 Niche Web Design Galleries for Your Inspiration
33 Inspirational Illustrations
Javascript and Ajax
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25+ Create Amazing Image Effects with Some of the Best jQuery Plugins Available
25 Fresh and New jQuery Plugins and Tutorials
Making a Content Slider with jQuery UI
MooTools Tutorials and Resources Round-Up
15+ Plugins to Unleash the Invincible Power of jQuery and WordPress
Most Useful Ajax Tools And Tutorials
15 Website for jQuery Enthusiast and Addicts
xHTML and CSS
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Mega CSS Resource Roundup
20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS
50 New CSS Techniques For Your Next Web Design
Resources
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21 Absolutely Useful And Inspiring Collection Of Most Desirable Freebies
35 High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs
30 Awesome Textures for Creating Subtle Grunge Designs
10 Great Free Adobe Air Apps that Every Designer and Developer Should Use
19 Free Photo Source Sites for CG Artists
45+ Absolutely Useful Free Fabric Textures
60+ Free Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines
15 Essential WordPress Plugins for Portfolio Sites
5 Awesome Online Photo Editors
27 Color Tools and Resource for Choosing the Right Color PaletteÂ
28 Best Quality Textured Backgrounds Free WordPress Themes
40 Free and Useful GUI Icon Sets for Web Designers
Miscellaneous Articles
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13 Ways to Browser Test and Validate Your Work
Best free PHP learning resources for beginners
The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designer
13 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Building WordPress Themes
45+ Useful Resources For Better Torrenting ExperienceÂ
Ultimate Ecommerce Starter Kits for WordPress Users
30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals
WordPress Resources – 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes
Now Create Websites From Photoshop To WordPress in 5 Minutes
There are many automatic translators from English into French, right?So why can’t there be software that translates the artistic language of effects, brushes and filters into HTML code? So forget the word “impossible†and here is the great tool for you. Divine, A free tool/plugin that creates websites from Photoshop to WordPress promptly and you can use this absolutely free.
With the help of Divine you spent less than 5 minutes for wordpress theme creation. Photoshop basic is pretty enough for you. The code written with this tool is seo friendly and optimized for getting the top results in the search engines. Web pages created with divine are compatible with all browsers at their most. The code written from this tool is optimized and agreed to modern web-design requirements.
Your All-In-One Sync Tool For Macs, Windows Mobile, Nokia S40 And Online Accounts
SyncMate allows you to sync your contacts and calendars with many devices simultaneously and even with your Google account (in 2 ways, unlike iSync). BTW, since version 2.0 you can backup your important data online. This will also help you to Synchronize all your important information and keep your notes, documents, files and contacts well-organized.
Additionally to sync features, SyncMate Free Edition provides you with opportunity to read your SMS right from Mac OS X computer, share Internet between Mac and Windows Mobile devices and visually analyze detailed information of the Windows Mobile devices connected (battery state or memory usage).
SyncMate installation is very easy. There is no need to unlock device in order to install SyncMate. Mac can be connected to Windows Mobile device via USB or Wi-Fi, Mac to Nokia connection is available via Bluetooth, and you can sync your Mac with another Mac via Ethernet.
SyncMate is compatible with Mac OS X platform (Mac OS X 10.4 and higher, Mac OS X 10.5). Device compatibility are Windows Mobile Pocket 5, Windows Mobile Smartphone 5; Windows Mobile 6 Standard, Windows Mobile 6 Classic and Windows Mobile 6 Professional; Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.5; Nokia S40 devices.
23 Breathtaking Moments And Ideas Captured By Photographers
Today, we are showing you 23 Breathtaking Moments And Ideas Captured By Photographers. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
You are welcome if you want to share more creative photographs and images that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
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50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Greet the Morning by =phatpuppy
Perfect hit by Espen André Steinsvik
Dreamy waters by Willy Marthinussen
Im going to tell you a secret by =fhrankee
Should I stay or should I go? by Gabor Wavrik
if i am the storm … by =mr-twingo
Stairways to Heaven by Anton Chekalin
Painted sunset by Willy Marthinussen
13 Fast And Furious Stick Figure Animations And Tutorials
Stick figures are often used in animations made with Adobe Flash. Stick figures are easy to draw and can be traditionally animated a lot quicker than full drawings. Today, we are listing here 13 Fast And Furious Stick Figure Animations And Tutorials to make you impress with these creative art that need lots of hard work to get it done. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to search out more stick figure animations.
You are welcome if you want to share more examples of stick figure animations that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
Animator vs. Animation
This is Sparta! Pivot Animations
Stick Em Up (Pivot Stick Figures Animation)
Rivalry (Pivot Stick Figure Animation)
How To Create Cool Looking Stick Figure Animations On GIF
How to Create Stick Figure Animations
11 Of The Handy Free Tools To Increase Designer’s Productivity
This is one of the very best (Fresh) list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 11 Of The Handy Free Tools To Increase Designer’s Productivity. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
You are welcome to share more Useful web tools that will be helpful for web designers and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
Pictaculous is free color palette generator. It would be really helpful if you are wondering what colors to use with an image. You will just need to upload your image and it will give you the suggested color palette.
This is a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything. Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free.
This is an online calculator that can help you easily covert pixels, to EM, to percent or to points.
This is the fastest way to resize your pictures and images. You will just need to choose an image file, select some resize options, and hit Resize it. Your image will be uploaded to the server, resized and then your resized image(s) will be provided in a single convenient view. The power comes from the simultaneous generation of different sizes and the ability to enlarge your images too.
SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites “accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links” and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.
A way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer.
A collection of free icons that can be colored and reduced in size to your taste. If you are a happy site or blog owner, you will be able to pick icons that will fit right into your design.
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.
Text Utilities is really useful multipurpose tool that can customize and manipulate your text as per your need. It can quickly help you to encode, decode, case convert, javascript and regexp any text submitted by you.
Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image. Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image. The more colorful the image, the better the results.
Font Burner is the easiest way to add great fonts to your website. Just pick one of over 1000 quality fonts, add a chunk of code to your site, then sit back and admire your beautiful typography.
23 Inspiring And Colorful Examples Of Digital Art And Manipulations
In this post we are listing 23 Inspiring And Colorful Examples Of Digital Art And Manipulations. They are some of the beautiful artwork, photo manipulations, visual effects examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
You are welcome to share if you want to share more Digital Art And Manipulations For Creative Inspiration that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken.
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10 Stunning Photos That Look Like They are Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
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Photo manipulation of a photo of Julia Dunin-Brzezinska
13 Free Adobe AIR Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier
Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax. It’s popularity is increasing every day and getting more lovers who are using tools developed on Adobe AIR for diversified purposes. Designers are the top on the list in those lovers and this list is specially for designers who can save their time and complete their task in the less time using these little but simple AIR apps. But you probably will like this if you are developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Because we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. The best thing about these apps that they are cross-platform using Adobe’s AIR technology. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
You are welcome if you want to share more free and simple Adobe AIR apps that are useful and our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date.
Doomi has all the features you can use, and none of the ones you don’t. You can create, edit, set reminders, and keep archives of your old tasks.
Live Presentations is a web-enabled presentation authoring application that can be used either as a software on your desktop or as a service within any browser giving you unprecedented choice and flexibility so you can share your presentations with anyone without worrying about incompatibilties around operating systems, application versions or document formats.
Ora Time and Expense is a small easy-to-use application for tracking and generating timesheets, expense reports, and invoices. You can use your webcam to scan expense receipts for automatic inclusion in expense report. There are option to generate timesheets, expense reports, and invoices in HTML, Excel, CSV, or XM.
focus booster is a simple and elegant application designed to help you eliminate the anxiety of time and enhance your focus and concentration.
Remember The Task is a light-weight Adobe AIR application that allows users to view their pending tasks on Remember The Milk with due dates. Users can also Add, Modify and mark tasks as complete.
Tired of copying pasting those LOOOONG URLs into emails only to see them break? Then Shrinkadoo is for you! Built with Adobe® AIRâ„¢ technology, Shrinkadoo accesses the services of many of the internet’s most popular URL shortening services allowing you to build a short URL quickly and easily.
Dukt lets you track the time you spend working on your projects. The application also shows you the time you spend and the money you earn for each task.
Skimmerâ„ is an Adobe AIR desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon your day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich experience that is particularly suited to multimedia content.
A handy tool for web and interface designers which allows them to measure objects in pixel and preview design.
Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize “snippets” in one convenient location. A snippet is a collection of one or more pieces of code and notes.
ShareFire is a feature-rich news aggregator that lets you share stories via AIM, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email and more with no copying and pasting, or dragging and dropping.
If your company does not allow you to use twitter and you are a guy who loves twitter a lot. So, this is really for you. This is an awesome twitter tool that looked just like Excel. You can get some simple functionalities like viewing direct messages, replies and send tweets in this application.
21 Absolutely Useful And Inspiring Collection Of Most Desirable Freebies
We are always in search for the great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Everyday we work hard to find new and useful stuffs for designers like you. Today, we have another great post for designers with a great collection of freebies stuffs like Icons, Fonts, Vectors, Brushes, Textures, Patterns and PSDs and much more. We obviously cannot cover all of the best available on internet, but we have tried our best to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share more freebies and resources for designers which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.
45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns
72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons
7 High Resolution Stone Textures
35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template
34 Free and Elegant TrueType Mini Pixel Fonts
50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons
23 WordPress Themes for your Website
Free Typographic XHTML/CSS-Layouts For Your Designs
20 Really Useful And Free Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages
30+ Most Wanted Free Photoshop Floral Brushes Set
17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts
80+ Texture Resources for Designers
30 High-Quality Icon Sets for E-Commerce Designs
30 High-Res Paper & Plastic Packaging Textures
36 Color Gradient Sets For Photoshop and Resource Sites
20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources
40 Sources To Download High-Quality Free Photoshop PSD Stuff
12 Free & High Quality Burnt Paper Textures
500+ Truly Useful Resources of Free High Quality Patterns
300+ Excellent Photoshop Brushes for Creating Painted Effects
50 Free High-Quality and “New†(X)HTML/CSS Templates
10 Stunning Photos That Look Like They are Photoshopped But Are Not
There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photoshop and photo manipulation. You probably have also seen many photos or images that have been photoshopped and inspire others. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing few 10 Stunning Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not. These are not photoshopped in terms of that all the objects and their actions are real but might be edited for colors adjustments etc. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about these photographers. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
You are welcome if you want to share more creative photography that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well. Click on the images to go from where the images has been taken and learn more about their creators and to appreciate them.
You may be interested in these older posts
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Fire Dancer by Gordon Bowbrick
New miracle by Guillaume Ducarme
She loves to dive by Raphael Guarino
Shadow suicide by JanuaryVictim
Love Will Come Through by ArhcamtIlnaad
