Archive for January, 2011
60+ High Quality Wallpapers For Your iPad
Have just got your new iPad? Want to personalize it with your favorite wallpaper but facing difficulty in finding it? Since this is the era of iPhones, iPads and iPods, we decided to compile a post in which we showcase some amazing and cool wallpapers for your brand new iPad.
Feel free to choose one or more for your device and download it for free. Here we have collected appealing wallpapers that will match with the theme of your new iPad. Enjoy!
Space Shuttle
Rainy day flower
Koenigsegg CCX
Castle
Sea lion napping
Multi Coloured
Earth Ocean
4 Seasons
Calm Lake
NIN: “Closer To God” iPad Wallpaper
Clown Fish iPad Wallpaper
iPad Wallpaper 4
Plant
Flame
iPad Wallpaper 3
Red Cherry
Avatar
The Dark Knight
Superman Logo
Bipolar Nature iPad Wallpaper
iPad Wallpaper
iPad Wallpaper 1220
Old Boat
Nier iPad Wallpaper
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Open Road
Beautiful Lake
Snowy Hills
Sea Shore
Space Gasses
Grassy Field
Snowy Forest
Old Shack
Colorful Space
iPad Wallpaper 2
NIN: “The Downward Spiral” iPad Wallpaper
Purple Field
NIN: “The Downward Spiral” iPad Wallpaper
Christmas Bulbs
White Forest iPad wallpaper
Colorful Parrot
Old Village
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STAR WALLPAPER
Big Blue
Mountain Lion
Penguin Army
Space
SUNFLOWER WALLPAPER
SUN GRAIN IPAD WALLPAPER
Dry Land
Future today
fibonacci succulent for iPad
guanacoste sunset for iPad
Grizzly Peak Recreation Area
Disneyland – Disney California Adventure – “Home of Deliciousness”
Waveform
Incredible Collection of 50 High Quality Free Textures
This post is designed specially for designers and our all the texture lover visitors, who always have a high regard for innovative and fresh textures and are desperate to execute them in their new design.
This is because of the reason that a good texture can give your website a much better and much more appealing look and your website attracts more visitors as compared to those websites having poor quality texture. By keeping this in mind, we have gathered this collection for your inspiration.
Feel free to drop us a line. It is always nice to get credited with your valuable comment.
Leather Textures
Dirt and Ground Textures
Metal Texture
Wood Textures
Wall Textures
Cloth & Fabric Textures
Paper Textures
Cartoon: A Very Brief (Hilarious) History Of Micro-Media
Technology changed our lives and made everything much simpler than ever. But who would have thought that one day anyone can create a new content without creating it himself. Just writing a paragraph or two on the actual story from somewhere else produces blog post. There was still a new content on the same story from different people with their personal opinions. But this is not enough, because now twitter made this whole process a lot less time consuming with almost no effort. On twitter, when someone tweets something, it can be retweeted by thousands or even more people without any noticeable addition.
This cartoon illustrates the effect in a very hilarious way. It was designed by David Armano. We would love to know what you are thinking while viewing this illustration. 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
7 Best Tools For Your Visually Attractive Online Presence
There are many web apps out there for having an online presence, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The 7 Best Tools For Your Visually Attractive Online Presence. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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IdentyMe
IdentyMe is a service for making of virtual business cards. You can collect all your contacts in one place and create a portfolio. It will helps you share information with new people, find new friends and business partners.
Flavors.me
Flavors.me provides elegant, easy-to-customize personal homepages, created using content from other services around the web. Your Flavors site is a gathering place for the content you’ve created, including blogs, videos, photos
and more.
Retaggr
Retaggr is about you, your online presence, and your activity across your favorite internet services. You use Retaggr to show the world where you live online, and make it easy for others to get to know you and, and to connect. It’s the modern day equivalent of a business card.
About.me
A lot of us have multiple online profiles scattered across various services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Twitter. And one problem we face is pulling all of this information together to build a single on-line identity – be it for personal use, or to create a professional on-line profile. about.me
is there for you.
DooID
DooID is your one-stop virtual business card that links friends, contacts and clients to your networking websites, business info and contact details.
chi.mp
chi.mp stands for Content Hub & Identity Management Platform. You can use your chi.mp site to collect, promote and connect the elements of your digital life in one place. This includes displaying your contact information, biography, blogs, messaging tools, websites and content from services such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr.
Magntize
You can create a beautiful, professionally designed websites for you and your personal brand in a matter of minutes with Magntize.
50 Totally Awesome Photoshop Techniques For Retro And Vintage Effects
For sentimental memories and emotions you always prefer retro and vintage designs. Of course they are created with rich colors, grunge elements and different textures and therefore they enhance their density at all. So we have decided to collect a good variety of retro and vintage related Photoshop tutorials to make you able to create your own vintage and retro design. All of these tutorials are very much beneficial and have much more to learn including some new techniques for your all newly projects.
CREATE YOUR OWN POP ART
In this masterclass, Mark Mayers shows you how to get that pop art look using layering, the Live Trace tool, filters and some cleverly chosen images.
Retro Geometric Vectors in Space
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create an abstract image for a poster using Illustrator and Photoshop. We will do all the vectors and shades in Illustrator then in Photoshop we’ll give to the image a nice retro style using some textures and brushes.
Design a Retro Futurism Space Scene
Learn how to design a retro-futuristic space scene, using a variety of lighting effects and photo manipulation.
Creating the new retro
Graphic designer James White shows you how to give retro-style graphics your own modern-day spin.
Craft a Vintage Fifties Letter
In this tutorial, Artist go over how to create a fifties love letter with stamps, bent corner, and a a retro border using the brush engine, rectangle tool, layer styles, blend modes, and several intermediate techniques that are sure to propel you skills to the next level.
How to create a Retro-style poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a retro-style poster in Photoshop. We’ll use custom brushes, multiple images, different blending modes and applying different layer styles. This tutorial is great for those looking for some quick Photoshop brush practice.
Make a Retro-Space Typography Poster with Colorful Lights
In this tutorial, artist will show you how to create a stunning and high-impact retro-style typography poster that’s out of this world.
Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop
Let’s take a look at how to create our own bright and colourful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop, using dynamic lines, vibrant gradients and rough textures to build up the design layer after layer.
Design a Retro Summer Poster Illustration
This tutorial will cover some really cool illustration techniques, exploring Photoshop’s vector capabilities as well as playing with textures and selection methods.
Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography
In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You’ll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects.
Create a Retro Design Poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro style poster. This is not an advance tutorial but you should have basic knowledge of photoshop.
Creating a Stunning Old-World Look in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we are going to create a sort of old-worldy composition featuring a compass and making use of some awesome vector artwork from Arsenal.
Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs
In this tutorial, artist show you how to mix cool retro geometric shapes into your photos.
How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect
In this tutorial we will be designing a cool retro text effect, which is growing more and more popular in today’s design. Today you will learn how to use the Perspective tool to create depth and how designers can use default gradients in unusual ways!
Create a Retro Photo and Background
In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it. We are then going to take the photo and create a background for it to lie on.
How to Design a Rockin’ 80′s Party Poster
In this tutorial, I will show you how to design a poster for an 80′s anthem party. Throughout this tutorial, we’ll create some textures for background, manipulate a photo to give it a stylish look, and make some color variations. Let’s jump into this super rad tutorial.
How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space Face
In this tutorial, I will show you how to make a typographic face by using simple techniques. Using the Brush Tool and experimenting with light, you will get this amazing Typographic Space Face that looks like it’s created by letters and an amazing explosion. Let’s get started!
Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster in Photoshop
This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating a vector Nintendo Gameboy in Illustrator and then using it to produce a cool retro poster in Photoshop.
Creating a Space-Helmeted Future Retro Illustration
This tutorial goes over the meat and potatoes of it’s creation!
Creating an Old-Collage Effect Poster
In this tutorial we’ll put together a poster where there is a main photograph and a lot of text using the old-collage feel.
Old School Type – Line Gradients
In this tutorial we are going to take the base logo and add that cool “line gradient” effect that you see inside the actual letters. This gives the text an old-school or vintage feel to it. This look is prevalent in wood engraving and sign lettering. You can do this effect with any typeface or font because the principle is the same.
Sweet Old School Album Cover
In this tutorial artist is going to show you some ways to fake the funk and give your digital images a healthy dose of awesome sauce.
Design a Vintage Car Poster with Grunge Texture, Font and Brushset in Photoshop
In this tutorial, artist will show you the processes involved in making an old-looking, vintage car poster with grunge texture, font and brushset in Photoshop.
Reader Tutorial: Create Vintage Traveler Diary in Photoshop
In this tutorial Nikola Lazarevic aka Colaja will show us how to create a very stylish vintage traveler diary in Photoshop. We will mix brushes with stock photos and blend modes to achieve the effect.
Gigposter Design: The New Sex
This tutorial requires NO drawing talent… so don’t trip folks. You will however need Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher and Illustrator CS2 or higher.
DIY vintage T-shirts
It’s easy to create authentic collegiate T-shirt designs using Illustrator, Photoshop and a good old-fashioned iron. In this tutorial, illustrator Derek Lea reveals how combining both applications can create stunning results.
Create a Vintage Looking Image with Photoshop
The tutorial will show you how to turn your digital image into a vintage looking image. All done in a non-destructive way. This was done in Photoshop CS2, although it may work in older versions.
Fantastic Wallpapers
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create some fantastic wallpapers on the desktop by imitating the vectorial style.
MOVIE POSTER ART
Prepare to shock! Terrify! Amaze! Mark Mayers demonstrates how to recreate the shlock B-movie posters of cinema’s golden age.
How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, artist will show you how to create a worn out, low-saturation-colored vintage beach ad in Photoshop.
Create a Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop Art Design
This is a basic to intermediate tutorial, so you don’t need to be a guru to work with this effect and get an awesome result!
Radio Station Advertisement Design
In this tutorial we’ll be using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (versions CS3) to create/design a beautiful radio station advertisement.
Create a Vintage Film Style Video
Photoshop CS3 Extended allows you to edit video and animations. Also, you can convert an existing video into a Smart Object and apply filters to it. This time we’re going to give a video a vintage feel and mock it up inside an old TV screen.
Cabaret Vintage Effects
The new lesson we’ll try to represent a styli illustration (a poster), dedicate to a certain topic, in this case – to the musicals. We’ll see also how to erase the effect of “red eyes”, decolorize only a part of the object and use different layers.
Creating an Awesome Retro Collage
In this complex and long tutorial, we will be making this abstract photo collage. Lots of images are used with exciting effects. Along the way, you will be using different blend modes, filters and some advanced adjustment layer techniques.
Create a Mock-Retro Poster Concept
This tutorial will teach you how to design a mock-retro poster. Learn how to manipulate photos and achieve a grungy, textured look.
Performance Car Club Wallpaper
This tutorial shows you how to create Vintage Cars Club wallpaper, that was inspired by rock n`roll and classic American cars.
“Old photo, vintage effect”
This is step by step Photoshop tutorial that teaches you how to create vintage effect for your photo using simple tools, filters, levels and layer style effects.
Turn A New Photo Into An Old Photo In Photoshop
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to look at how to do a bit of reverse photo restoration, turning a new or recent photo into an old photo, one that looks like it was taken many years ago, and we’ll be doing it by combining several separate effects to create our final result.
Super Cool Retro Poster in 10 Steps in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a very cool poster in just 10 steps. We will use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, but you may use other tools. I’m working on the Pixelmator version as well.
Create A Retro Cosmic Design in Photoshop
This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the Retro Cosmic designs made popular by James White of Signalnoise.
How to Create a Retro Boxing Poster in Photoshop
Creating a retrograde look is nothing new, but there are some things to keep an eye out for when mimicking Graphic Design from any decades past. We’ll be drawing inspiration from Poster Design from the 1960s, particularly Boxing Posters from that era. Let’s get started!
Creating A Retro Grunge Poster
This tutorial is an add on from the Poster article the other day, we will create a Retro/Grunge style poster using the pen tool some textures and playing with text to make it look more retro.
How To Create A Simple And Effective Retro Logo
In this tutorial artist will explain a super-simple way to create a nice retro logo with an appropriate background.
Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a beautiful, vibrant, Retro-Pop abstract wallpaper. You’ll also learn how to add some wonderful texture to your designs and make some abstract shapes.
Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design.
CREATE A RETRO GRUNGE TYPOGRAPHIC POSTER IN PHOTOSHOP
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a retro grunge typographic poster in photoshop.
How to Make a Planet Terror Style Poster in Photoshop
In this tutorial you will learn how to Make a Planet Terror Style Poster in Photoshop.
Design a Vintage Car Poster with Grunge Texture, Font and Brushset in Photoshop
In this tutorial, artist will show you the processes involved in making an old-looking, vintage car poster with grunge texture, font and brushset in Photoshop.
The Evolution Of The Photoshop (Infographic)
Evolution of Photoshop is one of the fastest known evolution in last two decades. Who would have thought that a little software will become a giant in short period of time. This infographic illustrates the journey of Photoshop that started as a baby which became the industry leader in these two decades.
This infographic was designed by Tech King. We would love to know what you are thinking while viewing this infographic. 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. Click here for the larger view.
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7 Coolest Real-time Collaboration Web Apps You Might Not Know About (But Should)
There are many web apps out there for real-time collaboration, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The 7 Coolest Real-time Collaboration Web Apps You Might Not Know About But Should. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.
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crocodoc
crocodoc takes your PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, and lets you view and mark them up online. Documents can be shared with others, who can collaboratively highlight or strikeout text, add notes and comments, and make revisions.
TitanPad
TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously. While working on this app, you may do infinite undo and everyone gets their own color.
notapipe.net
notapipe.net is a web service that allows you to edit text files in a realtime collaborative environment, from everywhere. This means multiple users can edit the same document simultaneously and changes are near istantly dispatched to every connected user.
Creately
Creately is a visual collaboration platform used by project teams to communicate more effectively. With Creately’s easy to use interface and Shared Projects, everyone on your design, development and business teams can collaborate on software designs, wireframes, business & strategy diagrams easily.
DataNest
DataNest allows you to back up important files and share data with your team, organization, friends or family. You can edit files online without installing any software.
Tgethr
tgethr is for Project teams who need a no-frills, secure email-based collaboration solution and useful for families, friends, and clubs who don;t need the overhead of more complicated solutions. This is also best for remotely located
people who still use email as a primary collaboration mechanism. With tgethr all correspondence over the web and email can be safely encrypted.
ShowDocument
ShowDocument is an online collaboration platform that lets you conduct web meetings and document sharing and collaboration sessions with clients and colleagues, and brainstorm using interactive whiteboards.
Top 10 Evergreen (Yet Free) iPhone Apps To Kill Your Boredom
Wondering how to have fun with your iPhone? One obvious way is to play games on it. And here we are listing down Top 10 Evergreen iPhone Apps To Kill Your Boredom. Read on my list of top 10 free iPhone apps for your entertainment. Try them all out – they’re free!
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PAC-MAN Lite
Namco’s world famous arcade game, PAC-MAN, returns. Remember all the hours spent munching on the dots? Relive this classic! Chomp a Power Pellet to momentarily turn the ghosts blue. When they’re blue you can eat them for bonus points. Gobble up the fruit for extra bonus points.
Tic Tac Toe Free
Now you can play Tic Tac Toe on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free. Tic Tac Toe Free is the first full-featured, free Tic-Tac-Toe game for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Solitaire
Klondike solitaire is the most popular solitaire card game in the world. The goal is to place all the cards in each suit in stacks of ascending rank.
BubbleFREE
The original Bubble popping app for the iPhone/Touch! Strangely addictive and fun game where you pop the virtual bubbles as fast as you can.
Checkers Free
Have you been searching for a free checkers application for your iPhone or iPod Touch? If so, look no further, Checkers Free is the premier free checkers application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
SCRABBLE Free
You can play SCRABBLE on your iPhone or iPod Touch for free. It allows you to play up to 25 games against friends via Facebook + 25 more games against random opponents.
3D Pool Master Pro
3D Pool Master was very well received hitting #1 is many countries and now over passed 1M downloads world wide.
Line Up FREE
Line Up is a fun color matching game. Click on blocks of 3 or more of the same color, as quickly as you can, before they overflow the board. Get ready for a new challenge each time you play Line Up.
Paper Toss
Have you ever been bored at work, crumpled up a piece of paper and counted how many times you can make it in a small trash can? This game is oddly satisfying . . . much like tossing a real ball of crumpled paper into a metal trash basket. So realistic, you will think you are stuck in an office killing time.
Angry Birds Lite
Angry Birds Lite features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. Each of the 12 levels requires logic, skill, and brute force to crush the enemy.
Stunningly Creative Photos That Make You Say ‘Wow’
Today, we are showing you another great collection of Stunningly Creative Photographs That Make You Say ‘Wow’. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who have 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.
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Pencil Vs Camera – 26 by `BenHeine
Sad Girl by Juliano Tejada
SunBall by Waleed Almotar
Cloud by Flea Yan
Spouting Off by Mark Dekovic
World’s Favorite Sport by Vramak
Transparent Screen by Yohann
God’s Canvas by Lee
Sisters Communion by Keith
LuLu Sunfingers by Rse75
Tower of Pisa by Trixnbooze
Transparent Screen iPad by Chengyin
Casio by Alexis Raimbault
Grassland by Nils Andersson
Basketball by Pixheaven
