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60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In June

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 60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

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Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials

53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials

40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials

10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography

Design a premium wordpress blog with Photoshop

Design a premium wordpress blog with Photoshop

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials

77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects

Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials

Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials

It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop

It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop

Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop

Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Breathtaking CG Images

50 Breathtaking CG Images

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design

50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design

100 inspiring character designs

100 inspiring character designs

18 Fresh Font Designs

18 Fresh Font Designs

40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations

40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations

Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

45 Fabulous Logo Designs

45 Fabulous Logo Designs

60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases

60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases

74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs

74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs

50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design 

50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design

100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration

100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration

25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design

25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design

13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration

13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration

43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art

43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art

12 Water Inspired Web Designs

12 Water Inspired Web Designs

20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers

20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers

Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples

Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples

25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art

25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations

21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations

23 Flourish Designs

23 Flourish Designs

Javascript and Ajax

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55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks

55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks

Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color Animation 

Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color Animation

25 Useful MooTools Tutorials

25 Useful MooTools Tutorials

15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX

15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX

10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance

10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance

xHTML and CSS
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24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials

24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

Resources
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Watercolor Icon Pack

Watercolor Icon Pack

50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes

50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes

30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set

30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set

15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies

15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies

Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools

Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools

25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready

25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready

Hibiscus flowers - vector freebies

hibiscus flowers - vector freebies

100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns

100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template 

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template

20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials

30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials

Miscellaneous Articles
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12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)

20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)

Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards

10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards

23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action

Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. Today, We are listing down 23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!

If you want to share more beautiful websites with the texture backgrounds which should be listed here, please comment about them below. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed.

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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

FeedStitch

FeedStitch

Matt Dempsey

Matt Dempsey

pampaneo

pampaneo

Jason Julien

Jason Julien

Dawghouse Design Studio

Dawghouse Design Studio

SimpleFlame

SimpleFlame

Rockatee

Rockatee

Agami Creative

Agami Creative

Ali Felski

Ali Felski

The Literary Bohemian

The Literary Bohemian

Bright Creative

Bright Creative

Sprocket House

Sprocket House

The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre

The Idiotic Adventures of Philippe and Pierre

Lucy Blackmore

Lucy Blackmore

Team Green 

Team Green

Rocket-wala

Rocket-wala

David Hellmann

David Hellmann

Huxley Prairie Festival

Huxley Prairie Festival

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

iPhoneDevelopmentBits

Inner Metro Green

Inner Metro Green

BlackWave Creative

BlackWave Creative

TeraFlex Trail Run

TeraFlex Trail Run

Ecoki

Ecoki

Lendl Allen V. Trazo

Lendl Allen V. Trazo

23 Striking Examples Of Nature Photography Through The Photographer’s Eye

Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 23 Striking Examples Of Nature Photography Through The Photographer’s Eye. 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 search out more beautiful photos of nature and motivate you to save our environment. 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 examples of nature 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.

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13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
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13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
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

Sunbathing by Ricky Siegers

Sunbathing by Ricky Siegers

Dreaming Jellyfish by David JANSSEN

Dreaming Jellyfish by David JANSSEN

Tidal Velocity by Bruno Abreu

Tidal Velocity by Bruno Abreu

Quietude by Brin

Quietude by Brin

angry… by akterf

angry… by akterf

Ben Nevis, Queenstown, NZ by dougi

Ben Nevis, Queenstown, NZ by dougi

Under the wing by Luigino Snidero

Under the wing by Luigino Snidero

By Magdalena Wasiczek

By Magdalena Wasiczek

Autumn road… by Krzysztof Browko

Autumn road… by Krzysztof Browko

By Torbjørn Kjørlaug

By Torbjørn Kjørlaug

Red Rocks by John Parminter

Red Rocks by John Parminter

Morning impression by Przemyslaw Wielicki

Morning impression by Przemyslaw Wielicki

Besseggen by Ronald J.

Besseggen by Ronald J.

Dream about a green valley by Janusz Wanczyk

Dream about a green valley by Janusz Wanczyk

Clownfish by Shahaira de Cuba

Clownfish by Shahaira de Cuba

white mountain by Thomas Zimmer

white mountain by Thomas Zimmer

Two valley view by Bergljot 

Two valley view by Bergljot

Rodopi by Alexander Maslarski

Rodopi by Alexander Maslarski

La Llamada de las Ninfas by José Luis Mieza

La Llamada de las Ninfas by José Luis Mieza

Red sky at night by Graham Cormie

Red sky at night by Graham Cormie

By Mariusz Jankowski

By Mariusz Jankowski

The end of another day by Ursula I Abresch

the end of another day by Ursula I Abresch

Currumbin Sunrise by Beau Mitchell

Currumbin Sunrise by Beau Mitchell

21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers

This is one of the very best 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 21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers. 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.

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11 Most Popular Cross-Platform And Free Softwares
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13 Simplest Free Web Tools That Are Absolutely Useful
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7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features
11 Premium But Free And Useful Web Apps For Designers
31 Power Tools For Twitter Lovers To Make Lives Easier
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store Your Files
7 New And Useful Free Sites With Unique File Hosting Features

Pixlr

Pixlr

Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.

Stripemania

Stripemania

Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.

FreshGenerator

FreshGenerator

FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.

ColorSchemer ColorPix

ColorSchemer ColorPix

ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats. You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.

Photoshop.com

Photoshop

This is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. You can upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.

Are My Sites Up?

Are My Sites Up?

Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.

PatternCooler

PatternCooler

Add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in the seamless pattern background library. All artworks on this site can be used freely on personal blogs, mobile phone wallpapers, MySpace profiles and non-commercial web projects.

Kuler

Kuler

Adobe Kuler is the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

Browsershots

Browsershots

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.

RoundedCornr

RoundedCornr

This online tool generates HTML/CSS code and images to decorate your Web site with rounded corners and gradient.

Picreflect

Picreflect

Picreflect helps you to give the reflection on any image, to resize your image, to make them tranparent or rotate them to any angle.

WhatTheFont

what the font

For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.

Resize Image

Resize Image

This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.

Wordoff

Wordoff

Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code.

SUMO Paint

SUMO Paint

SUMO Paint is an online image editor. This is an easy to use professional tool for creating and editing images within browser.

CSS Layout Generator

CSS Layout Generator

This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

Wix

Wix - Create a free website,  Free MySpace layouts & Flash MySpace layouts

With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

net2ftp

net2ftp

net2ftp is a web based FTP client. It is mainly aimed at managing websites using a browser. Edit code, upload/download files, copy/move/delete directories recursively, rename files and directories — without installing any software.

Color Wizard

Color Wizard

The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.

splashup

splashup

Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.

BgPatterns

BgPatterns

This is a web based tiled backgrounds designer, you can create any pattern your site needs just in few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency is available.

17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers

As a designer, all of us are continuously searching for effective inspiration because getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!

You are welcome to share if you know more resources and collection to get inspired with current design trend 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.

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43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
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21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements

17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
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23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not

25+ Most Creative and Stunning Photo Manipulations

25+ Most Creative and Stunning Photo Manipulations

100 (Really) Creative Business Cards

100 (Really) Creative Business Cards

25 Flourish Designs

25 Flourish Designs

20 Beautiful Examples of Photoshopped Smoke Art and Technique Tutorials

20 Beautiful Examples of Photoshopped Smoke Art and Technique Tutorials

25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS

25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS

40 Useful and Creative Infographics

40 Useful and Creative Infographics

35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design

35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design

Totally Awesome Joker Collection

Totally Awesome Joker Collection

20 Stunning Panoramic Landscapes

20 Stunning Panoramic Landscapes

21 Colorful Artwork Of Character Design To Grab Your Attention

21 Colorful Artwork Of Character Design To Grab Your Attention

42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography

42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography

50 Excellent Circular Logos

50 Excellent Circular Logos

25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs

25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs

60 Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis:Part 1

60 Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis:Part 1

30 Untypical WordPress Sites

30 Untypical WordPress Sites

25 of the Best Websites for Educational Institutions

25 of the Best Websites for Educational Institutions

50 Inspirational Web Design Blogs

50 Inspirational Web Design Blogs

21 Colorful Artwork Of Character Design To Grab Your Attention

This is the post dedicated to the creative examples of mascots and characters in graphics design. In this post, we will give you an idea in one place to see an attractive usage of characters to get viewers attention. It helps you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new character design or specially willing to have his new mascot design for the client or himself. Overall, mascots showing in this list are simple, funny and cartoon-style. The usage of color scheme, illustration and look and feel of presentation is really cool and attractive. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them it will must inspire you for creative mascots and characters in modern design. These are the mind-blowing creations of creative designers 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 character and mascots in graphics design 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.

By Maroto

classroom

By Ojofrito

Raver & Cumbiero

By Zutto

colorful-land

By Astro One

fink criminals

By Joshua Harvey

Singers

By Jared Nickerson

Ice-cream

By Julián Dorado’

Bull

By Michal Sycz

Milk-sucks

By Zutto

angle and sky

By Maroto

bambinomonkey

By Jonathan ball

PandasBy Astro One

people

By Leonardo Rodriguez

FLAMINGO’S SOCKS

By Adam Hudyma

mstrz

By Zutto

Girl on the mashroom

By Jonathan Ball

casual gameplay

By Tim Van den Broeck

RUNNINGTAP ISLAND

By Maroto

Having food

By Berk cankat

Fish

By Tony Ariawan

multi characters

By César Evangelista Bautista

whats-up

By Zutto

Mermaid in the water

By Julián Dorado’

dancing guys

21 Fantastically Captured Macro Photography With Natural Beauty

Macro photography is close-up photography. In simple words, Extreme closeup photography is referred to as macro photography. Anytime you see a super close photo of a fly for instance, or a flower petal, the photographer probably used macro photography techniques to get that gorgeous close up photo of any thing. Today, we are showing you 21 Fantastically Captured Macro Photography With Natural Beauty. 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 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.

Do They Know They Are Stars? by KarenNfld

Do They Know They Are Stars?

Nameless by Magdalena Wasiczek

Magdalena Wasiczek

Alien? by Jimmy Hoffman

Alien?

Beware of the tracker by CathS

Beware of the tracker

The hero by Andre Gehrmann

the hero

Thirsty by Istvan Lichner

Thirsty

Dreamland by Peet13

dreamland

Midnight Daze by onixa

Midnight Daze

Return to Hell by EJ.

return to Hell

Boraginaceae / Heliotropium ellipticum by Yavuz Sariyildiz

Boraginaceae / Heliotropium ellipticum

Spider by Magdalena Wasiczek

Spider

Poised by Marcus Lim

Poised

The Sportcoach by Bee Thalin

The Sportcoach

After the Rain by Amy Hopp

After the Rain

Up to the stars by Gudrun Ruf

up to the stars

Beautiful by Mikael Jigmo

Beautiful

Sunbathing by Ricky Siegers

Sunbathing

Birth by Kiki Plumier

Birth

She loves to dive by Raphael guarino

She loves to dive

Clumsy little world by Jeannette Oerlemans

Clumsy little world

Clownfish by Shahaira de Cuba

Clownfish

Smashing Release : 15 Free And High Quality Tree Wood Textures

Today, we are feeling very happy to release our first free set of Tree Wood Textures in collaboration with Desizntech for SmashingApps readers. 

In this set, you will find 15 High Quality Tree Wood Textures that you can use in your design projects, websites and anywhere you want. All of the textures can be downloaded individually via Flickr from Free Tree Bark Wood Textures set or download the single zip file of all the textures to get actual size textures that is 3072px x 2304px.

Click here to download all textures in single zip file

Tree Wood High Quality Free Textures

Tree Wood Texture 1

Tree Wood Texture 1

Tree Wood Texture 2

Tree Wood Texture 2

Tree Wood Texture 3

Tree Wood Texture 3

Tree Wood Texture 4

Tree Wood Texture 4

Tree Wood Texture 5

Tree Wood Texture 5

Tree Wood Texture 6

Tree Wood Texture 6

Tree Wood Texture 7

Tree Wood Texture 7

Tree Wood Texture 8

Tree Wood Texture 8

Tree Wood Texture 9

Tree Wood Texture 9

Tree Wood Texture 10

Tree Wood Texture 10

Tree Wood Texture 11

Tree Wood Texture 11

Tree Wood Texture 12

Tree Wood Texture 12

Tree Wood Texture 13

Tree Wood Texture 13

Tree Wood Texture 14

Tree Wood Texture 14

Tree Wood Texture 15

Tree Wood Texture 15

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This work has been released by SmashingApps and available for download on Flickr and FileDropper under “Free Tree Bark Wood Textures” set under the Creative Commons license. You can use any or all of them for personal and/or commercial projects.

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21 Premium-Like Free Photoblog Themes For Wordpress

Few days ago, we have been requested to list down some beautiful photoblog themes for wordpress. Today, we are going to deliver the most beautiful collection of photoblog themes for wordpress. This is not the long list with all the available wordpress themes on the internet but this is an exclusive collection of free photoblog wordpress themes that are nice, simple and elegant looking and you may consider any of these themes as per your need  if you are searching for your photoblog.

You are welcome to share more wordpress themes for photoblogs which our readers 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.

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PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme

PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme

PhotographerDream Wordpress Theme was build specially for photographers. Right from the main page visitor will see photographer shots. On the photo page image pan is used, so if the image is extra large user will drag it to view every pixel. Your blog visitors can also press control and drag photo to zoom the image.

AutoFocus

AutoFocus

AutoFocus is a Wordpress theme specifically for photographers looking for a simple and elegant way to display their work online.

Grain Theme for WordPress

Grain Theme for WordPress

Grain Theme for WordPress is a fixed-width photoblog theme for WordPress 2.3+. To use it you have to additionally install the Yapb plugin; Recommended versions are 1.9 or newer. Grain comes with an administrative backend and relies heavily on CSS for it’s styling. It uses a mosaic style overview page, has archives, can display exif data, browse to random photos etc.

Fotofolio

Fotofolio Wordpress Theme - For your online portfolio

Fotofolio is a free wordpress template designed for easy creation online portfolio for Visual Workers; Photography, Graphic Design, Manga, Architect, etc.

Wordpress Theme - Photo Blog

Wordpress Theme - Photo Blog

Wordpress Theme - Photo Blog is a simple Wordpress theme. No widget and fix width. Huh! Important here it’s simple, clean and easy to modify.

Wp Foto theme

Wp Foto Theme

Wp Foto theme is single layout theme designed for photo blogger. It uses custom fields for displaying thumbnail in home page, archive page, category and tag page.

Sharpfolio

Sharpfolio

Sharpfolio is a WordPress theme designed to enable Web Designers, Graphic Designers, Photographers, Motion Designers, Artists or any creative professional to showcase their work in a simple, clean, beautiful portfolio.

The Unstandard

The Unstandard

The Unstandard is a split two / three column WordPress 2.6 or 2.7+ compatible theme. The home and archive index pages utilize photos rather than text. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customization

Fotolog WP theme

Fotolog WP theme for photoblog

Fotolog WP theme for photoblog is suitable for those who have huge interest in photography but have no specific template to showcase their high quality photos with wide dimension. It has 1 column, showing 1 photo for each page and showing maximum 800px width photo on main page (can be modified). Previous photo and next photo link on top and bottom of each page, this will help for better/faster navigation.

PhotoBlog Theme for WordPress

PhotoBlog Theme for WordPress

PhotoBlog Theme for WordPress uses the jQuery JavaScript-Framework, which has been included with the standard WordPress installation since version 2.1. The plugin uses the standard JS that is part of WordPress, meaning that it does not need to be installed separately. The decision to use jQuery was made on account of its very small file size (20KB)

Free Photo Gallery

Free Photo Gallery

Free Photo Gallery is a perfect theme for those photo bloggers who want to display bigger sized images. The simple web page has links to other pages like About and other images and comment section below the image.

Reflection

Reflection

Reflection is a simple, clean and elegant theme for running your photoblog using WordPress.

Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme

Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme

Photoblog Dark Portfolio Wordpress Theme is ajax content sliderDark style, online portfolio premium wordpress theme.

Grace

Grace Theme

Grace is a stylish, minimalistic photoblog theme for WordPress. Grace’s muted color scheme and big frame puts your photos right at the center of the blog making colors seem even more vibrant and beautifully complementing those in black and white.

iQ2 is a WordPress photoblog

iQ2 WordPress Photoblog Theme

iQ2 is a WordPress photoblog theme that fully integrates with the PhotoQ Photoblog Plugin. The main features of the theme consists Fixed width, Fully widget compatible, Built-in EXIF support etc.

Ascari

Ascari

Ascari is a very simple theme so it is perfect for portfolios of any kind. This will also post a coming soon image if you don’t post a image yourself to keep the theme looking professional.

Spotless

Spotless

Spotless is a Wordpress Theme designed specifically to be used for Photoblogs.  This is valid XHTML and CSS wordpress them. This is the most simplest free wordpress photoblog theme of its kind.

Linquist

Linquist

Linquist is a simple, portfolio oriented theme, without the usual blogging garbage. Inspired by and partially based on the fantastic Sharpfolio theme.

WP Pix Free Theme

WP Pix Free Theme

WP Pix Free Theme is not just another WordPress theme, it’s more to it than meet the eye — it’s a real photoblog/portfolio.

Photo-Biyori

Photo-Biyori

Photo-Biyori is a simple yet beautiful wordpress theme that can generate thumbnail automatically. This is widget ready theme with default picture size 500px.

Viewport Free Wordpress Theme 

Viewport Free Wordpress Theme

Viewport Free Wordpress Theme is a 1 column grey photoblog Wordpress Theme. This is very beautiful theme having attractive navigational structure for images.

50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects

Designers love all of those photoshop tutorials that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive creative works. And the demand for Photo Effects tutorials are too much in these days. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects. We hope you all will like this collection.

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How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet

How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet

Reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble In Photoshop

Reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble In Photoshop

Remove Freckles 

Remove Freckles

Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin

Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin

Contrast Layers

Contrast Layers

Simple Make Up

Simple Make Up

Photo to illustration Vector Effect 

Photo to illustration Vector Effect

Retouch A Girl with Lighting Focus

Retouch A Girl with Lighting Focus

Do not oversmooth the skin

Do not oversmooth the skin

Light Effect On A Model

Light Effect On A Model

Change the color

Change the color

Enhance eyes and make them stand out in photoshop tutorial

Enhance eyes and make them stand out in photoshop tutorial

Easy Digital Nose Job In Photoshop

Easy Digital Nose Job In Photoshop

Glamour Model

Glamour Model

Photo retouch adding lipgloss 

Photo retouch adding lipgloss

Age Progression - Photoshop Tutorials

Age Progression - Photoshop Tutorials

Simple photo adjustment manipulation

Simple photo adjustment manipulation

Photo retouching

Photo retouching

Make up a girl

Make up a girl

Thermal Photo Effect 

Thermal Photo Effect

Comprehensive Skin and Facial Enhancing

Comprehensive Skin and Facial Enhancing

FACE MAKEOVER

FACE MAKEOVER

Face retouching 

Face retouching

Easy composition but nice result

Easy composition but nice result

Breathtaking Split Toning Effect

Breathtaking Split Toning Effect

Create A Stunning Portrait

Create A Stunning Portrait

Graceful Lady In The Dark 

Graceful Lady In The Dark

Create A Portrait Studio Background

Create A Portrait Studio Background

Create a Face Shattering Effect

Create a Face Shattering Effect

Portrait Retouching Techniques

Portrait Retouching Techniques

Dreamy Lighting Photo Effect

Dreamy Lighting Photo Effect

Grunge Photo Edges

Grunge Photo Edges

The “Perfect” Eye

The “Perfect” Eye

Face Off!

Face Off!

Color Blending Technique

Color Blending Technique

Photo to Illustration Effect

Photo to Illustration Effect

Dreamy Scene 

Dreamy Scene

Aging People

Aging People

Glisten In The Sunshine

Glisten In The Sunshine

Grayscale Technique 

Grayscale Technique

Watercolor Effect

Watercolor Effect

Adding Light Streaks To A Photo 

Adding Light Streaks To A Photo

Colorful Picture Style

Colorful Picture Style

Dreamy Photo Effect 

Dreamy Photo Effect

The Colors Of Love 

The Colors Of Love

Natural Film Grain 

Natural Film Grain

Quick Brunette to Blonde

Quick Brunette to Blonde

Colouring of photo

Colouring of photo

Blending And Combining Photos With Layer Masks

Blending And Combining Photos With Layer Masks

Soft Contrast

Soft Contrast

Pencil Sketch

Pencil Sketch

Guest Post by Umair Jawed who is a Graphics and Web Designer and a part-time blogger.