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80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October

AN Jay — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:41:21 +0000

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 80+ High Quality And Useful 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 October 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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50+ High Quality Icon Design Tutorials (Part 2)

55 Terrific Cinema 4D Tutorials and Techniques

Create a Realistic Looking Nokia 5800 in 3ds Max

How to Create Roads and Rail Tracks on a Path

40 Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials

A Beginners Guide to Digital Textile Printing

Create a Transparent Text Effect with Fresh Grass Texture and Custom Brushset

75 PSD to HTML Resources for Web Designers

The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials

Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster

How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4

50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

45+ Adobe Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Cartoon Character Illustrations

Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop

How to Create an Icon in Illustrator

30 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials for Gamers

Blog Headers: 20 Great Examples and Best Practices

Build a Slick Rich User Interface in Photoshop

40 Quality Photoshop UI Design Tutorials

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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50 Awe-Inspiring Underwater Photos

21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art

100+ Clean, Simple and Minimalist Website Designs

15 Fabulous Examples of Origami Inspired logo Designs

39 Astonishing Examples of 3D Typography

35 Smart Logos With Second Thought To Make You look Twice

11 Amazing Photo Manipulated and Digital Art Wallpapers

A Showcase of 35 Beautiful Typographical Illustrations

40 Beautiful HDR Pictures You Would be Amazed

Trends in Pricing Page Design and Layout

14 Bold and Colorful Print Ads from Various Brands

44 Examples of Nature Inspired Website Designs

35 Creative Twitter User Profile Designs

Showcase Of Beautiful Textured Web Designs

Weekly Vector Inspiration #40

23 Eco Friendly Sites that are Using WordPress

30 Superb Examples of Infographic Maps

Website Design Showcase Of 21 Popular Brands

30 Jaw Dropping 3D Character Creations

45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See

15 Inspirational Single-Page Websites

10 Unforgettable Interactive and Inspirational Business Cards

105 People Photo Manipulation Works You Will Really Marvel

40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos

25 Absolutely Magnificant Landscape Photo Manipulation

Showcase of Social Networking Websites

15 Elegant Cartoon Wallpapers You Can Not Miss

40 Striking Examples of Graffiti Art

24 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Designs

80+ Photo Manipulations Art to Ignite Your Creativity

Javascript and Ajax

How to Build a Simple Content Slider jQuery Plugin

20 Simple jQuery Tricks

35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

Curtains Opening Animation with jQuery

xHTML and CSS
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Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started

The Blueprint CSS Framework – Tutorials, How-to Guides and Tools

Purely CSS – Faking Minimum Margins

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90’s Technology

Most Useful Collection of Premium 3d models

1000+ High Quality Free Grunge Textures, Icons, Brushes and Fonts

45 Beautiful Dual-Screen Wallpapers

30 Stunning Fonts To Enhance Your Designs

Collection of 8 Free and Exceptional Icon Sets

80 Stunning Background Patterns For Your Websites

9 Open Source Microblogging Applications

500+ Free Download High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers

24 High Quality Free And Stunning Symbol Fonts

50 Surprisingly Amazing Themes for Blogger

40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections

Miscellaneous Articles

20 Best Wordpress Typography Plugins To Enhance Readability

How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps

5 Highly Applicable, Yet Easily Overlooked Features in Photoshop

The History and Evolution of Social Media

20 Useful & Nicely Designed Web Applications

24 Useful Tutorials on Creating Photoshop Brushes

30+ Super Secret OS X Features and Shortcuts

15 Most Important Wordpress Plugins To Help You Fight Spam

Guide to a Successful Blog Post

8 Powerful Wordpress Plugins You Probably Don’t Use But Should

9 OpenSource URL shortening apps to make your own services

7 Key Principles That Make A Web Design Look Good

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 7

20 Handy Photoshop Tips For a Faster Workflow

10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

The Most Freakiest Digital Art Collection For Halloween Season

AN Jay — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:53:28 +0000

This is a post where you can see scary digital arts, creepy wallpapers and creative advertisments for the Halloween Season. 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 for Halloween Day. So, you may say this post is an exclusive post for Halloween.

You are welcome if you want to share more digital art and inspiration for Halloween Season 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.

Halloween by sandara

Halloween by eguana

This
is Halloween by the-black-rabbit

Halloween
by hockmen

Halloween by Kissmysteffy

Halloween 2009 by anmarija3

Haloween witch by lycoris-vampire

Flying Pumpkin

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Miller Lite: Halloween

Burger King: Veg City, Halloween

Party City: HouseOfHalloweenies.com

In house ads

Honda Fit: Cavernous

Universal Studios: Mother

Universal Studios: Friends

San Fransisco Zoo: Owl

San Fransisco Zoo: Koala

Articles And Wallpapers

Photoshop tutorials – most shocking ever

55+ Amazing Halloween Wallpapers to Charm Up Your Desktop

19 Creative Halloween Advertisements

30+Halloween Photoshop Brush Sets And Vector Images

55 Terrific Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques

AN Jay — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:35:19 +0000

Cinema 4D is getting very popular day by day mainly due to the body paint functionality. It has artist friendly interface with a customizable work flow. Many films like Spiderman 3, Monster House, Chronicles of Narnia, Beowulf, Polar Express and Superman Returns also used Cinema 4D to present a long lasting effect. People also used Cinema 4D in motion graphics because of its excellent integration with compositing application pipelines. The most useful thing about Cinema 4D is its instinctive interface and sound work flow that lets an artist to jump in and be creative and dynamic swiftly. In this post we have gathered 55 excellent tutorials which we will greatly help you to create some beautiful 3D graphics.

You are welcome if you want to share more Cinema4d Tutorials and Techniques 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.

Making of Super Snail

This work is fully modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D. Artist have used BodyPaint and Photoshop for the textures.

How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial artist will walk through the steps he used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.”

3D Abstract Tentacle Tutorial

Tutorial on how to make tentacles like this in the image using cinema 4D

DOOR TYPE

How to create a 3D type effect using Cinema 4d and Photoshop.

Creating a Ball Bearing using Arrays

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a ball bearing using an Array Object. You will also learn about the use of the Taper object, Fillet option and Bevel function.

Creating a Line Object Render

In this tutorial you will learn how to create great looking Line Renders using extruding and deformers, line renders are amazing looking renders that are often used on wallpapers or photo manipulations.

Modeling a Car using Blueprints

In this massive tutorial you will learn how to model a car using blueprints, points and the bridge tool. Basic Cinema 4D knowledge is required for this tutorial!

On/Off Switch

Enable or disable multiple objects at with one click Increase viewport speed and animation playback.

Modeling a Zebra

Here’s the Zebra 3D modeling tutorial by Pupi for Cinema 4D. And the Great thing is, you can download his 3D model for FREE!

3D Toys Animation

Learn the animation basics and looping in Cinema 4D.

Font Explode

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an explosive type effect!

Dotted-Lines

In this tutorial you will learn How to create an animated dotted line stroke.

The “UV-Map Dirtmap Baker” Tutorial

Cinema 4D veteran Peter Hofmann aka peXel presents us with this handy tutorial covering the following topics: How to get a “clean” UV – Map, How to calculate a Dirt – Map, How to work with Baker.

Little Planet

In this tutorial we’re going to use Cinema 4d to create the 3d text like in the image above. Feel free to use the software of your choice, this is a technique that can be easily duplicated in other 3D apps.

WORKING WITH PROCEDURALS

In this tutorial we will learn how much powerful procedurals are, and also some basics regarding shading/lighting.

Making an Hourglass

This tutorial will teach you to make a great sandglass, which you can use for plenty of purposes. You can find the finished model and other stuff from there.

Peanut Can BASIC Tutorial

Just a quick, easy dirty way to create a peanut can (or most types of cans with lids for that matter) in cinema 4D. Again its more about how easy the actual model and geometry is compared to the actual texturing.

Daylight tutorial

This amazing 3d scene, entitled Daylight, was created by Carles Piles. Read how the scene was created in the tutorial below.

Creating Car Tires

This tutorial will teach you how to make beautiful car tires step by step.

Texturing Objects and Lights in Cinema 4D

In this tutorial, artist will go though the steps in texturing objects in Cinema 4D. He also play with using textures to actually light the scene.

Shattering Glass

In this 3 tutorial series we’ll look at how to build a glass shatter effect, based on a recent project for Damages 2, using Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4D. This section includes capturing the template in After Effects, paths in Illustrator and setting up imported splines as polygons in Cinema 4D.

Modeling a Piano

This tutorial will show you how to make awesome model of piano.

Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art

This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows you exactly how to do this.

How i do my Materials

In this tutorial you will learn how to create awesome matterial, that can be very useful for your upcoming tasks.

Create a UFO in C4D

In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a basic textured disc shape and then drop it into an Array Object where you can create an epic looking UFO.

Skyline R34 Starter Tutorial

Although in this tutorial does not cover entire car, only the bonnet, fender and door, hope that you will learn lots of techniques in this tutorial.

3D E-Book-Cover

In this tutorial you will learn how to make E Book Cover step by step.

Armor plates C4D tutorial

A great step by step tutorial on Armor plates.

Simple UFO Tutorial

Nothing fancy, but it could help someone, somewhere, somehow, this tutorial iGrass Tutorial Cinema 4Ds written for Cinema 4D, but could easily be adapted for any other 3D app out there.

Classy Glassy Balls

Tutorial made for Cinema 4d but can be applied to almost any 3d rendering program.

Area Light and Ambient Light

In this Cinema 4D tutorial, he get into lighting a scene with the Ambient Light and Area Light CS Tools.

Egg Modeling Tutorial

Tutorial made for Cinema 4d but can be applied to almost any 3d rendering program.

Trash Can Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to make a simple modern trash can or “abstract” form you can use in your scenery, it also serves as practice for extrude tools and getting familiar with them.

Cinema 4d Low Poly Gun Tutorial

Wanna make something like this in Cinema 4D R8 and Unwrap 3D? so this tutorial is best for this.

Making 3D Bullet Case

This week, artist will show you how to make your own geometry easily. Although almost every 3D application can perform the same task, he will use Maxon’s Cinema 4D.

Interior Part 2

A detaild and very comprehensive tutorial about Interior.

Grass Tutorial Cinema 4D

This tutorial will show you how to make beautiful grass.

City tutorial

A very useful Tutorial that how you can make a city buildings.

Bart Simpson

A detailed and step by step tutorial that will teach you lots of techniques.

A Recipe for Skin

In this tutorial Artist will examine a few different strategies for achieving a realistic skin shader in Cinema 4D. Skin has a particular quality that sets it apart from ordinary surfaces: it is luminously translucent.

Bulb Modelling Tutorial

A very detailed and step by step tutorial on how to create electric bulb.

Cinema 4D + Poser tutorial

Beautiful tutorial and its mixture of Cinema 4D and Poser.

Cinema 4D Diamonds Tutorial

Not for complete beginners as artist made it pretty quick, but those of you that know the basics should understand.

Arq02 – Lamps

Mindblwoing tutorial and you will learn in this how to make a beautiful Lamp.

Ipod Video-Tutorial

Great tutorial on Ipod Making.

Dvd Player Tutorial Part 1

Part 1 of 3 video tutorials for Cinema 4D showing how to model a Dvd Player.

Green Abstract Tutorial

Create this abstract with the easiest way!

Create an Amazing Liquid Apple Effect in RealFlow, Cinema 4D, and After Effects

Learn the animation basics and looping in Cinema 4D.

Model, Texture, and Render an Interior Scene With Cinema 4D and VRay

In this beginner/ intermediate level tutorial, you will learn how to create and render a realistic interior scene in Cinema 4D and Vray. In this tutorial you will focus on modeling the room and all of the furniture, and the second on materials, lights, rendering, and post production.

How to Export 3d Camera Data from Cinema 4D into After Effects

When it comes to motion graphics, exporting camera data from a 3D program to a 2D compositing program is one of the most important techniques you could know. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics behind getting Cinema 4D and After Effects to talk to one another, including using exporting tags, using the camera data in After Effects within 3D layers and effects, and how to set up and tweak your render for the best results.

Create Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D

In this tutorial Satya Meka will walk us through Cinema 4D and how to create the 3d text in this effect.

Making of Portrait of a Silent Man

In this tutorial Patrick Eischen is going to show you how he created his image “Portrait of a silent man” using Cinema 4D and ZBrush.

Rolling Red Carpet

How to a rolling carpet and text effect in Cinema 4d.

Paper Crumple Tutorial in Cinema 4D

This tutorial shows you how to create an animation that makes a piece a paper crumple into a ball with no keyframes at all. It uses the cloth tag.

Making a glass and a wine bottle with C4D

This tutorial demonstrates ways to make a glass, its materials and the content inside the glass. Artist made the model in c4d r9, but It can be done with lower versions.

65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September

AN Jay — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:01:14 +0000

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 65+ Must See Resources Especially 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 September 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.

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33 Creative and Beautiful Logos

50 Inspiring Web Application and Service Web Site Designs

50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs

30 Powerful and Inspiring Street Fighter Characters Artworks

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20 Creative Illustration Advertisements from behance

40 Breathtaking & Creative Logo Designs Just to Inspire

TOP 35 Grunge Websites

Amazing Character Designs: 75 Brilliant Examples

25 Inspiring Examples of Abstract Vector Design

15 Mind Blowing Dragons Illustrations and Artworks

Javascript and Ajax

40 Super-Neat JavaScript Plugins

25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials

35+ Create Amazing Image Effects and Sliders with These Awesome jQuery Plugins

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Create a photorealistic web layout – CSS/XHTML available

CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions

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60+ Totally Free Rusted Metal Textures for Designers

460 Free High Quality Icons For Web Designers

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Massive Collection of Stunning Photoshop Actions

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20+ Powerful Wordpress Security Plugins and Some Tips and Tricks

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70+ Ultimate Collection Of Inspirations And Tutorial Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In August

AN Jay — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:04:57 +0000

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, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 70+ Ultimate Collection Of Inspirations And Tutorial Resources For Designers 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 August which our readers/viewers may like.Â 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.

53 Amazing Blender Tutorials

11 Mindblowing Digital Painting Tutorials

25+ 3D Text Tutorials to Enhance your Photoshop Skills

30 Creative Illustrator Logo Design Tecniques and Tutorials

40 Incredibly Inspirational Retro & Vintage Photoshop TutorialsÂ

33 Newly Fresh Web Design Layout Tutorials

27 Useful Logo Design Tutorials and Tips

25 Magazine-Style Layouts for Your Design Inspiration

Creating Colorful Disco Lines EffectÂ

Design a creative cosmetics layout with Photoshop

17 Noteworthy Typographic Tutorials

How to Design the Web in a High-Def World

40 (NEW) High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation

How to Draw Anime Complete Guide

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Abstract Vector Art

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Mastering Photoshop With Paths

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Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration

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27 Colorful And Futuristic Innovations In Product Design

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20 Amazing HDR Photos

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Javascript and Ajax

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30 Tutorials Combining Both Wordpress and jQuery

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xHTML and CSS
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75+ Excellent Collection of Tutorials, Inspirations And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In July

AN Jay — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:21:28 +0000

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, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ 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.Â 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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Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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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

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

15 Cute Cartoon Wallpapers

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

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

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

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

AN Jay — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:28:06 +0000

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, â€œDiscover the Best of the Webâ€ 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.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of June which our readers/viewers may like.Â 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.

53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials

40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials

10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials

13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography

Design a premium wordpress blog with Photoshop

Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper

50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects

Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials

Itâ€™s Time to Create a â€˜Neo-Constructivistâ€™ Poster with Photoshop

Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design

100 inspiring character designs

18 Fresh Font Designs

40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations

Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

45 Fabulous Logo Designs

60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases

74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs

50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web DesignÂ

100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration

25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design

13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration

43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art

12 Water Inspired Web Designs

20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers

Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples

25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art

40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation

21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations

23 Flourish Designs

Javascript and Ajax

55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks

Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color AnimationÂ

25 Useful MooTools Tutorials

15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX

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

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS

Watercolor Icon Pack

50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes

30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set

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

Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools

25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready

Hibiscus flowers – vector freebies

100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns

35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS TemplateÂ

20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts

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

12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo

20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)

Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website

40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards

50+ Truly Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Amazing Photo Effects

AN Jay — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:41:57 +0000

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.

You are welcome if you want to share more Photoshop tutorials that our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings atÂ smashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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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!
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 Theyâ€™re Photoshopped But Are Not

How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet

Reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow And Beard Stubble In Photoshop

Remove FrecklesÂ

Airbrushing – Natural Smooth Skin

Contrast Layers

Simple Make Up

Photo to illustration Vector EffectÂ

Retouch A Girl with Lighting Focus

Do not oversmooth the skin

Light Effect On A Model

Change the color

Enhance eyes and make them stand out in photoshop tutorial

Easy Digital Nose Job In Photoshop

Glamour Model

Photo retouch adding lipglossÂ

Age Progression – Photoshop Tutorials

Simple photo adjustment manipulation

Photo retouching

Make up a girl

Thermal Photo EffectÂ

Comprehensive Skin and Facial Enhancing

FACE MAKEOVER

Face retouchingÂ

Easy composition but nice result

Breathtaking Split Toning Effect

Create A Stunning Portrait

Graceful Lady In The DarkÂ

Create A Portrait Studio Background

Create a Face Shattering Effect

Portrait Retouching Techniques

Dreamy Lighting Photo Effect

Grunge Photo Edges

The “Perfect” Eye

Face Off!

Color Blending Technique

Photo to Illustration Effect

Dreamy SceneÂ

Aging People

Glisten In The Sunshine

Grayscale TechniqueÂ

Watercolor Effect

Adding Light Streaks To A PhotoÂ

Colorful Picture Style

Dreamy Photo EffectÂ

The Colors Of LoveÂ

Natural Film GrainÂ

Quick Brunette to Blonde

Colouring of photo

Blending And Combining Photos With Layer Masks

Soft Contrast

Pencil Sketch

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

15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources

AN Jay — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:38:24 +0000

Microsoft Silverlight is a free framework empowering you to build new types of applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser, using all the familiar features, languages and tools of the .NET framework. To see the magic of Silverlight, we must suggest you to check out this showcase applications on Microsoft’s website. Here is the list of 15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great applications that has been developed on Microsoft Silverlight. We are hoping that you will learn further on Microsoft Silverlight after reading out this post.

You are welcome to share if you know more Microsoft Silverlight tutorials and resources which our readers/viewers may like.Â 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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17 Wonderful Free Tools To Make Designers Lives Easier!
17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use!
17 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use!
21 Online Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Would Love To Use Every Day!
23 Free And Online Web Based Applications Specially If You Are Designer Or Developer
6 Free Tools To Help You Run Windows Applications On Linux
21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Absolutely Useful

First Look at Silverlight 2Â

In this article, you will have a first look at Silverlight that focuses on enabling Rich Internet Application (RIA) development.

The Importance of an Impressive User Interface

In this lesson of the Silverlight tutorial, you will learn about the elements used for drawing graphics and to animate graphics by using Expression Blend.

How to Start with Silverlight

Creating a XAML project for the Web

They are beginning this tutorial by the creation of a project for a Web application, running in a navigator, and who requires the Silverlight plug-in, plus the SDK for programmers.

Silverlight Tutorials Collection

A good and useful collection of Silverlight tutorials if you want to learn how to get start with it?

How To Create An Animated Navigation Bar

This article is a tutorial on how to use Silverlight 2.0 to make a nifty animated navigation bar much like the one at the top of the Silverlight.net website.

Virtual Earth Silverlight Minimap Tutorial

In this tutorial author is going to show you how to create a simple styled minimap to use in your Virtual Earth Silverlight projects that looks exactly like the one we used in our Twittermap demo.

Silverlight 3 Photo Gallery Wall Application

A downloadable source code of Silverlight 3 Photo Gallery Wall Application with useful information to understand how it was done.

Silverlight With Java Script Tutorial

This tutorial will introduce interactive animation. With Interactive Animation, we have the ability to start and stop our animations when we want without having to resort to subterfuge.

Creating Rich Data Forms in Silverlight 3 – Introduction

In this article author will show you the basics of the DataForm control â€“ what you can do with it and why you should use it. He will show you how you can bind an item or a collection of items to a data form. Microsoft guys have done a great job with this control, so there are many features that you can use directly without much pain.

Securing Silverlight Application and WCF Service using ASP.Net Authentication Techniques

In this article you can learn the securing Silverlight Application and WCF Service using ASP.Net Authentication Techniques.

Animation Easings in Silverlight 3

In this author will describe in details how you can use the BackEase animation.

The Silverlight BlockText Control

The main idea is to let Silverlightâ€™s Grid do the work. So at the beginning Author split the given string into words and draw them hidden into temporary grid, so he get the ActualWidth of each word.

Introduction to XAML Browser Applications

This article gives an introduction to XBAPs and provides information about the differences between WPF Standalone applications, Silverlight, and XBAPs. Nihar explains the steps used to create a sample XBAP application and how to deploy and run it.

50 Silverlight Applications

This is the collection of 50 sample applications developed in Silverlight.

50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In April

AN Jay — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:46:11 +0000

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 50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations 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 April which our readers/viewers may like.Â 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.

You may be interested in these older posts
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
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43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
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 Theyâ€™re Photoshopped But Are Not