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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.How to Digitally Paint Lip Gloss with a Tablet

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23 Stunning Examples Of Digital Art & Manipulation

There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photo manipulation. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 23 Stunning Examples Of Digital Art & Manipulation. I appreciate to all those talented designers who created these excellent graphics with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these wonders. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about these designers. 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.Dream In a Puddle 2 by pixelcriminal

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15 Excellent And Useful Microsoft Silverlight Tutorials & Resources

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.The Importance of an Impressive User Interface

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.

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22 Motivational And Excellent Photography Dedicated To The Labor Day

Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the labor union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. The majority of countries celebrate Labor Day on May 1, and it is popularly known as May Day and International Workers' Day. But why we are talking this? Because today, Labor Day is celebrating all over the world, and we are trying to take part by giving labors a warm tribute. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 22 Motivational And Excellent Photography Dedicated To The Labor Day. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about Labor Day and motivate you to appreciate them. 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.HARDWORKED HAND by Cristian Naidin

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Thank You Our Valued Sponsors To Be With Us In The Month Of April

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

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.115+ Ultimate Round-Up of 3D Studio Max Tutorials

115+ Ultimate Round-Up of 3D Studio Max Tutorials

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Congratulations To The Winners of Visifire

Thank you for all of the participants of contest in which Visifire, Giving Away 10 Developer Licenses Of Worth $99 Each. We and Visifire selected these 10 best commenter and decided to give them free Developer Licenses of Visifire.

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9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot

We are always in the search for useful stuffs on the internet that are freely available for everyone and specially for designers who spend their whole day in to design or create something creative. We aimed to help you and keep you updated with all the new online tools that you probably would love to use. In past, we have listed various free web apps that are really useful for any one of you and specially for designers. Today, we are listing 9 Online Free And Useful Tools That Can Help Designers A Lot that are not only for designers and every one of you will probably love to use any or all of them. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. This post contains a diversified collection of free web apps and we tried to make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features and functionality. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.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.

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21 Truly Impressive And Eye-Catching Collection Of Free Textures

We know that textures, backgrounds and patterns are the most wanted freebies on the internet. Specially designers who love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive. SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 21 Truly Impressive And Eye Catchy Collection Of Free Textures. We hope you all will like this collection.Apple Leaf Texture by texurestockbyhjs

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28 Beautiful And Inspiring Photographs Dedicated To Earth Day

Yes, we know that SmashingApps is dedicated to designers and developer but I think it would be good if we can be able to give some awareness and knowledge to our readers for some environmental issues. Today, Earth Day Network is celebrating a Earth Day all over the world, this is a day when they try to create awareness and educate people about keeping their environment clean and motivate them to Go Green for their sorroundings. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 28 Beautiful And Inspiring Photographs Dedicated To Earth Day. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about Earth Day and motivate you to save your planet. 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.Earth from above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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6 Free Softwares For Designers That Are Absolutely Useful

We have lots of commercial software available to use on different platform to complete our different work. As they are not free and sometime we do not able to purchase or for some reason we urgently need some software to complete any task but without having a licensed copy of commercial software we can not perform that job. Donâ€™t worry about it, today we are listing here 6 Free And Simple But Useful Free Apps For Designers in which most of them are cross-platform. There are many alternative available for single software, but I just tried to list down some very non-familiar and useful free software. You probably will not be able to enjoy all the features as original software but it will really help you to perform your task in a better way when your pocket does not allow you to purchase commercial software.Synfig

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.Synfig eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually. This allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing art of a higher quality.

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21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not

There are hundreds of posts available on the internet about photoshop and photo manipulation. You probably have also seen many photos or images that have been photoshopped and inspire others. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They're Photoshopped But Are Not. These are not photoshopped in terms of that all the objects and their actions are real but might be editied for colors and adjustments. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about these photographers. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.Infinite Possibilities by Philip Perold

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jGnash, An Open Source And Free Personal Finance Manager

jGnash is useful for keeping track of account balances and performing reconciliation. You can print checks, run simple reports, write your own scripts, and import QIF and OFX files.