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12 WordPress Plugins for Theme Development

aSKer — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:48:53 +0000

One of the great things about using WordPress as a content management system is the huge community of users and all of the resources that are available. While all plugins could be used by theme developers, the ones featured in this post have features that can be especially helpful for various aspects of theme development. If [...]

Combine Photo Elements to Create a Surreal Scene

aSKer — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:04:19 +0000

This Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to create a surreal photo manipulation. Combine your creativity with these Photoshop techniques to create your own photo manipulation artworks.

50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory

aSKer — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:05:48 +0000

While many of us can create something that looks good in Photoshop or attractive when spliced into CSS, but do we actually understand the design theory behind what we create? Theory is the missing link for many un-trained but otherwise talented designers. Here are 50 excellent graphic design theory lessons to help you understand the [...]

Creating a Space-Helmeted Future Retro Illustration

aSKer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:09:58 +0000

I don’t know about you guys but I’m loving the work of ‘Electrik Suicide’ and ‘Sakke Soini’ at the moment. I’m going to call it Future Retro for the sake of this tutorial. I employed my take on the style in pitching a poster and overall look for a night at a local club. This [...]

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop

aSKer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:08:23 +0000

In this tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla, one of Mariusz Karasiewicz`s works. He is an amazing artist and his work is absolutly stunning. I want to thank him for allowing me to write this tutorial.

Tip: Blending channels

aSKer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:54:14 +0000

How to blend a channel in photoshop.

20+ Tutorials for Working with Photoshop’s Tools

aSKer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:50:23 +0000

There are a lot of great Photoshop tutorials online that will teach you all kinds of techniques and tricks, but sometimes you may find that the basics of the tools are not always covered in the tutorials. If you’re looking to step up your Photoshop skills, understanding the basic tools and knowing how they work [...]

How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

aSKer — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:00:17 +0000

In this tutorial, we’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own [...]

Free Vector Set 14 Sampler

aSKer — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:18:51 +0000

Well we hope it’s been worth the wait! To celebrate the release of Complete Vector Set 14 we’re sharing favorite pieces from each of the 7 packs. There’s a lot more to see though – look through the image galleries for more eye candy. So far, we’ve released these three packs from Set [...]

10 best CSS hacks

aSKer — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:34:53 +0000

If you are front end coder you must know how important is to make cross browses, valid CSS and xHTML code. And also you must know how much time we are spending in all those hacks and fixes for various browsers. I’ve written about some of them earlier on PNG transparency issues, Yellow fields in [...]