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Unique, Fresh and Creative Photoshop Tutorials

Nikola Lazarevic — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:15:43 +0000

It is time to bring together brand new photoshop tutorials. I find compilations of tutorials for Photoshop a great resource for inspiration and learning and I hope this article will be a good help for everyone trying learn some new tricks.

Road of Dreams Photomanipulation Tutorial

How to Create a Mysterious Floating Box in a Desolate Land

Create an Unique Surreal Photo Manipulation with Nebula Effect in Photoshop

Photo Manipulate a Magical Shoe House Scene

How to Create a Steampunk Type Treatment in Photoshop

Love Me – Photoshop Manipulation Tutorial

Create a Festive Cocktail Using Photoshop’s 3D Capabilities

Create an abstract liquid effect

Ice Cube with cherry inside

Create a Mobile App Icon in Photoshop

Super Easy Pewter Style Metal Text Effect in Photoshop

How to Create A Detailed Cassette Tape in Photoshop

How to Draw an Ultra Clean Apple Keyboard with Photoshop

Design a Detailed Audio Receiver Icon in Photoshop

How To Create a Vibrant Cloud Icon in Photoshop

Create a Pimped Out Truck Using Photoshop and Point and Shoot Photos

25 Beautiful Vintage Car Advertisements

Zoran Stosic — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:39:14 +0000

One of the greatest inventions in the 19th century is invention of the automobile by Karl Benz. The real expansion of the automotive industry is experiencing in the 20th century when it began manufacturing cars that we know today. In this article we like to feature some vintage car advertisements, mostly from magazines, for the cars that were manufactured in the last century.

Jeep

Austin

Ford Mustang

Datsun

Nash

Hudson

Chevrolet Roadstar

Pontiac

Lincoln

Cadillac

Hurst Olds 442 Hardtrop

Fiat 500 Giardiniera

Buick GS 400 & Opel GT

Volvo PV544

Renault

Charger

NSU Prinz

Lancia

Toyota

Singer 1500

Reo

Plymouth

Jordan

Mercedes

Porsche

15 Free And Useful jQuery Image and Content Sliders Plugins

Nikola Lazarevic — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:55:05 +0000

Content and image sliders have become very popular in recent years. With jQuery you can enjoy new way of web development and image galleries are the best way to use it effectively! Here you’ll find 15 awesome jQuery image and content sliders plugins, and the best of all they are free.

Slides

Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.

Elastislide – A Responsive jQuery Carousel Plugin

Elastislide is a responsive jQuery carousel that will adapt its size and its behavior in order to work on any screen size. Inserting the carousel’s structure into a container with a fluid width will also make the carousel fluid.

FlexSlider

FlexSlider is an amazing, totally responsive jQuery slider plugin. It bears uncomplicated, semantic markup, slide and fade animations, and is supported in all major browsers, therefore you won’t have any compatibility issues. Flexslider is built for novices and pros in a similar way.

Slider Kit, sliding contents with jQuery

The purpose of Slider Kit is to gather common slideshow-like jQuery functionalities (such as news sliders, photos galleries/sliders, carousels, tabs menus) into one lightweight and flexible plugin combined with ready-to-use CSS skins.

Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery

You’ve probably seen this cool effect on some websites, like on Nizo or in the portfolio section of brilliantly designed La Moulade. The main idea is to laterally slide in elements depending on the scroll position of the document. Dividing the page into a left and right side, we want to move the elements from “outside” of the page to the center when they are in the viewport.

Orbit: A Slick jQuery Image Slider Plugin

jQuery plugin lets you create a simple, effective and beautiful slider for images of any size, and even includes some parameters for making awesome captions and a sweet timer.

Circular Content Carousel with jQuery

With this circular content carousel, you can have some content boxes that can slide substantially (circular). Clicking the “More” link will move the respective item to the left and slide out the content area, so that you can navigate through the carousel where every step will disclose the next or previous content box with its extended content.

Minimit

Minimit Gallery is a highly customizable Jquery plugin that does galleries, slideshows, carousels, slides… pratically everything that has multiple states.

jQuery Based Flipped Image Gallery with Bounce Effects

a simple jQuery based flipped image gallery. On hover the images will expand. Its simple and stylish gallery.

Rotating Image Slider with jQuery

An asymmetrical image slider with a little twist: when sliding the pictures we will slightly rotate them and delay the sliding of each element. The unusual shape of the slider is created by some elements placement and the use of thick borders. We will also add an autoplay option and the mousewheel functionality.

Slidorion

A combination of an image slider and an accordion, the Slidorion displays beautiful images along with a variable length description. With slides linked to each tab, and accompanied by a large array of effects, the Slidorion is a great alternative to the traditional jQuery slider.

Shutter Effect Portfolio with jQuery and Canvas

In this jQuery tutorial, we will be using the HTML5 canvas element to create a simple photography portfolio, which displays a set of featured photos with a camera shutter effect. This functionality will come in the form of an easy to use jQuery plugin that you can easily incorporate into any website.

jQuery MB Bgnd Gallery

With this jQuery plugin you can make a suggestive slide show of images as the background of your page; the images will adapt their size to the window size. You can either navigate the gallery with your keyboard or with a control panel displayed where you want in the page.

Galleria

Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery framework built on top of the jQuery library. The aim is to simplify the process of creating professional image galleries for the web and mobile devices.

Image Wall with jQuery

With this plugin you can create a neat image wall with jQuery. The idea is to scatter some thumbnails with different sizes on the page and make a ribbon slide in when we click on the picture. The ribbon will show some description next to the picture and when clicking again on the thumbnail, the ribbon will close and open again with a large version of the image.

Useful CSS3 Buttons Tutorials And Techniques

Nikola Lazarevic — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:41:21 +0000

CSS3 brings to life countless new possibilities to make even better websites. Creating buttons with CSS is one of the most experimented-with web design techniques.
Below we’ve collected best tutorials to make extremely gorgeous buttons using CSS3.

Super Awesome Buttons with CSS3 and RGBA

Create a CSS3 Call to Action Button

Build Kick-Ass Practical CSS3 Buttons

Just Some Other Awesome CSS3 Buttons

CSS3 Buttons with Icons

Type Study: An All CSS Button

Roll Your Own Google Buttons

CSS3 Facebook Buttons

Make CSS3 Buttons That Are Extremely Fancy

How To Design A Sexy Button Using CSS

Building Beautiful Buttons With CSS Gradients

Beautiful Photoshop-like Buttons with CSS3

CSS3 Gradient Buttons

Better Button and Nav Interactions

BonBon: Sweet CSS3 buttons

Know other techniques for creating awesome CSS buttons that weren’t mentioned here? Please share them in the comments!

25 Eye Catching Portfolio Sites

Zoran Stosic — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:59:07 +0000

It is very important, that when we present something on the website, to be designed and placed so that the observer immediately notices it. We have to be very imaginative and creatively so we can attract as many visitors to our website. Today we are presenting 25 eye-catching portfolio sites for your inspiration.

Jamie Webster

Distrop

Ronnie Morales

Matt Dempsey

Chris Wang

Aeraki

The Point

Stripes design

Juva Soft

Go On Web

Also

Alex Coleman

Ryan Scherf

Twenty 3 Design

Mohammed Alaa

Ed Merritt

The Things We Make

Freshest

Third & Grand

M.Jackson Wilkinson

Nofrks

Made to Kill

Christopher Skillicorn

Varun Sudhakar

Clay Doss

Web Design Inspiration: Stellar iPad Application Websites

Nikola Lazarevic — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:49:07 +0000

Last week we published an article showing you Astonishing iPhone Application Websites.
Just like the iPhone, iPad applications have their own beautifully designed websites for promotion.
In order to give you more inspiration, we bring you stellar websites designed to showcase iPad applications.

Dovetail

Masque

Jambalaya

Digital Post

Pulp

Dribbblr

Stocks

Showcase

MixrDJ

StudioTrack

CSS3Machine

Taska

Layers

Intro to Geography

Reeder

iFontMaker

Things

Buzzword Bingo

Stylapps

Procreate

25 Creative Photographer and Photography-Themed Logos

Franky Logue — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:30:09 +0000

There are tons of photographers out there, and quite often it seems as though anyone with a camera and the ability to push a button thinks that they’re a photographer. With the large number of photographers, it can be quite hard to get noticed and run a successful business. One of the best ways to get your photography noticed (aside from having great photographs in your portfolio) is to have a creative logo. Having a logo and accompanying materials lets your clients know that you are serious and professional, which sets you above the crowd in photography.

For photography themed logos, there are a lot of great motifs to choose from, including cameras, lenses, apertures, tripods and polaroids. Here’s 25 creative logos of photographers and photography-themed companies.

Snap Photography

Ezra Millstein Photography

Clint Shuttlesworth Photography

Cassidy Carson

Susan Ledgerwood

Sixshot Photography

Ocean

Phosmile

Flash Group

William Redford

Bremero

Parallel 57

David Corbera Photography

Happy Booth

Japan Photo Festival

Angela Fouquette

Portrait Photos

Food Photo Blog

Left of Center

Kira Lauren

Wedcake

Colossal

High Contrast

Flying Pig

Shutterbug

Web Design Inspiration: Astonishing iPhone Application Websites

Nikola Lazarevic — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:07:27 +0000

One thing that many of the iPhone application websites have ‘in common’ is their beautiful and inspiring design. These sites are focused, professional and clean. Design is simply delicious – colors, typography, photos, reflections … are astonishing.
Today we bring you excellent websites designed to showcase iPhone applications.

Nizo

Flight Card

Ecoki

Domino Box

Nota

Facecard

Mimidoo

Tourist

OldBooth

Blip Me Walkie Talkie

Notica

Hipstamatic

Cartographer

Incredibooth

Kiwi Camera

Articles

Parkbud

ZonkOut

Path

Cocktails

15 Premium Themes and Awesome WordPress Music Themes That You Will Love

Marcell Purham — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:54:37 +0000

Music is one of the greatest things on earth, feeds our souls and makes brighter the darker day but. A WordPress music theme will transform a WordPress blog into a great looking music or band oriented website with all the features required by musicians and bands.
This collection of WordPress Music Themes showcases the best music themes available for WordPress.

Dark N Gritty 2.0

Foxhound’s Dark n’ Gritty is built for bands looking for something to be as gritty as their tunes.

Fuse Music WordPress Theme

Fuse Music theme is a wordpress theme targeting musicans and bands. If your looking for a sleek theme then stop loking because this is the one.

Band Themer

This is a beautifully simple, organized theme designed around content. It is fully customizable including the ability to quickly change your header image.

Magzimus

Magzimus is a powerful and flexible theme that focuses on providing functionality for blogs and informative sites.

Music WordPress

Music WordPress Template is a template geared at musicians needing a blog and an easy to use CMS. Music integration through wordpress plugin

Cellathon

Cellathon is a community oriented wordpress theme (Buddypress compatible). Theme is for bloggers, musicians or anyone who wants to start community.

Life

Life is a magazine is a multimedia wordpress theme. Great for blogging and musical websites.

Backstage

Backstage is a powerful niche theme design for musicians and artists showcasing their media, upcoming shows and music using hugely flexible custom widgets and audio players.

The DJ

The DJ Theme is a professional WordPress music theme that is sure to get your fans pumpin and rolling.

Dilapidated

This is a 7-in-1 grunge style WordPress theme primarily designed for personal blogs and general content websites. It is ideal for a metal/rock music website or really for anyone who is looking for that grunge look.

Magnifica

Magnifica is an elegant, powerful and flexible theme that focuses on providing functionality for blogs, magazine and news sites.

Brooklyn

The theme features a beautiful slideshow module on home page together with an Audio – Video Player embed module compatible with iPhone, iPad and Android devices…

Cubed

“Cubed” is a feature-packed premium WordPress theme which brings the term “cubed” to a whole new level. The theme incorporates the cube-effect, a subtle yet cool effect in your site that catches the viewer’s attention.

Type & Stitch

Type & Stitch is a WordPress theme, which has a very unique art style. The theme has a heavy focus on texture, and very clean feel.

Sound Check

Soundcheck is a one-of-a-kind audio theme for WordPress built with the latest web technologies (HTML5 & CSS3).

Google Doodles – The Best Of 2011

Bane — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:00:43 +0000

Doodles are the fun, surprising and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous artists, pioneers and scientists.

You can find more information by reading our previous article about Doodles here

We have quite a good time and have fun collecting Doodles for this showcase and now it’s time to present you our selection of the best Google Doodles in 2011.