Everyone’s favorite program, Photoshop, is used by all sorts of characters. From web designers, graphic artists to print designers and photography professionals, Photoshop serves as the program of choice amongst the design community. To understand every aspect of Photoshop, though, is a daunting task and not one person can truly say they are a Photoshop professional.
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The world of the web is full of tutorials, articles, freebies, and other interesting material useful to every person. From home and life improvement tips to “DIY” and technology, weblogs have made an impact with today’s online society. Each and every person has their own set of blogs they check daily, all of which, in essence are bringing mass amounts of people and knowledge together to better our lives. Our focus, for today are professionals and freelancers contributing their know how and resources to the design community.
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Not every designer has the resources to a high resolution camera to take pixel perfect images in their next big project. More so, many designers look towards stock photography sites offering royalty free images to use.
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We all remember the days of collecting a group of random pictures, fabrics, and any other assortment of material one could use and displaying them on a large canvas. The conventional way of creating a collage at its finest. Well, nowadays, designers have stepped it up to add life and color and unique arrangements of images to create some of the best collage designed web sites.
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Brushes, brushes, and oh yeah, more brushes. Brushes can save lives for those that aren’t keen on drawing or any kind of illustration whatsoever. They can add life to design work, whether it be for the web or print. A majority of illustrations can be found using multiple brushes to create all sorts of contrasts, emotions, and images. So, what good is Photoshop is you can’t create and import your own brushes, huh? Well, we can’t tell you how to create your own brushes (not yet at least), but we can tell you where you can find quality brushes to import onto your computer.
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CSS is one of the most popular way to design web sites today. CSS is also a tricky piece of code to master and can be daunting to those who have never tried it. However, through the web, there are various web sites dedicated to making your web design experience easier, and simpler.
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Typography is probably the most important aspect of any design work. More often then not, those Photoshop pre-sets won’t do the job when choosing the right font and creating your own font takes a bit of skill and dedication of its own to accurately create a typeface you want. The only other place you can find excellent typefaces is online, but where does one start.
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One of the most important aspects of design, is color. Choosing your color scheme for either web projects, print advertisements, or even a company logo; choosing the right colors is important to best represent your creation. So many colors exist today, each with its own emotion and effect upon each individual. However, sometimes it’s hard to come up with color choices all on your own and in this post, we have put together ten websites to help you achieve color balance.
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Hey everyone, welcome to my site. My name is Tom and I am a 21 year old web designer in the making. I decided to put together my first site based on the constant use of looking for sites for fonts, colors, tutorials and etc. I want to try to find the best and helpful material that is out there and just present it simply and easily. There will be many updates, hopefully a site re-design in the future, but for now this is what I have. I hope you enjoy what you find here and please, feel free to contact me with suggestions or comments. Happy hunting!