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How to color a highly detailed illustration in photoshop

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:52:06 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to color a comic book illustration. The reason that the artwork is so easy to color is simply because it’s highly detailed by the artist Walter O’Neal. Walter is a painter, illustrator and sculptor and he provided his artwork to use in this tutorial. Stay tuned for my interview with him tomorrow!

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Posted by Paul Poppenburg on Infictus
Color scanned illustrations using layers modes

237 free hi-resolution textures and backgrounds to download

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:04:18 +0000

LoveTextures gives you Creative Textures for print and on screen.

Light, fabric, nature, paint and others!

50+ Useful CSS Professional Techniques

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:01:56 +0000

As we know most of the Web designers and developers only scratch the surface of the potent language that is CSS (cascade style sheet), like programming languages, CSS has a quite simple learning twister, normally being used more often in every web project. CSS as language giving many advantages even working in table based design or table-less designs, most of the time our designed pages can easily change after replace a css file with another one. When we working on latest trends, Tab Navigation has been one of the essential element in any contemporary web layout. In order to make sure visitors can properly navigate through the website through our used techniques, here in listed CSS stuff we offering some best and most useful Cascade style sheets with source files which can help for more inspiring developments.

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Posted by Casper on Dzinepress.

CSS Backgrounds: 12 Solutions To Common Questions

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:42:34 +0000

CSS backgrounds are an important part of web design. The property is where you add the colors and images that sit behind your content, which controls much of the aesthetics of your site. Remove your CSS backgrounds and your site will probably be text on a white background.

While relatively easy to understand, CSS backgrounds often lead to some questions and confusion when it comes to pulling off specific techniques. Let’s see if we can clear up some of that confusion and then answer a few of those technique specific questions.

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Posted by Steven Bradley in vanseodesign

Very usefull things like multiple image backgroung and transparency

Essential Cheat Sheets and Reference Cards For Web Designers and Developers

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:33:46 +0000

Its impossible to remember all of the functions and keyboard shortcuts for all of your favorite web design and development applications. The one way to master your frequently used applications and increase productivity significantly is to use reference guides.

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Posted by bmackler on designtutorials4u

Lots of Cheats and Shortcuts and some Quick guides

Best Collection of CSS Rounded Corners Tutorials

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:29:12 +0000

Creating CSS Rounded Corners for the HTML or markup is a big challenge for most of the designers. Many designers end up with a design where they don’t use Rounded Corners to have an ease in creating markup or HTML and CSS pages. Rounded Corners have always been an issue in HTML/ CSS for the web designers. It’s not like there is no solution for this but which solution to pick has always been a question mark.

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Posted by smashingshare on smashingshare

The title says it all!

10 Ways A Designer Can Make some Extra Money

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:26:09 +0000

Being a Full-Time designer can be tough at times, you get times where clients just don’t have the money to pay you right away or you go through a patch where you don’t have enough client work to keep your bills payed. There is a solution, a few infact. Designers are creative people who love [...]

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Posted by Jacques van Heerden on creativeoverflow

Various easy, some maybe slow (in the short run), ways of making extra money!

Typography on the web

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:16:07 +0000

Nearly fifteen years ago Netscape 1.0 was introduced. With it came the (now retired) tag, giving web designers the ability to adjust text sizes in HTML for the first time.

Since then, the Internet has progressed enormously in many ways—you can watch your favorite TV show in high-definition or chat in real-time with friends across the world—but little has changed in the world of typography since the introduction of CSS a few years later.

Web designers have been stuck using the same tired web-safe fonts for over a decade, resorting to hacks like CSS image replacement, sIFR (guilty), Cufón, and others to spice up headlines at the expense of usability.

Posted by Skylar on idsgn

25 Free High Quality WordPress Themes for Professional Blogging

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:07:44 +0000

When you’re online for serious blogging you need a high-quality WordPress theme for professional blogging. When you want to be noticed in a crowd you can buy a good looking unique theme from marketplace or design company, but this time we want to show that some of free themes are really high-quality and perfect for serious blogging.

In this article we present 25 hand selected excellent free WordPress themes. You’ll ask why just 25 themes? Answer is easy here are only best and highest quality themes. We hope that you’ll find something new and useful in this compilation.

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Posted by Tomas Laurinavičius on webdesignfan

Nice free themes that can only be used on the downloaded version of WordPress.

The Difference Between Art and Design

foundontwitter — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:29:13 +0000

The subject of what separates art and design is convoluted and has been debated for a long time.

Artists and designers both create visual compositions using a shared knowledge base, but their reasons for doing so are entirely different.

Some designers consider themselves artists, but few artists consider themselves designers.

So what exactly is the difference between art and design? In this post, we’ll examine and compare some of the core principles of each craft.

This is a subject that people have strong opinions about, and I’m looking forward to reading the various points of view in the comments.

This post isn’t a definitive guide, but rather the starting point for a conversation, so let’s be open-minded!

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Posted by John O’Nolan on Web Designer Depot

Great text about the difference between Art and Design with fun quotes!