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15 Great Business Card Ideas

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:54:26 +0000

I thought it would be appropriate to show some beautiful ideas and there’s no better representation of your visual identity than your business card. Most business cards are dull, boring, and don’t say much about the person or business they are in. Here is a list of 15 great business cards that really show what the clients venture is all about.

5 Top Free Icon Sets

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:05:44 +0000

Free icon sets are often hard to come by. Here is a small list of fancy icon sets that one can use in everyday web designing.These playful free icon sets contain curvy and colorful icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. We will add to this list as they come.

1:Coquette Icons

2: Glossy Member Icons

3: Practika

4: Socialize Icons

5: Distortion Icons

More to follow.

Unexplained person found in photo thumbnail

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:46:58 +0000

I was busy searching for a photo on my Windows XP PC. Searching in a folder that was set to thumbnail view I found this image that I thought I could use. Upon opening it, I noticed that the image displayed in the thumbnail was different to the image displayed in full view .

The enlarged photo was missing a shadow that looked to be a man standing next to the stairs on the right.
Proportions of the shadow in the thumbnail look completely real.

This is the original photo on my pc that shows a figure next to the stairs when viewing in Windows XP thumbnail view.

This is what the thumbnail looks like

What I did was cut out the figure, enlarged it and placed it over the large photo.

Download the top image and try for yourself.
So can any one explain this????? (comments welcome)

Awsome Free PSD from DeviantArt

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:51:19 +0000

Good solid PSD are often hard to come by. Here is a list of some of my favourite PSD from DeviantArt. They offer a wide range of PSD to help inspire a designer or to help you reach in and find some creativity for website ideas.

Download Here…….

Free Desktop Wallpapers and Website Design Wallpapers

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:23:27 +0000

Finding website inspiration is not easy. But often can be right in front of you. Such as a desktop wallpaper. Here is a list of stunning, unique, fashionable, simple and desired wallpapers. I will add to this list as i stumble on. Website Ideas and designs start simple.

All these wonderful desktop wallpapers and themes can be downloaded at http://wallpaperstock.net/

Free Website backgrounds

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:08:16 +0000

Backgrounds play a important part of any website. Most website designers start with a solid background first. I have composed a list of stunning backgrounds to get the design inspiration going. Form dark vista looks through to light impala designs. Website ideas have never being so easy.

Hundreds of select FREE Backgrounds and graphics for your web pages. Download GIF and JPG background tiles in lots of colors and patterns.

Please see Free Backgrounds for hundreds more.

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Part 1 of 5

admin — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:02:33 +0000

In this 5 part series we will be covering different styles and technique’s that can be used in Adobe Photoshop. From light motion trails to glowing sparks. Here you will learn to create beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows, and other lighting effects, giving your images ambiance and depth.

Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks ( By Veerle’s Blog ) To learn more on this please visit Veerle’s

A technique often used in advertising these days, is these glowing lines. They look like light motion trails. If you ever wondered how to create these kind of lines, here is how I do it…

Light motion trails

Drawing a line

Draw a nice thin curved filled line in Photoshop using the Pen tool.

Add a glow

Double click the shape layer on the right to activate the Effects. Check the Outer Glow option and play with the color, transparency,… That’s basically it. I think the hardest part is finding the exact setting and drawing the exact line you want.

Glowing sparks

Create the right brush

Create a brush using the following settings. Choose the default Soft Round 21 px brush. Go to the Brushes palette and edit the following settings:

Change the spacing in the Brush Tip Shape to 222%
Check Shape Dynamics and change the Size Jitter to 100%
Check Scattering, check Both Axes and put the Scatter to 775%

Draw a random line using the brush

Choose a light color that will match perfect for the glowing sparkling dots. Draw a random line using the brush. That’s it

Trail of stars

As an extra we create a trail of stars. Launch Illustrator, create a new document and draw a group of random stars using the Star shape tool. You can use a circle as a guide (draw a circle and hit command/control + 5). Select all stars and drag them in the Symbols palette. Now select the Symbol Sprayer tool, choose the stars as symbol to spray with and draw the trail. You may need to experiment a bit with the Symbol Sprayer tool settings. Do this by double clicking the Symbol Sprayer tool in the Toolbox. If you got your trail, select all stars and go to Object > Expand. Select all stars, go to Photoshop and paste your stars as a Shape Layer. Fill them in the color you want, add some transparency or a gradient mask etc. Play around.

Creating light motion trails & glowing sparks ( By Veerle’s Blog ) To learn more on this please visit Veerle’s

Free Graphic Headers

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:55:52 +0000

Browse this collection of free web page headers graphics. All images are high quality 800×200 JPG’s. Perfect for CSS layouts. These should really help build a basic basis on what colors to use for your design and line view.

You can download them here