Archives for March 2011

11 of the Best PhotoShop Tutorials Created in March

Its that time again for our monthly series that showcase the best PhotoShop Tutorials created each month. Instead of listing all tutorials created each month as some sites do, we only share those we feel are the best, our favorites, or will be useful for most of our readers. If you missed last month’s showcase, […]

Another Great Contest Over at FamousBloggers.Net!

Well Hesham of FamousBloggers.Net does it again! He has put together another great contest. This contest is all about building and generating traffic for your website. So far the contest has been going on for a month. The contest end at the end of March 2011. So if you want to get in on this […]

Mash Up #8

Hey guys, its that time of the week for the weekly Mash Up. This week I found some great articles in content creation, design, WordPress .htcaccess, keyword research, site traffic, photography, and inspiration. Each week, I try and gather articles that I have read that I found helpful and might be useful for our readers. […]

Finding That Perfect Color – Web Safe Colors

In our last article we talked about HTML color/hex codes. But we really didn’t really go into detail about web safe colors and why we might want to use them. In this article, I will go into more detail about color safe colors. Using Web Safe Colors A few years back, well a lot of […]

Finding That Perfect Color – HTML Color Code

Designers in general use color everyday in their designs. But if your not a designer, you like to design your own websites and profiles on different social media sites, you need to know color. By knowing color, not only do you need to know the name of the color you want to know, but you […]

CSS3 Properties Exposed!

Now that Microsoft finally released Internet Explorer 9 designers do not have to worry as much about their designs if they use a lot of CSS3 on their sites. With the release of IE9, all those die hard IE users can now see those killer CSS3 properties that previous versions of IE could not read. […]

5 High Quality Water Textures

Hi guys, its that time again for our weekly texture series. This week I was looking through some textures over at DeviantArt, I found some water textures that I wanted to share with everyone. These are just a few of the great liquid textures you can find on DeviantArt. Before using them make sure to […]

Weekly Mash UP #7

It’s time for the Weekly Mash Up again. This week’s Mash Up has 11 articles about design, photography, blogging, SEO, social media, and inspiration wide-angle photography. Each week, I try and gather articles that I have read that I found helpful and might be helpful for our readers. Where do I find these great articles? […]

QuickTip: How To Install PhotoShop Brushes In GIMP

In the design world the most popular image editor and design tool is PhotoShop. With PhotoShop being the most popular tool for designers available, Most designers and design bloggers use and create resources for PhotoShop only. But PhotoShop isn’t the only image editor available. Out of all the of the editors available for people to […]

5 High Quality Plaster Textures

Hi everyone, its that time again for our weekly texture series. This week I was looking through some textures over at DeviantArt and came across some pretty cool plaster textures that I just had to share with everyone. These are just a few of the great plaster textures you can find on DeviantArt. Before using […]

Weekly Mash Up #6

Hi guys, its time for the Weekly Mashup! Each week I take some of the best and most useful articles I can find on the web and share them with everyone. I do not share every great article out there, I share what other mashup articles have not. Evolutionary Design’s mashup has resources on topics […]

How to Do Screen Capture Selections

Recently a reader asked me how to to select a region of a webpage and capture it. What she means by this, she doesn’t want to capture everything on the browser she can see but just a region on the screen.  She also wanted to add arrows and boxes to those images. You might ask […]