Here’s another set of design links for your enjoyment—as well as some images and a following highlighted resource. There’s also some design links submitted by some of the design community…
Appendix A: Featured Designers’ Resource: Pattern-8 Free Repeat Patterns
Need free repeat patterns? Then this is a great place to start looking. The selection is a bit of a mixed bag, but there are plenty of gems hidden in there.
You can go and check out this tool over at Pattern 8
Appendix B: Great Images
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↑ Stunning Boba-Fett Starwars Illustration
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↑ Freakish Underneath the Ice
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↑ Church and Dark Skies
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↑ Image of South Pole Telescope (SPT)
Appendix C: User-Submitted Links
Interview Liz Fulghum of Pop Threads
We are privileged to share a great interview with liz and we got the chance to share a few moments with her to talk tees, web design, social media and more.
20 Fresh jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Plugins and Tutorials Worth a Look
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32 Creative Website Designs For Design Inspiration
In this article we showcase our hand-picked collection of 32 creative website designs for design inspiration from well known and popular CSS galleries.
Tips to Follow in Speed and Maintenance In WordPress
No more wasting time trying to fix your website when it crashes down. Instead focus on ways to help your website gain momentum with improvement of your site content.
Best Tutorials – February 2011
These tutorials range from cool photo manipulations, typography effects, Photography tricks and much more.
A hundred of REALLY high quality free design elements and where to find them
Huge showcase that reunites tons of high quality design freebies as well as great websites where to find them
16 Brochures You Don’t See Everyday
Brochures are an excellent marketing media for informing clients of products, services, or company, but they can only do their job when clients are intrigued enough to open the cover.
12 Photoshop Actions for your next Photo touch
I have just collected some beautiful Photoshop Actions for your next Photograph that will help you achieve some of these looks and save you a ton of time in the process.
How to increase Web Traffic through Search Engines
Everybody needs traffic on his/her own blog, for this they must be needing some way to increase their traffic. Here is the comprehensive article for you,how you can increase traffic through Search Engines. Very useful for those who want more traffic on blog.
175 Exceptional Typography Art
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. We have collected 175 Exceptional and Elegant Typography Arts for your inspiration. Hope you will get a lot of Creativity from it.
Advanced (yet awesome) pure CSS3 boxes without using images
This tutorial shows you how to make an astonishing set of CSS3 boxes without using any graphic software in the process.
It is an Image Editing technique which helps to get the best quality of an image. This is the only process from which you got a pleasant image and perfect background as per your wishes.
Background Pattern Designs: 100+ Abstract Pattern and Texture Designs
A good collection of patterns and textures is an invaluable asset for any designer. However when it comes to finding the right pattern or texture; one can easily spend hours searching for it.Background pattern designs can be simply repetition of simple stripes or polka-dots, others can be more complicated with complex combination of images and colors. A pattern designs must go with the overall style of the website, or it could be rather distractive and annoying.
Christian iPhone Wallpaper Showcase #2
Some of the best Christian wallpapers from the INSPIKS group members and some from our own graphic design team.
45 Cool Websites Using Character Illustrations
Most of us like vector illustrated characters and in the last few years we see more and more in web designs.These kind of illustrations are mostly used in personal blogs,websites and especially there are so many designers who prefer to use interesting and attractive vector illustrated characters
40+ Useful Free Web Design Elements PSD Files
Here’s a collection of fully customizable web design elements layered PSD files.
Digital Painting in Photoshop – Setting up Wacom Tablet
This is the first part of a series of Digital Painting in Photoshop tutorials, in this tutorial you will learn about setting up your Wacom tablet properties in Photoshop.
Silky Ribbon Text Effect in Photoshop
In this tutorial I’m going to tell you how you can make a text having the Ribbon look in Photoshop. Not a difficult tutorial but may be a lengthy one, hopefully you will enjoy making it. I’m going to make ‘SM’ i.e. abbreviation of Stunningmesh.
100+ Pattern and Texture Designs
A good collection of patterns and textures is an invaluable asset for any designer. However when it comes to finding the right pattern or texture; one can easily spend hours searching for it.
Background pattern designs can be simply repetition of simple stipes or polka-dots, others can be more complicated with complex combination of images and colors. A pattern designs must go with the overall style of the website, or it could be rather distractvie and annoying.
We have collected the following 100+ abstract pattern and texture designs for website background. Best of all, they are all free to use. What are you waiting for? Use them on your website and give a whole new feeling to your visitors.
I am giving away this 30 hand drawn sociable icons for free.
VirtueMart is an Open Source E-Commerce solution which are used with joomla. VirtueMart is downloaded by over 2.5 million people so far and now it is the leading Online-Shop Solution for Joomla. One of the best benefit of using virtuemart is that it is free of cost like joomla. Today I have compiled list of 20+ good looking virtuemart templates. Now its up to you to decide whether these templates are best for ecommerce solutions or not.
Who to follow? A deep analysis on Twitter’s worthy design accounts
As time moves on, social networks are becoming more and more important in the different areas. Today our article studies how design companies and bloggers manage Twitter to interact with their followers and showcase their work.
Apple.inc has already sold tons of ipad. ipad and iphone is the most popular device of apple nowadays. Apple has thousands of applications in there store. Today i have featured 20+ most popular and useful ipad applications from apple store.
Become a PhotoMission Photographer
PhotoMission is the recognized leader of stock photography used by Christian publishers, designers, worship leaders and multimedia professionals.
25+ Best Space Scene Photoshop Tutorials
Here we have collected best space, planet, explosion and nebula Photoshop tutorials that will give you information and illustration to the steps in creating space images.
15 Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Related Art
After the disaster from Japan, all the Internet was filled with images and videos from the Earthquake and Tsunami. After that people started praying for Japan, everyone in their way , bloggers in writing and designers with art. Below you can see 15 of best Japan disaster related art collected by me from Internet. Enjoy and Pray For Japan.
Lets find perfect color for your picture background.
Its very difficult to choose the background color for your picture. You must be needing any color which gives your picture a prominent look, amazingly every picture has its own color palette. Here I’m going to tell you how can you find it and choose better color for your picture. You need Photoshop to pick color of the best choice for your picture.
60+ tileable and repeatable pixel perfect Photoshop patterns (PAT)
An amazing set of seamless, tileable and repeatable PSD pixel patterns, more than 60 designs ready to use with a simple .PAT file. Just change the background color and you will have unlimited possibilities.
A showcase a list of 15 awesome HTML5 Websites in no particular order.
35 Fresh and Detailed Photoshop Tutorials To Enhance Your Skills (2011)
It is always good to see and learn new techniques for graphic designers,especially for photoshop users.I personally learnt a few things while collecting the below photoshop tutorials so I definetely advice you to look over them.
Melancholy Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial I will present to you and example of how to create a melancholic photo effect. I will show you the basic of photo effects, curves, fill layers and adjustments layer. The tutorial is simple and is for the beginners of Photoshop and for the veterans too.
Best iPhone Apps for Business Networking
There are many, many apps for the iPhone that can make your life and business endeavors simpler. Make your iPhone really work for you and try out some or all of the following great apps for business networking.
I just discovered that one of the wallpapers God led me to create a while back is appreciated by a lot of people and many are actually looking for the HD version of it.
Digital Painting in Adobe Photoshop Basics – Setting up New Document
This is the second part of our three part series on Digital Painting. This tutorial covers setting up a New Document.
35 Attractive Animation Movie Posters(some not released yet)
Movie posters are very important for advertising the movie and they are something really hard to illustrate and hard to create a form of art.Design Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets.
Free Fonts: 100+ Fresh and Free High-Quality Fonts
Free Fonts: 100+ Fresh and Free High-Quality Fonts for designrs. Fonts has always been a fundamental aspect of stylish headlines design, but many designers are now making type the centerpiece of their designs. Not only is typography becoming the design, but type is being pushed to the limits by being used in cool new ways such as High-Quality Free Fonts. Designers have been dabbling in fonts typography effects for a while, so here are some new type projects you may not have seen yet form the online design community.
Lets make Unlimited Text Effects in Flash
You must have used Swish max for making text effect. Today I’m going to tell you a technique, by using this technique you can make a lot of Text effect of your own desire in Flash. You just have to plan the type of effect and just use this tutorial.
Photos from the Site of Jesus Crucifixion
The church of the Holy Sepulchre – the site where the cross was raised and Jesus was crucified. In honor of this blessed week, W2W Soul would like to share some photos taken from Hannah’s trip to the Holy Land.
Help Japan:40 Meaningful Wallpapers Dedicated to Japanese
It’s been 10 days since the disaster hit Japan.You know,it was one the worst day for Japanese people and also for us.Well,this is nature of course and nothing can stop mother nature for these kind of disasters.The only thing we can do right now is to pray and help them to overcome these bad days.
WordPress has thousands of plugins in its library, But the problem is that you can not find perfect one for your blog from this huge library. So today I have collected top wordpress plugins from this library. Now you have just to do is to download these plugins and use these plugins in your blog to power up your blog.
Amazing freebie, the largest credit card icon set so far ready to use in all your e-commerce and financial projects. The package features more than 427 icons in 7 different sizes with AI (vector) and PS (pixel perfect) sources included.
WordPress Theme Frameworks: Beginners Demand Complete Functionality
Feature-rich WordPress theme frameworks are reckoned as dream-come-true to many WP enthusiasts. Strange though it may seem, but beginners demand a lot more control over the layout and design, while advanced users literally want to know whether the platform is flexible enough to add more functionality at any point of the ongoing project.
Win 3 Stock Photo Accounts From Pixmac Worth $199 Each
Giveaway on Graphicbuzz.net .Designers and bloggers might be more interested in this giveaway, Pixmac has join force with Graphicbuzz.net and would like to give away a 1 month subscription to their stock photos and vector illustrations worth $199 to 3 lucky readers.
Photoshop Brushes: 800+ Free Hi-Res Photoshop Brushes
Photoshop Brushes can be useful in the way it could make your work easier and have a good design result at the same time. There are different kinds of photoshop brushes which you can download for free on the internet. And in this post, we have collected some free hi-res brush which called halftone, grunge, vector, splatter, swirl, smoke Brushes. Here is a Collection of hi-qtty photoshop brushes you use on your next designing projects. I’m sure this could help you in adding more effects and style to your designs even if you’re pro or beginner.
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