: Best Photoshop Tutorials Around the World
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How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen – Screencast
“In this tutorial, you’ll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusiasts. Let’s dive in Asher Abbasi.” Here is a link [...] -
Showcase of Textures in Print Design
The use of textures can dramatically improve your print design work. You can (if used sensibly) add more depth to your work, whether your work be business cards, advertisements or posters. The results of using texture in your print design projects can be completely different every time, depending on various factors such as what textures [...] -
Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration
My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldn’t be possible in real life. It’s situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, [...] -
Create a Shiny Psdtuts+ Folder Icon in Photoshop
Icon design is an essential element in any designer’s tool chest. No matter how simple or how complex your design is, a nice looking icon will almost always help to spruce things up. In this Photoshop tutorial we will demonstrate some easy steps to help you to produce your own shiny Psdtuts+ icon in Photoshop. [...] -
Redesign and Other Tuts News

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Create Character Driven Book Cover Art Using Illustrator and Photoshop – Part 2

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It’s All in the Eyes: 100 Beautiful Photo Manipulations
The eyes have long been considered the windows to the soul. Photographers often try to focus on a subject’s eyes as a way to add depth and emotion to a photo. But there are still only so many ways you can emphasize the eyes in a standard photo. That’s where photo manipulations like those below enter [...] -
Best of the Web – February 2010

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Massive Textures Showcase – Creative Examples of Use, Premium Packs and Tutorials

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Make a Freezing Cold Snow-themed Abstract Piece
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a snow-themed large piece. You’ll learn how to plan the composition of the piece, to add elements into the composition, how to recycle the piece itself to generate more elements for the piece, how to incorporate pentools into a design and finally how to finish off and [...]
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How to Create Scotch Tape in Photoshop
Are you interesting in how to make realistic view scotch tape by using Photoshop tools? If yes, then I will teach you how to make it. I got this effect by experimenting. So, lets start! First of all create a new document sized 500×300 pixels. Select some appropriate color, for example #a13503 and fill your canvas [...] -
Underwater Photos
Amazing photo set of underwater photography for sale! 100 high resolution underwater photos! You can download a lot of underwater photos just for a $99 USD. Resolution: 6000×3372 pixels (20 MP). You can use these royalty free photo images for print, ads, templates, web sites, products and more. Please email us at: support@photoshopstar.com if you want to [...] -
Displaced Text
In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to show you creative way how to displace the text and get an interesting effect on it. To start create a new document sized 1000×500 pixels and fill it with color of #f4f4f4. After that add some dark line to divide the floor from the wall. Get out the Elliptical [...] -
Creating Patterns for Backgrounds
Here I’m going to show you a few ways how to create interesting patterns for backgrounds. Ok, starting by creating a new document, sized 300×300 pixels and fill it with any color, for example black. After that start with creating your pattern. Select the Custom Shape Tool and select one of standard shapes on Photoshop gallery. Use white [...] -
Text on Fire
In this tutorial you will learn how to create text on fire, also I will explain all the techniques how to transform the text in right format. First of all you’ll have to start by finding some appropriate picture. I prefer to use this one which you can see below: Ok, now we need to add the [...] -
Your Own Portfolio Web Site
Here I’m going to show you how to make the website original design where you can put your portfolio. Firstly, you’ll have to create a new document in which you can make this web site. For this tutorial I’m going to be using a size of 1000×700 pixels with the default resolution (DPI) of 72. Then [...] -
Realistic View Tears on Face
In this Photoshop tutorial I would like to invite your attention to the unique technique how to make realistic view tears effect. So, in the beginning you should find a good picture to work with. You can try to find it on stock photo web sites or also can use mine. Open up the picture. Then [...] -
Glamorous Stylized Photo Effect
Hey, I prepared for you one interesting glamorous stylized professional photo effect. This tutorial can be useful both for professionals and for beginners. Ok, to begin it you should find some appropriate picture to work with. You can search some pictures on the Google Images or also can use mine. Open up the picture in Photoshop. Start [...] -
Fantastic Glowing Effect
Here I’m going to show you one interesting fantastic glowing effect which you can use in your designs. In the beginning you should create a new document with size about 500×500 pixels and fill it with black color. Then find some appropriate picture of hand or other item you want. You can search for some pictures on [...] -
Using Creative Art in Valentine Greeting Card
The long-awaited holiday coming… This is Valentine day. This holiday so important almost for each of us. That’s why I decided to prepare for you one more interesting Photoshop tutorial about how to make Valentine greeting card by using creative art. Ready to start? Ok, let’s go! In the beginning I created a new document and [...]
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Free Quality Web Icons for Web Designers and Developers
Web Icon Set aims to provide the best professional and quality web icons to web designer and developer. They have released some free web icons including Application Icons, Blogging Icons, Mobile Icons and E-Commerce Icons. They come in 128, 64, 48, 32px sizes. These icons are for free for both personal and commercial projects. -
Amazing Abstract Icy Creation
How to create something unusual? One of the creation to be considered is abstract material. You need to come up with a topic before going ahead your implementation. This light blue combination looks irregular, but it is full with art style. -
Amazing Scene Creation – Transformer Attack
You may find lots of impressive scenes on comics or movies. They are very high quality and done by a big artist team. However, you can create one yourself using Photoshop. This tutorial will go through a nice movie scene with you called “transformer attack. -
How to Create a Proper Portrait in Photoshop
You may wonder how to draw a proper portrait using computer software such as Photoshop. Even you are a good artist, without good Photoshop skills, you will find it very difficult to draw. Thus, you have to practise and get familiar with the Photoshop skills on drawing the portrait. -
Transform Images into Dramatic Comic Scene
As long as you have your own idea, most of the effects can be done by Photoshop. In this time, the tutorial will present you to transform the general pictures into comic art scene. Except the comic art, you may think of other effects to be created based on these skills. -
Amazing Scene – Soul out of Body
Lots of amazing and successful sceneries creation are based on a good idea or imagination. This tutorial just presents you how to add a soul behind the human image. -
Wonderful Colorful Text Effect in Photoshop
If you want to create some nice text effect, you do not need to be a Photoshop expert. In this tutorial, you just need to follow the guide to adjust the settings in layer property. The colour can be adjusted to your own style. -
Design a 3D Grand Car in Motion
If you are a car lover, probably you like to design your own car for yourself. You may wonder how to make your car design to be more grand and look like moving. This tutorial will teach you some skills to add on some reflective effects and make your wheel in moving. -
Fantastic Egg Creation
If you would like to make something to be supply, you can consider to put your object inside the egg which will bring some nice impression to the user. You may just use this idea to for different things in the centre. -
Create a Super Natural Snowing Scene
You may find to be very difficult to create the natural scene especially the snowing scene as the environment would contain lots of different elements you need to change. This tutorial will take you through the steps and describe you how to work on this scene creation.
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Measurement Presets
You may find yourself setting up measurement parameters for a number of different size images. To keep from having to reset the values over and over, click on the Save Preset button. It is perhaps a good idea to name the presets after the pixel dimension to make them easy to identify. -
Setting Measurement Parameters
When using the Analysis tools in Photoshop, you will need to establish the scale of measure. Go under the Analysis menu, choose Set Measurement Scale, and select Custom. You have three settings to modify: Pixel Length, Logical Length, and Logical Units. An example would be if you know your document is 100 pixels wide, you [...] -
Measuring in Vanishing Point
In Vanishing Point, you can take advantage of the new measurement tools by measuring something in three dimensions. You simply grab the Measure tool (R) and click between two points. Then in the top of the dialog, enter an establishing value in the Length field. This value will be what all other measurements will be [...] -
Measure Anything in Photoshop
If you choose Analysis>Set Measurement Scale>Custom, you will get a dialog where you can set a series of presets. Although you are in the dialog, you can still move outside of it and click-and-drag out a measurement. -
The Animation Panel: Taking Animated GIFs to the Next Level
You too can create exciting animated GIFs for use on your next website. Just follow these simple steps: (1) Create a text layer, (2) apply styles, and (3) hide the styles. The Animation panel takes care of the rest. In the Animation panel, you can control the position, opacity, style, and wrap of a text layer. [...] -
Toggle Between Keyframes
When animating objects in the timeline, Photoshop interpolates between keyframes to give a sense of movement. However, if you would like the animation to toggle between keyframes, Control-click (PC: Right-click) on that keyframe in the timeline to bring up the contextual menu and select Hold Interpolation. The appearance of the keyframes will change, and when [...] -
Scrub Through Timeline
You can quickly scrub through the timeline by clicking-and-holding on the Current Time Indicator. You will notice the cursor turn into opposing arrows. Just click-and-drag either to the left or right to scrub through the timeline. -
Olympic Graphics, Part 2
Corey finishes up the Olympic-inspired design that he began last week in Part 1. -
Change Timeline Settings
You can modify the duration setting in the timeline by going to the Animation panel’s flyout menu and selecting Document Settings. In the dialog, you can set the duration and also choose a frame rate from the pop-up menu or you can enter a custom setting. -
Keyframe Comments
In the Animation panel (in Timeline mode), at the top of the layer list there is an item called Comments. This allows you to place keyframes on the timeline and each keyframe is an annotation which can contain information specific to that point in the timeline. You can add a Comment keyframe by clicking on [...]
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Create a Sci-Fi Style Urban City Scene in Photoshop

In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this Epic, Sci-Fi Sytle Urban City Scene (Montage) in Photoshop, by utilising a few simple photo manipulation tricks. Have a try!
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How to add elements to a portrait

This tutorial can help you if you want to transform your pictures, make them look cool, interesting, or just have fun with it like I did.
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How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

In this tutorial, we'll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and try it with your own stock imagery.
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How to Create a Dramatic Portrait Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, learn how to make an ordinary portrait extra-ordinary by adding dramatic shadows, extra contrast, and even colored lighting effects to change your own environment.
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How to Create the Pop Art Effect in Photoshop

Pop art is an art form that began in the sixties. This photoshop tutorial will show you how to create this effect with any photo you choose.
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Recreate a Bygone Era with Photoshop Brushes

Use these free Photoshop brushes as a quick way to add age to any digital project.
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Vector vs Bitmap for dummies.

A great article to understand main differences between vector and bitmap images.
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Photoshop Brush Dynamics Tutorials

In this series of tutorials, learn how to dynamically control various aspects of your brushes as you paint in Photoshop, including brush size, shape, color, and more, using the Brush Dynamics options in the Brushes panel!
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Draw a Fantasy Village Suitable for the Smurfs

We hand draw an entire mushroom filled smurf-esque village from scratch
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Beveled Aluminum Text Effect

Here's a slick way to create 3-dimensional beveled aluminum text. No power tools required.
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Aqua Text Effect
In this tutorial, we ll go over how to create a special text effect using different layer styles and filters with Photoshop. The results are very easy to make and looks absolutely fantastic. -
Create a Cool Stitched Tag in Photoshop
In this tutorial we will learn how to make a tag. We will also learn some advanced steps in brush settings. -
How to Create a Dark, Emotional Photo Manipulation
How to Create a Dark, Emotional Photo Manipulation -
Torture a Man and Stitch Him Up
Transform a man into a torture victim with a couple tricks and some basic tools. -
Composite All
This is a tutorial where we will combine hand painted elements with design done with Photoshop means. -
Starcraft 2 Logo
Follow the steps to recreate the starcraft 2 logo. Alot of play and fun with layer styles and other tricks.. -
Melting Apple Effect
In this simple and easy tutorial we will learn how to add a melting effect to the apple image. We have mostly used blending options to create the melting effect. -
How to Protect Your Photos with a Watermark
If you need to share your images online or with a client you might want to consider adding a copyright watermark. This tutorial shows how Photoshop can make a watermark action that can be used again and again. -
Create a grunge photographer layout
Learn how to create a grunge photographer layout using vector ornaments, and grunge textures. -
The Maiden and Hummingbird Photo Manipulation
Learn how to create this photo manipulation by Oliver Cereto. Some of the techniques you will learn in this Photoshop tutorial are how to give a person a cute doll-like face, how to extend backgrounds, and how to apply a moody photo effect.
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New Batch of Free Video Photoshop Tutorials
The guys from Watchandlearnphotoshop have been busy during January releasing free video tutorials. They have released a total of 6 video tutorials that you can watch below. Bicubic Sharper When resizing an image in Photoshop, if you use all the default settings, the image will end up with a little bit of a blur to it–hardly distinguishable, [...] -
Brusheezy Free Photoshop Brushes
Brusheezy is a new site offering large collection of free photoshop brushes. Currently there are a total of 148 free brush sets under 15 categories such as abstract, nature, space, splatters etc. What I like about the site is that users can comment on the brushes and contribute their own brush sets. There is also [...] -
Photoshop Video Tutorials
Here is another batch of free Photoshop video tutorials by WatchanLearnPhotoshop Open Type Font Embellishments Description: Photoshop trainer Geoff Riggs shows you how to add embellishments and alter the appearance of specific letter pairings for open type fonts. Tricky Selections Description: It’s not always easy to make complex selections in your Photoshop images, but in this tutorial, trainer Geoff Riggs will [...] -
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe has released a beta of the upcoming Photoshop CS3 which is available for download from Photoshop Labs. You will however need a valid serial number of Photoshop CS2, Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe Production Studio, Adobe Video Bundle or Adobe Web Bundle. Macworld has an interesting first look article about this beta and PhotoshopSupport has [...] -
2 Free Video Tutorials
Another update with free video photoshop tutorials. These tutorials cover two totally different subjects. The first tutorial will show you how to fix the sky in photos and the second one how to warp text with smart objects. Both tutorials as always are courtesy of Watch and Learn Photoshop. Taming the Skies: Ever have one of those [...] -
Photoshop Elements 5 Review
Sue Chastain, from Graphicsoft has posted a review of Photoshop Elements 5 for windows. To be honest I have been thinking of upgrading a rather ancient copy that I own (version 2 lol) and this review have convinced me to do so. As you probably figure the review is generally positive. You can read the [...] -
Rainy Day Photoshop Action
PanosFX is the creator of some of the best Photoshop actions available. I have posted about some of his actions before and his site is definitely one to watch out for if you are a fun of photoshop actions. Rainy Day is another great action by Panos that works with Photoshop CS and CS2 [...] -
Glowing Lights Photoshop Tutorial
Watch and Learn Photoshop has released another excellent tutorial. This time the tutorial shows how you can make a light bulb look like it’s illuminated. An effect that is quite common in concept stock photography. I am sure everyone has seen pictures of business men holding a lit light bulb. This tutorial explains how you [...] -
7 Photoshop Video Tips
Our friends over at Watch And Learn Photoshop are releasing a few new products and have also released not one, not two, not three but seven free photoshop video tutorials/tips. Here they are: Levels Adjustment You may already know the basics of the levels adjustment tool, but in this video, Geoff Riggs will show you a neat [...] -
Three new Photoshop Video Tutorials
Three new short, free Photoshop Tutorials have been released by Watch and Learn Photoshop. The first tutorial shows you how you can turn a photo into a Polaroid. In my opinion these tutorials are really nice, not because you learn a step by step method to create an effect but because you see techniques that you [...]
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3D Valentine’s Day Typography
Love requires depth … and it can be reached with 3D. Learn how to create a romantic illustration worth a thousand words. -
St. Valentine’s Photo Manipulation
Indulge your beloved by creating a digital piece of art with urban style motifs out of her image. -
Na’vi Avatar Photo Manipulation
If you have been inspired by James Cameron’s movie “Avatar”, you should certainly see this stunning exclusive tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na’vi. -
Thanksgiving Wallpapers
These wallpapers will do it for you. No need to make a vegetable mess out of your workplace to celebrate the harvest festival. Sill life styled images with saturated colors give you that festive mood thats so vital during these dull autumn days. Let your desktop positive energy of fertility and [...] -
Google Text
The Google logo looks very cool and easily sticks to memory. In this tutorial I’ll try to describe how to create this logo. Create a new 400×400 document. Select Text tool (T) and type Google in the center of a page. I used Catull font. This is a commercial font [...] -
Jack-O-Lantern Drawing Tutorials
The monstrous face of your carved pumpkin may be horrifying, amuzing, humerous or just unique by all means. Behold a set of Jack-O-Lantern drawing tutorials that’ll give you the basic idea of how to do all the celebration preparations in the digital world and come up with your own wallpaper, icon or [...]
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Tutorial: Vintage look
The internet holds numerous articles and workshops about optimizing and restoring old photographic material. But it is far more exciting and creative to turn fresh photos from your digital camera into old and aged pictures. A little noise and coloration are not enough, though. You will also need some vignetting, scratches and a realistic base. -
How to create a web hosting layout
Learn how to create a nice looking web hosting layout with this easy to follow tutorial. -
Recreate a Bygone Era with Photoshop Brushes
Use these free Photoshop brushes as a quick way to add age to any digital project. -
How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop
This one’s another collaboration with my good friend Toma Alin Gabriel. In this tutorial you will learn how to manipulate stock images and turn them into your puppets to express your desired feelings. -
Simply Retouch
Learn how to retouch your photos in photoshop. -
How to create a sorcerer dancer with fire
This is a tutorial by Fredric Melchersson. How to create a sorcerer dancer with fire. You can learn how to create a light reflector on clothing and other items. Follow the steps and you will have a fine result, enjoy. -
Design a Retro Styled Poster
Learn how to combine patterns, textures and typography to create a retro styled poster. You will also learn how to manipulate shapes and images, in addition to integrating blending options and layer masking. -
Painting Avatar Jack Sully
Artist decide to pay a small tribute to movie Avatar and began to make a fan art of its protagonist, Jack Sully -
Business Layout #8
Hello everybody welcome to another tutorial. In today’s tutorial I’ll be showing you how to make a business layout, the layout will feature a dark theme with hints of red and white. Lets get started. -
How to Create a Cosmic Photo Composition in Photoshop
In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to create a cosmic photo manipulation using different Photoshop techniques, brushes and blending modes. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!
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Transparent Desktop
Focus directly on creating the illusion of a transparent desktop. This is probably of the easiest and better image background transparency Photoshup tutorial available on the Internet for beginners and alike. -
Magical Snowfall
Learn to create an animated gift with a magical snowfall effect. -
Sticky Tape Effect
Learn to tape down the corners of your content. -
Artistic Abstract Shape
A shape that is something a bit left of center.
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Scanned Lines - 2 Methods
Learn to add a scanned line effect on images using two methods. -
Metallic Photo Frame
Design a curvy metallic photo frame in less than 10 minutes. -
Eye Color Change
Manipulating the color of people's eyes in images and photos. -
Bubbles Background
Create a soft bubbles effect to any of your work. Fantastic for Wallpapers. -
Animate DVD Tray
A little gem to show you how to animate the closing and opening of the DVD tray on a notebook. -
Swiss Watch Postcard
Designing a promotional postcard for a watch company. -
Greeting Card
A card beautifully crafted for any number of occasion. In our case, we make a seasons greetings one.
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30 Free Fonts For Creative Projects
Guest Post by Fonts2U We all know picking the right font is important when working on your creative projects. There are so many fonts out there, and it litarally may take hours until we find the ONE. To save you some time, here is a collection of 30 quality fonts hand-picked by Fonts2U. Enjoy! -
Update: InMotion Hosting Winners
Thanks to everyone who has participated the hosting giveaway contest. InMotion Hosting would like to thank you by doubling the prizes. As a result, six winners will be getting a free one-year hosting account. The winners are: 56, 71, 103, 192, 198, and 244 (winners will be contacted by InMotion). For those who didn’t win, [...] -
The Basics of CSS3
Last week I posted a CSS3 dropdown menu and someone complained that I didn’t explain the CSS code in detail. Well, here is a post on the basics of the new properties: text-shadow, box-shadow, and border-radius. These CSS3 properties are commonly used to enhance layout and good to know. -
Update: Social Media Icons
First of all, thank you for all the great feedbacks and suggestions on the Vector Social Media Icons I released on IconDock. I updated the set with the new Google Buzz, Microsoft Bing, Picasa, Meetup, Feedburner, Ebay, Drupal, Gowalla, ICQ, Metacafe, Yelp, Xing, Paypal, Podcast, and various color buttons. Head over to IconDock to [...] -
CSS3 Dropdown Menu
While I was coding the Notepad theme, I’ve learned some new CSS3 features and now I would like to share it with you. View the demo to see a Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu that I’ve created using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow. It renders perfect on Firefox, Safari and Chrome. The dropdown also works on non-CSS3 [...] -
WordPress Workshop: Zero to Hero
I will be hosting a workshop with Refresh Events on advance WordPress theme coding. The event will take place in Toronto, March 25th 2010 at Rich Media Institute, 156 Augusta Ave. This workshop is for designers with CSS skills who want to learn how to convert a HTML template into a WordPress theme (no PHP [...] -
Unique Blog Posts and WordPress Tips
Today I would like to talk about blogs that have a unique design for each post. They break the traditional blog layout by designing a different theme for each post based on the topic. Designing a different layout for each topic requires a lot of time and creativity. So, we should appreciate these blogazines who [...] -
New WordPress Theme: Notepad
I’m back into the WordPress theme design. Check out my latest release — the Notepad theme. Inspired by the iPhone’s Notes app, Notepad is a modern theme with a subtle touch of the sketchy and texturized background. The theme is widget compatible with threaded & paged comments, social media buttons, and multi-level dropdown [...] -
CSS3 Examples and Best Practices
The CSS3 trend is getting more and more popular. In fact CSS3 new features open a lot of new possibilities. Check out my previous post on "CSS3 Animation Demos" to see the things that you can do with it. However, don’t get too excited so soon because it is not fully supported by all browsers yet. [...] -
Free Vector Social Media Set
In case you’ve missed it, I recently released a free vector set of Social Media Icons at IconDock. It includes 50 icons of the most popular social media networks. The icons are available at 32px and 16px in EPS, PNG, and GIF format. Feel free to use it in your blogs or client’s projects. If [...]




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