Showcase of Photography Portfolio Websites
Mar 19, 2010 General
Photographers , just like designers, often use the Internet to help promote their work. Other than using mainstream photography and design sites such as Flickr , Behance and DeviantArt , photographers usually like to have their own portfolio. Not only is it professional, but it gives them an unlimited amount of options and ways to showcase their own work. This compilation showcases some of the best photographer portfolio websites out there, including both HTML and Flash based portfolios.
Tags: arild-danielsen, best of, compilation, daniel-woolf, Design, flash, paulo-boccardi, photographers, photography, Photos, Portfolio, rebecca-ruth, robert-dann, sunny-shen
Questions That Help Assess Website Usability
Mar 17, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The level of usability on your website takes on a vital role when we’re designing for the end-user. If your web application isn’t easy to use and interact with, then chances are the services and information you offer will be valuable to a rare few. Usability aims to relieve some of the things that can make your website complicated to use and simplifies the interface so that the users overall experience is a pleasurable one. When designing with usability in mind you must make sure you test extensively, and consider the fact that what may be easy for you to interact with, may be difficult for others.
Tags: accessability, Design, flash, illustration, Inspiration, tutorial, usability, usable
How To Create a Superhero Stephen Fry in Photoshop
Mar 15, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In this tutorial, we’re going to paint a cartoon version of the ‘near-iconic’ Stephen Fry. The cartoon is styled in a comic book fashion but however, there’s still some painting to be done and this in the end, will be make the final image quite detailed. Step 1 Starting off with a sketch of a younger Stephen Fry, I sketched out his prominent features such as his hair, slightly narrowed nose, dreamy eyes and chubby cheeks. Step 2 Select the Pen Tool (P) and make sure the “paths” is chosen.
Tags: answers, body, eyes, flash, hair, Inspiration, outlines, Photoshop, Tutorials
15 Must Have WordPress Plugins for a Photo Blog
Mar 15, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Photos can do a lot of talking. No wonder! Photo blogs are gaining popularity. Its all about images, photos and blogs. If photography is your devotion then photo blog is your shrine.
Tags: Design, flash, flash-photo-gallery, graphics, lightbox-plus, photo, photo dropper, photography, plug, Resources, web design tools
Do You Have a jQuery Query? We Can Help!
Mar 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
jQuery as expected is a very popular tag on Answers . It is the greatest and possibly easiest Javascript framework to work with, but of course everyone at some point needs a little help with it or even just a query. Have you tried posting a jQuery question on Answers yet? All you have to do is post the question and when someone does answer your ‘jQuery query’ (I love the way that sounds!), you will receive an email notification, and hey presto your solution is there waiting for you! Couldn’t be easier, could it?
Tags: answers, code, design-news, designer, flash, html, Inspiration, jquery, photography, question, Resources, tools
Photography and Photo Editing Cheatsheets
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Even if you are a seasoned professional photographer the chances are you will from time to time need one or maybe all of these cheat-sheets, whether it be to remember a shortcut key when photo editing or it could a simple reminder when taking a difficult or tricky shot. For today’s news we have a great collection of useful Photography cheat-sheets, visit the resources for the full articles and download pages. Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier Here is a list of all the cheat sheets available from this resource: Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card; The Photographic Cheat Sheet by Gordon McKinney; 49 Photo Tips Cheat Sheet; Light Falloff Cheat Sheet Card; Photography Cheat sheet; PhotoBert Cheatsheets; Reflector Card Cheat Sheet. You can download the all of the photography cheat sheets from here: Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier .
Tags: cheat, Design, design-news, flash, freebies, photo-editing, photography, Tips, tutorial, Tutorials
Create a Simple Ripple Effect on Adobe Photoshop
Mar 11, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
This is an easy technique that helps you to create a ripple effect in your image. This is possible using some simple tools on Photoshop. Any object can be used for this effect, but an object with well defined edges would no doubt make your job much easier. In this example, we have selected a…
Tags: designora, flash, image, Inspiration, naldz-graphics, photography, photoshop tutorial, popular-posts, Resources, web-design-tutorials
50+ Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution
Mar 9, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts and Graphs to display the meaningful data visualizations. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to display my data analytics on pie charts and graphs too.
Tags: charts, data, Designs, flash, graphs, Inspiration, live-examples, Resources
Four Decades in Ads: Graphic Design in Transition
Mar 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
How much has changed in the world of graphic design in the past 40 years? Hard to tell. We have today technical abilities that people in the 70’s wouldn’t even dream of. Also, we experienced major changes in communications, where graphics have a decisive role.
Tags: 1970s, 1990s, bacardi-ads, car ads, clothing-ads, design ads, flash, Graphic Design, graphics, Inspiration
Global Design Tour: Turkey
Mar 7, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Join us as we take a trip around the world of graphic design: Next stop, Turkey. The country that connects Europe and Asia with a strip of land along the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Whether when it was Constantinople, or now as Istanbul, the largest city (but not the capital) of Turkey has long… [This is a content summary only.
Tags: berk-cankat, cansu-cender, flash, graphics, Inspiration, international design, murat-yksel, popular-posts, souloff, tamer-koseli, tools, turkey, turkish-designers, Tutorials
