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20 Awesome High Quality Abstract Photoshop Brushes Sets

Thomson — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:54:47 +0000

Abstract photoshop brushes are one of my favorite brushes which I use in my designs. Abstract brushes are very appealing and suites all kinds of design work and it is one of the best and useful resource used by designers. Using a photoshop brushes saves you a lot of time when you come want to give an effect to your design work. In this post I have collection 20 awesome and High quality abstract photoshop brushes sets. Each set contains several brushes that will be more than 270+ awesome abstract photoshop brushes!

I hope you enjoy this good list of compilation and put these brushes to good use for your next design work.

Abstract brushes from Rubina – (6 brushes)

Veruct Brushes by Disporatik (8 brushes)

Starwalt Abstract light brushes by gigistar (6 brushes)

Abstract splash brushes by Rce-Ordinary (12 brushes)

Ecol Brushes by Rubina (6 brushes)

Silicon Brushes by Axeraider (5 brushes)

Abstract Brushes by Metal-CX (8 brushes)

Fractal Chaos by Javier ZhX (10 brushes)

Dawn Brushes by differentxdreamz (12 brushes)

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Serenity Brushes by Axeraider (15 brushes)

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Abstract Brush pack by Forty-winks (4 brushes)

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Spaxio Brushes by Flow Graphic (4 brushes)

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Beser Brushes by Rubina (8 brushes)

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Curvy Lines by Differentxdreamz (12 Brushes)

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Streaks of Light by Colorburned (40 brushes)

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Sparking Light Effects from Colorburned (24 brushes)

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Abstract Curves Brushes by Fresh eMedia (28 brushes)

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Radial Brushes by Rubina (14 brushes)

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Abstract Brushes by You The Designer ( 25 brushes)

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3D Abstract Lines by env1ro (24 brushes)

34 Excellent Fresh Free WordPress Themes

Thomson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:31:43 +0000

Word press is an excellent open source CMS with that you can build blogs and websites. The main aspect of using word press is because of its easy to use and extensibility which made word press the most popular blogging software out there. There are thousands of free wp themes out there but it is still difficult to find the right wordpress theme for your blog. We have complied a list of 34 great free wordpress theme that are ready for you to download. These wordpress themes covers a variety of your needs like layouts and customization.

After deciding the theme, you will need a wordpress host for hosting your wordpress blog. You can go through reviews of best wordpress hosts at webhostingsearch.com and select a suitable one as per your requirements

This is not just a long list of all available wordpress themes on the web but it is collection of the best handpicked and fresh set of free word press themes created by wordpress professional.

1. Demo Blog

2. VodPod

3. LiveTwit

4. Foodiary Premium Magazine WordPress Theme

5. Magiting

6. Matiyaga

7. Rockstar

8. Mainstream

9. Meta-Morphosis

10. Newsworthy

11. Photabulous

12. Little United Nations

13. Orange Surfing

14. Presents

15. Vice WordPress Theme

16. Lead WordPress Theme

17. Glassical

18. Free Podcasting, Video and Photography WordPress Theme

19. Paper Wall

20. Scherzo

21.TouchRiver

22. Modicus

23. Morning Racer

24. Creative by Nature

25. Money Theme

26. Tipz Theme

27. LapOfLuxury Theme

28. Ekologic

29. Chronicle

30. Pork and Beans

31. Blue Rooster

32. Newspress

33. Simplicity

34. Selecta

31 Creative use of Typography in Web Design

Thomson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:40:57 +0000

Typography is very important in visual communication it is been used in Brochures, Ads, flyers and other marketing materials. Today there is a growing trend among designers to use typography on the web. One of the major reason for the rise of using typography in web design is the evolution of CSS and using of Sprites and browser side font rendering technologies.

A good typography is just as important on a web as it is on any other medium. It should be eye catchy and easy to read.

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Below are some of the 31 examples creative use of typography in web design.

1. Random Thought Pattern

2. Hdlive09

3. Merge Web

4. Project 365

5. Second and Park

6. Creative United

7. Dialogi

8. Tanq

9. Hungry for Change

10. Brooklyn Fare

11. Area 17

12. For A beautiful Web

13. Espira

14. MediaFlex

15. Matthamm

16. The DECK

17. Oliver Kavanagh

18. The Ideal Candidate

19. GIANT Creative

20. Grow Interactive

21. Pixel Thread

22. BIG Omaha

23. Jesse Dodds

24. Denise Chandler

25. Rodney Keeling

26. Trippling Words

27. Crafted Pixelz

28. Sto Solutions

29. Rodeopark Communication

30. Jan Eike Koormann

31. Kerplunc

24 Awesome Single Page Portfolio Designs

Thomson — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:55:54 +0000

If you are looking for a portfolio site inspiration A single page portfolio would be a prefect one. A single page portfolio site works best to showcase your design work. It is simple and quick to set up a website and perfect for designers since there is not much coding involved.

Another advantage of having a one page portfolio site is it is easy to someone to find your portfolio instead of going through various links to find your works.

Here are 24 awesome inspirational one page portfolio design.

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35 Creative Paper Inspired Website Design

1. Laureano Endeiza

2. CleanArt

3. Jason Reed

4. Michel Ferreira

5. Luke Larsen

6. Ignacio Ricci

7. Schiff

8. Made by Guerrilla

9. Benjamin Gordon

10. Visual Groove

11. Jeremy Le Van

12. NarfStuff

13. Druiz

14. Wkem

15. Design Hearts Me

16. I Am Jamie

17. Carbon Aspect

18. Yodaa

19. Everson JP

20. Bunton

21. Envato

22. Marie Moore

23. Frenzy Labs

24. Engage Interactive

What is your opinion about single page portfolio design to showcase your work? Also if you know some other single page portfolios please feel free to post it in the comments.

28 Excellent Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Design

Thomson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:48:04 +0000

Using Gradient effect in modern web design is a effective way to give a perfect look to a website and is a very popular technique among web designers. Adding a gradient effect is not a difficult task but if you get it right it can enhance your website look. One of the other reason why designers use gradients is because gradients soften areas that would otherwise be flat color/tone.

In this showcase we have 28 excellent examples of using gradient effect in web design.

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1. Harisvision

2. Markmeup

3. Parcheggi Auto

4. Ad Works

5. Rezoactif

6. Serk Kozlov

7. Charlie Gentle

8. Hold Fire

9. Lionite

10. Studio 7 designs

11. BeeHiveApp

12. CMS Your PSD

13. Launch Mind

14. Blue Dots Design

15. Go site Wave

16. One Hub

17. Envato

18. Little Oak

19. Ryan MCMaster

20. Australia FIFA World Cup Bid

21. Paula Solanoy Design

22. Trent River Cruises

23. iKreativ

24. Common Good Radio

25. Atebits

26. The Served

27. Foehn

28. Newism

What is your opinion aobut using gradient effect in website design? Share your thoughts in the comments.

28 Beautiful Animal Inspired Logo Designs

Thomson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:32:01 +0000

Using an Animal in logos is a excellent way for branding and remember you logo. It is fun and attractive to include a animal concept in your logo design.

A few days ago we showed you some good example of Origami Style logos and Sequential Concept designs. Today we are showing 28 very good examples of animal logo design that should help you to come up with excellent logo design ideas.

You may also be interested in the follow logo design posts

24 Logos Inspired by Origami Style
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I would love to hear which one of these animal logos are your favorites, or if you have any animal logo works of your own or others that you feel deserve a mention please leave your comments.

44 Really Useful and New Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Thomson — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:09:56 +0000

Adobe Illustrator is one of the most powerful tool for creating vector graphics and can be used for creation of elements for web and print design. Illustrator uses mathematical equations to make shapes, this feature makes vector graphics scalable without the loss of resolution. It is very important to know what needs to be done to effectively use its tools and create certain effects. So these step by step tutorials will help you to learn how to create these amazing effects and illustration techniques.

Below is a list of 44 Fresh and Latest illustration tutorials that Iâ€™ve found on the web to be most useful for learning new techniques and brushing up your illustration skills.

For more tutorials, see the following posts from our archives:

55 Useful Photoshop Tutorials on Designing Wallpapers
32 Excellent Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorial
29 Excellent Typography Tutorials for Designers

1. How to Make an Icy Cocktail

2. Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

3. How to Draw a Vector Kiwi

4. Illustrator ring shape via overlapping crescents effect

5. How to Create a Mesh Flower in Illustrator

6. Perfect Silhouette with Live Trace

7. Create a Bright Retro Grunge Vector Illustration

8. How To Create A Vector Wacom Tablet In Illustrator

9. How to Create A Realistic Chefâ€™s Knife in Illustrator

10. How to Draw a Cartoon Duck , Character illustration

11. Create a Fantasy Space Background with Illustrator

12. Creating Editable Letterpress Styled Text

13. Realistic Orange

14. Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

15. Create a Simple Vector Creature in Illustrator

16. How to Create an Abstract Vector Design in Illustrator

17. How to Create a Caramel Ripple Effect

18. How To Create an Awesome Vector Skate Deck Design

19. Making a Logo: Dashed Lines and 3d Objects

20. Master the gradient mesh tool

21. How to create amazing animated characters

22. Create a Vector Home Cinema Design

23. 3D prototype mock up in Adobe Illustrator

24. Abstract Vector Art

25. Mastering Illustrator Effects

26. Doodle Style Tutorial in Adobe Illustrator

27. Draw a Windy Sunset Illustration

28. Illustrate a Malevolent Skull in 8 Steps

29. Mastering masking in Illustrator

30. Create a Character Mascot with Adobe Illustrator CS4

31. Create An Awesome Space Rocket Avatar in Illustrator

32. Create a Vintage TV Set Icon in Illustrator

33. Create A Vector Art Twitter Bird Character Icon In Adobe Illustrator

34. Vector illustration: create a cute bird

35. Create a Vector RSS Icon

36. How to Create a Hippy Van Vector in Illustrator

37. Create a Cool Air Balloon Wallpaper

38. How to Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator

39. How to create a Television Icon

40. Drawing a Funny Game Character

41. Zee Logo in Illustrator

42. Swirly Border Design in Illustrator CS4

43. Create an easy landscape scene in Illustrator

44. Illustrator type technique using shapes

48 Creative Websites Designed in Blue

Thomson — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:20:11 +0000

Blue is the color of the sky. Blue is also one of the easiest color to work with, and also give a clean and bright look to your website design. Since Blue is one of the commonly color used in web design I have showcased 48 beautifully designed blue websites.

My main source of inspiration for this post was from the CSS galleries out there.

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I would love to hear your thoughts on websites designed in blue and I recommend that you check out all of these awesome websites.

1. Dgerelo

2. Adventure Drop

3. Sourcebits

4. Getballpark

5. Goplanapp

6. Guifx

7. Barack Obama

8. Blueraydesignbuild

9. Mootygraphicdesign

10. Minlomedia

11. Buginteractive

12. Alexandratong

13. Getmefast

14. Indiqo

15. Pojeta

16. Wpglamour

17. Serj

18. Trentcruising

19. Agenciap4

20. PumaTalk

21. Redriever

22. Visitbritainrocks

23. Artisschool

24. Dolphinsafari

25. Monpermisbateau

26. Thegreatbeardedreef

27. Stroybass

28. Legacylocker

29. Luxuscreations

30. Designdisease

31. Twitter

32. Ormanclark

33. Australia2018-2022

34. Bluedotsdesign

35. Vimeo

36. Answerjam

37. Ekochgren

38. Medianotions

39. Koormann

40. Hotelparadiso

41. Winslowrubin

42. Echodio

43. Wapple

44. Misticastudio

45p. Pixel-house

46. Comconcept

47. Jackrums

48. Seocontest2008

26 Examples of Vector Elements & Background in Web Design

Thomson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:00:02 +0000

Adding vector graphics and background into a web design makes it truly stand out from the rest. A beautiful vector background on a website adds uniqueness to the whole design. Designers use vector graphics as different element in web design some use vector in headers, footer, button and some of them use vector graphics in the background. Vector illustrations are becoming more and more popular among designers and a new trend is growing in the design community to build more vector themed web design.

In this blog post I am showcasing 26 beautiful examples using vector graphics in web design.

1.Blue Acorn

2. The Great Brearded Reef

3.Â RedBrick Health

4. Clark Studios

5. The Circumference

6. GetmeFast

7. TweetStalk

8. Gisele Jaquenod

9. Divvoted

10. StrawPoll

11. Veboo Labs

12. Go Glamping

13. Tomas Pojeta

14. Devthought

15. Old Loft

16. Absolutebica

17. Silverback

18. Orman Clark

19. Open Atrium

20. Lionite

21. BigOmaha

22. Brian Handey Design

23. My Snow Buddy

24. Mplusz

25. Miami Angel Properties

26. BioFuel

What is your opinion about having a vector element in website design? Is Vector illustration is good for only certain type of sites or if implemented well it going well with all types of website. Shout it in the comments!

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50 Stunning Natural Infrared Photography

Thomson — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:50:43 +0000

It is always a fascinating experience to see a infrared photography. IR photos can capture some of the best and stunning images possible with surreal in its appearance.
The IR effect is beautiful, but its hard to achieve. Much time and efforts are needed in order to get the best result out of it.

In this post I have highlighted 50 of the most stunning natural infrared photography on the web.

1. San Isidro Infrared Panorama

2. The Japanese Garden in Infrared

3. Green and Infrared

4. 6 trees infrared

5. Banks of the Sabine River

6. Denton County Courthouse Infrared

7. Infrared HDR

8. Old Steine Flower Beds

9. The Fisherman by Roie Galitz

10. IR photography from Manir Mrittik

11. Contemplation IR