Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. However, to convey the message of presented data effectively, it’s important to offer it in an attractive and intuitive way. Furthermore, the presentation itself can make images more valuable and simplify the browsing through hundreds of slides. There are literally [...]

Photoshop actions can be extremely useful timesavers when you find yourself performing the same steps over and over on an image. They’re also an excellent way for photographers to quickly and easily pass on their favorite techniques to others. Today we’ll be looking at how you can make your own, and showcasing 100 fantastic free Photoshop actions to use straight away! In recent years, DeviantArt has become a huge storehouse for photographers to upload and [...]

A web design layout is the most aspect of designing a website. Once your web layout has been settled or done then other dedicated pages follows this layout. There are some 20 layouts defined for the websites developed in Adobe Photoshop with high quality and creative PSD web templates, for the sake of this article we have only focused on the availability of the free .psd templates which have been made freely available within the [...]

In this tutorial I will show you how to create realistic new MacBook Pro from scratch in photoshop, combinig shapes and different blending options. It’s going to be a long tutorial, so make yourself nice, warm, beautiful cup of nescaffe… And we are ready to start! Let’s take a look at our final image. STEP 1: Creating the front of the MacBook Pro Let’s start by creating new document in photoshop. I’m using 1000×730px. Fill [...]

In many situations web designers should avoid Flash and prefer usual text-based presentation. For instance, in most tasks related to pure text presentation Flash is neither necessary nor user-friendly, and it also has some serious accessibility problems: in fact, “pure” text is easier to maintain and easier to copy and paste. However, if you’d like to present some multimedia-content, particularly images, Flash can often be a feasible solution, with flexible image management for web designers [...]

DO NOT use too many different font faces on the page You may have 1,000+ fonts downloaded on your computer, but when they’re being displayed all on the screen at the same time, you’re not going to have many people impressed. Not only will this cause your website visitors to have a hard time reading, it’s also going to just make you look tacky. DO NOT switch from serif and sans serif fonts multiple times [...]