PhiMatrix Winners Announcement

Thank you very much to everyone who took the time to leave comments,  and tweet the message to their followers on Twitter. Each commenter had a chance to win and we have picked our 3 lucky winners. › Continue reading

Win 1 Of 3 copies of PhiMatrix

We have a fantastic giveaway from PhiMatrix. We would love to thank our friends from PhiMatrix for providing a fantastic prize that will be ideal for any designer. › Continue reading

Create a realistic rain effect

A few months ago I created a Rain Tutorial: Ronin but I wasn’t convinced with the final result and wanted to create a better-looking effect. After some research and using: noise, motion blur, custom brushes and blending modes we can create a great final result and the effect is surprisingly easy to achieve. › Continue reading

10 Tips for Designing Print Catalogues

Source: Breibeest

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Tom Walker of Franking Machine Cartridges

Print catalogue design can increase sales revenue simply by presenting the best products to customers who enjoy buying the latest offering. Decisions must be made to place customer focus on more than one product and create enough motivation to complete a purchase. › Continue reading

New User Gallery Section

After 2 weeks of no content we can finally present you the New User Gallery Section.  In this new section all users can submit different works. › Continue reading

35 Valentine’s Day Resources

Maybe you Love it maybe you hate it but Valentines Day is here again. As designers we must have an arsenal of resources for holidays designs. Here you have a list of hand picked resources for valentines. The list includes: Photos, Vectors, Icons, Backgrounds and brushes › Continue reading

Create Text Art with Wordle and Photoshop

If you love text art and enjoy playing with text there is an extremely simple way to create text clouds. In Wordle you can paste any paragraph you like and create a text cloud, later we can export this like a PDF so we can work with it in Photoshop. › Continue reading

How to stop spam without using plugins in WordPress

If your blog is starting to have a good traffic, then probably you have problems with spam. 3 months ago I started to have a really, really big problem. Someone though that I needed a lot Viagra because every day I received about 150 and 200 spam comments. › Continue reading

How to correctly position subjects in an image

In movies the best special effects are the ones you can’t detect. In photomontage applies the same.

How many times we look at a montage and instinctively we detect there something wrong; the subject clearly looks superimposed. › Continue reading

Create a super easy lightning from scratch

In this tutorial we will learn how to create a realistic lightning with a very simple method using difference clouds and levels. › Continue reading