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Monthly Archives for August, 2008

28 Technically Advanced Photoshop Tutorials - For the Graphic Designer Guru »

August 31, 2008 - 15 Comments.
Categories: Graphic Design, Inspiration, Photoshop, Tutorial.

These tutorials offer an opportunity to harness your Photoshop skills, take your skills to the next level or simply learn something new.
They are all relatively new tuts, and all come from the best and most professional of Graphic Designers. They make it look so easy!!!

75 Powerful Adobe Fireworks Extensions - It really can be as Great as Photoshop! »

August 28, 2008 - 62 Comments.
Categories: Fireworks Extensions, Graphic Design, Photoshop.

The answer is Adobe Fireworks CS3, Photoshops lesser used and lesser known little brother. Its far cheaper, easier to learn and reasonably light weight. But, can it be as powerful? Of course, it can.

13 Essential Wordpress related Firefox Extensions (make blogging easy) »

August 24, 2008 - 20 Comments.
Categories: Firefox Extensions, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins.

13 Essential Wordpress related Firefox Extensions (easy blogging).

I want a Comfortable Mobile Workstation, this is my Solution »

August 24, 2008 - 3 Comments.
Categories: Hardware.

The first and foremost advantage with using a laptop is of course the portability factor. Considering that modern laptops are on par with a decent desktop PC, it makes a lot of sense to use the laptop as your primary computer. That way, there’s no need to constantly go through the hassle of transferring files [...]

11 Amazing Tutorials combining Great Typography and Skillful Vector art. »

August 20, 2008 - 4 Comments.
Categories: Inspiration, Tutorial, Typography, Vector.

11 Amazing tutorials with a combination of great Typography and skillful Vector art (a marriage made in heaven).

A study in Ajax Web trends. What are the best Free Ajax Resources? (70 of the Best Ajax Resources). »

August 19, 2008 - 6 Comments.
Categories: Ajax, Design Trends, Frameworks, Javascript.

I have taken all of the Ajax and JavaScript posts that I have written over the past year and analyzed the stats and figures (outgoing links, page popularity etc. ) to find what really are the best free Ajax Resources. This has been a good exercise in tracking current Ajax web trends.

10 Phenomenal Vectors Artists - Inspiration and Awe »

August 13, 2008 - 7 Comments.
Categories: Graphic Design, Inspiration, Vector.

I like to browse the websites of artists, there is something about admiring something you could never achieve (I am definetly not an artist). And I especially love Vector Art. These are my favourite 10 artists…