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The Complete Guide of Retouching Photos with Human Subjects

Submitted on 9th of May 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Just a damn good read!

There are tons of magazine covers with models, females and males that amaze the onlookers with their bodies or faces. The perfection expressed by these models conducted to deviated behaviors, many young women attempting to look similar to these and many times the effects were disastrous.

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20 Quality WordPress Themes For Design Studios

Submitted on 9th of May 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Wordpress

In today’s post I am showcasing 20 WordPress themes that are perfectly suited to design studios, creative agencies and freelancers. These premium WordPress themes are perfect for showcasing your work and providing in depth information on your projects, the WordPress themes all feature pixel perfect designs to compliment your studio and work, some featured examples are also responsive WordPress themes.

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How to Create an Video Player in jQuery, HTML5 & CSS3 [Tutorial]

Submitted on 8th of May 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

In this tutorial we will code an Video Player from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it with CSS3 for the styling and the “MediaElement.js” for the functionality.

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Mini Actions Icon Set (32 icons in JPG & PNG format)

Submitted on 3rd of May 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Icon Resources

Mini Actions Icon Set containing 32 icons in JPG & PNG format.

The icons included are for all types of actions including padlock icon, cloud icon, new document, edit document, delete document icons, mail, pin.map marker, mail icon, comment icons, rss, dribbble, twitter, facebook, pinterest social icons and more..

Our Mini Actions Icons come in JPG & PNG format and come in a size of 20 x 20px.

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Transforming Elements in 3D Using CSS3

Submitted on 2nd of May 2012Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

In this tutorial we will go through the basics of rotating in 3 dimensions and will combine these transforms with the scale and translate transforms for more complex results. We will also add a basic level of interaction to animate the effects as the user interacts with the page.

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BEM: The Block, Element, Modifier Approach To Decoupling HTML And CSS

Submitted on 1st of May 2012Categories → Browser Tools, CSS Resource

When you decouple your html and css you develop sites that are more scalable and maintainable. The Block, Element, Modifier approach to writing code leads to decoupling through greater reuse of css code that is less dependent on your html structure.

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Parallax Scrolling and Its Usage in Web Design

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

The parallax effect, also called parallax scrolling, is a special technique used in computer graphics at first, where background images move by the camera slower than foreground images.

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Context and Making Your Audience Smile

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Logo

Every audience has particular desires and influences, and no single solution can meet everyone’s needs. Understanding context is the key to creating meaningful connections. It’s a designer’s and clients best opportunity to ensure their audience smiles wide and proud.

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Design a Unique Wooden Face with Fiery Eye and Tear in Photoshop

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Design a Unique Wooden Face with Fiery Eye and Tear in Photoshop. This is an intermediate level tutorial so some steps can be tricky, but why not have a try!

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20 Pure Websites with Clean White Backgrounds

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

Whenever we start work designing a website one of the first things we always do is throw a bunch of colours and textures onto the canvas, but sometimes a design will benefit from the clean and crisp appearance of a pure white background. This showcase rounds up 20 minimal website designs that prove that sometimes less is more.

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Photography and Digital Art by Oleg Dou

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Photography

Oleg Dou is a young and very talented photographer and digital artist born in Moscow, Russia. If you didn’t have the chance to see his works before, starting with Adobe Photoshop CS6 you’ll see it very often, because one of his artwork become an icon for this new version.

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How To Display Author Bio With WordPress

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Wordpress

In this tutorial we are going to learn how easy this is to do in WordPress and how we can customise the default WordPress Author info to provide even more information about WordPress Authors.

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Onepage Design Showcase April 2012

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

Onepage designs are a great way to share your informations. This Showcase shows you a lot of awsome onepage designs to help you getting inspired.

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Logo Design Showcase April 2012

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Logo

You like great logo designs? Then you will definetly love this little showcase of awsome Logo Designs for your daily inspiration.

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Illustrated Webdesigns – A Showcase

Submitted on 30th of April 2012Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

Illustrated Webdesigns in a small Showcase for your daily inspiration. Check them out and get inspired from this awsome illustrated webdesigns in this showcase.

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