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DepositPhotos is a stock photography and illustration marketplace. They’re pretty new to the scene but already they have a massive amount of photos and vectors in their catalog. In fact they currently have over 1.8M files in various categories!
We’ve partnered with them to give away 2 accounts, each with $100 credit. Read on to see how you can enter!
DepositPhotos is a huge marketplace where people can buy and sell high-quality royalty-free photos and vectors. They offer a 14-day free trial and very reasonable prices starting at $0.10 with a subscription plan.
Seeing what are designers are doing can be a great source of inspiration and motivation. Today we’re featuring vector designs, and this post includes more than 30 for your own inspiration. This showcase includes vectors of people, cars, and other objects.
Pepper Vector
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The web-design industry has always faced limitations that get designers frustrated as they work around them.
Without actually knowing these limitations, you cannot properly design and achieve what you or your client may be after. Therefore, understanding the limitations of the industry and your own limitations can help you expand and work around them and is a key point that cannot be disregarded.
When you think of web-design and what has been achieved already, it becomes difficult to understand whether there are limitations available or not, and what they are that are hindering our abilities that you may not know already. In fact, many designers do not fully understand many of the limitations, but actually work around them indirectly. Let’s cover some limitations that exist today in web-design that hinders our ability of expansion and creativity.
In this tutorial, I will show you a simple, yet creative, technique that results in a realistic wood texture. This tutorial was written for anyone with a basic understanding of Photoshop.
This is what we will be creating:
Create a new Photoshop Document (File>New) to be 1500 x 1500px.
Select a dark brown color and Fill the canvas with it. For this image, I used #5a3222.
Brochures are an important marketing material for many companies. A well-designed and professional-looking brochure can go along way towards an effective marketing campaign. In this post we’ll showcase 45 brochures from various designers (via the Behance Network). If you see something you like, click on the image and you will be led to the source. At the source, in many cases, you will see multiple images of the brochure.
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In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a vector turtle character based on a vinyl toy named “Skuttle” from the “Little Trickers” series.
We’re going to be using Adobe Illustrator CS3 for this tutorial, but the majority of old versions and the newer version will work perfectly fine. If you don’t want to create a turtle, why not take a photo of one of your favorite vinyl toys or collectibles, or sketch your own and scan it in?
The first step is to open up Illustrator and place your photograph or sketch in. Set up a basic RGB document, I’m going to use a 800
The success of an e-commerce website is defined by sales, not by design. However, that doesn’t mean that design does not matter. In this post we’ll showcase 25 well-designed e-commerce sites from a wide variety of industries. For more on e-commerce sites please see these posts from the archives: 50 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs 25 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs – Part Two 35 Excellent E-Commerce User Interface Designs 25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs WordPress E-Commerce: 30+ Resources 37 Shopping Cart Options for Developers 9 Characteristics of Well-Designed E-Commerce Websites
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August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!
Quick Nav: Photoshop Tutorials Illustrator Tutorials Web/Blogging Tutorials Freebies, Inspiration, & Resources
In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the new movie The Expendables.
In this great tutorial, from PsdTuts+, you’ll learn how to use a combination of photos, 3d elements, and other tricks and techniques to make a cosmic scene.
On August 1st we launched Vandelay Premier, a membership-based site that provides high-quality design resources and career resources. A lot has happened during our first month of operation, including the release of 19 new resources/packs! This post serves as a monthly roundup to display the new resources that are available for our members, as well as to list the new discounts that are available in the marketplace.
A few weeks ago we released the first free resource pack from Vandelay Premier. If you are not already a member you can still download this set of 4 textures as a sample of what is available.
Plain Brown Paper Textures
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Many people overlook making their websites multilingual friendly thinking that the majority of their traffic or visitors understand the English language. One thing to note is that nearly two billion people worldwide now have access to the internet, which is almost one third of the world’s population.
Therefore, the expansion of your website worldwide depends greatly upon multilingual support.
Implementing multilingual support may sound as easy as just translating your pages, however in most cases, it is not. Most designers always design according to left to right languages. Therefore, right to left languages may not appear properly within the design. We discuss tips to that help make your website and design multilingual friendly.
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