Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets — Smashing Magazine
The most important aspect of designing an individual icon is that it has to be instantly recognizable, you have to know its function, and you need to know exactly what it is. If you are designing a set, the actual design becomes a lot harder, the designer has to face two initial challenges: each icon they design has to be individual and distinctive from the other, and, they also have to have simil
Photoshop Plugins and Filters A-Z — Smashing Magazine
The Photoshop community is choc-full of many free resources, tutorials, tips and techniques, .psd files and even Actions. There is one area that it sadly lacks in, and that is free plugins and filters. Of course, Photoshop has been the pioneer in graphic editor development for a long time now, and with each new version (its current version is CS4) has added an endless supply of features and addons
HTML5 Cheat Sheet [PDF] Free Download — Smashing Magazine
XHTML 2 is dead, long live HTML5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML5 instead. And even although HTML 5 won’t be completely supported until 2022 (yes, 2022), it doesn’t mean that it won’t be widely adopted within the foreseeable future. XHTML 2 is dead, long live HTML5! According to W3C News Ar
Clever JPG Optimization Techniques — Smashing Magazine
When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such as OptiPNG and jpegtran, manage to squeeze extra bytes out of image files. All of these are pretty well-known tools that provide Web developers and designers with strai
50 Useful Icons For Your Next Design [Free Sets] — Smashing Magazine
Beautiful and free icon sets always come in handy. Used properly and moderately, icons can be helpful to provide users with memorable metaphors and illustrations that would provide a visual support for otherwise unspectacular text blocks. For instance, in web applications memorable icons can be very helpful as they can make it easier for users to memorize how to perform some specific task or where
Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Plugins — Smashing Magazine
Can Photoshop do everything? Of course, it can. But one should have extreme skills, plenty of experience and a great deal of time before retouching images or creating graphics pixel by pixel. Photoshop is an amazing graphics application that has forever changed graphic, Web design and digital photo editing. [Updated January/04/2017] One should know how to use Photoshop to its full potential to get
Black and White Fractals That Capture Creativity — Smashing Magazine
Everyday we see objects consisting of one, two, and three dimensions. By incorporating mathematics with design, the outcome of computer generated fractals is based upon complexity, creativity and perception. By removing the beautiful array of colors we typically see in fractals at these finer magnifications, the manipulation of fractional dimensions with the black & white designs offers a differen
30 Brilliant Typefaces For Corporate Design — Smashing Magazine
Designing a beautiful, legible typeface is hard work and takes time and patience. The type family has to convey a message clearly and effectively, regardless of the setting in which it is used. Of course, thousands of freely available fonts are out there, and some free fonts are very impressive. Designing a beautiful, legible typeface is hard work and takes time and patience. The type family has t
The Website Launch Checklist – 15 Essential Checks Before You Go Live — Smashing Magazine
Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of things in your eagerness to make it live, so it’s useful to have a checklist to look through as you make your final touches and before you announce your website to the world. Your website is designed, the C
8 Simple Typography Tips For Your Designs — Smashing Magazine
Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a font size and whether it should be regular or bold. For most people it ends there. But there is much more to achieving good typography and it’s in the details that designers often neglect. Many people, designers included, think that typography consists of only selecting a typeface, choosing a f
Adobe AIR Developer’s Toolbox: Resources And Tutorials — Smashing Magazine
Originally called Apollo, Adobe Air was released in beta back in 2007 and has gone from strength to strength ever since. You can build an Adobe Air app using HTML, JavaScript, Flash or ActionScript relatively simply. Basically anyone with even a little knowledge of programming and a little patience can create rich Internet applications. Below, we present the Adobe AIR Developer’s Toolbox: Resource
Table Layouts vs. Div Layouts: From Hell to… Hell? — Smashing Magazine
Over the last several years, developers have moved from table-based website structures to div-based structures. Hey, that’s great. But wait! Do developers know the reasons for moving to div-based structures, and do they know how to? Often it seems that people are moving away from table hell only to wind up in div hell. This article covers common problems with layout structure in web design. The fi
45 Apple-Inspired Photoshop Tutorials — Smashing Magazine
For years, Apple has had a huge impact on designers and graphic artists across the globe. The simplicity and sharpness of the Aqua interface in Mac OS X strongly influenced the way new products were being presented and designed. It’s not only the design of products that makes Apple’s products different, it’s also their appearance on the Web and in print. No other company has managed to come up wit
99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications — Smashing Magazine
If you haven’t heard of Twitter by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. To say that the rise of Twitter has been explosive would be an understatement. As a result of this growth, the number of Twitter apps and tools available has become extensive. So, in this post we have filtered them down to a respectable 99. Below, we present 99 Essential Twitter Too
50 Free High Quality Icon Sets — Smashing Magazine
When it comes to freebie designs, beautiful icons sets are tops. Designers scour for these free treasures more than anything else. You can use icon sets in Web applications, website designs and on your desktop. If well designed, they make a great impression on others. Beautifully designed icons also prove the quality of a designer’s work, so many designers make theirs freely available online, thus
iPhone PSD Vector Kit — Smashing Magazine
In this post we release the iPhone Starter Kit, a set that comes with several button elements as well as six different interface options for iPhone. This pack may be useful for mobile developers and front-end designers who need a professional way to show mock-ups to clients or to work out ideas. This set was designed by Renee Rist especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Today, we are gla
Swirls Vector Illustrations Set — Smashing Magazine
Today we are glad to release Swirls Illustrations Set, a sets of 10 high-quality vector illustrations, created with Adobe Illustrator and available as .eps source files. These illustrations were created by Designious.com and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Today we are glad to release Swirls Illustrations Set, a sets of 10 high-quality vector illustrations, created with
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