Archive for the 'Tutorials' Category
5 tips & resources to help get your t-shirt company off the ground
You’ve identified your niche, registered your business, designed your shirts, and launched your online t-shirt store. Now what? These few tips should help save you a few headaches as well as give you a few ideas on how to market your product for free.
Using Wordpress to make your own personal ffffound
Follow a long as I hack together a Wordpress theme with a few plugins that emulate ffffound, and its related images feature.
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex - A Designer & Developer makes the switch
Being a designer and a developer I have had to deal with the necessary evil that is Microsoft for years now and with Ubuntu picking up steam like it has past few years–the time was right to finally switch. Here’s how I finally made the full switch and the tools and mindset that finally convinced me to pull the trigger.
Trendy lightburst motion trail Photoshop tutorial
A co-worker of mine recently found a great article in Wired that had some really beautiful looking “lasers”, as he called them with some light bursts and motion trails around them. After a few minutes of experimentation this is what I came up with…
Repeating Seamless Background Image Tutorial
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A trick often employed on webpages is to use a seamless background that can tile both vertically and horizontally. If your website gets alot of traffic and you don’t like paying for extra bandwidth costs you need to optimize your [...]
Creating your own Custom Adobe Photoshop Brushes
In my earlier tutorial I went over how to use brush dynamics from a preset brush, but what I didn’t show you was how to actually create your own brushes. If you’re not using custom Photoshop brushes then you’re missing out on one of the best features of Photoshop that will save you a ton [...]
Web Graphic Transparency Tutorial - GIF and PNG
As far as I know there are only two types of images on the web that support transparency: GIF and PNG. GIF being the one that has been supported the longest is the widest and probably most accepted form of transparency that doesn’t require and fancy css work or hacks. Transparent PNGs still require either [...]
GIF vs JPG - Which is Better?
When a design is in it’s final stage and ready to be moved to a developer, or if there are product images ready to be uploaded that just need some final touches to get file size down, the “Save for Web & Devices” window (formerly part of Imageready I believe) can save you tons of [...]
