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Free Giveaway: FlashMoto (CMS Worth $199)

MoiN — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:08:55 +0000

It’s time for an awesome giveaway for flash developers. We are giving away one FlashMoto CMS License (worth $199) to one of our readers. FlashMoto gives you the ability to fantastic flash websites without any hassle.

It’s WYSIWYG Editor (Drap and Drop) is simply great which easily lets you add texts, shapes, wigets and plugins to your site. Embedding pictures and videos can also done in no time.

Main Features Include:

Ability to add unlimited number of pages.
Any flash website can be managed.
Advanced WYSIWYG page and Pop-up editor.
The richest media library.
Infomodule, video & Image Gallery components.

Another worth mentioning feature is that there is No Flash IDE required. All you need is a web browser through which you can make all necessary alterations and is compatible with all major browsers.

To enter the giveaway, all you need to do is;

1. Subscribe to our feeds
2. Comment and Re-tweet this Giveaway.

1 Random winner will be announced on February 15th (Monday). Also make sure to enter a valid email address where we can contact.

The Kings Of Architectural Photography: 60 Spectacular Examples

MoiN — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:20:50 +0000

We did a post on Architectural photography in the past and it was truly appreciated. Keeping up the series, I’m presenting (after hard searching) more fantastic examples of architectural photography. I hope you like these as well.

Don’t forget to check out our previous posts on Photography

Below The Yellow Light by Christian

Clean Glass by Vasudha Donnelly

Rotunda by Jbfotodesign

Atakule, Çankaya, Ankara by Timucin Kantar

Architectural Photography by Fabiano Parisi

Architectural Photography by Tomasz Przetacznik

Health’s Factory by Repro

Beautiful Architectural Photography by Cedric Lefebvre

Round And Round by Scott Crouse

Diaphragm by fbaillet

Splendid Architectural Photography by Johannes Heuckeroth

Rotterdam Cubehouses – Photography by Guus Vuijk (Photonmaps)

LBBW by DieterJL

Track 4 by TamArt Photography

Drawing For Attention by TamArt Photography

Subway by theo peekstok

That’s it for now. I hope you like these and do stay tuned in (by subscribing to our feeds) for free future updates.

Free Fonts: The Collection You Craved For

MoiN — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:07:17 +0000

Fonts play a massive role in designer’s line of work. Keeping that in mind, we have covered resources where you can download free fonts. It covers almost everything, from professional design to free hand drawn fonts. I hope you like these. Also do subscribe to our feeds to get the latest updates.

1. 40+ Excellent Free fonts For Professional Design

2. 45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts

3. 45 Outstanding Free Vintage Fonts

4. The Top 500 Fonts From Around The Web

5. 52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design

6. 50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Web & Print Design

7. 25 New High Quality Free Fonts

8. 20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings

9. 50 First-class & New Downloadable Fonts For Professional Designs

10. 50 Top Sites you can Download Free Fonts

11. 50 Best Free Fonts From 2009

12. 75+ Websites where You can Find Free Fonts

13. 30 Best Free Handwritten Fonts for Designers

14. 20 Super Clean Fonts Perfect for Minimal Style Design

15. 30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designs

16. 104 Free Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists

17. 35+ Funky Cartoon Fonts For Logos And Headers

18. 20 Stunning High Quality Free Fonts for Designers

19. 76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts

20. 75+ Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design

12 Adobe Photoshop Tutorials To Make Your Valentine’s Day Special

MoiN — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:46:19 +0000

Valentine’s day is near and to keep up the spirit, presenting 12 of the most awesome adobe photoshop tutorials that will surely make this day memorable. Also don’t forget to check out our previous articles on adobe photoshop tutorials

1. Create colorful background for Valentine’s Day

2. Grunge Valentine’s Design

3. Design a Sleek Valentine’s Day Card

4. Valentine’s Day Card

5. Create an abstract Valentine background with hearts

6. Creating a Simple Valentine’s Day e-Card

7. Valentines Day – Photoshop Style

8. Designing A Valentine Card From Scratch

9- Valentine’s day card

10- Valentine’s Day

11- Valentine’s Day Wallpaper

12- Valentine’s day hearts

I hope you enjoy. Also don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS Feeds to get more free tutorials in future.

Look Like Na’vi: Avatar Photoshop Tutorials

MoiN — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:03:39 +0000

Avatar was a great movie, no doubt. Almost everyone (who watched it) became a fan, just like me. A lot of people are discussing how cool those avatar looked, the special effects and everything. For those people (especially), presenting a list of Photoshop tutorials (including video tutorials) where you can learn to create yourself into Na’vi.

1. Na’vi Avatar Photo Manipulation (Tutorial)

2. Create Avatar movie poster (Tutorial)

3. Birth of an AVATAR (Video Tutorial)

4. Photoshop Tutorial – Na’vi Avatar Photo Manipulation

5. Avatar Movie Poster in Photoshop (Tutorial)

Collection of Tutorials That Every Beginner Photographer Should Bookmark

MoiN — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:26:02 +0000

Photography requires technique along-with your talent. You can’t just take a great picture without knowing the insides of a camera. Things like, composition, shutter speed, aperture, ISO etc matters a lot. Presenting today, a great collection of tutorials for beginners. I hope you like these.

1. A great collection of tutorials which includes, types of cameras, why you need a tripod, Basic Photography, Lighting, Working with different subjects, Photo Editing and What to do with your Photos afterwards. (Geofflawrence)

2. Superb resource, providing information on camera controls, photography lighting, composition (including the rule of thirds), and even color temperature. (About)

3. Another fantastic selection of some of digital photography tips and tutorials aimed more at the beginner photographer. (Digital Photography School)

4. Things To Consider Before Selecting A Digital Camera

Educational article on what you should be looking at before actually buying a digital camera.

5. Photography Exposure Elements – F-Stops and Shutter Speeds

How is an exposure made and what does the camera do to make sure an image is recorded? An excellent tutorial covering exposure elements, F-stops and shutter speeds.

6. An Introduction to Camera Lenses

7. 7 Beginner Tips For Sharper Photos

Sharper photos always look fantastic. Here are 7 beginner tips for taking sharper photos.

8. Top 10 Mistakes For Beginning Photographers

Another great article which focuses on common beginner mistakes.

I hope these tutorials can cover up as much information needed for beginner to start off their photography career. Also, if you think something’s missing or a tutorial which should be useful, don’t hesitate to add it in your comments.

Show Me The Light: 40 Creative Light Graffiti Photography Examples

MoiN — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:03:18 +0000

Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources. (Wikipedia)

Presenting some good examples of light graffiti photography which I’m sure you’ll like. Also check out

Starting Off With one of my favorite, Light Graffiti by The LICHTFACTOR from Germany.

Light Graffiti Photography by Julien Breton

Graffiti by Wei Kok

Amsterdam by Jakob Wagner

Wadi Rum by Jérôme Lautré

Goku by Artwork Rebel

Light Graffiti by Guillaume J. Plisson

Weapon of Mass Distraction by Rovanus

Poster For Spain Festival Can by Mikhail Churkin

Last but not least, I would like you to check out Light Art Performance Photography, recommended and extreme.

12 Fantastic Flash Based Animations That You’ll Definitely Love

MoiN — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:51:57 +0000

Since macromedia flash came out, I became a big fan. Although, I wasn’t that good at it, was below average but I always loved the Animations, basically in form of flash websites. Today, the bars have been raised and the animators are doing extra-ordinary work. Presenting a list of 12 awesome animations that you’ll adore for sure.

1- BeerRun

2- Aladdin 3150

3- The Last Of The Dashkin

4- The PigPen

5- De_Dust 2 (Counter Strike)

6- TarBoy

If you haven’t watched Animator vs Animation, here is the series of Awesome flash animations (One of my favorite).

7- Animator Vs Animation

8- Animator Vs Animation 2

9- Deadly Bite

10- Waiting For The Bus

11- The Facebook Problem

12- Stamp On The Ground

10 Of The Best Color Pickers And Generators That Designers Will Love

MoiN — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:02:50 +0000

Colors matter a lot in a web designer’s line of work. They know that their clients will be heavily looking forward to how awesome their website is going to look so they have to come up with the best color schemes. To generate those color schemes they need color pickers, color scheme generators etc. I’ve compiled here a list of 10 of the best color pickers and generators that I’m sure they’ll love.

1- Copaso – Colour Lovers

2- Color Scheme Designer

3- Color Jack

4- Color Schemer (Also comes with a downloadable Desktop App *For windows and Mac)

5- Color Rotate

6- Aviary Color Editor

7- Color Database

8- Hex Color Scheme Generator

9- Absolute Color Picker (Desktop App, something I use on regular basis)

10- Daily Color Scheme

These are (in my opinion) one of the best tools for a designer for creating color schemes or picking up colors of their likings, I hope you like these.

Smashing Collection Of Tutorials For Converting PSD TO HTML

MoiN — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:46:47 +0000

For web designers, when handed a new project, the hard part comes when they have to code the given Photoshop mockups. Yes, there are people who have already mastered the coding skill but for the rest, it’s not that easy. Keeping in mind that, I’m presenting a great collection of tutorials / resources where one can learn to code PSD’s. I’m sure this will come in handy for most.

1- From PSD to HTML, Building a Set of Website Designs Step by Step (Tuts+)

2- 43 PSD to XHTML, CSS Tutorials Creating Web Layouts And Navigation (1stwebdesigner)

3- 30 Tutorials On Converting A PSD To XHTML And CSS (Creative Nerds)

4- 20+ Best Tutorials to Convert Psd to Html/CSS (Dzine Blog)

5- 14 Of The Best PSD to HTML CSS Guides (Designussion)

I did manage to find more but they were not offering anything new, too much repetition.