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)
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Presenting another series of photography, this time Macro. Macro is close-up photography where the photographers tend to capture almost every small detail of the subject. Basically it depends on what kind of equipment they’re using, from the best lens to lightning, the technique counts a lot. I hope you like these. Also don’t forget to check out our previous posts on photography.
Paint Box by ~Utzel-Butzel
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Presenting some of the great Illustrations created by “The Zonders“.
The Zonders is an international artistcollective founded by Dieter Dunkel & Wolfgang 3000. Raised by the former band named ZONDERSTEIN and influenced by different styles of music, it’s their pleasure to create a visual output in a profession between surrealism and society. Their projects have a varied structure, characterized by the constant change between art and culture. The Zonders form the nucleus of the same design studio, which own permanent development projects formed an identity – what is today considered a guaranty for creative collaboration. Driving is the permanent exchange of creative energies and inspiration between partners, friends and clients.
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Taking awesome pictures underwater is a difficult task, you need specific equipment, got to have good lighting and of course, skills. We’ve covered some articles on different styles of photography in the past (listed)
Today, I’m bringing in another type, underwater photography and I hope you like these.
Miss Underwater By Kal.LKL
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Having free space lets us work more efficiently. The absence of clutter gives off a neat look which results in us working better. This simple fact is not restricted to our physical work; it also applies to our computer and internet experience. Having more space to work with is just better.
Firefox users can now improve their browser based on the abovementioned fact by using a great Firefox add-on titled Compact Toolbar Buttons. This little add-on decreases the in-between spaces of your toolbar buttons. Here by toolbar buttons, we mean the back, forward, stop, refresh, and home buttons.
Here is how the buttons on our Firefox looked prior to using the add-on:
Now have a look at the effect Compact Toolbar Buttons had:
The difference is quite noticeable.
If you want the buttons to occupy even lesser space, you can right click on the main toolbar, and enter customize:
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I’ll start off by saying “Happy New Year to everyone” and I hope everything goes well. Starting the new year off with one of my favorite things to do, learning Adobe Photoshop and these tutorials are a blessing in disguise. In the past, I’ve covered some nifty Tutorials that everyone loved, here’s a re-cap
Today, presenting another great list of useful adobe photoshop tutorials and I hope you like them. Also do subscribe to our RSS feeds, via your reader or email.
1- Design An Amazing 2010 Poster
2- Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation
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Photo Manipulation is an Art. There are lots of photographers, designers who are good at it. And in my opinion, Grape Frogg is one of them. His pictures are truly inspiring. Presenting some of his work, hope you enjoy.
Visit Grape’s Flickr Account or his Website to find out more about him.
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Looking for Icons? Can’t find the one you want? here’s a great website called “Icon Finder” that lets you find icons easily. 
The interface is like a search engine, giving you access to over 122,117 icons & 290 icon sets with regular updates. For example, let’s search for Twitter Icons. Type it in and you’ll see all the available icons.
Choose the one that you like and click on it. It will on the spot show you whose the designer, the license information, size and if there’s an full set for it. Simple but useful service for all Icon hunters.
With an increasing number of people already shifting to Windows 7, numerous bug fixes, tips, tools, and utilities are being found/made. Today, we are going to go over some utilities which work with Windows 7 as well as Windows Vista. Readers who use either system will surely benefit from all of these. Also take a look at some Useful Windows 7 Applications which we posted in the past.
1- Fix Internet Explorer
This utility is fixes the crashes of Internet Explorer and ensures smooth browsing operations. The utility comes compressed in a small ZIP archive of which the contents you can simply extract and use. Make sure to close all open Internet Explorer windows before running the utility.
Fix IE Utility can be downloaded from here and has been tested on Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8.
2- Prevent Deletion Of Important Files
Novice users have more than once deleted important system files. The deletion of these files corrupts the operating system and the only viable solution to solve the corruption is the reinstallation of the operating system. Of course the best cure is prevention, hence this utility. Prevent (version 1.0) is a freeware application which runs on all Windows.
This freeware prevents cutting, pasting, copying, deleting, copy to, move to, send to, and renaming functions. Installing Prevent on your system means that your files will never be tampered with, especially not your system files.
Prevent can be enable/disabled by assigning it hotkeys which smoothens functionality.
3- Ultimate Windows Tweaker
Ultimate Windows Tweaker is an unbelievably small (~345 KB) utility which does not require any installation whatsoever. Despite its minuscule size, it has over 150 tweaks i.e. ways to enhance the performance of your Windows.
The Windows Tweaker can be downloaded directly from here. Any Windows user will surely find this utility to be extremely beneficial; the improved system performance will be clearly noticeable.
4- Windows Access Panel
Windows Access Panel is your one stop to access all important aspects of your Windows. Here is how the panel looks like:
To access the objects/utilities listed in the panel, one would need to access the Control Panel first and then be able to adjust/modify the settings. However, with the help of the Access Panel, all you do is click on the relevant icon to be taken directly to the settings you want to change.
The icons listed in the screenshot of Access Panel pasted above show only few of the 48 programs of which the shortcuts are available on the panel. Displaying them makes access all the more easier for the user.
Live Banner Maker is a great way to make banners online, absolutely free.
The steps involved in the process are basic and simple:
- Select banner size or create custom size banner
- Select background color, style or upload you own image
- Add text and style
- Add banner effect upload logo
- Save or Download your custom banner
Before one proceeds to make a banner, a free signup is required.
After you set up a free account and login using that account, the first step towards banner making is to choose the banner size:
As can be seen above, the user can either set a custom size or choose from a list of predefined sizes. The second step requires adding a background to the banner:
Of course without adding any special effects to your banner, the result would not stand out from the crowd; hence the fourths step lets the user add certain effects to the banner being created:
The fifth and final step is where the user gets to download/save his/her banner.
With its easy to understand interface, Live Banner Maker is one of the most user-friendly ways to create your own banners. Visit the homepage here and take Live Banner Maker out for a test drive.
