Steve's freebies guide

20 Simple Techniques to Create Impressive Background with Adobe Photoshop

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:07:53 +0000

Adobe Photoshop has been around for more than a decade and it has become a preferred tool for many. No professional designers and photographers can live without Adobe Photoshop. There is always someone in the web design and photography team that has the skill to utilize all the powerful capabilities and features of Photoshop. This exciting piece of editing tool can easily enhance web graphics, landscape, action shots, portraits and others.

Working with background can be tricky as users need Read more

A collection of Retro Themes To Give Your Blog A Vintage Look

admin — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:15:12 +0000

Retro themes are stylish and classic and portray the users’ unique taste. The general appearance of any WordPress website is pegged on the quality of the theme. You can choose to download them for free or purchase premium ones whose prices ranges from a few dollars to even thousands. As much as premium themes are the best, many start ups might still find them expensive and choose to stick to the free retro WordPress themes that deliver better vintage look Read more

10 Free And Paid E-Commerce Themes For Your Online Shop

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:25:43 +0000

The e-commerce industry has been on an upward trend since its inception with hundreds of merchants setting up shop online every day. For any serious marketer wishing to make an impact online, it is important to have the appropriate theme for your online shop. A variety of free and premium wordpress themes are available depending on what you intend to sell.

Kakileema Lite WordPress eCommerce Themes

Ideal for those selling clothes. It comes with widgets for the footer and sidebar Read more

Free Halloween WordPress themes

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:26:47 +0000

Cute Happy Halloween Banner by ~jeimarU

Halloween is round the corner, and planning for it has already begun. People are doing all sorts of things to make their Halloween special – from making their dresses to hollowing out pumpkins to create jack-o-lantern to planning theme parties.

If you are a WordPress-based blog or website owner then one exciting way to make your Halloween special is to adorn your WordPress website with themes specially created for Read more

15 Absolutely Free New WordPress Themes in 2012

admin — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 23:11:58 +0000

Every day countless Free WordPress Themes are released, but unfortunately it’s tough to locate a right theme for your blog. You may get free themes which are not compatible with latest WordPress or you will find the originality and uniqueness to some is missing. If you try to go looking for new WordPress themes many questions will arise e.g. Are they responsive design? Compatibility tested? How do I edit? and many, though you will find many, most of them are Read more

Designing a modern web design layout

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:41:12 +0000

Designing a modern looking website may be a daunting task for new website designers, but thanks to those professional designers who do spent quality time creating great tutorials that helps newbies who may want to learn modern website design from their experience. These tutorials really help them to apply modern web designing elements and to create a fabulous website design. A little bit of research allows you to find great tutorials, here are few interesting resources you must read before Read more

Halloween Artworks: A collection of amazing artworks for Halloween

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:19:43 +0000

Banner Credit: ToonTwins

Halloween, the celebration of fear and fun, has been around for centuries. Some people even relate it to Roman feast of Pomana, while other relates it to the Celtic festival of Samhain, and yet others to other ancient festivals of dead.

What I wanted to say is, the festival has been celebrated for long enough for men and women of excellence to create some mesmerizing (and yes terrifying as well) images, Read more

Free Halloween Fonts to make your Halloween exciting

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:35:24 +0000

Halloween is round the corner, and the time for playing trick-or-treating, decorating house, watching horror films, and creating jack-o’-lanterns has arrived. You must be planning to design your costumes, mask, and materials for pranks, and for that you will need some cool fonts that encapsulate the message your want to convey through your designs. I am going to provide you a list of fonts that will help you craft your design in a way that will create Read more

Photoshop Tutorials: Create a Nebula Cosmolady

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:42:27 +0000

This Photoshop tutorial is my pick of the day. If you are looking to create a stunning Nebula Cosmolady, just follow this step-by-step tutorial on how to create a image like this one. In this tutorial you will also learn how to use a variety of color, lighting, and cut and paste techniques to add colorful effects to a picture. Click here to visit this tutorial.

Gridless: HTML5 and CSS3 framework

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:52:10 +0000

Another quality framework in line with Blueprint CSS. Gridless is open-source HTML5 and CSS3 framework helps you to make cross browser compatible web pages with beautiful typography. Click here to visit gridless.

Are you a Comic Sans Criminal?

admin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:34:21 +0000

Are you using Comic Sans Fonts appropriately? Recently I stumbled across ComicSansCriminal.com, this is a unique website presents the information about how to use Comic Sans in an appropriate manner.

How to create an awesome Abstract using Photoshop

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:15:34 +0000

When you create an abstract image, you never get it right first time – it is all about trial and error, so you need to spend some time on this tutorial to create one of your own. Stumbled across this awesome photoshop tutorial and enjoy creating an awesome abstract design.

Click here to visit this tutorial.

Art Masterpieces on St. Valentine’s Day

admin — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:32:40 +0000

Looking for some Art Masterpieces on St. Valentine’s Day, try some cool graphics on St. Valentine’s Day. Use these designs to decorate your website, greeting cards to share your love theme. Remember, don’t forget to thank the designers of these wonderful masterpieces.

Sprouts of love before dawn

Click here to visit designer’s site.

Vincent Valentine

Click here to visit designer’s site.

Be my Valentine

How to create a Harry Potter Style Text Effect using Photoshop

admin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:18:14 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Harry Potter style text effect using Photoshop. This is an excellent example on how to use bevel effect and lens blur to manipulate text and create amazing effects.

This tutorial is presented by Johnson Koh, Art Director of Garena Online, based in Singapore. Read this awesome text effect tutorial at his blog at 10Steps.SG.

Green Logo Ideas to supplement your branding efforts

admin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 17:25:57 +0000

Creating a meaningful logo that conveys the message is organization’s top concern today. I recently stumbled across Andrew Kinnear’s blog while searching for useful resources for my Going Green Squidoo lens.

I love his ideas on “logos that are trying to represent themselves as eco, enviro, earth friendly, with planets, blades of grass, trees and many, many leaves” and would like to share at my blog. If you are looking to Read more

7 Facebook apps for your business

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:48:52 +0000

Photo Credit: “smemon“

Facebook, the most important social network online (and that’s not just a line, with over 400 million active users and 300 billion monthly page views, more than Google, it’s safe to say that it’s pretty important indeed) has become a hub for people to meet, communicate and interact.

But its function doesn’t stop at that. Seeing as most of the users are always online (either directly, by having a desktop or mobile client Read more

5 New Facebook apps for productivity

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:38:37 +0000

Photo Credit qaptainqwerty

Facebook, the largest and most popular social network online (it has over 400 million active users and gets over 300 billion monthly page views – just imagine the numbers!) was initially conceived and made for people that wanted to communicate with their friends and keep in touch with other people like faraway relatives, business partners and overseas friends.

But its popularity grew beyond anything the creators imagined and they decided to start offering more than Read more

6 Cool Facebook apps for entertainment.

admin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:04:16 +0000

Photo Credit: “Scott Beale / Laughing Squid”

Needless to say Facebook, the biggest and most popular online social network with over 400 million users and 300 billion monthly page views, wouldn’t be where it is without offering people a lot more than just a communication tool.

With the introduction of a more advanced API, the Facebook Markup Language and, more importantly, Facebook apps, they made sure that there will be plenty of things to Read more

Photoshop CS5 Tutorials: create Retro-style illustration.

admin — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:59:57 +0000

Looking to create some cool textures for background using Photoshop CS5, Here author from Adobetutorialz presented a real good tutorial on how to manipulate some stock photos to give them a retro-style look, and make create wonderful color variations.

This is a must read Photoshop tutorial, enjoy reading it here.

Photoshop CS5 Tutorial: Creating a 3D Water Text Effect with Repoussé

admin — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:15:52 +0000

I found this wonderful tutorial from Abduzeedo’s blog, in this tutorial he will show you how to create a water text. Though it looks complex but it looks simple. Also you can download the sample file PSD and learn more from one of my favorite Photoshop Tutorial.

Click here to visit this tutorial. Click here to download the PSD.