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I have long been a fan of the look of gold when represented digitally and today I came across a few pretty cool gold text tutorials and have put them together for your viewing pleasure. (more…)

This page 3 of the article features even more of the coolest ligihting effects tutorials done on men, women, planets, text, abstract designs and more. If this list inspires you to create anyything based on the tutorials you read then please do post a link to your creation so that our users may see as well.

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This page 2 of the article features even more of the coolest ligihting effects tutorials done on men, women, planets, text, abstract designs and more. If this list inspires you to create anyything based on the tutorials you read then please do post a link to your creation so that our users may see as well.

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Here is a collection of great Photoshop lighting effects tutorials. If you want to spice up your Photoshop designs and make them look professional and exciting then these are some of the tutorials that you might want to become familiar with.

This article features some of the coolest ligihting effects tutorials done on men, women, planets, text, abstract designs and more. If this list inspires you to create anyything based on the tutorials you read then please do post a link to your creation so that our users may see as well.

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Today I have highlighted some Photoshop tutorials that are not only awesome designs but which can also be loads of fun to implement with your own ideas.

If you are looking to create posters in Photoshop or to learn a few new design techniques then check out the tutorials below. (more…)

Wordpress is a CMS that was built for blogging but many people have repurposed it for magazines, newspapers, blog networks and all sorts of other goodies! But did you know you can hack your Wordpress blog to be a no-cost solution for a social network? Well you can, and here’s fifteen plug-ins that will let you do it.

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Web applications are the commodity to deal in on the internet these days but what makes them successful isn’t always their function, often times design plays a huge role. Today I’m taking a look at five apps that exemplify various aspects of great Web App design.

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One critical factor many new start-ups forget is that half of creating a successful web app is making sure that its well designed and easy to use. In this part of our series we’ll continue looking at well designed web applications….

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Web applications are all the rage these days as cloud computing becomes the standard way of doing things. Whether it’s Facebook apps, Web clients, Flash, Adobe Air Apps or anything else that’s becoming ubiquitous, a huge part of the development of these applications is design and what you an learn from the design of quality web applications is priceless. In this series of posts, I’ll spotlight five well known web applications and share the design aspects that I think make each unique.

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Snipplr.com is like del.icio.us for people who write a lot of code. Whether you develop for Ruby or Django, hack WordPress or MovableType, or if you just write XHTML, you probably keep a “Code Diary” full of useful tricks, hacks and hints that you’ve used in past projects. Snipplr exists to let you share that code with other developers just like yourself. It’s become indispensable to my work flow since I found it!