These CSS books are best source of tips, tricks both for beginners and advanced users. CSS books contain plenty of useful information on web standards, lean semantic CSS mark up and style, modern best practices and techniques, creative and cutting edge use of CSS. Some CSS books provide step by step solutions or describe the proper website development process to unleash your creativity and push your boundaries. You’ll learn a lot of practical CSS solutions as well: how to create complex and attractive navigation bars, create effective photo galleries and special effects, including drop shadows, get up to speed on CSS 3 properties. Continue Reading →
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40 Pixel art tutorials
Pixel art tutorials in this review cover basics and advanced tips and tricks which will help you not only start with pixel art but progress quickly and become pixel art designer. Pixel illustrations are great for making computer icons, favicons, isometric images and even whole scenes for mobile games and portable devices. Sometimes pixel art is used for advertising too. Some pixel artists were featured in such magazines as Wired, Popular Science, and Fortune 500. Pixel Art is created by filling picture in by hand, pixel by pixel, rather than using graphic tools. Image filters or tools with automatic anti-aliasing are not suitable for pixel art since they are opposite to the precise manual arrangement of pixels associated with pixel art. Continue Reading →
Free Raw Converter RawTherapee
RawTherapee is a Windows/Linux free opensource Raw image converter. RawTherapee features non-destructive editing with all the internal processing done in 16 bits/channel. Besides numerous RAW files from digital camers, RawTherapee also opens and outputs JPEG, (8 and 16bit) TIFF and PNG images. The main questions for RawTherapee: the quality of Raw conversion and how it compares with other Raw tools? Continue Reading →
Top 25 Font Families
What are the font families and why every serious web/graphic designer should own at least several font families for virtually any type of project, from corporate identity or product branding, to text and display use? Font families are collections of closely related typeface designs that can include hundreds of styles. A font family is typically a group of related fonts which vary only in weight, orientation, width, etc., but not design. Font families include typefaces with significant structural differences, but some design relationship, under the same general family name. While most fonts gives you three of four styles, font families includes dozens of styles. Each of these font families gives you unprecedented typography variety and uniformity at the same time. Continue Reading →
Topaz DeNoise Photoshop Plugin Review
Topaz DeNoise is one of the best noise removal tools on the market. Topaz DeNoise specially shines with photos that have a lot of noise preserving details and color edges to be sharp. Topaz Labs claims that Topaz DeNoise can make ISO1600 look like ISO100. This Photoshop plugin can be useful not only to shoot darker indoor or outdoor and get clear images but also shoot faster increasing shutter speed to freeze the action and minimize motion blur or camera shake when shooting without tripod. That is invaluable for sports, wedding and wildlife photographers. Topaz DeNoise can also be a very valuable asset for landscape, architectural and interior photographers where proper lighting is often limited. Continue Reading →
40 iPad tools, tips for designer
iPad tools, tips and tutorials in this review will help you to optimize your website for iPad. You’ll learn things to consider while developing iPad applications. It also provides links to iPad wireframe elements for easy prototyping both on paper and screen as well as GUI elements for design mockups of iPad apps. Also included tons of other useful and inspiring information such as IPad usability testing, websites optimized for iPad and tools for testing how your website looks on iPad. Continue Reading →
How to test your website for Digg effect
Digg effect aka Slashdot effect happens when a popular website links to a smaller site, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily close. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – common causes are lack of sufficient data bandwidth, servers that fail to cope with the high number of requests, and traffic quotas. Sites that are maintained on shared hosting services often fail when confronted with the Digg effect. In this post I will list number of options to test your website readiness for Digg effect, find the weak points and then fix it. Continue Reading →