Create a Slick External Hard Disk in Photoshop
We all love gadgets, either collecting them or designing them. Gadgets are the favorite subjects for many designers. Designing them is an incredible way to improve your general skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (or any other design-related tool). You will learn a lot of new stuff everytime you create such designs, even if you are an expert in it. Once you know the basics, you can pretty much experiment a lot and create cool concept designs.
We have a new guest author at Richworks. Mohammad Jeprie, a talented designer who has done several cool tutorials in many websites. In this tutorial, he walks us through the creation of a simple, yet modern looking hard disk. Read on…
Hi, welcome to my first tutorial in Richworks. In this tutorial I will show you how to create a modern, slick external hard disk only using Photoshop. This tutorial is not intended for beginners, but however I will try to explain every step as clearly as possible. So, if you have no idea about what a path and a vector shape is, I suggest you to read some basic principles on how to use path and then come back here. You can find some good learning resources on paths at Tutorial9.
http://richworks.in/2010/03/create-a-slick-external-hard-disk-in-photoshop/
Top 15 Must See Photoshop Tips & Tricks (2010)
Time to learn a few tips & tricks that will help save you a lot of time and make your design work flow much more efficient. From shortcuts to speeding up the performance of Photoshop, these will help allow for more time to be creative and less doing the mundane tasks that can be associated with using Photoshop.
http://slodive.com/photoshop/top-15-must-see-photoshop-tips-tricks-2010/
A Beginners Guide to PrestaShop – The Open Source e-Commerce CMS
You always wanted to create your own online store but didn’t had the knowledge how to start or what shopping-cart solution to use?
No Problem! In this article I will introduce you the key-features of PrestaShop, one of the most used open-source e-Commerce shopping-cart solutions out there, which is free to use and with a big community.
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/beginners-guide-prestashop/
How to Create a Flash-like Color and Pattern Morphing effect with jQuery
Today you will learn, how you can create a Flash-like effect with only using a few lines of jQuery and a transparent PNG as mask.
Not only will you be able to dynamically change the color of the logo, but also add patterns as you wish and even animate them later with a few lines of code. With this technique you will also be able to add transition effects and control any single part of the colors, patterns and animations.
Introduction and Demonstration
You can take a look to the finished Demonstration by clicking here. As you see, you will be able to adjust every single bit of the color, transparency, pattern and even the animation itself.
http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/create-flash-like-color-pattern-morphing-effect-jquery/
Massive Collection of Photo Editing Tutorials and Photoshop Actions
If you have Photoshop (or something similar) editing your dull photos using simple techniques or actions can make a huge difference. This post has a great selection of tutorials to help improve your photo-editing skills, and if you don’t want to or just don’t have the time to edit hundreds of photos, there’s a huge selection of great actions which you can download and use on all your photos!
Part 1: Photo-Editing Tutorials
Learning how to correctly edit your photos is great if you want to add that extra something to your photography, whether your a complete amateur or a long-term professional photographer. To learn those skills, we have made a small selection of tutorials on various subjects such as how to recolor your old black and white photographs, how to fix the common problem of over-exposed sky, and how to add dynamic lighting to your flat photographs.
http://spyrestudios.com/photo-editing-tutorials-and-photoshop-actions/