No matter how slick your designs are for your clients or employer, there are always little ways to bring more functionality into the studio. By studio, I mean your design software and Photoshop remains the top designer choice. One of the reasons for this popularity is the number of add-ons or plug-ins available that extend the design power of Photoshop.

The range of extensions varies from filter effects to tools that add whole design functions such as 3D effects and menu builders. There are many great sources on the web for add-ons that allow you to present more eye candy in any design work for web sites, posters, brochures, etc.
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Is Photoshop too expsensive for you, and you don’t want to go to jail for obtaining a copy via illegal methods? Here is a list of free, as in beer and as in speech, alternatives.
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If you are like myself, you may get the most out of visual learning, and hands on learning. With video tutorials, you can do just that. The other great thing about video tutorials, you not only get one way, but multiple ways to collect the information in the tutorial. Here are some great video tutorial sites to learn Photoshop from.
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When creating a new design, it is sometimes hard to think of what you actually want to do. At the same time, our creative ideas can be hindered because we have to create a professional looking site. Well here are some comic inspired tutorials which could translate into some professional designs.
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There is some debate as to what web 2.0 actually is. Most people in the industry despise the saying Web 2.0, since there is very little difference in the actual programming used to display websites. Some people debate that web 2.0 refers to the features which are on the web now, and yet another group says that web 2.0 is just shiny graphics. If you are part of the latter group, here are some Web 2.0 graphic tutorials for you.

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Everybody or every company like to have a beautiful unique business card, but if you aren’t  going to outsource it, this post is your chance to learn how to make your own professional business card using these awesome Adobe Photoshop tutorials.

Also if you need inspiration take a look to the links blow:
- 10 Brilliantly Creative Business Cards Ideas
- Cool business card designs

1- Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

2- Create Stylish Business Card in Photoshop

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Firstly I want to say that I’m changing my theme. Recently I designed a new template for DeveloperFox and finally finished.
Now, I’m coding my new theme and I’ll publish it soon.
Anyway, this post contains two parts:
In the first part I’ve selected 18 top tutorials related to making beautiful smiles, so you can learn everything about making smiles.
Also in the second part, I’ve collected some ready to use smiley packs for you to download.

Smiley Tutorials

Create a smiley icon
Learn how to design a stylish smiley icon.

3D Smiley Tutorial
This walkthrough will guide you to create a nice 3D Smiley from scratch. This tutorial is intended for people who are familiar with photoshop and have experience using the pen tool.

Create A Sun Smiley
In this tutorial learn how to create a smiley that looks like the Sun.

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Progress Bars is one of the most interesting components that web designers like to use in their projects.

They can be used in various places such as: page loading, redirecting, uploading files, sending information using Ajax and so forth.

In this post I’ve made a wonderful package of progress bars.

By reading this post you’ll be able to make some beautiful progress bars for your own use.

I’ve grouped them into four parts:

1. jQuery progress bars

2. JavaScript and DHTML progress bars

3. Create progress bars using CSS

4. Create progress bars using Photoshop

I hope you to enjoy them.

jQuery Progress Bars

jQuery.UI ProgressBar Widget

HOWTO: PHP and jQuery upload progress bar

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Creating a vector image of yourself or drawing a cartoonish character isn’t very easy.
In this post I focused on collecting some of best tutorials on creating and drawing vector images including human faces, animals and cartoonish characters.
In the first part there are 13 tutorials on vectorizing photos and the other part is related to character drawing tutorials. If you would like to create a vector image from your photo, you’ll need to read these tutorials carefully.

Real people vector tutorials

Advance Vectoring

Vectorise People

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In this post I’ve selected 15 fire effect tutorials.
You can learn a lot about making wonderful fire effects.
I’ve featured some of my favorite tutorials and I hope you like.

Dramatic Text on Fire Effect

Adding Flames and Effects to Make an Image with Impact

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