
16 HQ Painted Wallpapers – Animal Edition
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Animals are cute, lovable, and make great desktop wallpaper. For those of you that like a softer look then check out these adorable paintings. Maybe next week we’ll do something a bit more graphic to counter all of these sweet &

Inspiration Dose 9 – Crazy Photo Manipulations by Sebastian Niedlich
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Who doesn’t love some awesome photo manipulations and Sebastian Niedlich takes these to a whole new level. Ultra cool and kinda creepy these creations really spark the imagination into overdrive.

The Top Overlooked Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
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The quality of Photoshop tutorials seems to increase year after year and 2009 was no exception. After going through quite a few ourselves, below are a handful that really caught our attention but may have been missed by a lot of

11 Fresh HQ Bokeh Textures with Commercial License
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According to Wikipedia, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs

Inspiration Dose 8 – The Illustrations of Tiago Hoisel
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Tiago Hoisel is a young and talented artist from Brazil. It may be hard to imagine but all of the images below were made with just a simple sketch and Photoshop. They really look like they came from a Pixar movie

15 Clean And Effective Email / Newsletter Designs
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As web designers we do our best to give the user the most functional layout while trying to make it look visually stimulating. So how are your HTML email / newsletters working for you? What! You don’t use HTML in your

Tilt-Shift Photography Is Cool But Video…Amazing!
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We’re gonna take a look at what tilt-shift photography is, the various ways to do it, and some amazing video examples of multiple images used to create an animated effect.

Breathe New Life Into Your Typography With These 22 Techniques
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It’s easy to get caught up in using Helvetica as your go to font for almost everything but it’s time to break away from this habit. Sure it works but from time to time we need to think outside of the