All posts tagged Tutorials

Change WordPress default mail sender

By WAD | November 14, 2011 | Tutorials, Wordpress | 5 Comments

While installing a new WordPress blog it creates a default email address (wordpress@yourblogname.com) and from name (WordPress). So receivers from your blog will get email from wordpress@yourblogname.com with WordPress as name. To keep it professional, it is highly recommend to change it to your own blog email address and name. Follow the instructions below to change default name and email address. Read more…

20 Cool Adobe Fireworks CS5 Text Tutorials for Beginners

By Nitin Aggarwal | September 15, 2011 | Fireworks | 6 Comments

Adobe Fireworks CS5 lets graphic designers create some stunning text effects that they can then use in Photoshop. Though it usually takes a bit of time to master font effects in Fireworks, creating the following 8 effects is easy even for beginners. Read more…

30 excellent photoshop retouching tutorials

By WAD | August 30, 2011 | Photoshop | 10 Comments

Adobe Photoshop is the tool used by many photographer to retouch photos or images. These tutorials will help to make drastic change for a ordinary image to convert into photos.

Changing hair colors, creating nose job, giving detail enhancement to eyes and changing skin colors are some of many Photoshop tutorials you will learn. If you are looking for tutorials to retouching a photo these new and excellent photoshop tutorials will help you out to achieve next level learning curve in Adobe Photoshop. Read more…

22 Ways to Create a Logo Design that Stands Out

By Pat Malloy | July 4, 2011 | Howto, Logo | 3 Comments

Whether you’re a newbie designer or have been in the industry for years, there are several basic principles to keep in mind when designing a logo. After all, there are many elements that go into creating a great logo – all of those together can affect how it’s perceived by the audience, how well the brand is recognized in the industry, and more.

67 Web Layout Design Photoshop Tutorials

By WAD | June 9, 2011 | Photoshop | 7 Comments

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn – and extremely hard to master.

For web designers, design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design. Here are collection of 67 web design photoshop layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent and professional looking website design layout. Read more…

50 Top Business card tutorials

By WAD | May 18, 2011 | Business cards | 6 Comments

A business card is the most important tool any designer (or businessman) should have. It delivers the brand of your company and, most importantly, it represents YOU as a creative professional. It gives your potential client a glimpse into who you are, what you can do and your level of professionalism. Lets be honest, high quality work and reasonable pricing do not always speak for its self, but professionalism always does. Read more…

41 Cartoon character design tutorials

By WAD | May 5, 2011 | Community news | 2 Comments

When it comes to drawing, learning how to draw cartoon characters this question pops up in your mind. How to draw cartoon character? Today, we have a lot of powerful graphic design software such as Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator and Corel Draw to help graphic designers create cartoon characters. Read more…

25 amazing photoshop lighting effect tutorials

By WAD | February 21, 2011 | Photoshop | 12 Comments

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It is indeed frustrating when you imagine something and you cannot bring it into practice. Imagination in design is must as it acts as a catalyst to invent out of the world design. Photoshop is one tool that assists designers in making their imagination come true. Photoshop lighting effect can also be used for designing different business identities like business card, flyers and others. Photoshop helps designer add passion to their design.

Respecting the inventive nature of designers here are some of the best tutorials for using various lighting and abstract effects.

33 jQuery tutorials to create Navigation Menu

By WAD | June 2, 2010 | Jquery, Menu | 22 Comments

Design calls in loads of out of the box thinking. Design needs loads of effects and functionality that should make a distinctive image and perspective. jQuery is one tool that makes all of this possible.

When we are thinking about creating an extraordinary design we need to consider the usability of web design as well. Usability is directly linked with navigation and navigation has great impact on visual appearance of the site. So when you bring along navigation and JQuery you are in a state to create navigation menu that stands out from the crowd, as jQuery provides plenty of options. Read more…

How to add Floating share box to your website

By Samir | May 26, 2010 | Tutorials | 63 Comments

After spending couple of hours searching for floating share box plugin for WordPress, I finally decided not to use plugins. Those plugins were not good enough to produce what I thought of like menus on Mashable or Hongkiat. Then I came across this article Scroll/Follow Sidebar, Multiple Techniques by Chris Coyier.

In this tutorial, I will use same jQuery code from Chris Coyier’s article and will add some bits and pieces to build a floating share box. Keep in mind this is not a plugin, but can be integrated with static as well as dynamic sites. Read more…