Weekly Design News - Tutorials, Freebies and Resources (N. 8)
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br] Hey guys! As always today we present you our weekly report which include useful Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials and freebies.
Type: Inspiration
Level: Beginner

Free Attractive Icons Your Audience Will Love
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br] This collection of free icons from dribbble.com you'll find a lot of useful stuff. Take a look!
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

50 Mind-Blowing Artworks Where PinUp Art Meets Typography
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br]Combine typography and pin up to stand out against the background of others. Stunning examples!
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

Weekly Design News - Tutorials, Freebies and Resources (N. 7)
Here's our weekly report about all interesting web design related things from the past week. Scroll down and you'll find a huge list of Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials, cool freebies.
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

HDD Crash -How to Prevent, How to Backup
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br] you can't avoid an HDD crash, but you can minimize its impact. And the easiest way to protect yourself from the effects of an HDD failure is backing up your stuff on a daily basis.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Weekly Design News - Tutorials, Freebies and Resources (N. 6)
Find useful stuff in this showcase!
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

85 Adorable Fonts Your Audience Will Love
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br] Cool collection of stunning free fonts. Scroll down to find something useful for your work!
Type: Design Principles
Level: All levels

Typographical Infographics That'll Make You Go 'Wow!'
We've collected an amazing set of infographics made entirely of type. Have a look at the collection below and see for yourselves how the play of letters and words can be effective and compelling.
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

65+ Stunning Examples of Moleskine Art You won't be Able to Ignore
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br] Below you'll find an inspiring collection of Moleskine drawings. Take a look :)
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

What is Pinterest and Why are People Going Crazy About It?
[span]Editor's Pick in Inspiration[/span][br]If you want to learn more about such popular website as Pinterest, you should read the proposed article that will involve you in this new absorbing world, showing you all its advantages in the most absorbing way.
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

Roundup of Killer Ideas for St. Valentine's Day
[span]Editor's Pick in Inspiration[/span][br]Best St. Valentine's Day presents ideas for your inspiration and wonderful mood. Look through and enjoy.
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

Geeks in Love
[span]Editor's Pick in Web Inspiration[/span][br]Love is eternal topic that will never lose its ability of being of our current interest. For your St Valentine's Day inspiration and just for a good mood!
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

St. Valentine's Day Illustrations for your Inspiration
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br] Check this cool roundup of St. Valentine's Day illustrations. Be ready to meet this gentle holiday
Type: Inspiration
Level: All levels

WDL Site of the Month
We are happy to inform you that your website has been voted as Site of the Month.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

iPad Apps For Designers
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br]The very informative resource proposes you to find out all the latest tendencies in the world of modern techniques. iPad Apps For Designers will manage to discover a new sides of reality before your creative vision, performing a bright and impressive role of inspiration and, in the same time, being of a great practical value.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

WDL Showcase
We are happy to inform you that your website was chosen for Web Design Library Showcase
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Kevin Nitschmann
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br]Exclusive Interview with a hobby-based freelance digital artist Kevin Nitschmann.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Guide to Select the Best Online Backup Service
Technology is modern days has improved drastically that everyone use web for their business and personal purposes...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

WDL Site of the Day
We are happy to inform you that your website was chosen as Site of the Day at Web Design Library Showcase.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Alice Ciobotaru aka Seiorai
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br]Exclusive Interview freelance artist Alice Catrinel Ciobotaru (AKA Seiorai)
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

+ 30 WordPress-powered Sites, Plugins and Templates
[span]Editor's Pick in Photoshop Tutorials[/span][br] WordPress Templates can become a great solution if you want your blog powered by WordPress to look professional and different from the others on the web.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Adobe Illustrator CS5 Review
As the Creative Suite versions of the Adobe software mature, the list of new features for each program grows smaller, but the new features seem to be getting better.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Photoshop CS5 Review
Not many programs make it to 20 years of age-Photoshop is one of the few. The feature list of such a mature program (version 12) has to either get shorter but more extraordinary or branch into new areas-and Photoshop keeps doing both.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

FlashMoto Flash CMS - The Perfect CMS Backend for Flash websites
[span]Editor's Pick of April, 2010[/span][br]FlashMoto is a powerful and easy to use Flash content management system designed to simplify the publication of web content to Flash websites.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Free Flash Gallery Providers Overview
Editor's Pick of August, 2009
Behold stunning ways to demonstrate your images online and create easy-to-install and pleasant-to-browse picture galleries. Go beyond just sharing and learn how to increase viewers positive experience.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

A Web CMS for XML Based Flash Websites
Editor's Pick of July, 2009
For those who don't want to be weighed down by hefty back-end systems check out the review of a new solution of managing a flash site. Maintaining a gorgeous web design tends to become much easier.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

PHPFOX Review - Social Networking Software
Editor's Pick of December, 2008
PHPFOX 1.6 offers incredible social networking software for building an online community. This is WebBizIdeas.com review of PHP FOX's software.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Merchant Metrix Review - Ecommerce Shopping Cart Software
Editor's Pick of November, 2008
This is WebBizIdeas.com review of Merchant Metrix's software. US-based support and easy to understand interface is indeed something that small business owners would be interested in.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Amara Flash Intro and Banner Builder
Editor's Pick of September, 2008
Enrich your web design with flash-driven elements made with an easy-to-use software. Its free version is great for playing around to see the benefits.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Valuing a Dollar – the most cost effective CMS
Bitrix Site Manager may seem unassuming, but underneath this CMS lays a fantastic algorithm that drives this CMS' performance over almost all other existing CMS applications out there. It's most definitely the most cost effective Content Management system today.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Amara Flash Slideshow Builder
As one of Amara Software's most popular Flash tools, its Photo Slideshow Builder is an affordable and easy-to-use application that lets you create image slideshows in a variety of configurations.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Template Monster Launches Premium Design Templates
TemplateMonster.com offers a special collection of Premium Templates - especially enhanced products that are the result of a collaboration of many professionals in different spheres - including 3D artists, illustrators and designers.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Using Keyword Elite For Building a Massive Keyword List
When I first started doing keyword research for building niche keyword lists, I turned to Overture. With Overture, I could freely type in a keyword and it would generate a list of up to 100 keywords that contained the one I typed in. The problem occured when I wanted to build a list of thousands.
Type: Web Promotion
Level: Experienced

An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver 8
Editor's Pick in Software Reviews, July 2006
If you are new to CSS and how it works in Macromedia Dreamweaver then this is the tutorial for you. You will get a good overview of how it works and what it entails.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Capturing Video And Audio Streams How-To
Streaming media is taking the Internet over - online radio, news, digital videos, podcasts, webcasts are just going to grow. Find out what tools you need to capture streaming audio and video so you can replay it later.
Type: Design Software
Level: Beginner

Flash 8 Review (Exclusive Article)
Editor's Pick in Software Reviews, December 2005
This article presents a detailed description of the amazing effects, which the new Flash version offers. Looks like Flash is getting closer to Photoshop...
Type: Flash Articles
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Theodore Agranat
Editor's Pick in Interviews, April 2006
Check out this really interesting interview with Theodore Agranat, CEO of Ceonex, one of the biggest Web design companies on the Internet.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Style and Substance in Flash 8
Because a large portion of our Web application user interface is done in Flash, we here at Cafe ID took special interest in official announcement of Flash 8 by Macromedia.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

What s new in photoshop cs2
This tutorial will teach you how to highlight the new features in Photoshop CS2. Also we will be discussing some of the new cool features in Photoshop CS2.
Type: Design Software
Level: Beginner

Exclusive Interview with David Braun
Editor's Pick in Interviews, January 2006
A rare pearl in our articles, this interview features the CEO of one of the most successful web design companies in the world. See if you can get a clue or two on web design management.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Using Mix-FX To Get Flash Effects
You don't need to use complex software packages or spend a lot of money and time to create animated text effects, buttons or combined text and background effects. You can do it easily with Mix-FX - an extremely easy to use shareware package - even for people with no computer/Flash skills...
Type: Flash Tutorials
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Adrien Luc-Sanders
Editor's Pick in Interviews, May 2005
Adrien-Luc Sanders, a freelance web and graphic designer, and guide at About.com, offers great ideas on how to pursue animation both as a hobby and a career.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Adam Greenfield
Editor's Pick in Interviews, May 2005
Internationally known information architect Adam Greenfield offers advice on working with clients and reveals his new book title.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Sue Chastain
Editor's Pick in Interviews, April 2005
Sue Chastain, a respected graphics software authority and guide at About.com, speaks about keeping people abreast of the constant changes in the world of graphics software.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Examining the Substance of Studio MX
To all web designers out there, this article is for you! I guess you already heard about Studio MX (I think so!) – the ideal bundle for professional web designers, bringing together Dreamweaver MX for page design, Flash MX for animation and interactivity, and Fireworks MX for editing and optimizing ...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with James Dvorak
Editor’s Pick in Interviews, April 2005
Multimedia Designer James Dvorak
Talks About the Ups and Downs of Web Design
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Review: Swish
Are you in a busy office and need to get web design jobs with complex text effects done immediately? Want to speed up your productivity but avoid working until Saturday afternoons breaking up text and hand tweening? Then, SWiSH, the new standalone tool that creates great font effects and more...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Neal Jenks
Editor’s Pick in Interviews
Neal Jenks is a 31-year-old graphic designer from Utah who garnered Web Design Library’s very own
Animation of the Month award in December 2004.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with barry green
Barry Green
VP of Business Development for Jayde Online Network and its ExactSeek.com family speaks about Fair Play and Search Engine Ad Click Fraud.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Review On Adobe Illustrator CS
Adobe Illustrator CS is an effective and efficient tool to express one's ideas visually in print, in the web, and in other media. With its powerful new features it will surely help you explore your artistic imagination and publish your masterpiece anywhere...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Paint Shop Pro 9: The Image Editor Of Any Digital Photographer's Dreams
The creation of Paint Shop Pro (PSP) started as a simple shareware bitmap editor. But over the years of development and upgrade, it has transformed itself into a professional photo editor that gives even Photoshop a run for its money.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Dirk Hesse
Dirk Hesse
CSS proponent and web design minimalist offers his take on simplicity.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Dominion Group
The Dominion Group

A Russian web design workshop excelling in usability and design. “Each way is good to reach the aim.”
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Erik Otten
20-year-old Flash designer compels his audience.
Check out how to be one of the top-designers not only in your native country, but world-wide.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with Joe Gillespie
Google rates his WPDfD.com as #1 for Web Design.

What does the guru of web design think about the industry after he's retired?
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with Vincent Flanders
Design expert and author of WebPagesThatSuck.com
Shares his ideas on how to avoid being listed at his website.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Latest Proposal Kit Ideal for SEOs - Product Review
Last year I discovered a terrific new business tool and I was so thrilled with its potential that I wrote a review article about it to share my discovery with others. The product was Proposal Kit. My review was called Close the Sale With Proposal Kit and I’ve had a lot of feedback from readers o...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Tools To Track Your Web Site Visitors
There are many reasons why a web site owner would want to track the number of visitors to her site, and almost as many ways to do it. This article will compare two well-known tools as a demonstration of the range of options currently available. Site Meter's Free Version Site Meter (http://ww...
Type: Web Promotion
Level: All levels

3D For Flash
Swift 3D is the most versatile tool for creating web-ready 3D animations for use with Macromedia Flash. Through the combination of an easy-to-use interface, the industry standard vector exporter and a full ray tracing rendering engine, Swift 3D enables 3D novices and veterans alike to quickly create...
Type: Flash Articles
Level: All levels

Product Review: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12
Corel has put out a great deal of quality products throughout the years. But ever since Macromedia became a player, Corel has been running a close third in the market of graphics software.
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Dreamweaver Vs FrontPage
There are two major WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) editors available for beginners. These are: Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia Dreamweaver. So the question is which one is better?
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Want Affordable E-Commerce? See Site Build It
Looking for affordable E-Commerce? Not sure where to turn? Then check out Site Build It (SBI), an affordable E-Commerce solution for just about anyone. What makes Site Build It different from other software packages I’ve researched is that it is an all-in-one solution, where you are guided from begi...
Type: Web Promotion
Level: All levels

Urchin 5.5 - Web Analytics Product Review
The bottom line for any marketing endeavor is return on investment (ROI). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has its place within a company's online advertising budget. Rankings are only a means to an end. Most SEO campaigns produce a positive impact on ROI. Web analytics software gives you the neces...
Type: Web Promotion
Level: Experienced

Spybot search and destroy review
Spyware is simply any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge, although in many ways this is illegal there are also methods of making such things lawful. Such methods are now being widely recognised by many organisations nowadays that even...
Type: Design Software
Level: Experienced

Combustion 2.1.1 Review
Well, I received my copy of combustion 2.1.1 via courier on a glorious midweek morning …instantly contemplating feeling ‘conveniently' sick to spend the day with my new binary friend, I was forced to wait for the weekend to sit down and play Well, as time did its thing and the weekend drew close...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Alias sketch book pro
I was chatting with Alias about doing a review of Maya (more on this soon I promise) and they mentioned SketchBook Pro. Now I'd not been following things very closely and didn't know that they had a SketchBook application, let alone a pro version so I dutifully said “Yes I'd love to review it”. ...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Xara 3D 5.0
Xara 3D 5.0 is the perfect choice for a newbie who wants to produce results of a proffessional quality. The full verison of Xara 3D retails at a price of $39.99 which is practically a give away, and the installation merely takes a few minutes making Xara the best choice for the amateur. The ...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Ulead GIF Animator 5.0 - Free Trial
Ulead GIF Animator 5.0 makes it easy to create fast-loading, high-impact Web animations. The features packed within this complex program are very advanced but I wonder if I would ever need to use all these features. Ulead GIF Animator can be frustrating for a first time user as the program is ha...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 Review - Full version
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 produces amazing results, it is a tool used by everyone in the computer industry be it programmers, webmasters or people with a tastebud for creativity. The great thing about photoshop is that it is a widely used program, and it can produce so many results. However the program...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with Susan Bernardo
Marketer at VerticalScope Inc.
Drops a few tips on getting website traffic.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with steven stahlberg
3D Graphics Artist
Talks to WDL about Webbie Tookay and the benefits of creative collaboration.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with Robert Hodgin
Flash Designer
On finding inspiration and channeling creative energy.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with patricia carvalho
Freelance Designer
Talks about freelancing and why she loves it. Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with Marcelo Moyano
Freelance Designer
Offers advice to beginners.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive interview with Josh Weiss
Director of Sales at Globat.com
Talks about web hosting, his success in the IT business, and making career choices.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

Exclusive Interview with Billy Bussey
3D Graphics and Flash Designer
On meeting and defeating the competition.
Type: Interview
Level: All levels

iPhoto: Reasons To Be Green With Envy. And Not.
The iPhoto Import, Organize and Edit modes, including the lamentable red/eggplant converter in Edit. Let's take a look at the last two modes, both of which are oriented toward a profit center for Apple and Kodak. And let's examine the other ways of sharing from the iPhoto Share mode.
Type: Design Software
Level: Experienced

Photographic Filters For Photoshop
Andromeda pioneered Photoshop filters for photographic effects: reflections, rainbows, motion, etc. But the offering from The TECHnik Group is nothing short of amazing. nik Color Efex Pro! is a set of 55 digital filters, many of which work like their conventional filter counterparts and then some...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

An Application That Has Me In Stitches
Stitcher is an $495 stand-alone application that can create panoramic images up to 360x360 degrees in cylindrical, spherical, cubic, planar and VRML formats.
Type: Design Software
Level: Experienced

ScatterLight Lenses
We spend hundreds and thousands of dollars to acquire the sharpest lenses possible. But photographic tradition holds that "romantic" effects are best made with lenses that are less than sharp. Old timer "romantic" soft-focus tricks include nylon stockings stretched across the lens or a crumpl...
Type: Design Software
Level: Beginner

Gear Junkie
Adobe announced its replacement for Photoshop LE and for all practical purposes, PhotoDeluxe, and demonstrated Photoshop Elements, a $99 gee-whiz application that should give even the most timid of digital photographers heart palpitations. Photoshop Elements lacks CMYK color space and some of the...
Type: Design Software
Level: Beginner

Velvet shader
Velvet3 is a really sweet velvet shader. It works with raytraced shadows, shadow-mapped shadows, and even area lights. You can adjust the specular highlight color, too! Download velvet6_intel.zip for LightWave 6.5 Intel Download v...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

SplineLength
SplineLength is a simple Modeler plugin that computes the total length of any splines you have selected. It properly accounts for ends being visible / invisible. It's not quite exact, since I don't know the exact formula for LightWave splines, but it's close. Downlo...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

HD Random
HD Random is a little plugin for Modeler that lets you move polygons around randomly, without their points going all mishy mashy. You can see here I made a many-segmented box and beveled the segments a little. Then I selected the top polys and applied a little HD Random. Just ...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

QuadSew v2.5
QuadSew is a great little plugin for Modeler that "sews" pairs of quads together, kind of like Skin does, except that it uses quads instead of triangles to do the sewing and it deletes the original two quads. Plus, unlike Skin, QuadSew knows which way around the ski...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Glass thickener v2 0
Here's a glass bottle with a big chip taken out of it. The image on the left was created using the techniques described in my Refractive Glass tip. It's nice, but there's still something not quite right about it. The glass is uniformly transparent no matter
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

GroundFog
Yay ground fog! I know LW already has a ground fog plugin, but I don't like it. This one has a more natural falloff (as opposed to LW's linear falloff) and it is capable of much more variety as far as the look of the falloff. And, like LW's ground fog, it's a full Volume
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

GammaRight
The image on the left is the TV Guy demo as LightWave5.6 renders it. The image on the right is gamma corrected using GammaRight. Notice how the details in the shading are brought out, and how the lighting looks less washed out. To see how to use it, read my GammaRig
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Furrify v1.0
You're going to like this one. This Image Filter script adds 3D fuzz to your surfaces as a post-process. Why? Well, it's handy for adding a quick bit of fuzz to still images. Read my cheap grass tutorial to see how it helps!...
Type: Design Software
Level: All levels

Ad-Aware 6.0 Review
What is Spyware / Adware? Spyware is simply any technology that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge, although in many ways this is illegal there are also methods of making such things lawful. Such methods are ...
Type: Design Software
Level: Beginner


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