Best Of Web And Design In March 2013

• April 1st, 2013
• News

Another monthly round-up features the best of the web for march  The round-up features the best design tutorials from the on-line design community, alongside some great web and design articles worth reading. I hope you enjoy the round-up and would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.

Photoshop

Create a Trendy Retro Landscape Design in Photoshop

My number one most popular tutorial from last year described the process of creating a trendy retro cityscape in Photoshop. I’ve noticed the retro and vintage styles are still in vogue, so today let’s take a look at creating another design that captures the abstract theme of old album art. Follow this step by step Photoshop tutorial to manipulate a landscape photo with various color adjustments and lay out a typographic quote to create a retro style landscape design.

Create a Heroic Firefighter Painting in Photoshop

Firefighters do so much to help keep us safe. In this tutorial, we will honor our firefighters by creating a digital painting that depicts a firefighter coming to the rescue.

Create a Plastic Beach Ball in Photoshop

In this Photoshop Tutorial, we’ll learn how to create a simple Plastic Beach Ball with nice colored stripes using basic shapes, Layer Styles and a few Filters.

Design a Postcard in Photoshop

In this tutorial, Martin Perhiniak will continue working on the postcard that he began in Part 1 of this tutorial. In this part we will add the finishing touches to the postcard using adjustments layers, masks, text, and some layer styles.

Illustrator

How to create a landscape scene

Illustrator tutorial is perfect for beginners. You don’t need to be a master illustrator to create cool artwork, just using simple shapes and limiting yourself with a small colour palette can result in some great designs and artworks. In this tutorial we’ll use Illustrator’s basic shapes and tools to create a stylized landscape scene illustration then finish it off in Photoshop with the addition of some texturing.

Create a Vintage Clock Icon in Illustrator

In this new Tutorial, you’ll create a Vintage Clock icon in Illustrator, using basic shapes, vibrant colours, some filters to create and using a few tricks. This tutorial is great for beginners to understand a few tricks and tools in Illustrator.

How to Draw a Colorful, Tasty, Ice Cream, Sundae in Adobe Illustrator

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this tutorial on making a decadent ice cream sundae illustration. Working in Adobe Illustrator with heavy use of the Pen Tool (P), Gradient Tool (G), and a focus on building each element from the ground up, I’ll combine a tasty treat and our favorite scalable medium.

How to Draw Little Red Riding Hood with Basic Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an adorable cartoon Little Red Riding Hood with her basket and bunch of flowers. You will use the Pen Tool (P) and basic shapes such as the Rectangle Tool (M), the Ellipse Tool (L) and the Polygon Tool. This is a great tutorial for those who are getting the hang of Adobe Illustrator’s basic tools.

Web and Design Articles

14+ Ways to Escape Freelance Burnout

Between working alone and the stresses of dealing with problem clients and not having a steady income, freelancers are at a high risk for burnout.

10 Myths about Startups

Over the last two years of working at Buffer, I’ve come to learn that there are a few preconceived notions, stereotypes, clichés, and commonsense knowledge about startups that simply aren’t true.

Cross-Platform Sass and Compass in WordPress

I find it particularly interesting when other developers share their workflow tips and tricks. It can be very helpful to take a sneak-peak into somebody else’s development world and find out what tools they are using to make their own life easier.

There’s more to the CSS rem unit than font sizing

The following is a guest post by Roman Rudenko, a mad scientist at Mobifywhere he’s tasked with understanding why browsers misbehave and with cajoling them into playing nice. When he’s not coding, Roman is learning to ride a motorbike without crashing into too many solid objects.