Best Of Web And Design In October 2012
- November 1st, 2012
- News
This months gone ever so fast . Its been an action pack month. I have managed captured all the best design tutorials all into one post, along side some great web articles about SEO and how to protect wordpress sites, alongside my favourite part free design resources to use in your design projects.
Photoshop
Quick Tip: Create a Crisp Metallic Text Effect in Photoshop
In this quick tip tutorial, it will explain how to create a crisp, metallic text effect using just a couple of layer styles in Photoshop.
Create a “Two-Faced” Digital Painting in Photoshop
Creating a nice character painting in Photoshop can be a difficult but rewarding task. In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a classic Batman villain in Photoshop.
Create a Frozen Text Effect with Ice Particles in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to Create a Frozen Ice Text Effect in Photoshop. We will mainly go though some selection techniques, as well as layer styles and image adjustments.
Create a Headset Icon in Photoshop
In this tutorial, it will show you how to create a headset icon in Photoshop.
Illustrator
How to Create a Self Portrait in a Geometric Style
In this tutorial we are going to talk about how to create an illustrated self portrait in a geometric based style. We are going to work from a photograph of ourselves as the base of the illustration, then drawing the sketch and to the final piece, so let’s get started.
How to Create 3D Type in Perspective in Illustrator CS6
In this tutorial you will learn to create 3D Typography using the Perspective Tool, Blends and some of the new features of Adobe Illustrator CS6.
Easy Flying V Guitar In Illustrator
This is intermediary tutorial, so if you have any problems with some parts, don’t worry. Try to redo that or come up with work arounds, it’s the best way to learn how to use any tool. That’s another reason that in order for you to make this study more useful I decided to leave some decisions up to you guys, you wil see it further, hope you have fun.
How to Create Spooky, Halloween Theme Text in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn how to create spooky, Halloween theme text in Adobe Illustrator. You will use the Transform effect to obtain a 3D style and create new Art Brushes for highlights, as well as adding spooky details such as cobwebs and spiders
Web And Design Articles
A Field Guide To Mobile App Testing
A Walk through the thought process of testers and discuss the types of things they consider when testing a mobile app. The intention here is to highlight their thought processes and to show the coverage and depth that testers often go to.
Common WordPress Malware Infections
WordPress security is serious business. Exploits of vulnerabilities in WordPress’ architecture have led to mass compromises of servers through cross-site contamination. WordPress’ extensibility increases its vulnerability; plugins and themes house flawed logic, loopholes, Easter eggs, backdoors and a slew of other issues. Firing up your computer to find that you’re supporting a random cause or selling Viagra can be devastating.
How secure is your WordPress site?
One of the main problems with technology is the frequent lapses in security we experience; a lot of information is stolen daily and used to steal more information, send spam messages, open backdoors to systems and sometimes even do damage to our computers.
The Code Side Of Color
The trouble with a color’s name is that it never really is perceived as the exact same color to two different individuals — especially if they have a stake in a website’s emotional impact. Name a color, and you’re most likely to give a misleading impression. Even something like “blue” is uncertain. To be more precise, it could be “sky blue”, “ocean blue”, “jeans blue” or even “arc welder blue”.
The Death of Link Building and the Rebirth of Link Earning – Whiteboard Friday
The trouble with a color’s name is that it never really is perceived as the exact same color to two different individuals — especially if they have a stake in a website’s emotional impact. Name a color, and you’re most likely to give a misleading impression. Even something like “blue” is uncertain. To be more precise, it could be “sky blue”, “ocean blue”, “jeans blue” or even “arc welder blue”.
Freebies
Movie Icon Set (PSD Source, PNG, JPG)
Today, we present yet another freebie — a free set of icons related to movies and television, designed bySamuray and released for Smashing Magazine and the design community. The icons are available in six different sizes as transparent PNG files, JPG files as well as Photoshop PSD source files. The icons are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
Free Vector Texture Pack for Adobe Illustrator
In last week’s vintage logo tutorial we saw how useful vector textures can be to create that aged and weathered appearance, while maintaining a scaleable vector format. So this week I’ve gone ahead and created a pack of new texture files to give you extra choice when grunging up your vector work. Downloaded these textures along with my vector bumper pack for free!
A Free Ink Stained Photoshop brush Set
This truly is a must download Photoshop brush set perfect, in order to add grunge style effects to your designs whether its a print or digital project. The set comes with an .abr file format, which can be loaded into almost any version of Photoshop. The ink stained brush set includes four different brushes in total. Each brush comes at a high resolution size of over 2000px, making this brush set perfect for large scale design projects.
Free Icon Font: Pictonic Cube
This truly is a must download Photoshop brush set perfect, in order to add grunge style effects to your designs whether its a print or digital project. The set comes with an .abr file format, which can be loaded into almost any version of Photoshop. The ink stained brush set includes four different brushes in total. Each brush comes at a high resolution size of over 2000px, making this brush set perfect for large scale design projects.