Is the default blue background of your Twitter page starting to look stale, or is it just me? It’s time to spice up your Twitter page with a little more personality – a little more YOU! With the growing trend of Twitter usage, it’s only logical to treat Twitter as an impression of yourself. And as you would personalize the profile picture of your Facebook, why leave your Twitter as one of the faceless crowd?
To help you jump-start your Twitter makeover, here is a collection of online tools and resources to personalize your Twitter background. Full list after the jump!
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Although the world is all about modernization these days, people still long for the touch of something aged, vintage and well, old! Old photographs always give you that sense of history and all the great memories that come along with it. They are our most immediate link to the past. Sometimes a photo would look very normal and boring, but when you apply the right filters and make the right adjustments, you end up with a great final output. And if you really wanted to make things interesting, try making your photo looks old and vintage.
I’ve been taking photos for quite some time now, and the truth of the matter is that people are simply drawn to that antique, vintage touch. Therefore, I advise you to apply some of the tutorials and use some of the great Photoshop actions we have for you.
Below are great tutorials that will help make any photo look old and vintage. As well as some free and helpful textures and Photoshop actions just for you.
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Gone are the days when offices were typically cubicle, surrounded by white walls and lit by white fluorescent lights. Thanks to corporate giants like Google and Pixar that have demonstrated tremendous success despite their unconventional workplaces, more people are embracing the idea that creative work environment helps stimulate minds and inspire innovation. From simply ditching the crisp white walls for graphical wallpapers to a total overhaul of the office layout, we are all trying to break the mold and introduce a unique working environment to the team, and hopefully inspire some genius ideas along the way.
So if you are trying to inject some personality into the place you spend your daily 9-5, how about getting some cue from the creative giants themselves?
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Like most things, making a decision on which web hosting company to choose can be tough. With all the companies out there each promising to have 99% uptime, unlimited resources, and knowledgeable support, there has to be a way to cut through the jargon and make an informed decision. Right?
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This guide will help you make that decision by showing you how to compare apples to apples. By understanding what hosting companies mean by what they say, you’ll be able to decide which hosting company and package best suits your needs.
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The dreaded 404 page can be a huge headache for anyone who manages a website. And sometimes figuring out how to handle such errors when using a CMS such as WordPress can be even more challenging. WordPress has default settings for handling 404 errors, but they leave a lot to be desired. So how does one go about making improvements to that standard handling? And more importantly, how do you prevent 404 errors in the first place?
This is a quick guide to 404 errors in WordPress. It includes information on why they happen, why they’re such a big deal, how to prevent them, and more. We’ve included a number of plugins that make handling WP 404 errors nearly painless and a selection of additional resources at the end. Handling your 404 errors should be a breeze after reading this.
On a side note, we’d also like to show several showcases of Creative Error 404 Pages we’ve previously published:
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Without a doubt Google is one of the largest company in the technology industry and the largest influencer on the Internet. We use Google product and services on daily basis, and some us are depend on it so much that if any of the services are down, we become helpless, resulting things to be put on halt.
Using Google services and following the news & updates are equally important. Almost every Google services (excluding the ones in Google lab) have a blog and that’s where the staffs update us on latest development, maintenance, future enhancement and a whole lot more. Sure, some of us might argue that we can get updates from newsletter, but keep in mind newsletters aren’t frequent and if you compare to what you can get in the blog, newsletters merely summaries.
In this article, we sum up a list of Google products’ blogs we generally used and we categorize them by different professions so you can get an overall view what you are likely interested. We’ve also added the hyperlinks to both the blog and RSS feeds so you can subscribe at ease. Hope you’ll find it useful.
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Anime came from the English word – Animation. Animes are very common these days; even if you are not a fan, chances are you will have friends who reads/watch one or two or your siblings may have an anime posters somewhere. Anime characters have a very distinctive style, a totally different concept from their American cartoon & comic counterpart.
Highly influenced by the Japanese billion-dollar comic industry Manga, anime characters usually have really big eyes, disproportionate body with fairly big head, cute faces with exaggerated face expressions and so on. If you are an Anime fan, spotting an Anime character is really a no-brainer. This week, we’d like to show you some of the really beautiful Anime wallpaper we’ve found on the Internet. Now, even if you are not much of a fan, we encourage you to take a look, you may like them!
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There are often millions of unique ways of arranging and designing type which can only be limited by an individual’s imagination. A visually appealing text that is both original and creative draws attention and leaves a deep impression on anyone who sees it. Thanks to the internet, anyone who is interested in the art of typography can conveniently pick up relevant skills from the numerous Photoshop tutorials online. Not only does design software like Adobe Photoshop simplifies things further with its ease of use and user-friendliness, it also provides users a variety of options and tools to create top-notch art pieces.
For those interested, we’ve combed many sources online to gather some of the best Photoshop text effects tutorials to give all of you a head-start. Do browse through some of the fascinating design ideas that others have came up with. There is a total of 80 outstanding Photoshop text effects tutorials below, but check out our archive if it’s still not enough to inspire you!
Here are more text effect tutorials just to make sure you’ve seen them all:
All tutorials after jump.
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Let’s start this week’s posts with some freebies giveaway. For those of you who are running Mac OSX and uses Delicious or Pinboard to bookmark useful websites stumbled upon, here’s an interesting application you might find useful- Delibar.
Delibar is created by folks at ShinyFrog, the same generous folks who had given our readers several Img2Icns Image to Icon converter previously. It is a Mac application that makes adding, searching, accessing and managing bookmarked sites really easy. Today, we are giving away 5 copies of Delibars.
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We love Photoshop because it’s one of the most useful photo-editing applications for both web and print designs. With some fair amount of knowledge, you can manipulate any photo and turn them into anything you want. Few of our previous articles (human photo manipulation, animal photo manipulation) are great examples of what Photoshop is capable of.
However when Photoshop falls in the hand of careless designers, poor jobs are created. Obvious flaws are missed and when designs are printed it leads to laughter and sometimes embarrassments. In today’s article, we’d like to show you the worst of Photoshop flaws in magazines, things that slipped editors’ eyes. The next time you flipped through a magazine, take a closer look, you might spot one if you are lucky.
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Photo manipulation is an art where ordinary photos are transformed into something alluring, unexpected and totally out of the box. It is often done by designers to express their creativity or for experimental purposes. Photoshop and GIMP are amongst the common software used for these tasks.
Photo manipulations can be done in various ways. Each manipulated photo artwork is unique and they speak the personality and style of their designer. Today, we’d like to show you a series of manipulated human-photos, probably the best of what we’ve seen so far.
Here’s a showcase of 50 Human Photo Manipulation artworks. Full list after jump.
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If you’ve participated in our last week’s "Professional Web Design" e-book giveaway, here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for. Without further do, here are our 20 lucky winners, in no particular order.
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High quality fonts are important assets to designers. We always strive to be unique in every design project, but sometimes getting the right font for the right design can be hard. Searching for fonts via search engines and font sites can be time consuming and tedious.
In today’s post, we attempt to sum up as many free and high quality fonts as possible into one post. These following fonts can be downloaded free and use for any of your projects. Although they are free, it’s always good for you to check with various creators about the licensing if you are going to use it for commercial projects.
While you are at it, you might also want to check out these following font related articles:
Enjoy!
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In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to create the following nice looking Glossy Emblem Text Effect with Adobe Photoshop in 4 simple steps.
With just one text layer and a few layer styles you can have yourself a deliciously glossy emblem text effect in no time. Since the entire effect is done on a vector text layer, you’ll be free to change the font face or letters to suit your needs and still retain all of its styling. As a final touch, we’ll add a simple shadow to give it some perspective and realism.
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