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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 … Continue reading »

Error messages are annoying and disturbing. When they prompted, that means our work for the entire night is screwed. They are frequent visitors particularly if you are Windows users. In fact, sometimes they showed up so frequent that we’ve got no choice but to live with it. However, scratching your … Continue reading »

Panoramic photography, also known as wide-angle photography is a technique that captures a much wider perspective of the landscape into a photo. It can be done with ultra-wide lenses or by stitching together several photos using software like Photoshop or AutoStitch. Panoramic photos can be very beautiful when they are … Continue reading »

Have you ever encounter situations where you need to create a simple yet good-looking chart, graphs or diagrams and all you have is your browser? Charts are good and effective way to show relationship between entities but sometimes creating one can be pretty challenging especially when your favorite word processing … Continue reading »

There will be two articles on Hongkiat.com today and I’d like to start with a giveaway post. If you are a designer, developer or simply love creating websites – here’s something you will be interested in. Today’s giveaway is a very useful web design e-book "Professional Web Design" created by … Continue reading »

A good hosting is very important to any website. They are foundation of your website, your brand and your business. Any server downtime could potentially hurt and ruin everything you’ve developed over years. If you are serious about your website, you need to make sure they are in good hands. … Continue reading »

It could be quite disheartening to learn that you have a reader reading your post and an message from Instant Messenger pops up and steals the show. Before you know it, your reader could be already checking out someone at FaceBook. Image credit: The Geek Eyetracking studies have shown that … Continue reading »

In a blink of the eye, a lot can happen. A lot of astonishing things happen in a split of a second, but they are moving too quickly for us to see. High speed photography is the art of photographing a rapidly occurring event. Depending on the event to be … Continue reading »

There are millions of websites out there. Many of them are unique, either in small ways or in large ones. But the individual impact of any particular site on the overall Internet is generally negligible, if there’s any impact at all. Not so with the fifteen sites here. These sites … Continue reading »

Call to action buttons on websites are often neglected. Designers sometimes don’t understand exactly what makes a good call to action button beyond being attractive and fitting into the overall design. But call to action buttons are too important to be designed without some kind of understanding of what makes … Continue reading »

American architect Julia Morgan once said, “Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.“. Indeed, architecture serves as a voice to express the artistic stance of the architect at that time. Photography takes a step further to interpret architecture in several ways. What used to be an … Continue reading »

Typography plays an important role and is an integral part of any design; be it print or web. Sometimes, when there is no room for images, typeface is all you’ve got to give the audience an idea what the whole thing is all about. Image credit: Sven the ghost by … Continue reading »

Photoshop is cool, and we mean really cool! With the right technique and some creativity you can totally turn any image into something extraordinary with a bigger impact. It’s fun to just take a photo, manipulate and see what output becomes. Today we want to show you some amusing photo … Continue reading »

Every now and then we find ways to reward our readers to show how much we appreciate the support they’ve given to us along the way. Sometimes we create giveaway contests; sometimes we give out freebies and hope that some will find them useful. Today we would like to release … Continue reading »