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As always here at webdesignshock.com we’re bringing you the latest in news, investigation and freebies in Web Design, and probably it’s no secret to our followers how some of our best freebie bundle we’ve brought you have come from the hands of our fiends at themeshock.com, and in the habit of keeping a good tradition alive, on this occasion we’ve summed up The Shock Free Bundle of 99 PSD Themeplates.
So, for those of you that already had the chance to enjoy the qualities of the 1st Shock Free Bundle from themeshock.com, as well as for the ones that didn’t (don’t worry because for those of you that we’re left out there’s still time to visit themeshock.com and find it available at the bottom of the page), we’ve brought the 2nd Shock Free Bundle ready to download with 99 high quality templates with home and internal page. Compatible with Worpress and other alike, the templates come boosted with hundreds of features, and tons of high quality design elements and vectors. All these templates have been designed by our team ! Read more
New Designers and Developers Icon Set!
While” others” in the business seem glad by just giving out a couple of bundles per year of two hundred or so elements (to say the least)…..here at the webdesignshock.com family we just can’t enough of pampering our followers with loads of bundles that always come in big size packages, because everything always is bigger and better at webdesignshock.com.
So, for those of you that had the chance to enjoy past great Iconshock freebies promoted trough our posts such as: “The Most Complete Android Style Icon Set: 15000 Icons”, and also for those of you that didn’t get a chance to get hold of them back then (wise up!…you can still get them!) here’s the new Designers and Developers Versatile 120 Icon Set from iconshock.com! Read more
Best free bundle of the year: 99 free PSD templates (seriously free)
We are totally insane, there’s no other way to define how we feel about this freebie, this is, without any question, the best freebie of this year (and probably the best freebie of the decade)… Totally exclusive, designed by our brother site: WordPressThemeshock, a HUGE set of 99 psd (free) templates with an amazing final touch and high quality design. Please help us spreading the word by tweeting and sharing this post to your friends, they will love you forever. Read more
Full Windows 8 GUI Theme set (psd)
Hello everybody, we love doing nice and fresh freebies for all of you guys, yes, we really do, and that’s the main reason we have designed this complete set of Windows 8 Gui elements, but hold a second, Windows8 haven’t been released yet, Yes!… and that was the main challenge for our designers team, but what the hell, we love challenges :)
This time the design team behind the shock family (iconshock, webdesignshock and themeshock) have created a complete set of GUI elements inspired in the new windows 8 interface, called Metro, it was made purely in Photoshop using vector shapes, so it will be easily adaptable to your designs. Read more
175+ free vintage and retro psd web design elements
In the design trends for 2011 article published by WebDesignShock, we mentioned that vintage was dead and only retro fonts will survive the New Year. However, as it was back then, vintage still has a great impact on web design. That’s why today we present an incredible collection with more than 175 vintage and retro elements featuring icon sets, fonts, themes, templates, textures, patterns, backgrounds and brushes, all of them fully downloadable in PSD or AI formats for you to implement in your websites.. So, without further ado, let’s go back to the past! Read more
Professional Photography course, from newbie to master !
Hundreds of articles have been written about photography, some good and some awful, the truth is that the amount of photography-related information out there is humongous, which makes difficult to separate the goodies from the garbage. Regarding content, some articles discuss the technical aspects of photography, others concentrate in photo editing and becoming a master in Photoshop, while the rest takes the discussion around good practices and the passion that being a photographer represents.
After searching for a while, we found that there’s not an actual photography guide that you can start with, just several mini-articles and photography websites where many complex aspects are discussed, leaving aside the people that’s just beginning on this field and want to find an user-friendly guide to learn all the essentials about photography.
Creating patterns/textures (PAT files) in Photoshop
When we’re working on a new design, whether if this is a website design, a flyer or even a logo, we usually like to incorporate textures to the process; textures can be achieved in 2 basic ways: Real-life textures or digital. Real-life textures are regularly taken from photographs and subsequently digitalized for being used. As for digital textures, they are created directly in graphic programs such as Photoshop and Illustrator, these textures have the advantage of being squeaky clean when they’re made by a pro.
On this article we’re going to study the creation process behind digital patterns in Photoshop, from its construction to the exporting as PAT files. You will also find some pretty cool examples of digital textures in web design.
Call to action buttons, curved shadows, pixel patterns and more design freebies
We’re getting closer to the first half of this year and so far there are many things in design that are still looking very 2010. What was considered good design only a few months ago is no longer the trend because as you know, design is an ever-changing field that adapts to fit people’s needs and is constantly looking to reinvent itself.
Today we like to talk about the main tendencies that will be ruling for the rest of this year as well as the ‘deadly’ sins that every designer needs to avoid at all cost in order to survive the constant critique from design purists and average clients.
Mastering shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, who’s the winner?
Shading has been a vital part of art and design since ever, because it’s the way for people to actually be capable of emulating light and 3D environments within a 2D workspace, whether if it is on traditional techniques (painting, airbrushing, etc.) or digital work. Many times the designers stick to a single way of doing things and so they tend to forget or even to leave unexplored further methods that might be even more effective that the ones they defend, this statement made us think about the many different ways you can create shadows in graphic / web design.
We have taken the 3 most popular graphic programs utilized by graphic designers to do all their digital work, specially web interfaces: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Fireworks. We have executed a series of tests to find out the different types of shadows that you can make in these programs and then we compared and figured out which technique works better on each program, so now we like to offer you the results of our research.
Leather texture in 77 seconds
What’s up friends?, it’s been a while since we post our latest tip, and that’s why we want to show you a trick that not everyone is aware of even with it’s very easy to do. We’re talking about making a great leather texture in Photoshop in less than 2 minutes, we even recorded it so you can compete with one of our designers to see how makes the best time mark, you will find the video at the end of the article.
Poster tutorial with photoshop
Hello folks, how’ve you been?. Usually in graphic design, many things come out based on experimentation; it’s often to spend hours playing with the handlers, changing the hue and saturation and adding / removing effects before we’re completely satisfied with our idea.
On today’s tutorial we want to show you how to make a beautiful background with Adobe Photoshop; this post will guide you on a step by step process that will let you complete this design without any trouble, so open up your Photoshop and let’s begin.
100 poster tutorials
Posters are printed or digital artworks designed with the purpose of communicating a political ideal, informing of an upcoming event or inviting the people to purchase a determined product; there are also many posters designed to be exclusively art pieces that help artists to promote themselves. Usually posters have a combination of graphic resources and typefaces, although we can see some exceptions once in a while.
The key of a good poster design is that it has an eye-catching design and a clear message, we can translate these two elements into “remembrance”. On this showcase we like to show you 100 essential tutorials that will guide you across the road of becoming an expert in poster design, because right now you’re maybe just a tiny amoeba wanting to become a homo sapiens.
Best 50 photo editing tutorials
During its dawn, photo editing was a delicate art that only a selected group of people were able to handle, those who were experts in playing with chemicals, working on the dark room and obtaining awesome things while experimenting.
But since the arrival of the digital era, everybody became a potential photographer, the camera sales around the world have increased and so the edition technology. Programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Photomatix, Lightroom, Expression Design, Corel Photo Paint are offering a lot of possibilities for people to edit their pictures on the way that the old experts did.
On this showcase we will take a ride across some of the essential tutorials that you’ll need to dominate in order to become a master on the art of photo retouching, the roundup will include some great retouching tutorials and even some awesome photomontages that probably you have always wanted to learn how to do. We will start with some basic tips to end up with truly challenging tutorials.
Quick tip: Autosave in Photoshop with Apssistant
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How many times you have came across brilliant designers and artists that can easily make great illustrations in Photoshop in a short period?, and how many of those designers often forget to save and lose all their work when the light goes out?, well for all the people who have met this people, we have found a great Photoshop script that will help designers to always remember to save. The script is named Appssistant and it’s a great way to help people to autosave or just remember to do it. |
Quick Tip: Work with perspective using Vanishing Point in Photoshop
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Vanishing point is a useful Photoshop facility that helps to make perspective corrections when we have images that contain perspective planes such as buildings, houses, walls, floors and mostly rectangular shapes. The great thing about this tool is that after you define the planes, all the changes will respect and adjust to them, making your edition process way much easier than before. On this example we will add a graffiti and prolong the house’s deepness, which will look very cool at the end. |