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50+ Awesome CSS3 Techniques for Better Designs

CSS3 is gaining momentum, despite the fact that the standard hasn’t even been finalized. There are hundreds of tutorials out there to teach designers how to use it, but unfortunately a lot of them cover the same ground.And some of the tutorials teach designers to do things that they might not think of as useful, though the techniques can usually be adapted to fit a project perfectly. Many are strictly CSS and HTML based, while others also incorporate JavaScript.

Lubov Cholakova

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CSS

CSS Tutorials to Brighten Up Your Day

As we all know, a lot of complicated CSS code snippets had to be used back then when you simply wanted to achieve a rounded corner, and even had to use JavaScript for simple animations. But since the coming out of CSS3, life has become a lot easier.

Lubov Cholakova

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Photoshop

15 First-rate Photoshop Brush Sites You Should Know

Adobe Photoshop is probably the most, if not one of the most, popular graphic editing program of our time. One of the most important element of Photoshop editing are the brushes, so it’s crucial to find the suitable brushes for your design. However, sometimes it can get quite frustrating when you can’t find the tools you need to satisfy your specific design needs. It is indeed no easy task to search through hundreds or thousands of design resources sites to get exactly what you want.

Lubov Cholakova

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HTML5

HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover

Once upon a time, grayscale image has to be manually converted in order to be displayed on the web. Now with HTML5 canvas, images can be manipulated into grayscale without having to use image editing software.

Lubov Cholakova

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Photoshop

80+ Ultimate Collection of High Quality Free PSD Files

No one can deny the importance of Adobe Photoshop and the role that this amazing software plays for the designing industry. For a graphic designer, PSD files can come very handy because they can easily edit, modify and customize these files according to their own taste and desire.

Lubov Cholakova

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CSS

Rotating Feature Boxes

All the animation is CSS3 transitions. JavaScript only watches for the clicks and applies and removes classes as needed. Why not use JavaScript for the animations as well and get wider browser support? CSS3 is far better suited for this. The animations are better (hardware accelerated). It doesn't slow down other JavaScript. It is also easier to write keeping the animations in CSS. With JavaScript we aren't able to animate to classes easily.

Lubov Cholakova

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HTML5

HTML5 and Native Media Support

If you’re a web designer, you’ve almost certainly heard of HTML5 by now. The next big step in the HTML standard, HTML5 has been in the works since 2004, and brings a lot of changes to the web. Today, David Leggett would simply like to acquaint you with some new media features in HTML5 in the hopes that you’ll begin implementing these features into your own design now.

Lubov Cholakova

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Design

A Guide to Utilizing Facebook for a Freelance Career

Facebook is often criticized for privacy holes, unstable API and proprietary standards, but in spite of that, everybody seems to be on Facebook these days. At least once a week this previously student-only network appears in the top news headlines on the Web and in print.

Lubov Cholakova

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Photoshop

Fresh Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Are you not happy with your photograph? Want to make it look stunning and outstanding? Well, photo manipulation is your way to do that. Photo manipulation is an art which can manipulate your photograph the way you want. You can create some very cool results if you put your creativity and imagination into your photo manipulation process.

Lubov Cholakova

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Design

Applying a Clean & Imageless Design to an Article – Part I

In this first installment of a two part tutorial, Matt Ward would like to show you how to use simple CSS to apply an attractive, well-balanced design to an article. Instead of just using meaningless placeholder text or writing something entirely new, he will also be using one of his favorite articles that he has written at SpyreStudios, entitled “A Coder’s Journey”.

Lubov Cholakova

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