Quick Tip: Apply a Pattern Overlay to a Gradient in Adobe Fireworks

Quick Tip: Apply a Pattern Overlay to a Gradient in Adobe Fireworks

One of the reasons that I enjoy working in Fireworks so much is the ease in which it allows you to apply basic effects to objects. In this brief video tutorial I will demonstrate how to apply a…

More Stunning Smoke: 30 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

More Stunning Smoke: 30 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

You may remember not too long ago when I released an enormously popular set of Smoke Brushes on this website. I really enjoyed creating that set and received a ton of positive feedback; so much so that I decided…

Exploring Gradients in Adobe Fireworks

Exploring Gradients in Adobe Fireworks

One thing that has always frustrated me about Illustrator and Photoshop is their poor support for gradients. While they have made some strides in recent years, the tools that they provide to manipulate gradients are really sub par.…

Subscribe to These Excellent Design-Related RSS Feeds

Subscribe to These Excellent Design-Related RSS Feeds

Last year, I published an article that listed some of my favorite websites to subscribe to using RSS. That article quickly became one of the most popular articles on this site; making it to the front page of Digg.…

6 Decorative Vector Ornaments

6 Decorative Vector Ornaments

It is always nice to have some decorative vector ornaments on hand when you’re in the middle of a project. Decorative ornaments have a ton of uses from pattern creation, to stationary design. That’s why today I am…

4 Tips to Help Promote Your Website Using Facebook Fan Pages

4 Tips to Help Promote Your Website Using Facebook Fan Pages

When it comes to promoting a website through social media, a lot of people clump Twitter and Facebook Fan Pages into the same category. Most people see them as similar tools to help promote their brand; and while…

Don’t Be Constrained by Control Points: An Introduction to Extreme Path

Don’t Be Constrained by Control Points: An Introduction to Extreme Path

Hello everyone! Today, I would like to introduce you to Extreme Path, a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that allows you to manipulate paths and shapes in ways that you can’t otherwise do using Illustrator. One of the biggest…

Giveaway Announcement: 2 Readers Win 500 Free Business Cards From Make Me Cards

Giveaway Announcement: 2 Readers Win 500 Free Business Cards From Make Me Cards

Hello everyone! Last week our friends at Make Me Cards were generous enough to sponsor a giveaway with 2 sets of 500 business cards. Today, we are very excited to be announcing the winners.

If you have never heard of…

Working With Auto-Shapes in Fireworks

Working With Auto-Shapes in Fireworks

I mention quite a bit how fond I am of the tools that Fireworks provides to help draw basic shapes. Today I would like to talk a little about one of least known but helpful tools that Fireworks…

22 Fantastic Animal Character Tutorials for Illustrator

22 Fantastic Animal Character Tutorials for Illustrator

If you love animals, you’ll love this round up of 22 Fantastic Animal Illustration Tutorials. These tutorials will take you step-by-step through the process of creating a professional-looking character or mascot in Illustrator and will help you fine-tune your…

How to Distress Text in Seconds With Photoshop Brushes

How to Distress Text in Seconds With Photoshop Brushes

There are a lot of ways to create distressed text in Photoshop; some techniques are better than others but I have found that the best technique is to use a nice set of Photoshop brushes in combination with…

Win 500 Free Business Cards From Make Me Cards (x2)

Win 500 Free Business Cards From Make Me Cards (x2)

Hello everyone! Guess what? Today, we’ve got another fantastic business card giveaway; this time sponsored by our friends at Make Me Cards. Make Me Cards is an online printer that specializes in business cards and offers a wide range…

Adobe Fireworks, the Better Tool for Creating Basic Shapes

Adobe Fireworks, the Better Tool for Creating Basic Shapes

When most people think about drawing basic shapes they probably think about Adobe Illustrator or maybe Photoshop; but even as good as those apps are for creating basic shapes, in some cases, Fireworks is even better. In this…

Create Your Own Business Cards at AllBusinessCards.com

Create Your Own Business Cards at AllBusinessCards.com

Hello everyone! The guys at AllBusinessCards.com asked that I write a short review of their services. AllBusinessCards.com is an online printer that allows you to create your own business cards using their new Design Center. Their Design Center includes over…

Running a Design Blog Like a Business

Running a Design Blog Like a Business

Many design blogs start off as a hobby. Designers like to share what they have learned and seek out criticism from others. Blogs are a natural way of doing this. As blogs mature however many of us have…

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