20+ Must See Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011
jQuery gives developers the chance to enrich websites with amazing elements without the need to write dozens of lines of code. This post presents advanced and cutting-edge jQuery plugins that will enhance your web designs tremendously. Full screen background slideshow plugin for jQuery. The main idea is to have a grid layout created with jQuery Masonry. View more expand the according item to fullscreen in order to show a longer description of the item and a representative fullscreen background image. Quovolver is a simple extension for jQuery that takes a group of quotes and displays them on your page in an elegant way. Smart spin is a jQuery spin button plugin that mimics the very common windows spin button control. FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. Remember that awesome music player psd created by Orman Clark? A simple jQuery circular content carousel.
How To Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop
In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to add more energy and dynamism to a photo. The effects can be extended and used on a multitude of photos to create a feeling of motion and vibrancy to a static image. The tutorial was created and written by renowned artist Mike Harrison (a.k.a. destill) and this is his first tutorial for a blog. His work has been featured in Computer Arts and Advanced Photoshop magazines. OK, enough of an introduction, and on with the tutorial… Step 1 Start by choosing an image similar to this one of someone jumping in the air (original image). Step 2 Drag your image into the new document and grab the pen tool, carefully start adding point by point until you’ve drawn around the entire body of the girl. Step 3 With a blank background, let’s create some instant depth to this piece by adding a gradient. Step 4 Now I sometimes like to get colour palette and tone sorted early, and in the case of this piece let’s do just that. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Looking good? Step 10
Free All-in-One Graphic Design Starter Kit
Graphic design has an amazing community. Comprised of both the vets from the pre-computer era to the newbies who were raised on the internet and computer-editing applications, there is a huge gamut of people sharing their work and expertise online. I know when I was starting out in design, I found tons of inspiration and information from sites like JustCreativeDesign, DesignNewz, and more. If there’s one issue, however, it’s that there’s almost too much great information out there. I know – good problem to have, right? But for those designers just starting out, or for those designers who are considering getting into design, the amount of information can be a little overwhelming. This “kit” was originally intended to be a zipped file containing all of the links below; however, it clocked in at about half a gigabyte, which I thought most people wouldn’t want to sit and download (plus it would put a strain on our hosting). Software GIMP (Snow Leopard) (Leopard) (Windows) EBooks Textures Fonts
Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow
Perfect Full Page Background Image
Learn Development at Frontend Masters This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now updated as it has been entirely revised. Both original methods are removed and now replaced by four new methods. The goal here is a background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times. Let’s put some specifics on it: Fills entire page with image, no white spaceScales image as neededRetains image proportions (aspect ratio)Image is centered on pageDoes not cause scrollbarsAs cross-browser compatible as possibleIsn’t some fancy shenanigans like Flash Image above credited to this site. Awesome, Easy, Progressive CSS3 Way We can do this purely through CSS thanks to the background-size property now in CSS3. Works in: Safari 3+Chrome Whatever+IE 9+Opera 10+ (Opera 9.5 supported background-size but not the keywords)Firefox 3.6+ (Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version) View Demo CSS-Only Technique #1 Big thanks, as usual, to Doug Neiner for this alternate version.
12 Excellent CSS3 Button and Menu Techniques | Tutorials
1139 shares 20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in design production and make user experience richer. In this… Read More 559 shares Developing Streamlined and Efficient CSS Styles CSS can be compared to the sculptor’s tool set when crafting a sculpture.
CSS3 drop shadow
Until a while ago, web developers were forced to learn Photoshop or count with a trustful graphic designer to help them with things like shadows, gradients and stuff, this because there was no method to create these elements directly on CSS. Then the world saw the release of CSS3 with its fantastic features, which included of course making shadows. On this post we have gathered a big list with some of the best resources to let you know a little bit more about CSS3 shadows, you will find useful tutorials, great plugins and code examples, shadow generators and a few extra links. Our best of the best Without wanting to sound pretentious, we’ve just released a fantastic (and FREE) CSS3 shadow generator in ThemeShock, the tool incorporates tons of features and great accessibility to help you make the most astounding shadows with CSS only. Open CSS3 Shadow Generator Open CSS Text Effects Generator Tutorials Advanced pure CSS3 boxes without using images Box-shadow: shadow effect on elements in CSS3
Progress Bars Design Inspiration - 46 Lovely Examples
Progress bars have once been very popular on the internet and you used to see them on a lot of sites at that moment exclusively for loading a site. Since then, designers avoided them a lot, until, once again they became popular. Nowadays, they are not used only for loading a site, but rather an inner page, a video, a song or various other purposes. The new rise in popularity is also caused by the use of jQuery and CSS3 which are making these really cool design elements easy to code and implement within a site without using Flash and causing the site or page to load incredibly slow. Enjoy these 46 lovely progress bars and subscribe to the site via the social media accounts if you want to see more design inspiration like the article presented here.
Serif Fonts and Their Peculiarities
Apr 09 2010 Typography obviously belongs to the cohort of the fine arts, where even the smallest details and elements are meaningful and can influence the overall perception of the final creation, whether it is a picture or a text, printed with a particular typeface. In terms of fonts design, serifs are those tiny elements, which add a particular character to a typeface, contributing to the unique feel and look every font is characterized with. By definition, serifs are the small lines or strokes at the ends of the main strokes of the letters in a particular font. It is interesting to note that along with purely decorative function serifs are believed to play a role in the text perception mechanism by the human eyes, making the printed text easier to read. Stemming out of the ancient Roman alphabet with the letters carved into stone, Serif fonts have passed a long way of development and evolution. Old Style Serif Fonts Free old style serif fonts Commercial old style serif fonts
