If you can’t live without a nice wallpaper on your desktop you might need to invest many hours in the search for the perfect one - that fits to your resolution and has an appealing theme. The quality of the desktop images is often not the one you’d praise over and over again looking at your desktop. The best wallpapers aren’t cheap photos, but are works of art in their own right.In the third part of our collection you’ll find many different types of background images - beautiful wallpapers, devkits, Flickr pools, Widescreen and HD-monsters and even wallpapers-related social communites and wallpapers for gamers.You might want to take a look at the previous collecti...

Advertisements Today’s desktop wallpaper collection is all about horror. Wallpaper can convey the depths of emotion and feeling and whatever you want them to convey. You will always find a wallpaper to express your feeling or mood. It’s always nice to refresh your perspective with some inspirational, elegant, stylish and beautiful wallpaper.There are so many resources for beautiful and inspiring wallpapers that are pleasing to the eye, but we are bringing you something different. We have hand-picked some horror and gothic wallpapers for today’s post. This collection provides you with 100 beautiful horror wallpapers that are perfect to spice up your desktop with some dar...

Comme précisé dans ce petit tutorial, la mode est au carrousel sous toutes ses formes. Le Lutin ajoute sa pierre à l'édifice déjà impressionnant des tutoriaux et autres techniques qui vous aideront à mettre en place votre propre carrousel. Ici on part de flash avec une petite base xml. enjoy....

When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer's work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online. In fact, designers make use of it, creating absolutely amazing icon sets and offering them for free download.However, designing a high-quality icon set isn’t an easy task. It takes time, patience and resources and it requires professional skills and experience. We are regularly looking for talented artists and creative designers and we are happy to support them as much as possible — e.g. by...

We love desktop wallpapers. And we love beautiful ones most. And although we monthly publish desktop wallpapers of our readers (desktop wallpaper calendar feature), we thought that it would be nice to provide our contributors with some fresh inspiration and our readers with some nice wallpaper update for a lousy Monday.The wallpapers for this post were selected over a long period of time; they cover mainly nature, abstract and digital art (further collections will be coming if you are interested). We’ve tried to pick only the most beautiful ones and hopefully you won’t be disappointed.Below we present a showcase of over 50 fantastic wallpapers that will blow your desktop away....

With fall just around the corner, designers are looking for ways to complement their work with Fall imagery like water droplets, rain on leaves and fall rain showers. Including rain or water drops in a scene can be a nice effect because water is a very compelling element. As you'll see in the tutorials below, water drops and rain can completely change the dynamic of a design or photo.Adding the illusion of water and rain to photographs using Photoshop can be a bit tricky. Many times the effect feels forced and cheesy, as if you're looking at a grainy picture instead of an authentic rain shower. The tutorials below will give any designer inspiration for incorporating water scenes in fall d...

Normally I don’t spend any time looking at advertising because I don’t watch live TV anymore. We own a HD recorder and we cut out all commercial blocks so that our favorite shows contains no mood spoilers. Once in a while a spot comes along that makes you forget it’s advertising.The Happiness FactoryIt all started with an animated spot made by Psyop for Coke and agency Wieden+Kennedy. Since launching in 2006, the original "Happiness Factory" has gone on to become the highest rated global spot The Coca-Cola Company has ever tested. The ad has won several awards including a "Silver Lion" at the 2007 Cannes advertising awards, the "Grand Prix Gold Prize" at the 2006 Epica A...

Everyday we see objects consisting of one, two, and three dimensions. By incorporating mathematics with design, the outcome of computer generated fractals is based upon complexity, creativity and perception.By removing the beautiful array of colors we typically see in fractals at these finer magnifications, the manipulation of fractional dimensions with the black & white designs offers a different perspective of aesthetically appealing images.40+ Black and White Fractals That Capture CreativityCoolheartMichele DessureaultPeter JakubowiczFrederik SlijkermanUnknownUnknownMysticrainbowStockUnknownKathy RothKarmenMDK-fractalKarmenMistywispJunior McleanCharles VassalloMrsMagooWannabDCambou...

People really seem to like my Illustrator tutorials, but I do receive a lot of e-mail with one common question ”How did you create those curvy lines used in motion trails?” The first thing that you need to master and become proficient in is the Pen tool.The pen toolThe problem with the pen tool is that is isn't easily explained, because you need to feel and see how it works. Also when you are using Illustrator's Pen tool as long as I do you tend to forget how difficult and confusing it can be for beginners. Making a screencast out of it isn't the best solution so I got inspired by a PDF document by the University of Massachusetts. In that document you see how it all works, fro...

“With browsers rendering JavaScript faster than ever before, it's a great opportunity to get creative with jQuery. This tutorial will show how to create a scrolling 3D tag cloud...it's not as difficult as you might think.”Visit the 3D Tag Cloud Website

  Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting before starting digital drawing, since it often lays out the foundation for screen design.This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and ...

In many situations web designers should avoid Flash and prefer usual text-based presentation. For instance, in most tasks related to pure text presentation Flash is neither necessary nor user-friendly, and it also has some serious accessibility problems: in fact, “pure” text is easier to maintain and easier to copy and paste.However, if you’d like to present some multimedia-content, particularly images, Flash can often be a feasible solution, with flexible image management for web designers and impressive visual presentation for users. Used moderately, Flash-based galleries can give the presentation a fresh spark and create a rich visual experience you might want to offe...

Below you'll find a list of the sites I've visited to learn more about Javascript and CSS compression. Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great compression resources, and I'll be glad to post them. Most of the descriptions below are taken from the developers of the example. Thanks, Max.Javascript and CSS CompressionBundle-Fu - Bundle Your JS/CSS Assets in 10 Seconds or Less"Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server and back! This is bad! Bundle-fu throws it all up into a big package and sends it out all at once. "Make Your Pages Load Faster by Combining and Compressing Javascript and C...

Here is another step-by-step tutorial (per reader’s request) where I show you how to draw the basic shape of a coat of arms and a banner by using the Pen tool and Reflect tool in Adobe Illustrator. For those who are struggling with the Pen tool or readers that are just starting to use Illustrator, this is a prefect exercise. I’ll explain every move and step on how you draw the path. Draw a coat of arms basic shapeHere's what we'll do: We draw the left part first. Then we'll copy and reflect this path to the right and join both ends.Make sure rulers are active (command/control + r). Drag a vertical guide from the rulers towards the center of your document. Select the Pen t...

CSS Juice has an interesting collection of rounded corner techniques to share:Rounded corners is one of the most popular and frequently requested CSS techniques. Even the father of Internet Google also launch the rounded corners style markup with their Google Adsense and let users to custom their ads recently. Actually, there are a lot of methods and techniques to create rounded corners with Cascading Stylesheets. Some are quite simple just need pure CSS, and a part of them need 2 to 4 background corner images and Javascript. Find them here.