Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Internet Protocol Act (PIPA) and now Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Europe, are all over internet these days. Users’ favorite companies like Google and Wikipedia are protesting against them, because they believe that these acts are like a lock on your mouth, they will take away your “right to say”. On the other hand, companies like Warner Brothers and other production houses say that government should hold the ultimate power to stop any website at anytime so their content is not distributed through piracy.
To some extent both of the parties are right, but both of them want the ultimate authority to nail down the other. With proper planning, there can be a solution but the outrage SOPA and PIPA have generated, it seems clear that they are not a solution.
While the battle is on between the internet users and government, I made a collection of protest designs which were made recently. It should be a good inspiration.
Your Waseem is back today! I know the quality of my tutorials was decreasing and that was the most disappointing thing for me, but I’m back, and to prove that, this is a the tutorial I made for you this week.
In this photo manipulation tutorial, we will use many effects and blending and toning techniques, I’m sure you’ll learn something out of it even if you already are a professional.
I have made this tutorial in a fast paced manner but make sure you have 3-4 hours when you start to follow it. It’s not a quick one.
A few days ago, our Jawad made a showcase of footers. It was definitely a good inspiration but we didn’t get to know the methodology behind creating exceptional footers. Today, I’m describing just that.
Footers were never given their deserving respect, they were the most meaningless part of a website. But in recent times, designers came to realize that it can be a great place to show off their skills, and then later, developers crafted out techniques to make it useful in terms of interactivity and SEO.
Last Friday we offered free download of the Jewelry Web Design Template and the Friday before that, we published the Photoshop tutorial for designing a jeweler’s website. Today is the time for HTML CSS tutorial. By following this, you can easily code this website to perfection. It also includes a simple JavaScript slideshow.
Jeweler’s sites require dark backgrounds, sharp colors, quality stock photos and large size jewelry display. This layout has all these specifications.
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Futurico UI Pro is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack for designers. It contains more than 200 web design elements (layered PSD files) that can be used in any project no matter the style or the concept. The pack contains a set of elements added in one extraordinary collection and the good thing is that you can use them for any design or application.
DesignModo has sponsored this giveaway with Designzzz, it is a great resource of informative material for designers, web developers, graphic artists or just curious folks looking for inspiration. They provide design, web development and art-oriented articles and promote the works of talented artists from all over the world.
The season of Valentine’s day is here and designers around the world are busy creating graphics related to my favorite day in the whole year. So I had to make a post related to 14th Feb and here it is.
A collection of free fonts for creating designs related to Valentine’s Day, such as greeting cards, posters, seasonal promotional advertisements and you know, rest of designing stuff.
As usual, you can download them all in a single zip file if you are a (free) member of Designzzz and you can also download each of them separately by clicking the name of the font.
Homes are sweet when you go back to there after a long tiring day… but many IT professionals (geeks) like us spend most of their time in their home, and those empty long wide walls sometimes can drive us crazy…
Today I was wondering how can I spice up my house a little bit, add a little spark and Tayyab suggested me to use wall decals. I looked it up internet. I don’t know when will they be in my home but they have a place on Designzzz right now.
Psst: you can even draw something like this on your walls!
Light painting is a very unique and creative technique of photography. You use light patterns using long exposure technique, hence you get the result of light painting over any routine photo.
The effect is absolutely breathtaking and that’s the reason this effect is so popular among amateurs. It requires more creativity than professional experience.
This post also includes a video tutorial for creating this effect.
This is a tutorial to create a simple shiny metallic typography effect we usually see on hoardings and print advertisements published on art glazed paper.
This is a routine effect which I have stylized and created a modernistic style of typography. Designers can use it with almost anything which has a dark background, it doesn’t work on light backgrounds. Enjoy!
