Matte Painting is a type of digital art where photographs are used and merged with digital artworks to create a magnificent result. The results are extremely realistic, yet they are usually fantasy like.

These are all highly detailed paintings, which means that the artists have spent a good deal of time while creating them, you should also spend some time catching their details and admiring them.

It’s been really long since I created a post for you, and as you know, I’m good with digital paintings, I decided to make a collection of digital matte paintings. Hope you like my effort, feedback is much awaited.

Eyes are important, why? I don’t have to tell you. Usually people spend 1-3 hours on computers every day, but when it comes to computer professionals (especially freelancers) the time spent on a computer spikes up to 8-10 or in my case 12-13 hours a day.

Monitors, LCD, plasma and all kinds of screens can damage your eyes to irreparable extent… if you don’t use them smartly.

There’s a thing called 20-20-20 rule for eye care. I’ll cover that, but that alone is not enough, so even if you know about that, read on to prevent yourself from Computer Vision Syndrome a.k.a. CVS.

So it’s Halloween season again, and designers are busy creating graphics related to the occasion. And for creating festive designs, we need loads of relevant resources, here’s one of them and more will be published during next week, including a premium resource I designed for you guys. I won’t tell the details about that, I like to create suspense

These free Creepy fonts are extremely suitable for Halloween related graphics. You can make even “I Love You” seem like a scary word when you type that using one of these fonts.

You might also like: Horror Effect Fonts for Frightening Graphics

We shared a premium resource a couple of days ago, do remember that? Free Halloween Poster – Ticket – Wallpaper PSDs. This is the tutorial to create that graphic.

As ever, difficulty level is not that tough, intermediate and beginners should like it very much.
For practice, you can Download the PSD from other post. It’s free.

You might also like: Latest Halloween Wallpapers

Before we begin the tutorial, here’s a fun fact about Halloween.  According to an Irish legend, Jack O’Lanterns are named after an amazing guy who tricked the devil (yes, the devil) several times.

Halloween is just around the corner now, and I’ve geared up to make quality posts themed according to the occasion.

Today is the first post of our ‘Halloween Series’, the latter will include Halloween PSD Downloads, Halloween Wallpapers and Halloween Fonts. And since they are being published on Designzzz, everything will be absolutely free.

Today’s post contains everything from digital art related to Halloween, it includes digital paintings, typographies and images from other niches as well.

If you have any suggestion/feedback for the upcoming posts on for Halloween, please send it to me through comments section below.

Last week I made Horror Custom Shapes for you guys. This week I’m here with the most un-scary thing possible, music! So here are some handy Musical Brushes for Photoshop.

Designers often have to design DJ posters, music album covers and plenty of things related to music.

To design such items beautifully yet quickly, we need ready-made resource. We present that kind of resource here on Designzzz.

These bushes will be mighty useful if you use them for designing anything related to music.

Do you need any free resources for Halloween related designs? I’m sure you do, and here’s one for you. This is a multi-purpose PSD design, you can use it to create Halloween party tickets/posters or anything of such sort. With a little bit of tweaking, I’ve also made it into a wallpaper (also see: Latest Halloween Wallpapers).

Since we designed this, it is royalty-free and you are welcome to use it commercially.

The tutorial for designing this graphic will be shared in a couple of days. So stay tuned and make sure you don’t just get the food, you also know how to cook it

UPDATE: The tutorial has been published: Designing a Smashing Halloween Poster.

Zyma Technologies is one of UK’s biggest web hosts right now, they have customers from all around the world. And they love Designzzz. They keep offering us free giveaways from time to time, and here they are once again.

This time, they are offered 5 free premium level web hosting accounts for Designzzz’s readers.

We received over 70 participants in the contest (wooh!) Sadly, we only have 5 prizes this time, but we’ll be coming back with bigger giveaways in the future.

We all dress up for Halloween occasion, why not dress our computers as well? Today I got for you a brilliant collection of cute, and sometimes, scary Halloween wallpapers.

All you have to do to download the wallpapers, is click on the title/name of the desired wallpaper. Then you’ll reach the source site, you’ll easily spot a “download” button. If you have any ideas for a Halloween related post, send them to me through the comments section below.

Fun Fact: The movie Halloween (1978) had a very low budget, so they had to use the cheapest mask there could be. Micheal Meyers (actor) used William Shatner’s Star Trek mask. Shatner did not know what history the mask had, but when he did years later, he said he was honored.