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7 Typography Tools Every Designer Should Know

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:28 +0000

Here is a useful collection of top 7 typography tools for you. With these tools, you can create your own fonts and then can very easily insert them into your designs by simply pasting some special code snippets or using the existing pieces of CSS code. Typography is the key component of any web design. It not only informs the visitors or potential customers but also holds a significant value in the success of any design.

With these tools, you can create the fonts as you want and then can easily embed them into your design. This has not been that much easier before. Without any further ado, here we present the complete list of 7 typography tools that would serve as the real time savers. Enjoy!

Typetester

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated.

CSS Type Set

Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. It allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.

Font Tester

Font Tester is a free online font comparison tool. dIt allows you to easily preview and compare different fonts side by side with various CSS font styles applied to them. It is very useful for web developers who are looking for just the right font/style/color to use in their pages.

CSS Code generator for text

A very simple and useful tool for generating CSS styles.

Serif Font Identification Guide

Serif Font Identification Guide is a very clever and useful visual font identification tool.

Identifont

Identifont has become the largest independent directory of digital fonts on the Internet. It provides a range of features to help you locate fonts or find information about fonts:

CSS-Typoset Matrix

Matrix to calculate the font size and line spacing in em and px

40 (More) Creative Negative Space Logo Designs

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:25 +0000

The use of negative space in logo design process is quite common these days. The logo designs that are designed by using negative space technique not only look visually appealing but also convey the message in a very creative manner. From the audience point of view, negative space logo designs are also very appealing as the hidden messages within them make them look quite interesting.

As we have already published a post about Negative Space Logo Designs and that was greatly appreciated by our readers. In this collection, you can find out 40 more negative space logo designs that are not only creative but visually alluring as well. The creativity used in designing these logos is simply above the par. Let’s have a closer look. Enjoy and stay creative!

Silk Skin

Hafiz Bacote

Russnast

Agni Extinguishers

Explorations

Hungry Call

Three Nuts General Contractors

Foooblr Logo Design

Lgnite

Water 10:42

Element of Sound

Gravity Custom Web

Paint the City

Arts Magazine

Learngolf Logo Design

Whitewashers

Cloak & Dagger

Tuzmadár – Firebird

Taurus Construction

Spartan Golf Club

North Construction

LAB

Gert van Duinen aka cresk

Rockit

Aranza

Williamson Pottery

Bufet

Forest Windows

Gecko

France Luminaires

Scoopads

Rimland

20 Useful PHP Tutorials For Beginners

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:18 +0000

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is a scripting language that is especially designed for the web development purpose. With the help of PHP, one can create dynamic web pages with loads of functionality. It is the general-purpose scripting language which is similar to other scripting language such as JavaScript, Ruby, Python etc. For the beginners, it may be somewhat difficult to learn but with the help of step by step tutorials, learning the scripting language also is a fun.

So, in this round up you will find some useful and detailed PHP tutorials that are especially designed from the beginners’ point of view. We hope that you will get good help from these tutorials. Enjoy!

Diving into PHP

Scanning Folders with PHP

Carbon Fiber Signup Form With PHP, jQuery and CSS3

How To Set Up A Local PHP/MySQL Development Sandbox For Windows And OS X

Introduction To PHP

Image Resizing Made Easy with PHP

How to Create a PHP/MySQL Powered Forum from Scratch

PHP Tutorial: Installation and The Basics

Resize and Crop Photos with PHP’s GD Library

PHP & MySQL File Download Counter

Quick Feedback Form With PHP And jQuery

Making A Cool Login system With PHP, MySQL & jQuery

How to Open Zip Files with PHP

Beginning PHP Part 2: Learn PHP Functions and Security

30 Best PHP Practices for Beginners

Build Your Own Captcha and Contact Form

PHP string to array

PHP Loops

PHP calculator

The Problem with PHP’s Prepared Statements

16 Useful Free Handwritten Fonts For Your Designs

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:14 +0000

Handwritten fonts add a natural feel to your design and make them look more appealing and enticing. This is the reason why majority of the designers prefer to use handwritten fonts in their designs. By using handwritten fonts, an ordinary design can also be converted into a truly stunning design – this is the power of typography.

In this round up, you will unearth 16 amazing and attractive handwritten fonts that are available for free download. These fonts can also be used as signature fonts. So, without any further ado, here we are presenting the complete list of 16 free handwritten fonts for you. Enjoy!

Scriptina

Estrya’s Handwriting

Penciledinh font demo

Easy Going the Font

Aerofoil

Grey Magus

Laurent HW

Brook 23 – Font

Loveable Scruff

Scribulous Scrawlin

Scratch Kit

Mskitokilla

Font Details

Rickman Script

Le Grand Saut

The Quiet Scream

50 Essential And Free Web Template PSD Layouts

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:11 +0000

For a web designer what comes more handy than a high quality PSD web template? This is the reason why every designer spends loads of time in searching out some essential and basic PSD web templates and layouts that he can use in his design work. Though PSD templates simplify the designing task but finding out high quality PSD files that are free to use is a tough job. You would have to browse through dozens of web pages to find out a handful of PSD templates. This is a time consuming process.

As we have already published some posts about Free Web Template PSD Layout and that was greatly appreciated by our readers. Now we are showcasing another much expected compilation of some essential and complete web layout PSD templates that you can download for free, of course. Let’s have a closer look!

Layout Grunge para Portfolio Gratuíto

Car Design Studio

Financial Biz

Free HTML and PSD template – Sifiso

Magnate: Professional Website PSD Template

Perpetual Redux: Free PSD Website Layout

Free PSD Website Template for Catering Company or Restuarant

Must-Have Free Website Template for Business Company

Free “ColorZone” .PSD template

Gongblog

Web layout psd

Simple business site

Web layout psd html FREE :12

Web layout psd html FREE :8

Free Website Template for Web Design Studio:

One Page Portfolio psd template

Free PSD Landing Page Template

Cars layout psd html

Personal Page Template

Free Modern Design Studio PSD Template

Free Photoshop PSD Coming Soon Page

Website PSD Template in 3 colors

VIM: Free PSD Website Template for a Web Design Company

NeverAfter: Free PSD WordPress Template

Free Website Template with jQuery Carousel in the Header

Free Red psd template

Eco Business PSD Template

Red psd template #4

Foliodile PSD

Graph Software

Splash Creative Agency

45 Examples Of Websites Designed With HTML5

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:03:04 +0000

With the revised and improved edition of HTML, the authors as well as the web developers have been given some more flexibility and interoperability in order to create more interactive and creative websites. HTML5 has been proposed recently because the community believed that now it is the time to move forward and push the limitation of HTML further more in every direction.

In today’s collection, we are presenting 45 excellent examples of websites that are designed by using HTML5. With this collection, we tend to share with you variety of highly-creative, striking and most prominently inspirational designs that are coded in HTML5. Enjoy!

Hyper

Dilly Deli

Desiign

Veloster

Rally Interactive

Vivas Communication

Slavery Footprint

Hall88

Crypteks

Sony Tablet

Scandalous Dirt

Dataveyes

Jessica Caldwell

Cycle to Work Calculator

Trinity Webtech

We New

La Moulade

English Workshop

Print Discount

Web Expert

The Threepenny Editor

Cappen

Mm Studio

Elevate

PAPERPLANE

PYGMALION

MEETWEB

CENTVINGTCINQ

Touchtech

1minus1

CORPUS

Mind Epic

Nike Better World

Greater Dunnellon Historical Society

Cultural solutions uk

Youzee

An HTML5 Interactive Infographic featuring Dribbble

Green Campus Guide

255 Creative

Zeitgeistbot

South Mountain

G-FORCE

ZERO HOUR & CO

Time2project

Eyestylesllc

25 (More) Free And Useful Photoshop Actions

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:02:55 +0000

Here is a collection of 25 truly amazing and wonderful Photoshop actions for you. Different types of Photoshop actions are high in demand because Photoshop actions make automating the common sequences easy for the designers and thereby increasing their efficiency and saving their precious time.

In this compilation, we have put together 25 awesome and absolutely free Photoshop actions for you that you can download for free. With these Photoshop actions, you can easily automate monotonous work and improve your work efficiency greatly. We hope that you will like this assortment. Feel free to share your opinion with us. Enjoy!

Toasted Photoshop Actions

Darker effect

Fairytale actions

Landscape action

Lith Print Action

Photoshop Action 25

005 Photoshop Action 16

Before and After

Photoshop actions soft red

UTW Dreamy Vintage Photoshop Action

Morning light FREE PS action

Photoshop sunny actions free

HDR Tools

Oscar’s Pitch Photoshop Action 1

Before and After (free photoshop action) / Autumn

BitFUUL Design Resources

Unwritten Action

Landscape Effect PS Action 0.2

My first actions set

Action 11

Old Black and White

Action 03

UTW La Chambre Photoshop Action

Photoshop Actions Pack 5

Free Photoshop action

Congratulations To The Winners Of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:02:50 +0000

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack.

Winners of DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack

Lucy Martin (Developer License)
Matiss (Personal License)
Regnareb (Personal License)

Impressionist is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack. It contains over 300 elements for web design that represent almost anything one can imagine. The elements are so far distributed on 5 pages. You can find here: Edit Boxes, Tabs, Buttons, Notification Windows, Menus, fast solutions for the Menu tabs, Windows, Backgrounds, Graphics, Sliders, Informational blocks and many others.

All the elements have been done in Photoshop using Shapes. This means that all the elements can be zoomed in or out without losing quality. They can be used for web design, mobile interfaces or illustrations. It all depends on your imagination.

Thanks to DesignModo for sponsoring this wonderful contest at Smashing Apps.

If you want to conduct any contest at SmashingApps just contact us and send us all the details.

50 Photoshop And Illustrator Tutorials For Creating Text Effect

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:02:49 +0000

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are tools that every designer and artist use, interact and rely on for completing his design work. These tools cannot be overlooked no matter how smaller or bigger your design work is. Thus, learning to use this most important and crucial designing tools inside out is important for every designer. One of the major uses of Photoshop and Illustrator are in creating dramatic and dazzling text effects for banners and logos.

In this round up, we have put together a collection of 50 Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials that will help you learn creating awesome text effects. All these tutorials are very easy to follow. Enjoy!

How to Create an Abstract Wireframe Text Effect

Create Detailed Vintage Typography with Illustrator and Photoshop

How to Create a Colorful Text Design in Photoshop

Create an Extremely Glossy Text Effect

Create an “IronHero” Text Effect in Photoshop

Creating Simple Gold Text Effect

Create a Light Bulb Inspired Text Effect in Photoshop

Cool Dots Text Effect

Create a Cinematic “Sergeant America” Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Delicious Cookie Text Using Photoshop

Create a Metallic Type Treatment Using Photoshop and Cinema 4D

Create a Stunning Text on Wild Fire Effect

Create “Awesome” 3D Style Lettering in Photoshop

Create a Retro Folded Effect using Photoshop

Create a Stitched Text Effect for an iPad Wallpaper

Create a 3D Newspaper, Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator

How to Use Typography to Create a 3D Text Effect

How to Create a Vintage Type Postcard

Create a Cartoon-Style Graffiti Text Effect in Photoshop

Create A Fancy Neon Text Effect In Photoshop

Create a Futuristic, Grungy Metal Text Effect in Photoshop

Create Typography That’s Going Down the Drain

Create a Royal Gold Text Effect in Photoshop Using Layer Styles

Create a “Transfarmers” Text Effect Using Layer Styles in Photoshop

How to Create a Chocolaty Valentine’s Day Card for Your Girlfriend

Text In Stitches

Simple Dark But Vivid Text Effect

Create A Dynamic Shattering Text Effect

Delicate Text Effect

How To Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design

Type Illustration Project: Experimental Digital Workflow

Clouds Text Effect in Pixelmator

Create Detailed Letters of Gold and Diamond

Colorful Plexi Text Effect using Photoshop

Awesome Text Effect

Create a Swirly Type Treatment

Floral 3D Text Effect

Colorful Light Burst Text In Photoshop

Design a Skin-Textured Typography Scene

How to Create an Incredible Typographic Illustration – Part 1

Colorful light burst text effect

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

Create an Ancient Typography with Dry Soil Texture

How to Create an Ice Text Effect with Photoshop

Stunning 3D Effect

Create a Baseball-Inspired Text Effect in Photoshop

Elegant Leather Style Text Effect

Stars Candy Text Effect

Learn to Create Party Text Effect

Learn to Create Marble Text Effect

How to create Caramel Text Effect on Photoshop

Free Desktop Zooming Software: clZoom

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:02:36 +0000

ClZoom is a efficient, small and simple software which can be used to zoom on your desktop. It works somewhat like a magnifying glass, zooming in on the desired area of your desktop. It enables the user to zoom and enlarge the pixels of his or her desktop to a large extent. This software is extremely easy to use and in fact, usability is one of its main advantages. The fact that it is small and compact adds on to its already high feasibility. You can use this efficient and absolutely free software to magnify the pixels of your desktop to 16x times.

Features of this Free Desktop Zooming Software:

It is a freeware which implies that you can download this software without having to spend a single penny.
Its system requirements specifies Windows 7, Windows NT, Vista, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows XP.
This enterprising software supports multiple monitors.
You can use the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the magnification according to your needs.
This free software, namely, clZoom v0.01 can be used to achieve a range of magnifications, from 1x upto 16x.
It has a timer that automatically refreshes the screen. What is more, you can also change the refresh rate according to your requirements from 5ms to as high as 10 seconds.
It saves your preferences automatically.
This very efficient and compact software saves the window positions automatically too.
It is completely portable and can also be run from an USB stick.
It is handy and very small in size.
It requires absolutely no installation.
If it is launched, executed and ended properly then it will not leave any entry in the registry or the file system. Or in other words it can be termed as a stealth program.

Interface:

You will find that the software consists of a single screen which shows the magnified region and which can be enlarged to full screen as well. When you right click on the screen a drop down menu appears which consists of the always on top, timer refresh, refresh rate options.

One can change the refresh rate settings from a lower limit of 5ms to an upper limit of 10 seconds. It also saves not only the size but also the position of your window. In order to specify the required area of magnification move your mouse pointer to the screen and left click on it. Now move your mouse pointer out of the window and drag it accordingly. You will find the region being magnified on the screen of the utility.

You can also check out free software to enlarge images without losing quality.

Download and Installation of this Free Desktop Zooming Software:

clZoom v0.01 comes In a handy zip package which can be downloaded from the official website. The package is also available on numerous other websites across the internet. Once you finish downloading the package you can extract it in any folder and click on the icon which says clZoom.exe.

You can also check out smart zoom to zoom in on a section of a window.

Final Verdict

If you need a small but smart utility for magnification purpose clZoom v0.01 is the right choice for you.

Free Desktop Zooming Software: clZoom was originally published at I Love Free Software