The Full Guide on How to Take Better Portrait Photos.

Photos, especially portraits, project emotions and the art to taking a quality portrait photo is not easily mastered. The following guide at LoreleiWebDesign will allow you the ability to take quality portraits without the need of being a professional and you will be able to do it without spending a lot [...]

Choose your colors wisely.

The use of proper colors can make or break your web design. Color is complementary to content and in this post InspiringPixel discusses how you should be choosing the colors for your next website so that it shines with professionalism, ease of use and manages to look dazzling at the same [...]

Pre Print Basics: Generating Originals

Today we are going to talk about some pre print stuff, generating originals. As you can imagine there are a lot of things involving the creation of originals, pixel images, text, vector and/or bezier curves based images, more or less. CreativeOverflow tries to explain or help in the construction by giving information [...]

20 classy free Serif Fonts.

Anybody reading this post knows what a serif font is, so I need not elaborate. This is D-Lists’ selection of serif fonts that they consider to be ‘Classy’. I must admit that there a quite a few unfamiliar ones chosen.

Inspiring examples of Transparency in Logo Design.

Transparency effects in logo design help bring to life a digital mark, adding that extra level of depth and color. This showcase at SpoonGraphics provides some great design inspiration and shows how designers have creatively used transparency and overlaying effects to build unique logo designs.

Nine great Starter Tools for Freelancers.

Success as a freelancer requires more than just initiative and good business sense – it also takes the right tools. From managing your time to finding just the right photo, RotorBlog presents nine of the best websites for keeping your personal business afloat.

University Postcard Designs – Vintage Collection.

MyPostcardPrinting takes you on another nostalgic viewing experience with university postcard samples representing each university’s rich history. Let these postcards tell you the stories and see how the old campus buildings looked like before the advent of modern technology and architecture.

Free high-res Grungy, Rusty Metal and Dirty Textures

Grungy rusty metal textures can be very useful when designing posters or web layouts. You can add dirty, old and grungy quality to your projects. DesiznTech presents ten free high res (3008 x200) rusty, grungy metal and dirty textures.

Common Practices to increase Returning Visitors.

Regardless of how amazing your design looks, without any functional usage, readers will only stay for so long. Even worse they probably won’t return, which is what any website does not want. There is no getting around content as the number one factor to gain returning visitors, but there are some [...]

The power (and ease) of Patterns in Illustrator.

BittBox shows you four easy ways, in detail, to use a seamless vector pattern in Illustrator, easily and quickly. These methods are by no means advanced, so please keep reading, or bookmark this for later. You may find that the hardest part (besides FINDING Free seamless vector patterns) is aligning/repeating/tiling them [...]