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Win a Free Book, ‘Art and Design in Photoshop’ – 12 for 2010, Day Eight
Dec 27th
As part of the eighth day of 12 for 2010 , we’re giving away a free copy of Art and Design in Photoshop by Steve Caplin. Entering only takes a few seconds, since all you’ve got to do is leave a comment. Too easy. Meet Ian Yates Ian started out as a Vectortuts+ writer, and is now the Activetuts+ editor. He knows more than a thing or two about Flash, illustration and web design. He drew all the caricatures for the 12 for 2010 celebration, and is probably the only person to have seen photos of the entire Tuts+ team who also lived to tell the tale! Win Art and Design in Photoshop About the Book Fancy designing your own classic and contemporary movie posters, books and magazine covers? Feel like turning your photographs into works by Turner, Matisse and Magritte? Want to create illustrations in the styles of The Simpsons, steampunk and Victorian engravings? Then you need Art and Design in Photoshop . In this unique book, acclaimed master of photomontage and visual trickery Steve Caplin shows you how to stretch your creative boundaries. Taking the same tried-and-tested practical approach as his best selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles, Steve’s step-by-step instructions recreate a dazzling and diverse array of fabulous design effects. You’ll learn how to design everything from wine labels to sushi cartons, from certificates to iPod advertising, from textbooks to pulp fiction. Written by a working pro, the clear guidelines pinpoint exactly what you need to know: how to get slick-looking results with minimum fuss, with a 16-page Photoshop Reference chapter that provides an at-a-glance guide to Photoshop tools and techniques for less experienced users. Steve explains both typography and the design process in a clear, informative and entertaining way. All the images, textures and fonts used in the book are supplied on the accompanying CD-ROM. Imaginative, inspirational and fun to use, this book is a must-have for every creative Photoshop user, both amateur and professional. Learn to quickly and ingeniously create fantastic graphic effects in Photoshop, from graffiti to classic art, newsprint and stained-glass windows Easy and fun to use with clear step-by-step instructions and hundreds of screenshots. Backwards compatible: fully up-to-date with the latest Photoshop release but also relevant for use with previous versions of Photoshop How to Enter in 10 Seconds or Less For the chance to win a free copy of the book, all you need to do is comment . Make sure to include your correct email address with your comment so that we can contact you

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Holiday Giveaways, Freebies and More!
Dec 7th
It’s hard to believe it’s almost a new decade, and with 2010 just around the corner it’s time to get celebrating the holiday season. There’s plenty happening around the Envato network of sites, read on to find out about it all! 27 Free Christmas Illustrations The best thing about the holiday season is getting presents, so we asked the very talented Kai Loon to put together a special set of completely free illustrations to give away. The set includes 27 illustrations to mix and match with everything you need to make cards and promotions. Download the set for free, to use in personal or commercial projects. Seasonal Files! Around this time of year you often find yourself in need of some creative assets themed for Christmas, new year and the holidays! We’ve assembled some of the best seasonal files from around the Envato Marketplaces into 5 great collections: Top Holiday Flash Files Christmas & Holiday Music Seasonal Vectors and Graphics Holiday Themed Motion Graphics Seasonal Email Templates $7000 of Giveaways over 24 Days on AppStorm Enjoy apps? Well our two App review blogs – Mac.AppStorm and Web.AppStorm – are running giveaways every single day for 24 days leading up to Christmas! It’s a total of 138 licenses worth over $7000 up for grabs, and David’s even thrown in a few free AppStorm holiday wallpapers! And if you enjoy AppStorm, look out for our third AppStorm site which is due to launch right after the giveaways, along with a redesign and a hub site at AppStorm.net! Winter of WordPress Selling WordPress themes has rapidly turned into a cottage industry allowing web designers and developers everywhere to earn a steady stream of income ranging from hundreds to many thousands of dollars a month. Because the quiet winter months are one of the best times to invest some time theming we’ve put together a little showcase site called Winter of WordPress to tell you all about the opportunities in WP theming! 96 Tuts+ Giveaways + Wallpaper + Caricatures For 12 days starting on December 21st, Tuts+ is going to be hosting a massive set of 96 giveaways across all 8 Tuts+ sites including pillows, books, Amazon vouchers and Plus memberships. On New Year’s Day there will also be a special 2010 wallpaper by James White and our very own Ian Yates is putting together caricatures of the entire Tuts+ team Special Edition Comics Plus ThinkGeek Giveaways Over on our work blogs FreelanceSwitch and WorkAwesome we’re celebrating the holiday season with ThinkGeek and Marketcircle giveaways along with our annual NC Winter’s FreelanceFreedom and Memo:random special comic strips! Happy New Year from Envato! So keep an eye out for it all happening across the Envato network throughout December! And from all of us here at Envato, have a lovely holiday season and a happy new year!

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The Best Flash Photo Gallery
Dec 5th
3D Wall Pro is one of the most beautiful and intuitive image/video gallery. Show this unique gallery to your clients and they’ll tell you how beautiful and easy it is. Creating the galleries is as easy as editing a simple file in notepad. Or, if you have Adobe Flash, you can customize the look of it.
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40 Professional Trainings of Adobe Premiere for Multimedia Developers
Nov 24th
Adobe Premiere Pro is Non-Linear Editor of choice for millions of multimedia developers who working as video editing and audio editing with famous products and even using in movie editing too, most of film makers using this famous tool for professional work, Premier Pro to work seamlessly and dynamically with the industry heavy weight Photoshop and After Effects for a complete comprehensive work flow. Hope you like “ 40 Professional Trainings for Multimedia Developers ” which is really professional collection for professionals. Between the layers: Work with transitions in titles Color titles creatively with Title Designer Adjusting Frame Size – Adobe Premiere Tutorial Inserting a Foreign Object into a Movie How to add text to a movie Audio Effects in Premiere Pro CS4 Import Photoshop, Illustrator, and still-image files Earth Shake for Adobe Premiere Leave Color for Adobe Premiere Clip Trimming in Premiere Pro Working with Photoshop Documents in Premiere Pro Insert or overlay clips from the Project window Spatial Controls in Premiere Pro Use nested sequences in projects DavTechTable After Effects CS3 Intro to P2 MXF workflow Text Attributes in Premiere Pro Premiere Pro: Frame Holds and Clip Speed Creating Transitions in Premiere Pro Animate Using KeyFrames in Premiere Pro Automation Modes: Live Audio Mixing in Premiere Pro Using the Project Manager in Premiere Pro Title Templates in Premiere Pro Using Clip Markers in Adobe Premiere Creating Synthetic Media in Adobe Premiere Premiere Pro CS4 Nest Command Premiere Pro CS4 Lift and Extract Premiere Pro CS4 Blends Premiere Pro CS4 Sync Lock Premiere Pro CS4 – Simulated Rain Tutorial Premiere Pro CS3 – Picture in Picture Tutorial How to edit videos with adobe premiere pro cs4 How to render/export in Adobe Premiere Pro FMC Tutorial – Capturing Footage in Premiere Pro CS4 AVCHD Editing in Premiere Pro CS4 Production Premium Tutorial on Greenscreen and Virtual Sets Premiere Pro CS4 Batch Encoding Premiere Pro CS4 Multiple Effects Premiere Pro CS4 Transcribe FMC Tutorial – Adding titles in Premiere Pro CS4 Premiere Pro CS4 – Using Dynamic Link with Encore Related posts: 25+ Best Movie Editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 Tutorials Best Video editing’s Tutorials using Adobe Premiere Pro CS4,… 10+ Basic Adobe Flash Video Tutorials Flash is a household name when it comes to… 25+ Overwhelming Adobe After Effects Tutorials Adobe after Effects is commonly used for creating visual… Adobe Acrobat 9 Learning Videos for You Although not as admired as Photoshop or Illustrator, Acrobat… 45+ Advanced Adobe Flash Actionscript Trainings In Latest tendency of animation arena and when technology… Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin .

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Learn How to Draw Hand-crafted Pixel Art in Photoshop
Nov 17th
In this tutorial, legendary Aussie illustrator Russel Tate teaches you how to draw with pixels. You’ll learn how to create awesome artwork in the style of eBoy and Army of Trolls . This article was kindly shared with Psdtuts+ by iStockphoto as part of a knowledge exchange between the two sites. Read on and enjoy! To celebrate this knowledge exchange, iStockphoto have created a special 15% discount for Psdtuts+ readers. Introduction Pixel illustrations are great for making computer icons, isometric images and even whole scenes. They can be made quickly and easily using Photoshop with a couple of quick tweaks to the preference settings. The only drawback though, is that the pixel art looks best when each pixel has been placed by hand as opposed to using some Photoshop filter. That’s right, placed by hand — I know this sounds a little crazy especially when some pixel scenes have thousands of pixels in them. But without the hand placement your pixel art can look like a bad Lo Res image, so beware! I think a good rule of thumb before starting off is that you should be able to see your creation clearly as a group of different colored squared bricks, but then if you squint and blur your eyes you can make it out as an image. Imagine …

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35+ Web Developers Useful Ajax Tutorials
Oct 17th
Here is a bundle pack about AJAX Tutorials for Web Developers , Ajax a short form of synchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many contemporary and popular web sites. Ajax provide web developers with copiousness of opportunities to improve the user practice and improve the presentation of their websites, In the recent years, There has been a larger plunge on developing rich Internet applications. The web developers are driven to newer technologies that could enrich users experience, Some examples about functionality: in voting pole With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. web designers can use the greatest development tool If they already know about JavaScript, HTML , CSS and XML then you will need to spend your few mints to start with AJAX learning. It’s one of the first choices building faster and responsive user interface. Ajax, which consists of HTML , JavaScript™ technology, DHTML, and DOM, is an outstanding approach that helps you transform clunky Web interfaces into interactive Ajax applications. Here is the list of 35+ Web Developers Useful Ajax Tutorials , which includes some useful tutorials with real time professional examples. Ajax Username Availability Checker Using MooTools 1.2 New WordPress Plugin: WDP AJAX Comments Ajax and XML: Ajax for tables Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Frameworks How To: AJAXify WordPress Comment Posting Ajax and XML: Ajax for chat How To Create An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher An Introduction to the Raphael JS Library Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP RSS Ajax JavaScript ticker Create a Dynamic Scrolling Content Box Using AJAX Create a shoutbox using PHP and AJAX (with jQuery) Building …

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Flash Web Gallery
Sep 23rd
Koflash.com is a flash websites gallery featuring very impressive flash websites collected from various categories such as 3D, automobiles, games, movies, music, photography, and portfolios. These flash websites will give you different tastes of visual experiences with full of motion graphics, transition effects and interactivities. You may browse through the site for your design inspirations,
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