30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II

You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials to our previous entry, you have over 70 ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.

While you are at it, here’s more Photoshop tutorials you might be interested:

• Icons - Hand-picked Photoshop Icon Designs
• Web Interface - Greatest Web Interface Design Tutorials
• Text - Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
• Photo - Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects
• more..

Full list after jump.

1. Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions

   This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.

   

2. Fairy Night Eye

   How to correct the photos’ colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars.

   

3. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

   

4. Compositing with Adjustment Layers

   Created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

   

5. Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

   How to add a sparkle trail to a photo

   

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30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II

You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials to our previous entry, you have over 70 ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.

While you are at it, here’s more Photoshop tutorials you might be interested:

• Icons - Hand-picked Photoshop Icon Designs
• Web Interface - Greatest Web Interface Design Tutorials
• Text - Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
• Photo - Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects
• more..

Full list after jump.

1. Using Ink Drops in Your Digital Compositions

   This tutorial demonstrates techniques to creatively work ink drops into your compositions.

   

2. Fairy Night Eye

   How to correct the photos’ colors, change the eyes color, work with the layers, applying ready brushes and designs, create your own design and to picture the stars.

   

3. Make your image look awesome with a few light effects

   

4. Compositing with Adjustment Layers

   Created a dark and mysterious scene with a young girl paused in an eerily calm storm.

   

5. Add A Sparkle Trail To A Photo

   How to add a sparkle trail to a photo

   

Read Full Article

40+ Greatest Web Interface Design Photoshop Tutorials, Part I

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Whether you kick off a web interface design by sketching on papers or blank Photoshop canvas, it’s good to get some guides and inspirations. Here we’ve compiled some of the nicest Photoshop tutorial that guides you, step by step, building up a web interface all the way from scratch.

While you are at it, here’s more design related content we’ve written previously that might interest you

• 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials]
• Javascripts Resources: 20+ Scripts, Tutorials and Frameworks
• Best Color Tools For Web Designers
• 50 Websites For Free Vector Images Download
• 18 Forums Web Designers Shouldn’t Missed
• 22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Full list after jump.

1. Beer/bar restaurant website layout

   

2. Design a Web 2.0 tab with Photoshop

   

3. How To Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu

   How to make a semi-transparent Vista-inspired menu using gradients, shadows, and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect.

   

4. Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

   Produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

   

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40+ Greatest Web Interface Design Photoshop Tutorials, Part I

Don't miss any post. Subscribe to Hongkiat's RSS feed now.

Whether you kick off a web interface design by sketching on papers or blank Photoshop canvas, it’s good to get some guides and inspirations. Here we’ve compiled some of the nicest Photoshop tutorial that guides you, step by step, building up a web interface all the way from scratch.

While you are at it, here’s more design related content we’ve written previously that might interest you

• 41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects [Photoshop Tutorials]
• Javascripts Resources: 20+ Scripts, Tutorials and Frameworks
• Best Color Tools For Web Designers
• 50 Websites For Free Vector Images Download
• 18 Forums Web Designers Shouldn’t Missed
• 22 Best Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Full list after jump.

1. Beer/bar restaurant website layout

   

2. Design a Web 2.0 tab with Photoshop

   

3. How To Create a Stunning Vista Inspired Menu

   How to make a semi-transparent Vista-inspired menu using gradients, shadows, and blurring to produce a stunning modern effect.

   

4. Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

   Produce nice subtle 3D effects in our web designs.

   

Read Full Article

70 Outstanding Out of Bounds Photos

Out of bounds (OOB) photos are post processed photos where the contents are taken outside the boundaries, presented in creative 3-dimensional perspective. OOB photos can be achieve with some basic photo editing skills. Getting an interesting OOB photo depend largely on the photo angle and individual creativity. Here we present - 70 Outstanding Out of Bounds Photos, all hand-picked. Full list after jump.

OOB guy
via gali

3D-rop
via Stridsberg

111 Ready for Launch Sir
via dela7

Lion OOB
via Micah A. Ponce

Alligator OOB
via Micah A. Ponce

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70 Outstanding Out of Bounds Photos

Out of bounds (OOB) photos are post processed photos where the contents are taken outside the boundaries, presented in creative 3-dimensional perspective. OOB photos can be achieve with some basic photo editing skills. Getting an interesting OOB photo depend largely on the photo angle and individual creativity. Here we present - 70 Outstanding Out of Bounds Photos, all hand-picked. Full list after jump.

OOB guy
via gali

3D-rop
via Stridsberg

111 Ready for Launch Sir
via dela7

Lion OOB
via Micah A. Ponce

Alligator OOB
via Micah A. Ponce

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Is Blogging Killing Us Technology Bloggers?

Here’s a little health report of some of the notable bloggers we know. Matt of Gizmodo passed out a few times and were unreachable; Michael Arrington of TechCrunch suffered from severe sleep disorder and was hospitalized for couple of times because of nervous breakdown; Om Malik of GigaOM had an heart attack but survived. Pretty scary huh, here more - Russell Shaw died at of heart attack, and Marc Orchant, died of a massive coronary. All tech bloggers.

The fact is that tech bloggers, particularly the probloggers live a different life than the rest. Lifestyle bloggers for instance, write whenever they feels like to, no pressure. In the technology blogosphere, being amongst the first to cover tech news is considered highly important. But perhaps we overlooked something more important - our health ?

A lot of bloggers aim to convert themselves full time, a problogger. One often sees lots of advantages being full time blogger and often, missed to see there’s also the negative side. Yes, there’s maximum time flexibility but that also means you could be blogging at any hours and resulted your body to missed the regular sleeping hours. I noticed myself consumed more caffeines and nicotines after going full time. LiewCF put on weight, waking up when most people are sleeping. And because you need to do more blogging after converted to full time, some bloggers even start to lose passion and slack off.

It takes a little bit of self discipline to overcome these. Well yeah, it’s easy to say but from my point of view, it’s hard to implement.

Read more at NY Times.

Is Blogging Killing Us Technology Bloggers?

Here’s a little health report of some of the notable bloggers we know. Matt of Gizmodo passed out a few times and were unreachable; Michael Arrington of TechCrunch suffered from severe sleep disorder and was hospitalized for couple of times because of nervous breakdown; Om Malik of GigaOM had an heart attack but survived. Pretty scary huh, here more - Russell Shaw died at of heart attack, and Marc Orchant, died of a massive coronary. All tech bloggers.

The fact is that tech bloggers, particularly the probloggers live a different life than the rest. Lifestyle bloggers for instance, write whenever they feels like to, no pressure. In the technology blogosphere, being amongst the first to cover tech news is considered highly important. But perhaps we overlooked something more important - our health ?

A lot of bloggers aim to convert themselves full time, a problogger. One often sees lots of advantages being full time blogger and often, missed to see there’s also the negative side. Yes, there’s maximum time flexibility but that also means you could be blogging at any hours and resulted your body to missed the regular sleeping hours. I noticed myself consumed more caffeines and nicotines after going full time. LiewCF put on weight, waking up when most people are sleeping. And because you need to do more blogging after converted to full time, some bloggers even start to lose passion and slack off.

It takes a little bit of self discipline to overcome these. Well yeah, it’s easy to say but from my point of view, it’s hard to implement.

Read more at NY Times.

31 Practical (Web) Interface Design Tutorials

Designing a website has never been easier. If you asked a web designer who been long enough in the industry, they could tell you there’s actually not much resources, articles nor communication channels regarding web design/develop in the older days, let alone high quality free tutorials.

If you intend to create your own personal websites or perhaps redesign your blog theme, it’s not something too hard already. Thanks to generous designers and contributors, the net is full of great tutorials with step by step guides helping you building web interfaces and navigation. And with this blog post, we’ve probably just scratched the surface of what’s out there. We’ve previously showcased you 40 great Web Interface Design, and today we want to show you another 31 Practical Interface Design Photoshop tutorials. Full list after jump.

Headers and Navigation

Creating effective navigation for websites are essentially important as they determine how visitors surf and navigate your website. We’ve hand-picked some really sleek and simple navigation tutorials for the showcase. Making tweaks and changes will come pretty easy once you’ve mastered these tutorials.

1. Retro Dark Blue Header Design

   How to create a dark blue header with a retro spin on it.

   

2. Wii Web Header

   How to design the Wii header found at Nintendo.com.

   

3. Colorful Design Studio Header

   How to create a colorful design studio header layout.

   

4. Metallic Header Design

   

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31 Practical (Web) Interface Design Tutorials

Designing a website has never been easier. If you asked a web designer who been long enough in the industry, they could tell you there’s actually not much resources, articles nor communication channels regarding web design/develop in the older days, let alone high quality free tutorials.

If you intend to create your own personal websites or perhaps redesign your blog theme, it’s not something too hard already. Thanks to generous designers and contributors, the net is full of great tutorials with step by step guides helping you building web interfaces and navigation. And with this blog post, we’ve probably just scratched the surface of what’s out there. We’ve previously showcased you 40 great Web Interface Design, and today we want to show you another 31 Practical Interface Design Photoshop tutorials. Full list after jump.

Headers and Navigation

Creating effective navigation for websites are essentially important as they determine how visitors surf and navigate your website. We’ve hand-picked some really sleek and simple navigation tutorials for the showcase. Making tweaks and changes will come pretty easy once you’ve mastered these tutorials.

1. Retro Dark Blue Header Design

   How to create a dark blue header with a retro spin on it.

   

2. Wii Web Header

   How to design the Wii header found at Nintendo.com.

   

3. Colorful Design Studio Header

   How to create a colorful design studio header layout.

   

4. Metallic Header Design

   

Read Full Article