24 July 2010 0 Comments

Quick Look: Instaviz Diagram Sketching

Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!
In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting Instaviz – Diagram Sketching. The developer describes the app as a pocket whiteboard for your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. [...]

24 July 2010 0 Comments

Interview With Croatian Artist Ranko Blazina

Recently, I had a chance to talk with Ranko Blazina who is a very talented and award winning digital artist from Croatia. We talked about his work, career, his techniques and style. Amazing and inspiring words came from Ranko and I welcome you to read the interview.

Q Hello, welcome to the PSDTUTS! Please, introduce yourself, [...]

23 July 2010 0 Comments

iPhone Game Friday: New Releases

This week in Game Friday we take a look at another five great new releases to the App Store from the last two weeks. From the highly enjoyable Gravedigger to the excellent iPhone version of Monkey Island, we hope there is something for everyone to get their teeth into.
If you have any comments, or an [...]

23 July 2010 0 Comments

Free Full Layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit

  

In this post we release a free Facebook GUI PSD Kit, designed by SurgeWorks and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The main idea behind the kit is to speed up the prototyping of Facebook application UIs and Facebook fan pages, thus sparing you from drawing all the comps and letting you [...]

23 July 2010 0 Comments

What Do We Really Mean By Art?

  

Mark Rothko, an American artist who described himself as an “abstract painter”, once said that he was not the kind of person interested in the relationship of form, color or similars. He didn’t define himself as an abstractionist, but rather as a person interested only in expressing basic human emotions such as doom, tragedy, [...]

23 July 2010 0 Comments

Create a Medieval Fantasy Castle Gate in Photoshop

Photoshop’s wide variety of tools enable you to perform complex photo manipulations with relative ease. Today, we will demonstrate how to combine Photoshop’s tools with photo manipulation techniques to create a medieval fantasy castle gate. Let’s get started!

Resources Used
The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial. Each item is freely available to [...]

22 July 2010 0 Comments

Documents To Go: Your Mobile iPhone Office

One of the flagship features of smartphones in general is the ability to read, create and edit documents from your mobile while on the go. After all, they are supposed to be mobile computers and we have come to expect a lot from them in recent years.
With a powerful device like the iPhone, it is [...]

22 July 2010 0 Comments

A Complete Guide To Tumblr

  

Think of Tumblr as micro-blogging on steroids (technically, it’s called “tumblelogging”). Whereas Twitter and similar services limit posts to 140 characters or less, Tumblr lets you post updates of any length, although it’s best suited to short-format posts. Tumblr bridges the gap between full-blown blog and micro-blog.

Tumblr is also an option for designers [...]

22 July 2010 0 Comments

Interface Design – Creative Session Wrap

It’s a wrap. This session has covered a mix of interface design topics. We’ve looked at quite a bit of inspirational icon and graphic user interface design articles, after reviewing theory on topics like creating user friendly interfaces. We’ve reviewed both in depth detailed tutorials and case studies. This session posted across numerous Tuts+ sites: [...]

22 July 2010 0 Comments

Create Photoshop Stencil Art – Psd Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!

This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips
Urban art has fast become the de-facto graphic style for practically [...]

21 July 2010 0 Comments

NotifyMe: Beautiful Push Notification Tasks and To Do’s

Task management has been one of the most explored categories in the App Store. There are tons of to-do list applications that all offer the same basic features and allow users to list and check off tasks as they are done. Taking a departure from this conventional way of thinking, PoweryBase has come up with [...]

21 July 2010 0 Comments

Designing Style Guidelines For Brands And Websites

  

A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide.
Edward Tufte once said: “Great design is not democratic; it comes from [...]