14 October 2011 0 Comments

Test Your Photoshop Knowledge #2

We know how much you guys like to test your knowledge of Photoshop so today we are giving you an opportunity to do so with another quiz from Martin Perhiniak. Please take a moment to complete this 10-question quiz and see if you’re prepared to pass our test! Good luck! Editor’s note: this quiz is [...]

14 October 2011 0 Comments

Create a Retro Text Effect and Character Illustration – Psd Premium Tutorial

Designers often create line art in Illustrator and then bring it into Photoshop to add color and effects. In this Psd Premium tutorial, author Kervin Brisseaux will use Photoshop to create a retro text effect and character illustration with some pre-existing artwork that you can down with the tutorial source files. This tutorial is available [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

22 crazy, unusual and creative lamp designs

Balloon X LAMP by Haoshi TABISSO floor lamp collection Shark Tale Wrecking Ball Lamp Bang! Cereal Bowl Light Tri-9mm Gun lamp Book Rest Lamp Origami’s Hunter Lamps Icon lamp Light Light MiCha Sweet Cloud Lamp 1940s Hollywood Studio Floor Lamp The Nuke lamp Protea Fire lamp Suspended Glass Greenhouse Lamp Mushroom lamp Edward Chew’s Tetra [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

Group Listening Goes Mobile With Turntable.fm for iPhone

A few weeks ago, I covered the new (and as one commenter reminded me, US-only) social music web service Turntable.fm. It’s a fantastic social listening service that aggregates users into digital performances spaces where they can take turns spinning tracks and showing off their impeccable taste. The folks behind Turntable.fm released an iPhone app that [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

First Look: iOS 5 SDK

iOS 5 has been officially released, and iOS developers are eager to begin making use of the many new features available in the iOS 5 SDK! If you’re at all interested in developing for the iPhone as well as using one, our First Look at the iOS 5 SDK is a must-read. With the release [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

Quick Look: Top Tickets

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 Top Tickets. The developer describes Top Tickets as a mobile ticket app that has brought the power of buying [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress

    Imagine you’re playing the latest hash-tag game on Twitter when you see this friendly tweet: You might want to check your #WP site. It includes two copies of jQuery. Nothing’s broken, but loading time will be slower. You check your source code, and sure enough you see this: <script src=”/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.6.1″ type=”text/javascript”></script> <script src=”/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin/jquery.js”></script> [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

PrefixFree: Break Free From CSS Prefix Hell

    Editor’s note: This article is the first piece in our new series introducing new, useful and freely available tools and techniques presented and released by active members of the Web design community. Lea Verou is well-known for her experiments with CSS and JavaScript and in this post she presents her recent tool, prefixfree [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

Freebie: Twitter GUI PSD

    Updating your Twitter profile can give you really unnecessary headaches. In today’s post, we proudly present to you a Twitter UI GUI template, designed by Shelby White which has exclusively been released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and commerical projects. Download [...]

13 October 2011 0 Comments

Create Line Art for a Medieval Robot Character Illustration

Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and [...]

12 October 2011 0 Comments

Who’s Getting the iPhone 4S: AppStorm Writers Edition

We’re just two days away from either having the iPhone 4S show up on our doorstep or getting in line to pick one up. A couple of days ago, one of our staff writers started asking who was going to take the plunge and buy one. That was a good question the way I saw [...]

12 October 2011 0 Comments

Wunderlist: A Feature Rich Cloud-Sync Task Manager

Managing one’s busy schedule can almost become impossible without a necessary to-do or calendar app. Luckily, the App Store is filled with them, but finding the right one, free at that, is the ultimate challenge. Look no further than Wunderlist. Wunderlist, developed by 6 Wunderkinder, is a “cloud-sync task manager,” although sharing tasks with friends [...]