Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of files for only $20.
The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six code packages for CSS, JavaScript, WordPress and [...]
A quick bit of news today to let you know that Psdtuts+ has joined the Smashing Network which means you’ll now be able to see Psdtuts+ posts appear on Smashing’s awesome Web Design Post Network section! The quality of sites in the network is simply phenomenal, and I’m thrilled that Vitaly and the crew are [...]
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 Aqueduct. The developer describes Aqueduct as a world of jumbled waterways and mixed-up pipelines. It’s up to you to rearrange [...]
Envato, the company behind AppStorm, is turning four! To celebrate we’ve just released our Birthday Bundle for 2010 and it’s even more MASSIVE than last year!
Envato Birthday Bundle 2010
What do you get?
Over $400 of Envato Marketplace files including WordPress themes, graphics, audio, video and more!
$50 of hosting from MediaTemple
A $10 discount on any RockablePress book
How [...]
The fourth generation iPhone shattered records for opening day sales and continues to sell quite well despite antenna-gate. This means there are bound to be tons of brand new iPhone users out there who are still getting the hang of their new favorite toy.
We decided to give these users a hand by both drudging up [...]
At one time or another, we are all newbies. That’s right: you can deny it all you want, but not one of us got into this game with a full deck stacked in our favor. We entered as newbies, born fresh after the start screen loaded. However, unlike in a game, we are [...]
Today we are glad to release Color Stream, a free iPhone App, created by Sahil Lavingia (@slavingia on Twitter) and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Color stream lets you create and store color palettes that are either created from scratch or generated from a photo, or even generated automatically using a [...]
During the last few years Psdtuts+ has grown considerably. We went from one tutorial site, to a family of them; each with their own unique focus. About two and a half years ago, Psdtuts+ was the first Tuts+ site to go Premium. Since then, we have had a total of 7 sites launch premium subscriptions, [...]
Ornamental text can be created in several ways. Today we will demonstrate how to combine several stock images to create some nice gold ornamental typography. Let’s get started!
Resources Used
The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial:
Clouds
Grunge Texture
Splatter Brushes
Grunge Brushes
Blair Caps Font
3 Ornamental Stocks
Splatter Brushes 2
Brushes for Aztec
Step 1
Create a new document 1400 [...]
With all the games, social networking and productivity apps flooding the App Store, it’s easy to forget that your iPhone is the best mobile music device on the market.
Aside from the awesome built-in iPod, there are plenty of great radio apps out there that allow you to listen instantly to just about anything you could [...]
In a recession, companies go one of two ways: either they become the cautious cat, adopting a wait-and-see attitude, spending carefully on their marketing and less overall, cutting back, or they become the ferocious lion, bold, taking advantage of their competitors’ caution to seize opportunities in the tough market.
Whatever your approach, remember that [...]
Participating in online art collectives offers numerous advantages. A collective is a great forum to get your worked reviewed by professionals and critiqued by peers. By working together unique opportunities arise for fusing style and stretching your creative abilities. You can grow close connections with other talented artists, and learn to solve design/illustration problems by [...]
