12 January 2012 0 Comments

Create a Lava Monster Concept Painting

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 [...]

11 January 2012 0 Comments

Why the App Store Is the Biggest Pain on My iPhone

I’m used to reviewing apps. I’ve reviewed quite a few over the past months, and I plan on reviewing many more. I purchase each application that I end up reviewing (as well as many others), so I spend a lot of time in the App Store. Using the App Store has been more painful than [...]

11 January 2012 0 Comments

Win One of Ten Copies of Audium!

Just about a month ago, we reviewed Audium, a music app for your iPhone that creates a simpler user experience than the built-in Music app, and in the process, makes it easier and smoother to listen to your tunes. Now, we’ve been fortunate enough to receive ten promo codes for Audium, and we’ve decided to [...]

11 January 2012 0 Comments

It Works For “You”: A User-Centric Guideline To Product Pages

    Product pages for e-commerce websites are often rife with ambitions: recreate the brick-and-mortar shopping experience, provide users with every last drop of product information, build a brand persona, establish a seamless check-out process. As the “strong link in any conversion,” product pages have so much potential. We can create user-centric descriptions and layouts [...]

11 January 2012 0 Comments

The Stunning Paintings of John Barry Ballaran

Today we are featuring the art of Filipino digital artist John Barry Ballaran. His stunning digital paintings feature a wide variety of themes ranging from super heroes to cyber punk monsters. Let’s take a look. Wolv This portrait of a popular superhero captures all of his emotion perfectly. Rain This stunning painting features a monumental [...]

10 January 2012 0 Comments

Quora: Ask Questions, Get Answers

Everyone has questions. Whether it’s about a favorite television show, the best pizza in New York City or something that they’re itching to ask the founder of their favorite company, we all have an urge to inquire about our worlds. In each case, where there’s a question there’s (probably) an answer locked away in someone [...]

10 January 2012 0 Comments

Quora: Ask Questions, Get Answers

Everyone has questions. Whether it’s about a favorite television show, the best pizza in New York City or something that they’re itching to ask the founder of their favorite company, we all have an urge to inquire about our worlds. In each case, where there’s a question there’s (probably) an answer locked away in someone [...]

10 January 2012 0 Comments

Weekly Poll: Who’s Your Service Provider?

Who’s Your Service Provider? Although this very site is considered to be US based, our parent company is in Australia, my boss is in the UK and most of the writers come from all over the world, creating quite the mix of people. All of us who work for the site have iPhones obviously, but [...]

10 January 2012 0 Comments

Weekly Poll: Who’s Your Service Provider?

Who’s Your Service Provider? Although this very site is considered to be US based, our parent company is in Australia, my boss is in the UK and most of the writers come from all over the world, creating quite the mix of people. All of us who work for the site have iPhones obviously, but [...]

10 January 2012 0 Comments

New High-Quality Free Fonts

    Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you [...]

10 January 2012 0 Comments

Win a Free Copy of Filter Forge 3.0

Let’s be honest, most of Photoshop’s default filters and effects don’t give you much flexibility and don’t always look very realistic. Filter Forge is a powerful third-party plugin for Photoshop that allows you to do some pretty amazing things with filters, and even create your own. Today, our friends at Filter Forge are giving away [...]

10 January 2012 0 Comments

Photoshop Compositing Secrets: Create a Studio Sports Portrait

We recently had the opportunity to chat with Matt Kloskowski about his new book, Photoshop Compositing Secrets. Photoshop Compositing Secrets demonstrates some excellent techniques to help you create realistic compositions in Photoshop. Matt was generous enough to let us publish one of the tutorials from his book on our site for all of you to [...]