Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if you have some experience with Photoshop it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results...

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Over the weekend, poll-making tool PollDaddy quietly released a new OpenSocial app called PollDaddy Jr. It's got all of PollDaddy's features squeezed into a "mini app" (not to be confused with a widget) that can travel the rounds to any OpenSocial-ready network...

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We’ve put together a great set of free Grunge & Textured brushes for you to use. The idea with these brushes is that they are to be used to create subtle grunge effects within your designs. We’ve made them from various dirty textures, surfaces and fabrics from images taken ourselves...

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Video lifestreaming has become more and more popular with the increasing availability of mobile video recording technology and the decreasing price of webcams. So why not try it out? We’ve put together a list of 20+ tools to help you get started streaming video of your life...

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A collection of the latest graphic design resources, adobe tutorials, inspirational posts and more from all around the graphic design community. Enjoy!...

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CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). You can use it to create demonstration videos for your web application...

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This animated JavaScript tooltip script is very simple with only 2kb of file size. It works in IE6+, Firefox, Opera and Safari. The main idea is to create a lightweight script that fades a tooltip with rounded corners attached to the cursor position...

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I am glad to announce you can now download my latest Wordpress theme “Night Transition”...

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AOL’s latest project is WalletPop, a personal finance counterpart to their popular site money.aol.com. The latter is oriented towards investing and business/finance news, while the former is simply here to help you manage your money better...

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In this tutorial, we will take the graphic we created in part 1 and save the images so we can use them when we code the site in part 3...

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The way you present your post is crucial to attract more visitors on your site and to enlarge your public. Every time I add a new post on my blog I spend a little bit of time to prepare a well presented post, adding for example some explanation images with some comments using a pencil and handwritten style which my readers love!...

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For beginner web designers - design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design!, Here is a collection of 27 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website. Some of them are really good!...

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Well, the picture above says it all If you want to learn how to create a Star Wars text effect like this you should visit this tutorial now. You will learn how to use different Blending Options & Layer Styles. ..

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I’m going to show you how to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. I will cover from Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation...

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Ok, here it is! The second part of Amaizing WordPress hacks article, hope you'll enjoy this one as you did the part one where we have learned how to forward section pages, Grab the textual content of a Post, Load a stylesheet with dynamic values dependent on the Page view, set Post Expiration time and date etc...

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Carousel.us is a Javascript 3D carousel, using the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js frameworks. It also uses PHP Easy Reflections by Richard Davey. You will find a configuration file which you can define the default parameters or you can also define them via URL using the GET method. You can set the Reflection opacity, Reflection height, spacing between images, Position of the carousel center, Carousel speed and Add onclick event on each image...

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I constantly come across excellent designs that feature various elements of nature and I’ve been collecting samples for a while now. Some use photos and others use illustration. Some feature bright skies and clouds, and others feature mountains, water, or grass. Feel free to list your favorites in the comments...

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I’ve launched a new website to document information on the world’s most iconic logo designers. The site features inspirational creatives such as Herb Lubalin, Steff Geissbuhler and Alan Fletcher. You might wonder why I’m using a new website rather than simply publishing the details here, or on Logo Design Love, so I’ll tell you a short story...

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Earlier today, I received an email from PayPal, indicating that my MoFuse Professional account – which I use for powering a mobile version of my web site under my own domain – had been cancelled. Confused, I emailed David Berube, Chief Architect of MoFuse, who gave me the good news: MoFuse has decided to make its service free for everyone...

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Less than two weeks ago TokBox released its Facebook chat application, enabling you to begin a video chat session from directly within Facebook’s internal instant messaging client. Today, TokBox is launching a completely new application on Adobe Air. This downloadable app acts as a complimentary option to the Web-based TokBox version, which is likely to be a more familiar experience to video Web chat users...

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Photobucket on Monday fixed a security hole that allowed people to view private photos of strangers.
All that was needed was the user ID of someone with a private album on Photobucket and the file name of one photo in their album, said Byron Ng, a Vancouver, B.C.-based computer technician who exposes security flaws in social networks and other sites...

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I have been very interested in typography, I have also noticed the growth of typography moving to the web. More specific, designers are paying more attention to typography when design for the web. There are many sites now that use typography to be a very powerful element. In my last post about typography We All Love Typography, the post was more concentrated on offline typography. Today we look at Web Typography, and I do believe the following examples will show you how powerful web typography is...

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Google Toolbar has a useful feature called AutoLink which detects the content from a page that follows some predefined patterns and adds links to pages that offer more information. AutoLink detects US addresses, UPS tracking numbers, International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) and Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) and links to relevant pages from sites like Google Maps, Amazon or CarFax. Despite its name, AutoLink adds the links only after you click on the Google Toolbar button and also shows the links in a drop-down menu...

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With my Google hat on, I got to interview Michael Marcus and Rui Ma, two recent graduates from a masters program at NYU. They joined me to discuss Gears on Rails, their open source framework that makes it easier than ever to take a Rails code-base offline.

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