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Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an iPhone Icon
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Illustrator Tutorial: How to Create an iPhone Icon

Welcome back to another Adobe Illustrator-based tutorial, in which we’re going to take a close look at the process of creating a simple iPhone icon, using nothing more than some basic geometric shapes that we’re going to adjust here and there. 1. Set Up a New Project File As with any new project, we’re going…

Ways to Keep the Mobile Experience in the Forefront of Your Website’s Design

Ways to Keep the Mobile Experience in the Forefront of Your Website’s Design

“Mobile first” is front and center. Design your website with this in mind: Place as much value on the use of mobile devices as your customers do. The share of Americans that own smartphones is now 77%, up from just 35% in Pew Research Center’s first survey of smartphone ownership conducted in 2011. Consumers are…

Free High-Res Photoshop Brushes: Grungy Watercolor
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Free High-Res Photoshop Brushes: Grungy Watercolor

I’ve got another set of killer brushes for everyone. These are, as always, super large brushes. There are 10 in the set, and I also included a zip file with PNGs for non-Photoshop users. I’ll be releasing the actual textures themselves in another post soon. I made these from a combination of watercolor and india…

Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
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Free Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes

Here is a nice set of Photoshop Brushes from BittBox. I’m constantly going back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop in my projects, and I’m starting to pretty much make everything from scratch. I often have trouble finding brushes that are big enough for what I’m doing, so I just made my own. The smallest…

Illustrator 101: How to Fix The Annoying Grayscale Color Problem

Illustrator 101: How to Fix The Annoying Grayscale Color Problem

If you’ve ever run into this annoying little Illustrator problem, it can be very frustrating, but it has a simple fix. Every so often you may find that no matter what color you select, Illustrator converts your selection to grayscale… Grayscale refers to the set of colors or color scheme that consists of repeated grey…

WordPress vs. Duda: Which Platform Offers Better Value for Web Development Agencies?

WordPress vs. Duda: Which Platform Offers Better Value for Web Development Agencies?

That’s a statement that you can’t ignore when you’re running an online business. After all, if you make the mistake of housing your web development agency on a platform that’s lacking both in reliability and features, it’ll only be a matter of time before you spend an extra thousand dollars more for additional tools so…

38 Online Store Websites Running on Shopify
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38 Online Store Websites Running on Shopify

Web designers around the world have been captivated by Shopify. It’s an online e-commerce CMS which is self-hosted and managed by the Shopify team. Webmasters can purchase their own domain name and launch a store just like any regular website – but without deep concerns over server management. For anyone looking into Shopify it is…

Shopify vs Magento – Comparing Both Platforms

Shopify vs Magento – Comparing Both Platforms

Both Shopify and Magento are well-established ecommerce platforms whose business consists of providing online-store operations for every type of interested business owner. Ever since it was launched, Shopify has hit a lucky streak, and boasted more than $10 billion of merchant profit in only 10 years. No wonder its carts are the most popular in the…