Artists, designers and illustrators love to produce fan art for their favourite movies and TV shows. As one of the biggest elements of modern pop culture, Game of Thrones has been the inspiration for many pieces of tribute art and personal works, with creatives making various kinds of digital paintings, illustrations and designs. In today’s […] The post Showcase of Thrilling Game of Thrones Inspired Fan Art appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Since its introduction in 2011, the Chromebook has taken a firm place in the laptop market and has offered professionals and graphic designers alike a laptop that is built to handle any of the daily tasks that they need to accomplish. Choosing the best one for your needs, however, can be a difficult proposition with all the choices out there. To help, we wanted to narrow our focus to help you pick the best Chromebook you can use as a graphic designer. That way, you not only get a high-quality laptop at an affordable price but also one that doesn't skimp on the specs so you can handle anything during your day. Before we start though, let's make sure our shopping list is up to date so we know what to look for in our next Chromebook. Top Laptops 17 Essential Tools for Designers Best Chromebooks for designers Best laptops for designers Best computers for designers Best Macbooks for designers Fastest laptops for designers Best laptops for programming & coding Best budget laptops for designers Best bags & backpacks for laptops Top Gear for Video Editing Best monitors for editing video Best laptops for video editing Best computers for video […]

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In today’s Adobe Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to turn anything into gold using this simple combination of Photoshop filters and tools. The effect smooths out the details of a regular image and adds an array of shiny reflections to mimic the appearance of a polished metal statue. A gradient overlay gives […] The post Video Tutorial: How to Turn Anything into Gold in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Jen Segers: Goodbye controllers, hello request handlers Gonzalo Ayuso: PHP application in SAP Cloud Platform. With PostgreSQL, Redis and Cloud Foundry Jeff Madsen: PhpStorm: Tasks & Contexts with Your Git Branches Twilio Blog: Laravel and Twilio: Group Video Chat SitePoint PHP Blog: Let's Compare: RunCloud vs Forge vs ServerPilot Laravel News: Laracon EU 2017 Talk Videos are now on Youtube Symfony Blog: Symfony 3.4 and 4.0 are about to enter into their "feature freeze" period php[architect] Podcast: Episode 2: Embracing Change Ibrahim Gunduz: Sending Logs From Symfony Applications To GrayLog Through RabbitMQ PHP.net: PHP 7.1.10 Release Announcement Freek Van der Herten: A trait to dynamically add methods to a class Sergey Zhuk: Understanding ReactPHP Event Loop Ticks PHP.net: PHP 7.2.0 Release Candidate 3 Released Laravel News: Testing Laravel Middleware with HTTP Tests Laravel News: Measure Anything in Laravel with StatsD Pineco.de: Implementing Laravel's Authorization on the Front-End Laravel News Podcast: Episode 46 - Laravel 5.5 releases, dynamic templates, and community surveys

Laravel Sign in With Apple is a socialite package for integrating Sign in with Apple. The post Sign In With Apple for Laravel Socialite appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this ...

Olivia Ng has done loads of wonderful work here on CodePen and off (check out her super cool travel bucket list site) She got started just out of pure desire to build things. “I just really like the internet” she told me. Hear hear! Her eye for design takes all her work to the next […] The post 349: With Olivia appeared first on CodePen Blog.

An unreliable, semi-broken and unresponsive website is an excellent way to lose leads and visitors -- regardless of how aesthetically pleasing or well-designed, the visual elements are. Over the past decade, we've seen more initiative to deliver faster internet to regions of the world that were previously devoid of it. With online communities expanding and […] The post 3 Best Website Uptime Monitoring Tools first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Salt Security, a company that provides API security services, has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at increasing the visibility of key API vulnerabilities. This new resource, Salt Labs, will operate as an open forum and research hub that leverages the company's internal research.

Using voice commands has become pretty ubiquitous nowadays, as more mobile phone users use voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana, and as devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have been invading our living rooms. These systems are built with speech recognition software that allows their users to issue voice commands. Now, our web browsers will become familiar with to Web Speech API, which allows users to integrate voice data in web apps.The post Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js appeared first on Smashing Magazine.