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Whether you're designing a unique website background, a poster, sketch, or creating an artistic photo composition, using a watercolor Photoshop action can make your design stand out from the crowd. A watercolor effect it's not an easy effect to master when created from scratch. It takes a lot of work, time, and skill to achieve […]

On the CodeWall site Dan Englishby walks you through some of the basic functionality in the PHP language for working with arrays. In it he shows how to loop through an array using multiple tools including the usual control structures and others less widely used. PHP, just like most other programming languages has multiple ways to loop through arrays. The most popular ways to do it usually is with a while, for and foreach operator, but, believe it or not, there more ways to do it with PHP. In this article I will walk-through each possibility for reading arrays whilst looping. He breaks the article up into sections, one for each of the methods: the white loop the for loop the foreach loop the do/while loop using the ArrayIterator Each item in the list comes with a summary of how it works and some code showing it in action.

Creating a unique and user-friendly website quickly and effectively can be a stressful and cumbersome task. There are endless possibilities in the world of web design that can make even the simplest decisions, such as choosing a color palette, almost impossible. Fortunately, there have been many other web designers before us that have struggled with these same tasks, and […] The post 51 Free Web Design Resources Guaranteed To Help You Design Better appeared first on Line25.

Today’s Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop video tutorial is based on the metal text effect from the title artwork for the movie Fantastic Beasts. It’s a really nice shiny metal, almost chrome like effect with a mix of water droplets, lens flares and some really cool custom type that adds sharp scales to depict the scary […] The post Video Tutorial: How To Create a Metal Text Effect in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

There's a tendency in people to treat thank you pages as an afterthought (in case you don't know, thank you page is what appears after someone signs up for something through your landing page). The truth is that thank you pages offer you yet another opportunity to nurture leads, build relationships and increase sales. You...

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The style of a character design often depends on the software it was created with. Raster based applications like Photoshop lead to digitally painted artwork with realistic texturing and shading; 3D modelling programs like Maya allow artists to produce easily animated characters with realistic surface materials; while vector software like Adobe Illustrator typically lends itself […] The post Showcase of Stylish Vector Character Design Illustrations appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Hands up... Who loves their portfolio? If you’re like most designers, your arm is high in the air. After all, your portfolio represents your best work -- and it probably looks great, to boot. What’s not to love? Well, I... The post Does Your Portfolio Give Clients What They (Really) Want? appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.