To learn and get inspired

When creatives make their psd-files available for free on the internet we get the chance to reconstruct the creation process of another artist layer by layer. There’s a lot to learn when photoshop professionals allow a look behind the scenes.

Great visual design from the world of advertising

Today we once again present a neat collection to get your creative juice flowing. For you we dived into the area of poster advertising and searched for outstanding examples from current campaigns and marvelous poster design studies.

For your flyers, web designs or graphic compositions

Textures are very handy to easily create natural looking structures. Photoshop tends to be too “clean” to create these from scratch in the same time. Through different filter combinations it would, of course, be possible. However, the time and effort invested stand in no reasonable relation to the outcome. Here we collected some of the most beautiful ones for you.

Everything you need for a beautiful Valentine’s design

Valentine’s day is less than 2 weeks ahead. February 14 is probably the most romantic day of the year. You wish to give your loved one a beautiful present but don’t have a good idea about the styling? We gladly help you out and scanned the web for useful resources to create a beautiful Valentines design for your gift and put them in this collection of brushes, textures and tutorials.

Showcase for design professionals

A portfolio is a collection of objects of a certain type. A photographer showcases his shots, a graphic designer his compositions and a web designer presents screens of his web projects. This collection showcases 30 of the most recent and beautiful portfolios to fuel your creativity.

Creating successful logos

The last part of our logo design feature is about creating a successful logo. Which form factors, layouts and compositions work? We also introduce you to the 6 basic requirements of successful logos.

High quality workshops and tutorials

Hundreds of great tutorials and workshops are created each year. Almost everyone has a favourite source he visits on a regular base to get some inspiration or learn new techniques. It’s close to impossible to keep up with all this content and missing out on some is inevitable. But hey, don’t worry! In this article we present a collection of 30 Photoshop tutorials you missed in 2010. Probably.

Basic elements

The third part of our logo design feature covers basic visual elements often used in logo design. What are they, what do they mean and how are they used? The first two parts of our series were about defining logos and the different logo types we see every day.