Tuesday, July 26, 2011

30 Recent Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers

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Photoshop is near-ubiquitous with graphics-based web design. Even if you don’t consider yourself a graphic designer, having some Photoshop skills can really come in handy with your web design work. And tutorials take a lot out of the learning curve, so you can just follow the steps and get up to speed fairly quickly.

This article shares with you the 30 Recent Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers. Specifically, it covers web layout, UI elements, and Icon Photoshop tutorials. Think of it as a follow-up to our previous article that showcased Modern UI and Layout Tutorials for Photoshop.

Without further ado, here are 30 Recent Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers:

Web Layout Photoshop Tutorials

Create a Clean, Minimal Website Design in Photoshop

Create a clean, minimal website design using some simple techniques. This design would be perfect for a photography website or similar creative professional.

Create a Consulting Web Layout

Create a consulting web layout. You can use this tutorial to also create a business web layout, a lawyer layout, etc.

Design a Fresh Web Service/SaaS Website Interface

Design a clean and fresh interface that can be used for any web service or SaaS-based web app. The tutorial covers some trademark web elements such as ribbons, buttons and stickers, as well as some basics including shapes, masks, typography, and more.

Design an Innovative Portfolio Site Using Alternative UI/UX

Create a portfolio site that stands out. This tutorial shows you tips and tricks in Adobe Photoshop, as well as some clever approaches to standing out from the pack of other portfolio sites.

How to Create an Effective Coming Soon Page

Design a simple but effective coming soon page. This tutorial shows you how to avoid making a boring, lackluster design while still keep the concept of your coming soon page simple, and it shares some of the theories to bear in mind.

Create an Amazing 3D Portfolio Dark Layout in Photoshop

Create a 3D-like portfolio design using simple gradients and other effects to achieve a great layout without any problems.

ShutterPress: Design and Code a Photo Portfolio Site

Design a new photo-centric portfolio site that’s geared towards photographers, illustrators, and other visual creatives. This tutorial will show you how to design the template in Photoshop using some special tricks and techniques.

Design a Sleek, Dark Mobile App Website

Design a sleek web interface that can be used for any mobile app website. This tutorial covers an array of techniques including shapes, textures, masks, custom icons, typography and much more that can be easily adapted and applied to your own web designs.

Create an Elegant Patterned Web Design in Photoshop

Create a simple and elegant web layout of a portfolio site. This tutorial will show you how to create and use patterns throughout the design to give it that extra bit of class. You’ll use a variety of techniques, including creating patterned drop shadows, applying highlights with the Brush Tool, creating a basic button for the navigation bar, and more.

Learn to Create a Clean Style Portfolio Layout

Create a clean style portfolio layout that looks gorgeous but is simple and functional.

Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout in Photoshop

Make a beautiful web page design PSD that is dark-themed and perfect for a web portfolio that is centered around photographs. This tutorial will show some great techniques to adapt into your current web design workflow.

How to Build a Stylish Portfolio Web Design Concept

Build a stylish design portfolio website. This tutorial shows how to create the visual concept and overall design concept in Photoshop, using various effects, blending modes and layer styles to create all the detailed elements of the design.

Design a Clean and Colorful E-Commerce Layout in Photoshop

Create a clean and colorful e-commerce layout in Photoshop that looks good but is clean and user-friendly.

Create a Movie Video Streaming Website

Create a nice video-related website. You can design this website to be like a membership, and you can charge people for watching the newest movies online Netflix-style.

UI Elements Photoshop Tutorials

Modernistic Navigation Module

Create a beautiful and elegant navigation module with Photoshop using simple shapes and gradients.

Flickr Box

Use the tools in Photoshop to draw a Flickr thumbnail box.

Icon Photoshop Tutorials

Industrial Folder Style Icon

Create a industrial-style folder icon with a metal texture.

Create a Cute Twitter Bird Icon in Photoshop

Create a cute Twitter bird icon with a speech bubble in Photoshop.

Create a Download Folder Icon in Photoshop

Create a download folder icon using different shapes and reflections in Photoshop.

Digital Camera Icon in Photoshop

Create a digital camera icon in Photoshop. The style of digital camera is one that is small and portable.

Create a Camera Lens Icon in Photoshop

Create a camera lens icon using Photoshop. Note that this is just of the camera lens and not the camera itself.

Learn to Create a Safe Illustration

Create a safe illustration using a number of tools.

Speedometer Design from Scratch

Create a speedometer from scratch. This tutorial shows such things as text on a path, using the pen tool, working with shape layers, and more.

3D Glassy RSS Icon Tutorial

Create a 3D glassy RSS Icon button. The techniques in this tutorial could easily be used for other similar icons that you might want to create.

Create a Beautiful Paint Brush Icon in Photoshop

Design a semi-realistic paint brush icon in Photoshop through simple procedures. This tutorial mostly uses shape layers, which will help you edit them later on and make your work more flexible and scalable.

Create a Battery Core Icon in Photoshop

Create a semi-realistic sci-fi icon that could be used as a battery or dock icon.

Create a Microchip Icon Using Photoshop

Create a isometric microchip icon using basic drawing tools and transformations in Photoshop.

Radar Icon in Photoshop

Create a Mac-style radar icon in Photoshop.

How to Design a Realistic Takeout Coffee Icon

Design a realistic takeout coffee icon using Photoshop. This tutorial explores a wide variety of techniques in Photoshop that can be applied to almost any type of design and drawing.

Create a HD Television Icon

Create a HD television icon in Photoshop fairly easily and quickly.

Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers: What’s Missing?

Over to you: what’s missing from this list of recent Photoshop tutorials for web designers? Feel free to share your favorites in the comments section below.

You might also like…

Modern UI and Layout Tutorials for Photoshop →
40 Professional and Detailed Web Layout PSD Templates →
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Complete Collection of Blank T-Shirt Mockup Templates →
iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, Stencils and Icons →
A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques →
40 Detailed and High Quality Mobile Phone .psd Source Files →
50 High Quality Free Icon Sets in PSD Format →
49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 →


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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

20 Useful Free Web Analytics Tools

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This post is helpful to those who are owning a website or running a blog or an e-commerce site as we are bringing to you different tools useful in analyzing your web content’s data such as understandi


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Friday, July 15, 2011

10 Handy Web Templates from Google Sites

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Google Sites is a portal for creating websites. It offers a gallery of templates, including business and collaboration designs, where you can make a site public or just open to project collaborators. Templates can be customized and now include an automatic mobile rendering feature to create mobile-friendly sites.

With Google Sites’ automatic mobile rendering, when an iOS 3.0+ or Android 2.2+ device visits your site, the width of the site adjusts to the width of the device. Other layout objects adjust as well, such as sidebars. This mobile-friendly feature is part of the Google Sites' mobile rollout, which also includes new mobile templates, which we addressed earlier in '6 Google Templates to Mobilize Your Business.'

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10 Privacy Tools To Browse The Web Anonymously

10 Privacy Tools To Browse The Web Anonymously: "

There are lots of people who prefer to browse the internet using a proxy. There are many reasons behind it. One of the most important reasons include your private information which you may just leave on a public computer.


When you browse the internet through hidden proxies, websites does not send you the request directly but to the proxy server and it shows the information of the proxy server rather than your personal information. They are also used to unblock websites on different organizations and school networks like Facebook, Twitter etc.


For that purpose, we have gathered a list of 10 excellent free proxy services which you can use to browse the internet anonymously.


HideMyAss


With HidemyAss, you can surf the web anonymously, hide your IP address, secure your internet connection, hide your internet history, and protect your online identity. All you have to do is paste the URL of the website you want to visit and click on HideMyAss button.


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Checkout HideMyAss @ http://www.hidemyass.com/


Tor


Tor is free software for windows which enables users improve their privacy and security when they are browsing the internet. With Tor, you can prevent websites from tracking your IP and other personal information. It even helps users publish websites and other online services without revealing the location of the website.


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You can download Tor from https://www.torproject.org/


Guardster


Guardster is another online proxy tool which helps users surf the web anonymously and protect your identity when you visit any website. Guardster protects your privacy by connecting with the website through Guardster servers which does not reveal you IP and other personal informations. It even comes with support for Javascript and cookies. If you are satisfied with the free service, you can subscribe to Guardster paid service which enables you to browse encrypted SSL websites and is completely ad free.


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Check out Guardster @ http://www.guardster.com/


MegaProxy


Like Guardster, Megaproxy is another free proxy websites which enables users browse websites without any trace. You can browse the internet without revealing your identity and the best thing about this service is that your dont have to install any third party applications to use the service.


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Checkout Megaproxy @ http://www.megaproxy.com/freesurf/


Fsurf


With Fsurf, you can helps users anonymously surf the web and help the users visit websites that are restricted by their ISP or organizations such as schools, universities etc. Unlike other proxy websites, this service is really simple, easy to use and has a simple interface.


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Checkout Fsurf @ http://www.fsurf.com/


Privoxy


Privoxy is a free non-caching proxy software which can be used to enhanced privacy when surfing the web. With Privoxy, you can modify web page data and HTTP headers, control access, and remove ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy is really easy to use and can be customized depending on the needs of the user.


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You can download Privoxy from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/


Online Anonymous Proxy


With Online Anonymous Proxy, users can open restricted and blocked websites (e.g Facebook, Twitter etc.) in institutions and organizations.


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Checkout Online Anonymous Proxy @ http://zend2.com/


8. TryCatchMe


TryCatchMe is a free proxy website which provides users with the ability the surf the web without leaving any traces or any personal information. You can also access blocked websites in your school or university and protect your online privacy.


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Checkout TryCatchMe @ http://www.trycatchme.com/


Heeky


With Heeky, you can bypass web filters that block certain websites on networks of schools and universities. You can also hide your IP and personal information while you are surfing the internet.


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Checkout Heeky @ http://www.heeky.com/


Web4Proxy


Web4Proxy provides users with ability to surf the web anonymously and bypass web filters to access websites which are blocked by your ISP or organization’s network.


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Checkout Web4Proxy @ http://www.web4proxy.com/


Disclaimer: By listing these products at SmashingApps.com, Our intention is only to give knowledge about all those interesting tools that might become useful for our readers. If these tools are not allowed by your organization or your network administrator then we strictly recommend that do not use these tools in any circumstances. By any means, SmashingApps.com will not be responsible for anyone’s personal decision for using these tools where these are restricted.


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