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Saturday 25 August 2012

Update: Win a Free Business Account From BaseKit (x3)

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Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive

As a designer, you’ll have to create your own website at some point in your career. A website is an important aspect of any business and is something most designers spend quite a bit of time on. Unfortunately, many designers aren’t expert web designers. Some may know code very well; but others may be illustrators, print designers, or photographers; and let’s face it, our time is always limited. That’s why today, our friends from BaseKit have come to the rescue and are giving away a free 1-Year Business Plan ($240 value) to 3 lucky readers of this website.

Update: Congratulations to Esz, Karen Hall, TRY! You have all won a free business account from BaseKit!

BaseKit is a website builder that allows you to create professional websites from within your browser. You don’t need any technical skills and there are loads of templates and widgets that you can use to create your own business website design. Simply choose how you want your site to look, add your content and publish.

Some of you may be wondering what makes BaseKit different from all the other website builders out there. In the past, other website builders relied on flash as a platform to build their sites. Those sites tended to be a bit clunky. BaseKit changes all that and is fully HTML which means they work on all devices – even mobile phones. To learn more about BaseKit, visit their website.

To enter to win a free Business Plan from BaseKit, all you have to do is leave a comment below and tell us what you would use BaseKit for.

A Free Business Plan for 3 lucky readers.To enter, leave a comment below and tell us what you would use BaseKit for.You may only enter once.Make sure to enter a valid email address so that we can contact you.Entries will be accepted until Friday, September 23, 2011 at 11:59 PM, EST.

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Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive Grant Friedman is a graphic design, blogger, and author. In addition to being the founder of this website, Grant is also the editor of Psdtuts, one of the world's most popular tutorial websites.

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Wednesday 18 July 2012

32 New Business Card Designs

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Why It Is so Important to Monitor Your Website

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24 Free Fonts for Designers

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55 Exceptional Examples of Bokeh Photography

Cale White is a staff writer for the DesignMag Network.

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Comment to Win PSD to HTML Conversion from Markup-Service!

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Wednesday 4 July 2012

40 Examples of Ultra Wide Angle Photography

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Tips for Getting Started Writing about Web Design

Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Free Test Drive By Jake Rocheleau | Published June 22nd, 2012 in Business/Freelance

Building your skills as a web designer does not necessarily include writing abilities. You’ll need to practice for months before you can pick up enough grammar and vocabulary to accurately portray ideas in blog posts. Yet all through Google you can find hundreds of popular web design blogs with new content.

In this article I want to share a few tips for writers just getting started in the topic of web design. There are many different types of content you can write including tutorials, opinion pieces, design news, related content, tips/tricks, and so much more. You’ll need to be confident and ready to approach problems head-first. But with enough time and practice anybody can get into writing for the web.

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I have to share the #1 most important trick in my mind is to visit plenty of design blogs. Read through other articles that you find interesting. Pinpoint what others are writing about and how their formatting works.

Consider ideas such as how many paragraphs they write per section, headlines, anchor links, and other similar grammatical aesthetics. You don’t need to mimic these writers but you can at least understand their methods.

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It’s also true the more you read the more vocabulary you’ll pick up over time. This is paramount for any good writer, regardless of their topic. You need to understand how to express your ideas in the most proper wording. And the best way to accomplish this is by learning new vocab every day! When you’re getting into writing about web design then other blog articles are the perfect place to start reading.

If you can keep a small pocket notebook handy this is perfect for quick 1-2 line ideas. Often times I’ll come up with a great headline but forget to write it down somewhere. Keeping your notes on a computer is fine and dandy for some – but a physical copy of the information is even more useful.

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Not to mention the act of writing something down can help you commit the idea to memory. So as you begin to brainstorm on topics it doesn’t hurt to write down some key words. Have a small list of 15-30 ideas you can always flip through to write about. Some will obviously be duds, but surely you’ll find a couple headlines which really stand out.

When first starting out it’s unlikely you can duplicate the works of bigger publications. There are plenty of web design articles pushing 3000+ words and this may feel like a exceptional goal, but it’s ultimately something to aspire towards. You can’t jump head-first into writing such an enormous post concept.

Even tutorials can be difficult working with since you need to understand the design/code and how to express this in writing. I recommend writing posts on a few ideas you have without any pressure. Don’t plan to publish these online anywhere, although you certainly could.

Start with smaller concepts and do your writing just for the sake of writing. Learn the process of how sentences arise in your mind and how you can build these into a whole article. To examine all the inner workings of writing a publication will take weeks if not months and feel very laborious.

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But this is truly the quickest way to adopt a powerful skillset in writing. You have to catch yourself making mistakes and try newer methods. Thankfully the field of web design isn’t as complicated as writing on topics of law or business. But there is still a lot of required information to keep in your head – and it’s true that not just anybody can sit down and write design articles on-the-fly.

Each article you write should ultimately break down into a few smaller points. These can be sub-headings or even divided by a few paragraphs. But it helps to write these topics down and have something constructed which you can look over while writing.

Jotting down even 5 or 6 different ideas can go a long way towards building a successful post. You should try hard to stay on-topic and drive home your main arguing point. Another characteristic of strong writing is to ensure your ideas are conveyed in a simple manner.

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Often you want to get ideas out to your readers as quickly and efficiently as possible. Use analogies and comparisons to make your point easier to understand. Also use plenty of examples and link to other websites which illustrate the topic perfectly. Images and other graphics will captivate readers and provide a nice break in the typical wall of paragraph text.

Hopefully these tips can get you thinking about the future of online publications. It doesn’t take a genius to get into writing – but it will take hours of practice. Do not be afraid to test run some new skills and ideas on your own time. This is possibly the best way to learn and mistakes will only increase your knowledge on the subject of writing and web design.

Jake is a digital researcher and writer on many popular design magazines. He frequently writes on topics including web design, efficient user experience, mobile apps, and project management. You can find him all throughout Google and tweeting @jakerocheleau.


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PsDefaults $1000 Giveaway: Better Presets for Adobe Photoshop

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Animating Colored Ajax Comments with jQuery

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Monday 2 July 2012

Why Writers and Designers Need Each Other

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Sunday 1 July 2012

40 Creative Concept Art Examples

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Monday 11 June 2012

45 Useful 3DS Max Tutorials For Reference

  3DS Max is widely used to produce cool 3D models or animations. 3DS Max is mainly used by visual effects artists, visualization specialists to design and game developers. Creativity with good texture and appropriate materials should be used to obtain a realistic effect. After obtaining a realistic effect, light effect should be placed in a natural position to witness proper effects. Multiple lights could also be used to enhance and stimulate the objects that surround the model. Thus, with appropriate approaches, you can achieve great 3DS Max models.

Nowadays, many 3DS Max tutorials are available for creating 3D models and visualization effects to allow artists and designers to rise faster for production. In this post I will share with you an overview of 3DS Max Tutorial that will surely inspire you. Have fun!


This tutorial will covers the major points of producing this image, starting with the planning and covering the modeling, texturing, rendering, lighting and compositing.


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This overview is software-specific as I have used 3DsMAX and Rhinoceros for making a picture and Adobe Photoshop for postproduction but there are no limitations for other software users due to most of principals of production are the same.


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In this quick and easy tutorial, we will use 3ds Max, VRay, and a free plugin called GW:Ivy to create a highly detailed ivy covered tree stump scene. For those of you who are beginners out there…don’t be intimidated! When you are finished you will say “I can’t believe how easy that was!”.


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This tutorial will teach you how to create a Windows like logo as shown in the image below.


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As this is a making of article, I’m not gona cover every step of the creation process of this image. I assume you have some  basic knowledge in 3D in general, and basic to intermediate level for all the 3ds max users.


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In this tutorial i will show you how to create an Android phone, the HTC Tattoo model, in 3ds Max and VRay. We will cover both parts, modeling and rendering. If you follow this tutorial well you should achieve an image like the one above. At bottom of tutorial you will find link to download sample of this tutorial in .max, .3ds, .obj formats.


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This tutorial will have 2 more chapters about texturing using Unwrap uvw modifier and another chapter about rigging this character. To follow this tutorial you need to be a little bit familiar with the interface of 3DS Max.


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In this tutorial I’ll show you how to model a chess set.This is the first chapter and the second chapter will be made by C. Andrei. Like all of our tutorials this is very detailed and I am sure that anyone will understand it.


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In this tutorial I will show you how to create a tire. Its a very simple tutorial which can be followed by any beginner in 3ds max.So, below you have the blueprint.


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In this 3ds Max tutorial we’re going to create a simple 3d mountain. The mountain geometry will be created from a simple plane with the displace modifier and it will be textured with a combination of procedural maps.


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In this 3ds Max tutorial we’re going to create a 3d snow scene. The focus will be the snowy hills, snow on the branches of the tree, and snow flakes flowing in the air.


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In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You’ll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects.


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In this tutorial i will show you how to create a Chinese Table Set with 3ds Max and Vray. I will model the, the chopsticks holder, a bowl, a plate, a plateau and a table rug.


In this tutorial we will model a 3D skateboard, then we will texture it in Photoshop CS3. Let’s start it because I don’t like to make introductions.


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This is project that I have made in September 2010. Its a personal project and I will share you with the steps that you need to do to make a similar project. In this tutorial I will also tell you how to use hdri to make your light in your renders, and what settings you need to do.


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Finally, this is the last part for our Mp3 Player Tutorial. Part 4. In the first 3d Modeling tutorial we’ve created the Mp3 Player, in the second 3d modeling tutorial we’ve created the Earphone, in the third 3d modeling tutorial we’ve arranged the scene.


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In this tutorial we are going to create a serene Japanese style 3d image in 3ds Max. We’re going to model a shiny dark pebble stones and create a balanced pile out of them. This is a simple tutorial where emphasis is on the lighting and materials.


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This Tutorial is a modeling tutorial of how to model a realistic flammable barrel. Like one you might see on First Person Shooter computer games.


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This tutorial is intended for those artists who are going to place a planet on the foreground of their new artwork.


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In this tutorial we are going to model a 20th century design legend, the Eames Lounge Chair. The reason I chose this particular object are its different shapes and forms. It has both soft, organic pillows and a hard, defined structure that holds it all together, making it an excellent way to learn how to model both soft and hard structures.


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In this tutorial Ben Tate will demonstrate his approach to modeling a modern style spiral staircase in 3d Studio Max. The main focus will be spline modeling, although Ben will reiterate some of the more common poly modeling techniques too.


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In this intermediate level modeling tutorial, you will follow Ben Tate as he demonstrates how to create a detailed domed structure and water fountain in 3ds Max.


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You will learn to use many of 3ds Max’s poly and spline modeling tools, while keeping the model as light weight and simplified as possible, and only using subdivision in the areas that require it.


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This was the official ball for the World Cup 1982. In the next few days i will create other 3d modeling tutorials that will show you how to model other types of sport balls. That being said let’s start this 3d modeling tutorial.


Football-or-Soccer-Ball


In this tutorial you will learn how to model Bathroom furniture. You will also learn how to create a basic room with illumination.  At bottom of tutorial you will find link to download sample of this tutorial in .max, .3ds, .obj formats. Let’s move on.


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In this tutorial “Andrzej Marszalek” shows you step by step process of modeling a Hell Sword inspired by the Chaos Eater from Darksiders using 3ds Max and ZBrush.


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Today we will learn how to model Living Room furniture. You will also learn how to create a basic room with illumination.  At bottom of tutorial you will find link to download sample of this tutorial in .max, .3ds, .obj formats.


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Mini Semi Truck tutorial series (high five!) In the final day, we’ll complete the truck by modeling the detailed rims and tires. Once we have a single tire complete, we’ll clone it and make some modifications to create a second less detailed rim for the truck’s duel tire setup.


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I wanted to create an interior scene of the world famous Getty Center. The straight architecture of that center fascinated me, so I started with the simple modeling of the room. It had to be a tall room with a lot of space. I also wanted to have no direct sun light, so I ending up using the VRay Sky for the lightning and some IES lights for the spots and VRay mesh lights for the wire lamp,


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In this making of I’ll try to show you the process of making the “Tree Room” image. First of all I started to look for some references on Japanese rooms and trees because that was the style I wanted to reproduce. In this stage I also look for light and texture references.


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In this tutorial, Pratik Gulati walks us through how he created his stunning image, ‘The Church of Light’, using 3Ds Max. He covering all of the modeling, material creation, lighting, render passes and the post-production techniques used.


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n this intermediate level tutorial, we follow CG artist Cristian Pop through the process of creating an abstract paint leaking scene using 3Ds Max 2010 and Pwrapper, a great plug-in from 3D Aliens. After completing the 3D work, Cristian switches to 2D to perform some final color corrections in Photoshop.


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In this tutorial I will show ho w to model Normandy Space ship from mass effect.


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Here I want to explain how I made the interior shot of this beautiful Iranian mosque. Please remember this is not the best or the fastest way to make It, It’s just the way I made It!


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This is not a modeling or texturing tutorial. In order to complete it you must already have a finished piece of game art, complete with current industry standard texture maps.


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The image was a personal challenge through which I wanted to learn everything relating to interiors. I used 3ds Max for the main development of the image and VRay as the renderer. I also used Adobe Photoshop for creating the textures and adding the final touches at the end.


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This Making Of is mainly going to focus on my lighting, rendering and textures.


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Discover the secrets behind properly lighting and rendering interior scenes with 3ds Max and Vray in this easy to follow, step by step walkthrough. Scene setup, modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering for realistic output will all be discussed, so there is literally something in here for everyone!


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This is a follow-up of the Night Exterior Rendering Tutorial that I have written a while ago, so if you haven’t checked that one already, I advice you to read it before this one.


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Hope the overview of 3DS Max Tutorial inspire you and made you entertained!


Lief is a front end developer and one of the creative designers at Design Article Writers, who love to share useful articles across the design community.


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