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Noise, Grooves & Text-Shadows…
Posted Saturday, June 19th, 2010 …And what do you get? One of the biggest web design trends of 2009 – 2010. New sites are popping up all over using very simple techniques to create very effective, modern looking designs. And why are these techniques proving so successful? Well one of the biggest reasons is they are used so heavily nowadays [...] Continue Reading
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Create an Accessible Image Based Navigation
Posted Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Since the launch of Hull Digital Live ’09 back in August 2009 I have been flooded with requests on how I created the graphical navigation on the web site. The answer is simple, a sprite and a dash of CSS! This technique of image replacement can be found on a range of websites including the [...] Continue Reading
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Speed Up Your Design Processes While Reducing Errors
Posted Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 A developer friend of mine once taunted me with the fact that all I do is ‘make things look pretty‘. Well as a web designer you strive to make every design you create as unique and special as possible. You cant simply dive straight into a design, there is a lot of ground work to [...] Continue Reading
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Pin-up Paper Flowers – Photoshop Tutorial
Posted Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Quite a while ago I found a simple technique in Photoshop for creating your own crumpled paper effect. It involved a few simple gradients, some layer filters and a tweak to the levels! In this tutorial I am going to combine this technique with a simple transform duplication, to create some paper flowers! ‘Bit girly [...] Continue Reading
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