Affinity Designer is fast becoming a popular alternative to Photoshop. After receiving several messages asking whether I will be providing Affinity compatible tutorials and resources, I have been meaning to pick up a copy myself. Until I get to grips with the new interface and different workflow, I have made Read more…
For today’s video tutorial I have a really quick and easy Photoshop process to add realistic glass reflections to an image, to make it appear as if a portrait photograph has been taken through a window. By using Photoshop to create this photo style, you can capture the effect of Read more…
Access All Areas members have a wonderful set of vintage illustrations to download this week, courtesy of Smilypixel.com. These detailed rose and flower drawings have been processed into PNG and vector EPS files, making them ideal graphics for your print designs, invitations, scrapbooking, patterns, logos and so much more! Each Read more…
Create the artistic styles you never knew you were capable of with this new bundle of ready-to-use graphics and professional-grade tools. The Creator’s Diverse Design Collection is a compilation of 20 best-selling products from industry-leading creatives. From hand-drawn fonts, to gorgeous textures/backgrounds, patterns, effects packs, graphics, brushes and so much Read more…
I have created plenty of brushes and textures based on halftone dots previously on Spoon Graphics, but halftone lines are a fantastic alternative pattern that can add detailed retro effects to your artwork. This new collection of free halftone lines textures features 10 high-resolution graphics with a distressed appearance, made Read more…
The start of a new year is the ideal time to set new goals, improve yourself and become more prosperous! With 40% off Skillshare membership throughout January, and 2 months FREE, this is the perfect opportunity to learn new skills or expand your existing talents with 1000s of online classes. Read more…
Every so often, the fruits of innovation bear fruit in the form of improvements to the foundational layers of the web. In 2015, HTTP/2 became a published standard in an effort to update an aging protocol. This was was both necessary and overdue, as HTTP/1 rendered web performance as an Read more…
Short story: Philip Walton has a clever idea for using service workers to cache the top and bottom of HTML files, reducing a lot of network weight. Longer thoughts: When you’re building a really simple website, you can get away with literally writing raw HTML. It doesn’t take long to Read more…
If you’re interested in leveling up your knowledge and skill of web performance, you can’t do better than learning directly from Scott Jehl. Direct Link to Article — Permalink The post Lightning-Fast Web Performance appeared first on CSS-Tricks.
Say you have a two-column layout: a main column with content. Say it has a lot of content, with sections that requires scrolling. And let’s toss in a sidebar column that is largely empty, such that you can safely put a position: sticky; table of contents over there for all Read more…
