June 12th, 2010
Designers often don’t take the time they should to learn about how basic psychological principles can effect the experience their visitors have on the sites they build.
Psychological principles are either looked upon as unnecessary, or too complicated. But the truth is that they’re neither.
There aren’t that many concepts associated with basic design psychology, and most are relatively straight-forward and easy to learn.
They’re also mainly easy to implement, though some take a bit more care and planning than others.
Read on to learn more and please leave your feedback and comments at the end of this post.
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Tags: Design, Web Design
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for FREE
May 26th, 2010
This is a list of 750+ high quality Grunge brushes for Photoshop waiting for you to download them. It took me 2 days to finish this post just looking for some nice grunge brushes on the web. I hope you’ll find this post worth it.
Check this out and feel free to download them all.
(74 Brushes)

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Tags: Design, free brushes, grunge, grunge brushes, Photoshop, photoshop brushes
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for FREE!
May 26th, 2010
Although most designers and photoshop users commonly use brushes, using custom Photoshop shapes can save a lot of time too.
This post is a showcase of 30+ Useful Custom Photoshop Shape Set. These custom shapes are free to use.

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Tags: custom shapes, Design, free custom shapes, Photoshop
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how to create a 3d bowl of fruit
March 29th, 2010

3d Bowl of Fruit
This tutorial shows you how to create a realistic 3D fruit bowl illustration with the new Adobe Illustrator CS2 feature: 3D Revolve Effect.
Reqired: Illustrator CS2 +
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Tags: 3d, 3d fruit bowl, Design, fruit, Illustrator
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Really? why?
March 6th, 2010
Internet Explorer 6 is a relic, but many corporations continue to cling to it. Nonetheless, it’s surprising to discover that Intel–Microsoft’s long-time partner–is still using the ancient browser. ( yes, I’m going to whine and complain about this )
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Tags: Browser Statistics, Chrome, Firefox, IE6, Internet Explorer 6, Update Browser
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Unlocking Your Full Potential
February 9th, 2010

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“Peter, I’d like you to stay for a minute after class.” Calvin teaches my favorite body conditioning class at the gym.
“What’d I do?” I asked him.
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Tags: faliure, managing yoruself, overcome, success
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