Font is the key element in the process of web designing, advertising and other activities associated with typography, but professional fonts are prohibitive for freelancers. 100 exeptionally beautiful free fonts we selected will allow you to bring some variety in your designs without spending. From bold to thin, from extraordinary to minimal, you should definately have them in your collection. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com 1. Museo Sans 2. Walkway

Manchester Craft and Design Centre is launching an intriguing and fascinating new exhibition, called Threadbare, on July 3. Textile artist Debbie Smyth was awarded the inaugural Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair award back in October, when she was chosen from 140 other designer-makers. Her prize was the chance to exhibit her work at MCAD for four months. Kate Day, director of Manchester Craft and Design Centre, said: “We selected Debbie’s work because her technique is [...]

In this web design tutorial, we’re going to learn how to create a clean-looking and modern website layout. We will take advantage of some fundamental techniques and tools — such as custom shape tools, selection tools, and clipping masks — and end up with a nice and professional web design. Ready? Let’s get started! Author: Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud is a young web and graphic designer from Egypt. Apart from that, he also enjoys blogging and [...]

People love 3D effects. They also love the look of shiny, glossy, graphics as well. Today, we will combine those two popular styles and create an extruded 3D glossy text effect in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Step 1 Create a new document, make it 600px by 400px. Step 2 Fill the background with #011923. Now, add some noise, go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. 2% should be ok. Step 3 Create a new [...]

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating Tutorial Details Program: Adobe Photoshop Difficulty: Advanced Estimated Completion Time: 4 – 5 Hours Photoshop is a great tool to work with both vector and pixel shapes. In this tutorial we will demonstrate a powerful combination of vector shapes, layer styles, and manual drawing to create a photorealistic camera. So realistic you’ll think it’s just an ordinary photo. Final Image Preview Let’s take a look at the image we’ll [...]

Over the millions of websites available, some are true tools for us web developers. In this article, I have compiled 10 extremely useful sites for web developers, that should definitely be added to your bookmarks. Mysql Format Date MySQL Format Date helps you to format your dates using the MySQL DATE_FORMAT function. Just select a common date format and then change it to your suit your needs. The MySQL DATE_FORMAT code will be generated at [...]

If you are a graphic designer looking for freelance graphic design jobs or full-time graphic design jobs then you have come to the right place. Below is a list of 10 great places to find graphic design jobs. Most of these sites will also be extremely useful for other creatives such as web designers, animators and illustrators. What if I’m not looking for a job yet? One of the best things you can do is [...]

Need a font to compliment your retro style designs? Below you will find a collection of 40 free fonts perfect for the job. Vintage and retro style designs can be a beautiful thing. By using a combination of rough textures, grungy patterns and brushes meant to add a scratched or used appearance, designers can easily pull of the antique look. To compliment this aged appearance, it is important to use the proper typography to help [...]

Preview: Click on the image for a full size preview Support Material Cadice font (Free) Step 1 Open a new document in Photoshop. Since I want to create a wallpaper, my size is 1920×1200 pixels, but you can set up to the size of your desktop. Resolution is 72 pixels/inch, which is perfect while working on a computer destined project. Step 2 Using the Candice font, write “Sweet” with the Horizontal Type tool (T). Font [...]

CEO’s don’t dress like they’re homeless and wine tasting events are generally never held in the back of a liquor store. There’s a good reason behind this. People generally do not follow the “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” motto, so the very first thing they do is, you guessed it, judge your book by it’s cover. The same is true for website designs -people visit your site and immediately make a decision on [...]