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8 Ideas, Techniques & Tricks for your Web Design ToolkitYesterday

As important as information and interface design are, it’s the satisfied feeling of designing something that just plain looks awesome that keeps us going during those times when the creative well is dry, when you’ve stared at a blank canvas for hours, when you’ve saved a hundred attempt.psd’s, and when you’re fed up of design. It’s because you know that when you have that finished, polished, veritable work of art up on your screen, and you’ve switched Photoshop into full screen mode and you’re looking at it from different angles around the room, and you’re basking in the glory of your perfectly positioned pixels, you just know that this is the greatest profession in the world!

The 3 Components of Web Design Series

This article is part of a series on the three components of web design, here are links to the other articles

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1 - Don’t be Sa

14 Quick and Slick Portfolio Templates (via ThemeForest)Yesterday

Having an online portfolio is pretty much a no-brainer these days. But all too often it’s the old story of the cobbler’s children who have no shoes - or in our case the designer who has no time for their own portfolio. Whether it’s because there’s too much work on, or because you can’t settle on a design, or because you’re somewhere in the middle of building the "perfect" portfolio, sometimes you just need to get something together, and fast.

If that’s the case, you’ll be interested to see the fourteen neat portfolio templates listed below - some for WordPress, some just HTML - that with a pinch of customization, and filled with your own work will have you up and running in no time.

So I should point out that in case you hadn’t noticed with all this Web Design Week stuff - that ThemeForest is owned by PSDTUTS, or PSDTUTS is owned by ThemeForest … whichever … so yes this is Collis cross-marketing shamelessly!

Excellent Portfolio Articles to Read

Before we get to the templates, you might also like to check out these great articles about portfolios (that by a weird coincidence are all written by PSDTUTS staff):

  1. Creating the Perfect Portfolio via Digital-Web
  2. Creating a Successful Online Portfolio via SmashingMa
Photoshop: iMacDecember 3

“In this tutorial, Howard demonstrates how to create an iMac from scratch in Photoshop.” - Tutcast

Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!December 3

This year has seen a big increase in grungey / textured / hand-drawn styled website designs. By nature I tend to design a cleaner look myself, but I thought I’d try my hand at grunge today and write up a tutorial on creating a simple paper texture from scratch in Photoshop then marrying it with a web layout to create a neat design.

Then later this week we’ll take this same web design and I’ll show you how you can take remixing even further than just changing backgrounds and colour schemes, that in fact you can change the entire style of a design. But first let’s make our paper texture site!

Part 1 - Creating a Paper Texture

There are three different ways you can get a textured paper look:

  1. Scan in your own paper
    Check out Bittbox’s Make an Awesome Grungy Paper Texture Tutorial
  2. Use someone else’s texture
    There’s heaps of sites that list textures around, check out these links: Bittbox |

Photoshop Soft Light Layer TutorialDecember 2

“In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to adjust the contrast and saturation of an image using the Soft Light Layer mode. This is a quick and easy alternative from using our traditional Levels or Curves adjustments. I’ll show you how it can be applied to a nature landscape photo or a portrait studio photo..” - Yanik Chauvin


Photoshop Soft Light Layer Tutorial from Yanik Chauvin on Vimeo.