Articles by: Joel Reyes
25 Places to Find Awesome Stock Photos — Free and Cheap!
April 17, 2009 by Joel Reyes
Whether you’re designing an artistic website or searching for images to post on your blog, sites that carry not only free but awesome stock photos may very well come in handy. Utilizing the correct set of photos for any project is key, especially if you’re designing an ad for a client, you should always put in your best effort as well as the best images you can find fit for the job. Many of the designers I’ve come across like to download most of their images from 2-3 of the largest... [Continue reading this tutorial]
15 Places to Find Great Fonts
April 13, 2009 by Joel Reyes
Free fonts are used in a wide variety of areas such as web design, graphic design, print based work and more. They can come in very handy at times when you’re caught between the desire to free yourself from the stock fonts your PC arrives with. The art of creative font usage is called Typography. Whether you’re creating a website, blog, business card, flyer or illustration, you can use fonts to artistically embed creativity into your design. There are sites that are gorgeous even without... [Continue reading this tutorial]
10 Places to Find Absolutely Free Vector Graphics
April 8, 2009 by Joel Reyes
Vector graphics allow the preservation of quality within an image. These graphics at times offer superior quality over the traditional (raster) image formats, such as Bitmap. This means that if you were to view a vector and bitmap image next to each other, as you zoomed in you’ll be able to see that the bitmap image will suffer from pixelation while the vector graphic’s quality will remain intact. Here are 10 of the top sites where you’ll be able to grab absolutely free vector graphics... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Photoshop: Make Everyday Photos Look More Professional
November 16, 2008 by Joel Reyes
Just about every household has some sort of digital camera laying around. This makes it super simple to take snapshots of everyday events. Using this tutorial, you can make almost any photo look professional — or at least better than amateur. With this simple photo retouching process, you’ll be able to put a professional polish on any photo you take. [Continue reading this tutorial] Read More →
CSS Tools: Free Templates
November 15, 2008 by Joel Reyes
Most of us professionals who write and design in CSS like to save time while accurately being able to create a web template, with little or no mistake. One method for saving time that I’ve adopted and use from time to time is the copy-paste-modify method. You can copy and paste from other previous templates and at the same time modify the copied material in order to fulfill your current needs. This is a very useful time saving method that is simple, and can be used by anyone with little or... [Continue reading this tutorial]
Photoshop Basic Tools Overview
November 14, 2008 by Joel Reyes
This is a summarized explanation of Photoshop’s Tools palette with a short and to the point description of each tool’s functions and shortcuts. This is a great tutorial for novice Photoshop users, as well as professional advanced users who would like to brush up on their Photoshop Tools knowledge. I will start from the beginning. The very beginning. Short cut keys are show inside the parenthesis. [Continue reading this tutorial] Read More →
