While it is important to keep on top of and practice our HTML and CSS skills sometimes we need tools to help us stay at the top of our game.  Finding new resources, tools and ways to do routine and especially more cutting edge tasks can help us save time, streamline our tasks and improve our skills.  With these great CSS tools and generators we will be able to create stylish, optimized and cross browser friendly websites

Today lets take a look at 25 Best CSS Tools and Generators for Designers and Developers.

CSS Template Generator

Generates a basic CSS stylesheet for an HTML page and gives you the CSS code for it, which you will need to copy/paste in your stylesheet.

CSS Tools

Quick CSS

CSS Tools

Layout Generator

Generating multi-column and grid layouts with CSS 2.0 techniques using %, px, or em.

CSS Tools

Primer CSS

Just paste some HTML in the box and Primer will pull all classes and IDs to get you started with your stylesheet.

CSS Tools

CSS Text Wrapper

Make your HTML text wrap in other shapes than just boxes.

CSS Tools

The 1KB CSS Grid

This is a brand new procure on the CSS grid that aims to be light weighted. You can use it to simplify page templates in support of content management systems.

CSS Tools

Wordoff

Wordoff applies the following rules to strip the cruft that is pasted into WYSIWYG editors from Word:

• Attributes are removed for all elements except <a>s
• <span>s and <div>s are removed
• Empty elements are removed
• Consecutive line breaks are reduced to two

CSS Tools

Modernizr

Modernizr uses feature detection to test the current browser against upcoming features like rgba(), border-radius, CSS Transitions and many more.

css Tools

CSS Button

Create CSS buttons by choosing your style from several dropdown lists.

CSS Tools

CSS Sorter

CSS Sorter is a free online tool for sorting CSS files. It organizes CSS rules alphabetically so that it will be easier for you to maintain your CSS files.

CSS Tools

CSS Typeset

For CSS newbies, this website lets you enter text and configure it visually, then gives you the CSS.

CSS Tools

CSS Menu Maker

Allows you to create your own customized CSS menus and generates them for you in a simple, HTML/CSS format, so you can download and use them right away. The menus are cross-compatible and will look the same in all the browsers (except maybe transitions for Internet Explorer).

CSS Tools

YAML

Besides being able to select the basic information needed to create a layout, you can also go a bit more in-depth if you have enough knowledge of coding.  The columns and the layout have properties, you have presets, you can play with the flexible grids, choose coding options and many others.

CSS Tools

Moo color finder

Retrieve any website color from CSS files. The cool part? It now even produces Photoshop color palette files.

CSS Tools

Variable Grid System

The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.

CSS Tools

PrefixMyCSS

PrefixMyCSS helps you save time by letting you write your properties one way. Paste in your code, pres the Prefix button and it adds all of the necessary vendor prefixes for you.

CSS Tools

CSS Table Wizard
You can use this wizard to try out table border styles and create style source code. This wizard applies dynamic HTML to alter the style of the table in place, without loading another page.

CSS Tools

Layer Styles

Layer Styles is a HTML5 app for creating CSS3 in a intuitive way. The interface will remind you a lot of Photoshop.

CSS Tools

Tabs Generator

Tweak size, colors, corners and more, generate your design, then download and use in your css style sheet!

CSS Tools

Csstxt

Csstxt helps you in illustrating the lots of different ways to add a style to a text file with the help of ‘a’, ‘p’ or ‘div’ tags.

CSS Tools

CSS Lint

CSS Lint is a tool to help point out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of inefficiency.

CSS Tools

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator by ColorZilla

This ultimate CSS gradient editor and generator, created by ColorZilla, is a powerful tool to create CSS gradients having cross-browser support.

CSS Tools

Spiffy Corners – Purely CSS Rounded Corners

Spiffy Corners is a simple way to generate the CSS and HTML you need to create anti-aliased corners without using images

CSS Tools

CSS Generator

It’s similar to the tools for grid systems, only this one doesn’t really keep a grid system (you will have to code it afterwards). You can, however, generate a stylesheet with link colors, font size, margins, hover color and so on – and spare some valuable time later on during the coding.

CSS Tools

CSS Layout Generator

This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

CSS Tools

Every few months we take a look around, survey the terrain and look for the best, high quality free fonts that are available to download.    Since the choices are endless with thousands released each year, it can be very hard to find the right ones which you will want to use in your designs.   Today lets take a look at a great selection of 20 new fonts to help kick off 2012 on the right foot.   I hope you enjoy the post and would be interested in hearing which are your favorite.

Bree

Free Fonts

Franchise

Free Fonts

Sofia

Free Fonts

Cubano

Free Fonts

Lavandaria

Free Fonts

Sansita One

Free Fonts

La Boheme

Free Fonts

Hands Up

Free Fonts

Cassannet

Free Fonts

FF Basic Logic

Free Fonts

Yeseva

Free Fonts

Lorena

Free Fonts

Code Pro Demo

Free Fonts

232 MKSD Round

Free Fonts

Sketch Block

Free Fonts

Wonderful

Free Fonts

RBNo2

Free Fonts

Dock No11

Free Fonts

Soul Ninja

Free Fonts

Haymaker

Free Fonts

As we have discussed before, jQuery Plugins are there to assist you and let you perform the desired action in a more convenient and speedy manner. This selection of plugins is targeted at the designers and developers who want to extend their sites, create amazingly interactive websites that are attractive and accessible to the widest range of browsers.

Every few months its important to review the most current and exciting jQuery plugins so we can stay on top of what is being developed.  Those involved in jQuery are constantly creating new plugins that useful, creative and cutting edge.  Today lets take a look at some of the brand new and extremely awesome jQuery plugins that we will surely be using in future projects

Parallax Slider with jQuery

Parallax slider with jQuery uses parallax principles and if used with slider to slide image it will give a nice perspective, depth to the whole sliding.

jQuery

Cuepoint

Cuepoint.js is an open source plugin for adding cue-points and subtitles to your HTML5 video.

jQuery

Subway Map Visualization Plugin

Allows you create interactive subway map visualizations with HTML. Its style has been based on London’s Underground maps, with smooth curves & interchange connectors and 45-degree diagonals.

jQuery

jShowOff – A jQuery Content Rotator

A jQuery plugin for creating a rotating content module. It works by creating ‘slides’ from the child elements inside a specified wrapper element on which .jshowoff() is invoked. It then rotates through the slides, with options for controls, links, and more.

jQuery

Merging Image Boxes with jQuery

jQuery

Image Wall with jQuery

If you want a Image wall with jQuery which arranges the images in a ribbon slider than look no more. Check out this nice tutorial.

jQuery

Timelinr

  Timelinr is a simple jQuery plugin that helps you to give more life to boring timelines. It supports horizontal and vertical layouts, and you can parameterize the majority of attributes: speed, transparency, etc.

jQuery

Dropkick.js

Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. Oftentimes lacking conveniences that native dropdowns have such as keyboard navigation. DropKick removes the tedium and lets you focus on making the menu look good.

jQuery

Sliding Background Image Menu with jQuery

Sliding background image menu with jQuery gives out the possibility to have different background images for each panel. This menu comes with configuration options like image size and hover effect customization.

jQuery

Grumble

grumble.js provides special tooltips without the usual limitations of north/east/south/west positioning. A grumble can be rotated around a given element at any angle, all 360 degrees. Any distance can be specified. Any CSS style can be applied. There’s auto-magic size adjustment for use with localized text.

jQuery

Mobily Map

MobilyMap is a jQuery plugin (7KB) that can create a Google Maps-like, draggable interface from any image.

jQuery

Smart Validate
It is a jQuery credit card validation plugin that makes credit card format validation an easy chore. It makes sure that the user has inserted a legitimate credit card number prior to making the actual transaction. Smart Validate supports the subsequent credit cards: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, Diners Club, and Discover.

jQuery

Mobiscroll

Mobiscroll is a wheel scroller user control optimized for touchscreens to easily enter date and/or time. The control can easily be customized to support any custom values and can even be used as an intuitive alternative to the native select control (dropdown list). It is designed to be used on touch devices as an alternative to the jQuery UI date picker.

jQuery

HTML5 jQuery Music Player

A HTML5 music player that uses an awesome design created by Orman Clark and jPlayer.

jQuery

Sliding Panel Photo Wall Gallery with jQuery

If you want to create full page photo wall gallery than this one is for you try this and you thank us later

jQuery

Reveal

Reveal is a lightweight plugin that lets you easily create modal windows.

jQuery

FlexSlider

FlexSlider is an awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. It has simple, semantic markup, slide and fade animations, and is supported in all major browsers so you won’t have any compatibility issues. Flexslider is built for beginners and pros alike.

jQuery

jQuery Formwizard

The form wizard plugin is a jQuery plugin which can be used to create wizard like page flows for forms without having to reload the page in between wizard steps.

jQuery

Diapo
Diapo is a free and open source jQuery slideshow plugin. You can recommend changes or enhancements if you wish.

jQuery

Lettering.js

Lettering.js is a jQuery plugin for radical web typography. Web type is exploding all over the web but CSS currently doesn’t offer complete down-to-the-letter control. Lettering.js solves that: it’s a jQuery plugin to give you that control. Kerning type, editorial design, manageable code, and in general complete control can all be easily done with Lettering.js.

jQuery

Related Posts Slide Out Boxes with jQuery and CSS3

Now this got my eye while I was searching to replace my related post area. Very nicely done tutorial and it works as well. We are working on this and will be including Related posts slide out boxes with jQuery and CSS3 on our blog as well.

jQuery

Mosaiqy

Mosaiqy is a jQuery plugin for viewing and zooming photo working on Opera 9+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 3.2+, Chrome and IE7+. Photos are retrieved from a JSON/JSONP data structure and randomly moved inside the grid.

jQuery

FancyMoves a jQuery Product Slider

If you are looking for a jQuery product slider with awesome features than you don’t have to look around anymore. FancyMoves jQuery Product slider is all in one slider solution for images and products. The features of this awesome plugin includes, Multiple navigation ways for user to navigate products/images, ability to lower the size of images as they are entered, easy customization of width, image enlarge with overlayeffect, Hash Tags, panel selection and much more…

jQuery

ImageSelect

ImageSelect is a jQuery plugin that allows the user to select an image by means of a nice looking dropdown.

jQuery

Ajax PayPal Cart

AJAX PayPal Cart is a easy to use JQuery plugin for web developer to add a full function shopping cart in their website. The AJAX cart can included a cart widget which allow display of cart information easily. Support PayPal Website Payment Standard.

jQuery

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Its that time of the year again, trying to find the best gifts for web designers and developers in your life.  As we all know satisfying this interesting breed may not always be easy but with a little preparation you can pick up the perfect gift for the holiday season. Creative types aren’t usually looking for a new tie, gift voucher or cologne.  It takes something with a bit more intrigue and style to wow them.

Today lets take a look at some of the best holiday gifts of 2011 for the creative types in your life.

Aeron Chair by Herman Miller 

$800

The Aeron chair didn’t end up in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection just because it looks cool. Although it does. Its looks are only the beginning. Aeron accommodates both the sitter and the environment. It adapts naturally to virtually every body, and it’s 94% recyclable. Even if it’s black, it’s green.

Herman Miller Aeron Chair

Inkling by Wacom

$175

Inkling lets you get back to the drawing board, or the drawing paper rather. But if you always regret that you started out with pen and paper, then you can have the best of both worlds with Inkling. The digital sketch pen allows you to sketch with a real ballpoint pen on any paper, and all your drawing strokes are recorded electronically. Once drawn, the images are then recorded and transferred to digital files which are compatible with Illustrator, Photoshop etc.

Wacom Inkling

Fisheye, Macro, Wide Angle and Telephoto Phone Lenses by Photojojo

$20-30 each

Fisheye, Telephoto, and Macro/Wide Angle Cell Phone Lenses for your smartphone. These finely constructed lenses transform your standard phone photos into wide, up-close, super zoomed and wonderfully warped wonders.

Fisheye, Macro, Wide Angle and Telephoto Phone Lenses by Photojojo

Walls Notebook

$17.95

A look into the use of urban walls that provide a blank, yet interesting canvas for notes, music, drawings and doodles. An aspiring street artist’s dream: a notebook that, in lieue of blank pages, is filled with photos of blank New York City walls.

Walls Notebook

Map of the Known Universe

$10.00

Show the universe you aren’t afraid to get lost. After all, you have this handy map to get you out of nearly any jam. This 30” wide x 20” tall map features regional, galactic, and universal attractions

Map of Known Universe

YOU ARE THE CSS TO MY HTML TEE

$25

Show the world your geeky side with the “You Are The CSS to My HTML” t-shirt!

YOU ARE THE CSS TO MY HTML TEE

Nomad Brush

Starting at $25

The Nomad brush is made of natural and synthetic fiber that allows you to paint on your iPad. It creates a more realistic experience of digital painting, as compared to using your finger or a stylus.

Nomad Brush

 

Incipio iPhone 4S Boomproof Silicone case

$29

Incipio’s gear covers and protects iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macbooks, Blackberries, Tablets, eReaders, Smartphones and much more. There’s a style or case for everyone and everything.

Incipio iPhone 4 4S BOMBPROOF Silicone Case

IdeaPaint Dry Erase Whiteboard

$179.00

IdeaPaint is a dry erase whiteboard paint that turns virtually anything into an erasable canvas. Imagine an entire room as one giant sketch pad. IdeaPaint can be applied almost anywhere to create interactive play areas, work spaces in a home office, or a message center in the kitchen.

Ideapaint Dry Erase Board

Black and White Wall Clock

$179

The Black and White Clock is designed by Vadim Kibardin. The minimalist aesthetic is clean and beautiful.

Black and White Wall Clock

 Batman and Joker Thumb Drive

$24.99

If you admire Batman’s moral code, give your precious files to him. Just remember that he won’t kill anyone to protect them. If, on the other hand, you’d like someone more conniving to watch your stuff, The Joker’s ready to help. Each one has 4 GB of storage, so your only choice is whether you side with good or evil.

Batman and Joker Thumb Drives

 iPhone Coasters

$59.99

16 Coasters made in the design of iPhone Apps

iPhone App Coasters

Muji Touchscreen Gloves

$25.99

A conductive material is interwoven into the thumb and forefinger so that these gloves make Light work of touchscreen technology whatever the weather.

Muji Touchscreen Gloves

 

Layers Frame

$19.99

Spend all day staring at artboards? Why not add some to your office. The Layers Frame comes with a metal support with a picture magnet frame and looks great with both photos and illustrations.

Layers Frame

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

$299

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first device – ever – to carry Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich update, which brings a whole host of new features, tweaks and updates to the world’s most popular platform. Its also a gorgeous handset to boot, featuring a massive 4.6-inch Super AMOLED HD display (that’s 720p, by the way), 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 5-megapixel camera and either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage.  Making it perhaps the best new smartphone on the market.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

 

Thinking With Type

$24.95

Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering.

Thinking with Type

 

Apple Thunderbolt Display

27inch Thunderbolt Display

 

Doodle Diary

$12.99

Not only does it help you keep track of whats going on ,on what day, the Doodle Diary helps you create a personal catalogue of your daily sketches. It can even make a fantastic flick book or helps you to progress from a rough sketch to a more finished version

Doodle Diary

Pac Man Stapler

Pac Man is a legend in a video game world. With Pac Man Stapler you can play pac man in your office when you are working.

Pac Man Stapler

The Vector Brushes Sourcebook: 300 Unique Brushes for Digital Illustration

$12.99

The Vector Brush Sourcebook is a one-stop resource for designers and illustrators who want to learn more about illustrator brushes—how to make them, apply them, edit them, and use them to stunning effect. Digital brushes are powerful and flexible tools that can speed up and enhance the creative workflow; this book will help unleash their potential.

Vector Brush Sourcebook

 

Thinking With Type

Strong Photoshop skills continue to be in high demand these days and are a must for any serious designer.  There is no better way to improve these skills and ultimately showcase them than by taking that boring text layout and turning it to a creative work of art.  There are constantly new things to learn, regardless of your skill level.  New tips, tricks and skills are waiting to be discovered.  Those who are not yet pros but still learning the ins and outs of Photoshop can learn alot by following tutorials that encompass many aspects of Photoshop to create elaborate designs. Users often want to create unique and interesting text effects to take their work to the next level.  The possibilities with Photoshop are endless and fortunately there are no shortage of amazing tutorials that will show you step-by-step in creating amazing text effects.

Today lets take a look at 20 of the best and most creative Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials. Leave a comment and let me know which you think are the best.

Funk

Text Effects

Fireflies Text Tutorial

Text Effects

Slick 3D Ice Tutorial

Text Effects

Dazzling 3D Text Effect

CpText Effects

 Extruding Glass

Text Effects

Scrapbook Alphabet

Text Effects

 Chrome 4×4 Emblem

Text Effects

 Colorful Plexi Glass Text Tutorial

Text Effects

Retro Folded Text Tutorial

Text Effects

Colorful Candy Text

Text Effects

Crumpled Paper Text Tutorial

Text Effects

Luminous Glass Effect

Text Effects

Modern 3D Text

Text Effects

Neon Lights Tutorial

Text Effects

Eroded Metal Text Tutorial

Text Effects

L.A. Noire Neon Text

Text Effects

 Sparkly Party Text

Text Effects

 Dark Grunge 3D Text

Text Effects

 Colorful Retro Text Tutorial

Text Effects

Colorful Ornamental Text Tutorial

Text Effects

Almost two years ago we posted a list of some of the best actions for Photoshop.  Now, we are back with a new list of updated free and low priced actions that can speed up your work, enhance your final product and cut down on the repetition in design, it is a good time to see what new actions have arrived for us to use.

Photoshop Actions can be an incredible time saving tool for designers and photographers. Whether you are creating your own custom actions or using those that have been created by others, actions help by saving time through elimination of repetitive tasks.  Today lets take a look at 30 awesome new Photoshop Actions for designers and photographers that will help take their work to the next level.

I am Feeling Retro

Photoshop Actions

Dimensions – 3D Generator

$5.00

Photoshop Actions

Crunchbys Actions

Photoshop Actions

Photoshop Actions 06

Photoshop Actions

Vintage Style Actions

Photoshop Actions

Magic 3D

Photoshop Actions

3D Map Generator

$6.00

Photoshop Actions

Never Grow Up

Photoshop Actions

Cross Processing ATN

Photoshop Actions

Vintage TV Actions

Photoshop Actions

Purple Sunrise Actions

Photoshop Actions

Antique Photo

Photoshop Actions

Photo Coloring 11

Photoshop Actions

Book Generator

$6.00

Photoshop Actins

Eye Color

Photoshop Actions

Stylish Sepia

Photoshop Actions

i-Dark 3.02

Photoshop Actions

Nature Actions

Photoshop Actions

Realistic Drop Shadow Action

Manicho 50 Post Production Actions

Photoshop Actions

Black and White Sepia

Photoshop Actions

Cinematic Photo Effects

$5.00

Photoshop Actions

Infection

Photoshop Actions

Magical Effect 4

Photoshop Actions

Insta-Aged Photoshop Action

$4.00

Photoshop Actions

Portrait Action

Photoshop Action

Teeth Whitening Action

Photoshop Actions

Map Creator

$6.00

Photoshop Actions

Lomography

Photoshop Actions

Blueprint Generator

Photoshop Actions

Pixmac is a leading microstock photography site offering 11 million images at budget prices. Photos from $1 with the ability to source, download and buy an image in less than 3 minutes, with no registration process. Pixmac offers a fast, time-saving site with great customer service and a genuine respect for designer’s deadlines. Enter this exciting giveaway brought to you buy Pixmac and Designtutorials4u

Pixmac Giveaway

What is Pixmac giving away?

3 different lucky readers will get a free one month subscription to Pixmac worth $199 each. (http://www.pixmac.com/pictures/;collection:subscription)

Pixmac Giveaway

How to Enter?

To enter the contest please tweet this post and leave us a comment on this post telling us why you want to win. Only one entry per person. That’s all. Note that you must use only your valid email!

Winners announcement

Winners will be selected randomly.  Contest will run for one week, ending November 10.  The next day we will notify the winners.

Since the giveaway will continue just one week, don’t wait.

Pixmac Giveaway

Again, we are giving away a wonderful prize

The prizes: 3 x $199 worth stock photo accounts. Can be used for 1,000,000 images from our Subscription collection (http://www.pixmac.com/pictures/;collection:subscription)

Good Luck to All Participants

Grunge Brushes are design elements which are needed by each and every designer. This is why we, at VectorPack.net,  have decided to help designers, artists and creatives around the world get their hands on these amazing 210 Grunge Brushes which is a part of the VectorPack.net Mega Bundle 2.

Grunge Brushes

Who is VectorPack.net?

VectorPack.net is a design studio which specializes in creating high-quality vector art and design elements. VectorPack.net surprises designers and artists around the world with very detailed, professional stock vector art, Photoshop brushes, fonts, seamless patterns, backgrounds, textures, and WordPress themes. All in all, each and every type of vector art and design elements designers need for their work.

By offering a large variety of products, VectorPack.net is the suitable resource for all type of clients, from designers to advertising agencies and apparel creators, who are able to find here the coolest products for their artwork.

What is the Mega Bundle 2?

The Mega Bundle 2 is a collection of over 650 design elements which VectorPack.net puts at the disposal of designers for only $29 instead of $545. This incredible offer is available till the 13th of October, meaning 6 days from now . This great Mega Bundle contains high-quality design elements which reunite all the resources needed by creative people at a bargain price.

As VectorPack.net awards its clients with this type of Mega Bundles at a discount price once every several months, you should subscribe to their newsletter as not to miss these great offers.

This amazing Mega Bundle contains the following design elements:

- 319 vector elements

- 278 PS brushes

- 66 abstract backgrounds

- 58 seamless patterns

- 30 textures

- 1 WordPress theme

Vector Packs

How to win?

In order to be the lucky winner of this great prize, all you have to do is to tweet the post, to share it on Facebook or to leave a comment on the post.

You must leave a valid email address in order to win. Winners will be randomly chosen.

Comments will remain open till until the 12th

In today’s mobile, on the go society, you will frequently see people working away from their desk using their laptops, smart phones and  possibly even their tablets.  Apple, the most popular of all tablet makers has developed an entire niche out of the potential productivity (and fun) that can be found in their iPads.  While the time has not yet come to completely ditch your workstation, iIf you’re a web designer you don’t need to be tied down to it all time.  Fire up your iPad and take a look at these amazingly creative and productive apps that you should start using.  Most of these apps are also great for those who aren’t professional, and just like to play around.

The next time you are away from your desk and have a few minutes to kill, instead of launching Angry Birds, get some work done.  Today lets take a look at 20 must have iPad apps for designers and creative types.

Adobe Ideas

The Adobe® Ideas mobile sketching software app is your ideal companion for the drawing software you love, including Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop®. Easily sketch using vectors, layers and color themes.

iPad Apps

Sketchbook Pro

Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

iPad Apps

iThoughts HD

This app allows you to visually organize your ideas and thoughts in a a very easy to use interface.

iPad Apps

TouchUp

TouchUp brings creative photo editing to iPad, enabling anyone to make common adjustments and create captivating art with their photos. TouchUp has over a dozen effects which can be applied in layers to your photo.

iPad App

Penultimate

“The ultimate app for iPad. Stylish, powerful, and easy to use, Penultimate encourages you to take notes, keep sketches, or work through your next breakthrough idea– whether you’re in the office, on the go, or home on the couch.

iPad Apps

Phaidon Design Classic

Encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier and many more. Presented in a beautifully rendered, 3D environment, the application has been built to take full advantage of the large Multi-Touch screen and advanced capabilities of iPad.

iPad App

iDesign

“Precision 2D vector drawing & design in an intuitive and user friendly interface for the iPad and iPhone / iPod Touch.”

iPad Apps

PhotoForge2

PhotoForge2 is a must have app for any photographer: easy enough for beginners to start getting creative, yet powerful enough for the professional on the go.

iPad Apps

iMockups

iMockups for iPad is the PREMIERE mobile wireframing and mockup app for your web, iPhone and iPad projects.

iPad Apps

ArtStudio

ArtStudio is a professional drawing / painting application. It uses advanced mathematics to attain the highest level of quality, at the same time offering incredible performance achieved through numerous code optimizations. It still remains a fantastic tool for beginners – it contains drawing lessons showing step-by-step instruction on drawing various types of images.

iPad Apps

Wondershare iDraft

“iDraft is a simple, easy to use notebook for iPad. You can draw a picture, make a record for a conference, or just write down what you have in your mind with iDraft.”

iPad Apps

Brushes

Brushes is a popular painting application designed from scratch for the iPad touch. Paintings produced with Brushes have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker on numerous occasions. It has now been redesigned to take full advantage of the larger screen offered by the iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, high quality brushes, layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device

iPad Apps

iFontMaker

“iFontMaker is the first font editor exclusive for iPad. With the touch interface, your 100% original hand typeface can be done in 5 minutes. You can email the typography or convert it into a TTF file available in all applications such as Adobe CreativeSuite, Microsoft Office for Mac and Windows, and also in your web site as a web font!”

iPad Apps

Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. Enjoy having your photo and video library right in your hand — without wasting your device’s valuable storage space.

iPad Apps

App Designer for iPad

“Design interfaces for iPhone applications, on your iPad! Wireframe a screen on the go, and e-mail it to a friend or business partner with a single tap.”

iPad App

SketchyPad

We are proud to offer you a new app for website sketching and apps interface making, including iPhone and iPad apps. This app will make designers, programmers, interface designers life much easier. Easy-to-use interface and a lot of various stencils will help you to mockup any web sites and apps interfaces.

iPad Apps

Layers

Layers for iPad offers a balanced set of painting tools completely redesigned for the iPad’s large, crisp display. With high-quality brushes, an eyedropper, a smudge tool and an eraser, Layers provides the tools you need to create great art.

iPad Apps

Web Designer Magazine

Web Designer is the premier magazine for aspiring online creatives and industry professionals. The monthly title offers cutting-edge practical projects spanning XHTML, CSS, Flash and WordPress as well as hosting features and interviews with the web community’s most influential people. Each issue also has a dedicated Industry section covering news and views from the trade, website showcases featuring the finest design talent.

iPad Apps

Computer Arts

“Computer Arts, the Italian magazine dedicated to digital design and computer graphics, is now available as an iPad App. Read our tutorials on Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Illustrator and many more, discover our features about the world of design you love and how you can make money with your skills, and learn how the professionals create their masterpieces.”

iPad Apps

Gusto

Gusto was created to embrace the workflow of web development on the iPad. Quickly identify your project with a beautifully generated thumbnail of your website. Open your project and download multiple files and folders at a time from your FTP or SFTP server. Gusto allows you to open multiple documents in tabs for faster navigation. After editing, preview your document locally to quickly see your updates. When it’s time to make your changes live, transfer your documents via the built-in FTP/SFTP client or the easy to use document publishing.

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The art of designing print material, including posters and ads, even as practice is a great way to enhance your overall skills.  It is essential to constantly review technique and learn new Photoshop tricks. If you are interested in web or any graphic design in general, most of these techniques are adaptable and will come in handy as time goes on. It is vital that you also have the right place to take care of your poster printing

Today, lets take a look at 25 awesome design tutorials that will help you create  professional posters and ads as you learn essential techniques that you can use  on your future projects.

Retro Space Poster

Poster Tutorials

Create a Retro Urban Gig Poster

Steam Engine Poster

Poster Tutorials

Rock n’ Roll Gig Poster

Poster Tutorials

Vector Political Poster

Poster tutorials

Blend and Mask a Great Poster

Poster Tutorials

Inception Style Poster

Poster Tutorials

Stencil Poster Tutorial

Poster Tutorial

Retro Ski Poster

Poster Tutorials

Iconic Poster Tutorial

Poster Tutorials

Stylish Club Poster Tutorial

Poster Tutorial

Psychedelic Poster Design

Poster Tutorials

Swiss Air travel Poster

Poster Tutorials

Dexter Poster in Photoshop

Poster Tutorials

Rock n’ Roll Poster

Poster Tutorial

Grunge Retro Poster

Poster Tutorials

3D Lettering Effects for Posters

Poster Tutorials

Dramatic Sequence Movie Poster

Poster Tutorials

Beer Poster Design

Poster Tutorials

Terror Movie Poster

Poster Tutorials

3D Color Explosion

Poster Tutorial

Retro Typographic Poster

Poster Tutorial

Minimalist Poster Design

Poster Tutorials

Geometric Poster

Poster Tutorials

Fantasy Poster

Poster Tutorials