Create a Simple Letterpress Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will be creating a simple and sleek letterpress effect using Photoshop. Recently, I have been asked quite a few times on how to create this effect, so I decided to write a tutorial. It’s a pretty simple effect really. There are plenty of different methods to achieve the desired effect. This is by far the simplest.

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75+ Best Creative Animated GIFs for Your Inspiration

Animated GIFs are one of the hottest topics on the web today and for good reason too. In a tiny 3 second GIF image lays a whole lot of – often unappreciated – design work.
GIFs were once the subject of much criticism, being synopsis with cheap, often intrusive and annoying advertising.

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10 Simple and Elegant Concept Redesigns

User interface redesigns are a great way to show off your design style and skills, particularly if you can build on and visually streamline a product in a logical and beneficial manner. Today, many designers are featuring concept redesigns as part of their portfolio and a large amount of them opt for flat variants on popular interfaces.

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Free Download: Dripicons Line Icons

Ever since the release of iOS7, line-icons have become increasingly popular. So with release of the iPhone 5s and 5c yesterday, we thought it natural to share this free download.

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Regular Web Design Code Visualized Into Brilliant Quote Posters

Quotation posters are so common these days, and often they can become boring and repetitive. But this set of posters cleverly use HTML tags and code to create meaningful real- life metaphors that should bring a grin and a little chuckle to web industry folk.
The witty posters were created by Costas Papaconstantinou, an Athens based web  and GUI designer and would create a fitting wallpaper for any designers background depending on your mood.

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Which of these posters do you like the most? Are there any others you can think of? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Using Color Swatches in Photoshop

Today we will be talking about Photoshop color swatches. How to use them, where to get them and why you should be using them.
Now this may be basic, but swatches can often be overlooked by designers. If you’re a frequent user of Photoshop, having an extensive collection of color swatches can save you a valuable amount of time on your projects, particularly if you do a lot of user-interface design.

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5 Essential Tips For Creating High Quality Flat Design

As a design savvy person you’ve most likely come across the the term flat design somewhere in your online activity. Whether it be a website, an icon set, a poster or user-interface, flat design is everywhere.

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A New Design Trend: Flat Design Gets Layered

If you are a designer or developer, or just a design savvy creative, it’s almost certain you have come across the term ‘Flat Design’ at some point. But what you might not realize, is that flat design has been around for a very long time.

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20 Beautiful Examples Of Flat Design

Flat Design has become an increasingly bigger hot-topic amongst design circles over the past year. Probably the most well-known example is Microsoft’s Metro UI (User Interface). Flat design has been around for a while now and is somewhat of a controversial subject amongst passionate designers and developers; some love it, others don’t. Nevertheless, over the course of the past year we have seen a pretty large number of websites and apps adopt the design scheme, thus its popularity.

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110+ Best High Quality Free Flat Design Icon Packs

 

Here at PencilScoop, we love providing you with quality and practical free content. Which is why we have carefully selected this list of awesome free flat icon sets.

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120+ Best Free Flat Design Resources for Designers

Flat design has become increasingly popular throughout 2013. So much so that we have seen a large amount of big digital and software based companies adopt flat design principles to some degree.

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Tutorial: How to Create a 3D Text Effect in Photoshop

With recent increases in popularity of typography, text effects are becoming more prevalent than ever. 3D text effects are now quite simple to achieve, particularly in programs like Illustrator, which has built in 3D extruding functions.

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6 Tips On Self-Promotion Every Designer Should Know

As a professional designer, you should have a dynamic set of skills and abilities, enabling you to carry out a variety of jobs and projects. But one of the most important of them, is far too often overlooked and that’s self-promotion.

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Tutorial: Create An Origami Style Logo in Photoshop

Origami style designs are a great skill to use for a number of tasks, such as logos, typography and even poster design. Even if you are using Adobe Illustrator, the principles of creating the effect still remain the same.

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40+ Examples of Illustrative PaperCraft For Your Inspiration

PaperCraft is one of the hottest topics sweeping design circles in 2013. Illustrative PaperCraft uses traditional paper cutout techniques combined with photography and post-production to produce incredible, eye-deceiving works of art.

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100+ Excellent Examples of Flat Design Logo Inspiration

Flat design has come a long way in the past 3 years in terms of both web design, UI design, and even logos. Recently we have seen a number of larger companies, such as Google and Bing adopt flat design principles into their logos.

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80+ Brilliant Examples of Flat Web Design Inspiration

Flat design is one of the hottest topics sweeping the web design community. From small boutique businesses, to larger more prominent brands, flat design websites have become more popular than ever.

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20 Best New Font Foundries Every Designer Should Know

Today’s typography landscape is largely dominated by a number of transnational distributors such as Adobe, Linotype, Monotype and ITC, making it often difficult to find new emerging foundries that produce quality work.

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20 Free iOS 7 Wallpapers For Your iPhone & iPad

With the release of iOS 7 last week there are a lot of changes to made, icons, UI elements, logos, and even wallpapers.

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75+ Stunning Examples of Flat Mobile UI Inspiration

Over the past few years, flat mobile UI has become increasingly popular for designers and developers across the globe, so much so that it’s now practically considered a standard in app design.

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100+ Best Free Business Card PSD Templates

The business card is one of the oldest and most traditional forms of professional social networking. With recent developments in software and printing, professional looking business cards are becoming increasingly easier to produce.

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60+ Gorgeous Free Logo PSD Mock-Ups

Logo mockups are a great way to visualize your latest design projects for both yourself and your client. Whether you are designing for a small business or a larger brand, a logo mockup will give you a good sense of your design in its context.

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30 Excellent Free Vector CSS Icon Web-Fonts

Vector based web-font icons are fast becoming the standard amongst forward thinking web designers and developers. With the ever increasing spectrum of screen sizes on the web these days, it makes sense to have your icons in vector based format.

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10 Essential Free Online Tools For Website Speed Testing

Website load time is one of the most important facets of basic web development, particularity since Google has officially announced it has a direct impact on SEO. 

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Top 20+ Must-Have Essential WordPress Tips & Tricks

WordPress is fantastically versatile blogging platform with next-to endless potential for tweaking and customization. Whether you’re an advanced web developer or a WordPress newbie there are a number of solutions you can employ to give your project something extra.

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27+ Best Naked/Blank WordPress Starter Themes For Developers

 If you are a web developer and need to create new WordPress themes for clients on a regular basis, then you definitely should look at getting a good high quality blank theme to work from.

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65+ Greatest Free jQuery CSS3 Menu Plugins & Demos

Jquery has come a long way since its early adoption, particularly with the wide spectrum of touch-screen enabled devices available today, with swiping and multi-touch-gestures.

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45+ High Quality Free jQuery CSS3 Accordion Plugins & Demos

Jquery accordion menus are a great way to display content on your blog, particularly for featured content or social media integration on a sidebar.

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