Web 2.0 Designer

Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or initial first impression of the site, here are just a few of the ones im liking. Brian Hoff Kyle Steed Spoon Graphics Sushi and Robots New To York Adrian Pelletier Ribbons of Red Purple Rain Cloud Snook Tobias Ahlin Srburns 8 Interactive Stuff and Nonsense Lift Interactive Jason Reynolds Marten dejongh Mutt Ink Rainbeau Mars Mark Boulton Simple Bits Ainsworth Studio The Darling Tree Pixel Craft z8 Glue Comments Have your seen any well designed web sites on your travels around the web, if so feel free to post a link in the comments?

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25 Examples of Clean and Well designed Web Sites

We had some old picture frames in bags so I took the opportunity to take photos of them and remove the backgrounds and the actual paintings in Photoshop and create some stock .png images for you to use in you art work. Yup that’s right they have transparent backgrounds so there pretty much ready to be used, check them out below from flickr. Rapidshare Download (12.36mb Zip File) http://rapidshare.com/files/274710877/Stock-Picture-Frames.zip Mediafire Download (12.36mb Zip File) http://www.mediafire.com/file/zdmo3j5ttkz/Stock-Picture-Frames.zip Usage Terms Free to use for commercial and non commercial work no credit or link back needed, but please don’t redistribute or sell them as your own

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5 Free Hi-Res Stock Picture Frame Images

I’ve selected various Photoshop tutorials that I’m liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs (try and experiment with them), check them out below. You might also enjoy: 25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design 25 Examples of Light Effects In Web Design Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper Windows Vista Aurora Effect Design a Vibrant Blackberry Inspired Ad NoPattern “Jumper” Effect Mysterious Lighting Effect How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks Creating a Mac-Type Background Luminescent Lines Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect Abstract Dust And Spray Effect Make a dreamy abstract background Digital Bokeh effect Abstract Lines Background Abstract Light Rays Drawing an Abstract Lightbulb How to create 3D abstract circles Comments Do you have any favourite tutorials that you have seen for light effects?

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16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

Here’s a free repeating pattern that is ideal to be used as a twitter background, created from some Victorian images from some books I’ve arranged them in a way that they will tile perfectly… how convenient! A few of you may know that I’m really in to my ornaments and swirls so you can get a bit of inspiration from this post I wrote earlier: Ornamental design inspiration – Baroque Download The Background There are 3 variations to choose from below – Right Click the image and “Save As” Light Dark Stained The subtle stains were added using my free grunge stained paper textures. Example In Use Click the image to see a biger preview Comments If you use it on your twitter profile feel free to post a link in the comments so we can all see it in action

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Freebie: Tiled Ornamental Twitter Background