Link Love 08.31.08

Posted on | August 31, 2008 |

• Create a Vector Pirate Cartoon Character from a Hand Drawn Sketch : By firstly using the power of pen and paper a character design is created, which is then scanned into the computer to use as a base for tracing with Adobe Illustrator. The final outcome is a colorful cartoon character in vector format!

• Blueprint-Style Text in Adobe Illustrator : This blueprint technique has been seen just about everywhere—even on the cover of The Photoshop Help Desk Book by Dave Cross. This is a quick demo using a blend of live effects, filters, and even a little gradient mesh to create a seemingly complex logo treatment.

• Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes : This is the first article in our new three-part WordPress series. I want to share with you some hacks that i found to be very useful when i was working on the redesign of Noupe and during the design of my other site Devsnippets. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on many Word Press Theme hacks, ideas, tips and useful tutorials you need to have ready in hand when developing Word Press websites.

• Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorial : Blend 2 objects seamlessly together. Bad apple tutorial teaches a technique to add a mouth to an apple.

• A Roundup of the Best Photoshop Logo Design Tutorials Online : Although, I prefer to design a logo in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop has just the right tools to create gorgeous logos. I have collected the top Photoshop Logo Design tutorials online and listed them for you below. There are also plenty of Web 2.0 Logo Design tutorials as well.

• The Best 50 Firefox add-ons for Web-developers : Mozilla Firefox is becoming more and more powerful tool in these days. Using right add-ons it will start to become a tool, You can`t live without as web-developer! Each of these plugins can make certain things easier and that`s especially important for web-developers, because searching for errors and optimizing your pages can be pretty painful and time-consuming process. And that`s the reason, why I looked over 100+ pages, to get overview which add-ons are used and recommended by amateurs.

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