Photoshop Actions are extremely useful in both saving time as well as learning new features that you may not know. They can be used to help standardize your final project better, cut down on repetitive tasks, and to assist you in a bit of creative inspiration. We have collected a handful of great (and free) downloadable PS Actions in this article and also included a nice tutorial on creating your own Actions. .

For graphic designers, working with custom shapes in Photoshop can be a big time-saver. While free brushes get a lot of attention, custom shapes probably get less. Here is a big collection of  free custom shapes for your own work in Photoshop. .

Adobe Photoshop is the go-to tool for digital artists when it comes to professionally retouching images. Enhancing and retouching photos in Photoshop is an effective way to “work with what you’ve got”. There are many tips, tricks, and techniques for improving things like skin tone and imperfections, and enhancing the photo subject’s features. This article shares a huge variety of photo retouching tutorials for Photoshop users with brief descriptions of each. .

A current trend in design is adding lighting effects to enhance your digital art. In this article, you’ll find part 2 of 100 cool lighting effect photoshop tutorials that you can use to add a bit of sparkle into your work. You can find 50 tutorials of Part 1 Here .

Lighting effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows, or an assortment of other lighting effects, give your images ambiance and depth. This is collection of  PSD TUTS about Photoshop tutorials for creating awesome lighting and abstract effects. Learn techniques that you can use in your own work. .

Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that seems to resist progression. When it comes to typography, there are standards and traditions that have been around for many years. These rules are there for a reason – to make sure that letters and words are legible. But to move forward, sometimes rules have to be broken. So for this post we’ve rounded up 65 high quality free font for designers. These fonts might be pushing the limits of traditional type design, but the results are stunning. .

Designing a logo or a corporate identity sometimes eat up a whole lot of project time than designing its theme or any other part of the site. It may be the misguiding client specifications list or a designer’s block, or for starters a know-how block. Well, one can find numerous tutorials posted for designing a logo, but I’ve handpicked a few of most commonly used tools and designing elements that go into making an appealing logo. .

Textures in Web design can be very subtle, so that the visitors hardly notices, or they can be a focal point of the design. In some cases, textures are used to emphasize certain parts of the design. Because of the versatility of textures, they can be used in combination with many other design elements, such as typography, lighting and colors. In this article, we’ll look at some of the tutorials about textured web design. In addition, resources can help you do your work  easier and more quickly . Finally, I do hope,  my showcase  will inspire you…. .

When creating a baby or child related Logo Design it is very important to keep in mind the target market. Even though some of the services or products are aimed directly at the children, in most cases, especially for baby services and products, the target audience is the “parents”. The colors used in baby logos and child logos have to be bright and happy. For example “ToyBox” logo bellow has a very nice and simple baby illustration and used yellow, red and blue to bring out a bright and happy message. The illustration is also quite cute. In this case it is not apparent what the company does when looking at the logo. .

In this collection, you’ll find 10 excellent, high-quality, free WordPress themes. These themes range from being elaborate and colorful to being clean and simple so that you may find one that suits your design tastes. Note: Be sure to check out the license of the theme for restrictions in usage (if any) and it’s always good (and very much appreciated) to attribute the designer even if they don’t explicitly ask you to. .