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Can Photographers Replace their Laptops with Tablets?
Over the last two weeks, I have completed a social experiment to see if a tablet computer, in my case the iPad 2, could replace the humble laptop for my...
Peter Sawyer
3 Aug 2011
Photo & Video
Quick Tip: How to Make a Reusable Icon Style using the Appearance Panel
In the following Quick tip you will learn how to create a cute rounded icon style. You will use basic shapes and Pathfinder options to create glyph style...
LoungeKat
3 Aug 2011
Design & Illustration
Creating Custom Brushes
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a...
Martin Perhiniak
3 Aug 2011
Design & Illustration
Put On A Popsicle Stick Puppet Show
In today's Quick Tip I'm going to show you how to simulate a Popsicle Stick Puppet Show in just a few minutes. It's a super simple technique that you can use...
Adam Everett Miller
3 Aug 2011
3D & Motion Graphics
Create a Binoculars Icon in Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a binocular icon design, using Adobe Illustrator's 3D effects, gradients and blending modes. So let's get into...
Janovici Eniko
3 Aug 2011
Design & Illustration
Using Custom Post Types to Create a Killer Portfolio
Quite possibly the best addition to WordPress 3.0 was that of Custom Post Types. This took WordPress from being a CMS that can manage posts and pages to...
Joe Casabona
3 Aug 2011
Code
UDK - Creating Events With Unreal Kismet
Today we'll delve into UDK's Kismet and take a look at developing Events, what they are, how we can create them and how we can manage them. You'll learn how...
Davide Di Donato
3 Aug 2011
3D & Motion Graphics
Music Notation in Sibelius - Part 4
In this new exciting session you'll learn everything about music notation for all sorts of purposes: writing for a pop or rock band or writing a symphony for...
Hugo Tromp
3 Aug 2011
Music & Audio
The Web Designer's Guide to Font Replacement Methods
Fed-up with Arial? Tired of Times New Roman? Font-replacement methods have improved dramatically over the past 2 years, but it can be often hard to sort out...
Shaun Cronin
3 Aug 2011
Web Design
Top 10 Models on 3DOcean
3dOcean has been exploding recently. The amazing author submissions have been pouring in and the site has doubled its sales in the last ten months! So we've...
Travis King
2 Aug 2011
3D & Motion Graphics
Open Mic: Which Song are You Listening to Right Now?
Each week we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what...
Adrian Try
2 Aug 2011
Music & Audio
Adding Multiple Inheritance to AS3 with Traits and Realaxy Editor
In this post you'll learn about a language extension called Traits, a feature of a new Beta of RASE, a smart and modern IDE for Adobe Flash based on...
Eugene Potapenko
2 Aug 2011
Code