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10 Ways to Improve Your Mix-down
With so many things to remember when performing your final mix-down, it can sometimes feel like you're spinning plates. Luckily, there are a few principles...
Mo Volans
25 Jul 2008
Music & Audio
Create a Retro Style Poster with Shapes, Patterns, and Eagles
In this tutorial, we'll show the inspired Adobe Illustrator artist how to create a retro style poster. We'll learn how to create shapes by using the...
Simona Pfreundner
25 Jul 2008
Design & Illustration
Submit A Form Without Page Refresh using jQuery
Previously on Nettuts+, Philo showed how you can use jQuery to add form validation to wordpress comments that works without any page reload. Another great...
Eric
25 Jul 2008
Code
Create a Complete Vexel Image Using Photoshop
This tutorial will instruct the reader on how to take a picture and create a vexel image out of it, through Photoshop. Numerous vexel techniques are taught....
Emil Agarunov
25 Jul 2008
Design & Illustration
Learn How To Create Two-Tone and Graphic Radials
There are many types of radial patterns, and I find it helpful to have some of the more common kind on hand. I'll show you how to make two types of radials:...
Ana Hicks
24 Jul 2008
Design & Illustration
Creating a Dynamic Poll With jQuery and PHP
When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we'll...
Jonathan Rudenberg
24 Jul 2008
Code
Design an Album Cover Using Spectrograms
How would you illustrate sounds? Would you make them as musical notes, key signatures, elegant swirls, or wild swooshes? Well let's put away all those for...
Alex Beltechi
23 Jul 2008
Design & Illustration
30+ Insanely Useful Websites for Guitarists
The guitar is an instrument that knows no genre and no boundaries--one of the reasons why it's arguably the world's most beloved instrument. Here are over 30...
Skellie
23 Jul 2008
Music & Audio
Create a Sidekick LX Styled Vector Illustration
This tutorial will show you how to make a vector illustration of the Sidekick LX. This tutorial uses mostly the Pen tool, basic shapes, and simple gradients...
Mohsin Amjed
23 Jul 2008
Design & Illustration
Solving 5 Common CSS Headaches
CSS is a relatively simple language to learn. Mastering it, on the other, can prove a little more difficult. Compensating for various browser...
Jeffrey Way
23 Jul 2008
Code
How to Make One Vocal Sound Like a Choir
In this tutorial we are going to explore how we can make a simple four-part vocal harmony sound like a full choir. We're going to do so by using a freeware...
Andy Slatter
22 Jul 2008
Music & Audio
How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress
It's becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to implement this...
James Lao
22 Jul 2008
Code