Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category

Reflected Images: A current style to imitate

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

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Because of its elegance and simplicity, reflected images is a very used style in the Web Sites. If you will like to try this effect in Photoshop, you’ll only need to follow the followings steps:

  • Create a gradient layer
  • Create and stylize your text layer
  • Duplicate your text layer (ctrl-J)
  • Flip the vertical on the second layer
  • Change the blend mode to Overlay and lower the opacity

I hope this small tutorial might be helpful. If you want to download the original file, just click here.

Source: Adobe Blog

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Palette Man: Testing Color Palette

Monday, April 30th, 2007

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Palette Man is a color palette-generation program that’s geared toward web designers. You’re allowed to select 5 colors from the 216-color web-safe palette and see how they interact.

Source: Vecindad Gráfica

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Clean your code with CleanCSS

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

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CleanCSS is an online tool that helps to optimize CSS code. It helps you get smaller CSS file sizes and better written code.

Source: Leandono’s Blog

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Gradients for your Web 2.0 Sites

Friday, April 27th, 2007

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One of the most important aspects of the design of a Web 2.0 Site are the gradients. Thanks to Deziner Folio, you’ll be able to use a lot of cool gradients for your Site. With them, your life will be easier whenever you have to create Logos, Backgrounds, Buttons, etc. Click here to download.

Follow the nexts steps to install them in your Photoshop:
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