It’s time for another dose of design inspiration. I think it’s necessary for designers to look at others work often to help expanding the imagination of creativity. It opens you up to more ideas and things that you wouldn’t normally even think of or consider doing yourself. I think my favorite type graphic art is photo manipulation because it is one of the most creative forms of art I’ve ever seen, and it requires an extreme amount of skill to do effectively

I can make a hundred of these lists just from the amazing images I have seen on Behance, and I just might. There are some unbelievable designers on that site that I have to really give a lot of credit for the work they do. I’d say I have better than average design skills, but there are some people out there that really push the envelope.

This list of photo manipulations is so breathtaking, I don’t know how else I can better describe them besides simply astonishing. I collected this list a while back in just one visit to Behance, and it didn’t take long to find all of these either. I know you will enjoy these amazing works of art, and creative design masterpieces

This is truly an inspiring, and creatively insightful article and it shows. It was posted not even 6 hours ago, and it already has nearly 300 comments at the time of writing this, and it has been re-tweeted by so many people. When there’s that much buzz about something going on you know it has to be something good. I think this is one of the coolest, and most inspiring articles on design and blogging that I’ve read. It will make your mouth water with the delicious visually graphical goodness

This is a video that shows a sneak peak of some of the features being developed by Photoshop Laps. It includes new painter-style brushes that you can change and control in ways never possible before. If you have ever used brushes in Corel Draw you might notice the similar idea here. The video shows the use of a ‘wet’ brush being smudged and smeared.

I recently found myself becoming much more interested in improving my design skills, more interested than ever before, too, which I didn’t think was possible, and because of this growing interest I have been seeking out all sorts of information that has to do with web and graphic design improvement, and overall knowledge and understanding for what good, quality design really is.

I have always thought of myself as a skilled designer, but only in my world. I know the truth is I still have endless amounts to learn, since I am constantly reminded everyday of how little I know because of all the design blogs and websites I visit daily. I am envious of the people that work for the website networks

For all of you who are looking to further your skills with Adobe Creative Suite programs, and maybe even become an Adobe Certified Expert, then go to GraphicMania.net and try answering the Adobe Photoshop CS4 exam practice questions, and take part in the contest. It’s a really great way to see how much you know about Photoshop Cs4, or what you could maybe learn some more of

A while back I was at work with nothing to do, during down time or something, and I wanted to make some kind of graphic or something in Photoshop, but I couldn’t think of anything to make. So I thought why not make the thing I was looking at, my computer screen! I didn’t really expect much from the end result since I was just doing it to kill some time, so I just started to create it just for the hell of doing something

Incase you didn’t get enough sig tutorials for GIMP with the previous post, 10 Amazing GIMP Sig Tutorials For Advanced Users, here are even MORE awesome tutorials for the more advanced GIMP user. All of them go into good detail and teach many techniques. Enjoy!

Okay all you people that use GIMP to make graphics and other image manipulations. This post is for you. I found what I beleive to be 10 amazing sig tutorials to help you learn some more techniques for making graphics with GIMP and to can improve your design skills. I have never actually used GIMP myself, but I can tell from looking at these tutorials that they are worth trying out.

These are some more advanced tutorials, but they should be easy enough to follow. I wanted to cater to a wider audience of people rather than post tutorials, and resources exclusively for Photoshop users. I’m sure you will learn something from doing a few of these tutorials

A lot of things about a person can change over time. People develop new interests in what they do as they progress though life. It’s interesting to watch as it unfolds, and to compare the before with the after. Being aware of your changing styles, can help shape the style of your future. Knowing where you came from, and where you currently are, is important to figure out where you would like to go. And it can be good for inspiration in general

Come see the all-new Tweeaks Design Portfolio. Powered by jQuery CSS and PHP, with a killer new totally original design that will blow your mind. This is the newest creation of design work from Tweeaks, and it is not to be missed.
This gallery features all the best graphic, web, and 3D design work created by me, and there is still more to add to it. Everyday Tweeaks is designing and creating new things, that will be showcased in this portfolio. It is sure to be worth checking out

I posted a question on the new Tweeaks Facebook page asking what people would like to see on Tweeaks. So I made this forum signature tutorial for someone that requested it. I don’t think I am the best sig maker, but that doesn’t mean I won’t make a tutorial on how to make one. It doesn’t mean that anyone will try doing the tut, but it may be useful to someone somewhere.

What this tutorial is will teach you:

• how to make a grunge style design
• a nice looking forum signature
• keystrokes and shortcuts in Photoshop
• how to make a custom brush
• a bit of smudging
• and one tehcnique for making a light streak effect

here are so many websites on the internet that have some truly creative and breath-taking designs. Every time I go online I find a new website that leaves me wondering, how do people come up with such visually appealing designs. It’s one of the things that keeps me motivated to learn new design techniques and ideas.

This post is a spin-off of 2 other ones on Dzine Blog, and WebDesignerDepot which are similar to this.

The question of what makes good graphic design is one that cannot be answered simply or succinctly as there are a myriad of factors and variables to consider when it comes to the colourful world of both art and design.

While art is more open to personal interpretation and considered to be a subjective matter, graphic design is instead used to serve a distinct purpose, whether it’s selling a product or promoting a person, place, or thing, or whatever the case may be

When I got my iPod I decided to make a design of it in Photoshop, and figured while I’m at it, why not make a tutorial on it. I have a silver 8GB 3rd generartion iPod Nano. Here is what the final result of this tutorial will look like.