Archive for the 'Design Tools' Category

Oh man, that’s sweet… some solid dynamic text control in Flash…

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Sweet!!

That “Web 2.0″ look… the elusive holy grail, the new bevel, drop-shadow-du-jour, the page curl of the new millennium… But how does one get that look? Well, now we’ve got every “design” effect tutorial conveniently indexed and logged for your Photoshopping pleasure, thanks to this Smashing Magazine post.

I even put the new mod7 logo through the Web 2.0 machine. Total “design” time: 5 minutes flat!

Funny thing is… it actually looks pretty damn hot!

(Thanks, Mark, for the tip-off)

Anytime a designer or artist complains to you that they don’t have the right tools to do a good job, you just show them this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Qpc4UzP9g

That guy is the Jimmy Hendrix of MS Paint.

This is one of the neatest things I’ve seen in a while (if you have a webcam). Try letting the snow pile up on your head and shoulders and then brushing it off. Pretty cool, eh? Thanks to Darren for sending this one over.