There is a whole school of art that uses Adobe's Photoshop to create incredible works of art using images.  With tools such as Photoshop and digital cameras artists are really only limited by their imaginations and skills with computers and the tools themselves.  Vertus Fluid Mask has compiled this collection of 40 a

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Last week some of my fellow readers asked me which free web applications I would suggest. Below you can find my favorite free web applications. I am sure they are quite useful for the PC users with limited budget.

- Photoshop Express
- ZoneAlarm
- Adrive
- LogMeIn
- Audacity

What are your favorite free web application

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gtemplates.org is offering free photoshop .psd templates for the more or less experienced. Depending on what you are searching for, I'm sure you will find some designs that fit you. And EVERYTHING you find on the www.gtemplates.org site is FREE! I'd say that's pretty cool...

There are: serious templates, funny templates, innovative, abs

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Traditional Rss Icons are commonly seen on every blog nowadays and as time goes by it is essential now for blogger's to offer both Rss Feed and Rss Emails on their blog. You need fresh ideas on how you can create unique buttons for both your Feed a

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As I mentioned my a previous post it is time to really organize my blogging! But my blog is not really MY blog it is yours. As I showed in my stats post, it is my visitors that are make it a success beyond what I thought it would do.

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A video showing how to crop and resize photos in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
If your are going to email a digital photo to a friend you should not send them the whole file. Unless you think they are likely to get a print made from it, sending them a screen sized version of the digital photo will save a lot of time uploading and downl

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I started today off by spending a few hours compiling this list of photoshop resources that I have used in the past. These photoshop resources contain everything from Photoshop brushes to vector art to forums to various web design blogs. I am confident that no matter which picture you click you will find something useful or helpful to help yo

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Loving the Photoshop effect here, is pretty amazing isn’t it?

During the past two decades there has been a dramatic increase in obesity and more than half of Americans are overweight.

Putting on the right pose would have been the least of David’s worries… He’d be facing heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and impotence. I think

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This article, the third in the series on using images in your posts, covers some tips and tricks you can use to improve your images to give them a greater impact and to increase their quality. In the article I briefly go over various photo editing software and tools and cover a few basic techniques you can use to enhance the quality of your p

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My second session of photoshop freebies. This is a vast compilation of several different resources mainly focusing on photoshop brushes and icons that can be very helpful in every day web design. Check out this list and all these resources and be sure to give the post a stumble if you like it! I hope everyone finds these resources helpful and

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I'm going to start a weekly post on Saturday where I recap my favorite blogs of the week.
I added to this list the top blogs that have provided some great content over the past week. If you would like to try your chances at getting onto this list, send me a link to your site and I'll check it out. If I like your site, I'll feature it! Si

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Can you imagine a world without Photoshop? Digital makeovers are literally everywhere, every fashion and celebrity magazine uses / abuses image editing in order to make models appear "flawless". However, while it has become absolutely essential in the media industry, you can get the same effects on your pictures.. maybe not a

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If you are too lazy to find your own free photoshop resources, don’t sweat it. I am going to do it all for you. Here is a comprehensive list of most of the photoshop resources I have found to be very useful.

I include Brushes, vector designs, and lots of mini icons to help make your website and design look better than ever! Check them out

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Everyone must start designing somewhere. Whether you choose to design logos, banners, advertisements, web templates, blog templates, stationary or anything else you can think of, you must start in one place: Photoshop.Now the newest photoshop, CS3, is a very expensive program. The cheapest I’ve seen it is for $300. However, if you just want t

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Have you picked up a fashion magazine lately? As you flick through the pages you’ll quickly notice how artificial and perfect all of the celebrities and models look. Not a wrinkle or spot in sight. Bah, who needs dieting, plastic surgery and exercising when you can be instantly slim and good looking (whatever that means..)?

Here are some d

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For a clean, impressive looking button set that doesn't take up a bunch of design time, glass buttons are the way to go. And slapping together cool glass buttons like the ones on apple.com is extremely simple in Photoshop. I've been using this process for several years now and I know web designers will find it helpful. It's

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This is a review of the month of March and what it has brought to Elite By Design. Catch up on how Elite By Design is growing as a blog and as a community, as well as pick up some tips on how to make your next month your biggest ever.

Never hesitate to strive for something better and to allow your blog to become bigger and b

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How can you use Photoshop to create all the artwork you need for a website? Now you can learn the inside techniques to use Photoshop for designing website and web graphics following this eight lesson tutorial series by a College Instructor, with classroom examples and exercises. Animations? You bet. Mock up a website? Sure... you'll lea