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The concept of this tutorial is my response to the overwhelmingly magic power of the new Content Aware Fill tool, which is part of the new Photoshop CS5. You could also call it "Why humans are better than machines", even.

Learn how to format your CSS stylesheets for both maintainability and legibility. Make your CSS fit your project, not your personal preference.

Sometimes achieving a certain effect seems easy with a quick fix. But what separates the boys from the designers is the ability to see (in your mind) variations from the easy fix that change the mood and quality of the photo entirely. And this is what I’ll try to explain in this Justin Maller inspired tutorial.

Our latest posts have mostly been about design, so today we’re going full on code monkey with a cool CSS3 technique: Vignettes! The technique involves a few divs, a bit of simple CSS, and a whole lot of fun.

When we think Alice in Wonderland, most likely the image of the Mad Hatter comes to mind. In this tutorial/case study we’ll try to turn a regular Joe into the Mad Hatter himself. And, hopefully, we’ll pull it off. Now, I’m sure just about everyone is familiar with the story of Alice in Wonderland.

Every now and again I stumble onto a technique which is so simple and effective that it has to be shared. I like to call this one the “Manual shaded threshold” technique. The name stems from the not so popular anymore effect of Threshold, which turns an image into just black and white based on light values. The original effect is messy and weird and never got things just right, so this is where the “Manual shaded threshold” technique comes in.

Look for inspiration in sources from the real world by really looking at the world with new eyes.

Whether you’re one of those web designers who manage to keep a tight and healthy schedule, or part of the rest of us e-zombies, read on and, perhaps, be amazed at what lack of sleep can do to the human body, especially when it comes to us web folk.

It’s time to show our tree hugging side with a poster tutorial for an imaginary panda saving campaign. We’ll be doing some nice shapes, some brushing and a bunch of pow, in-your-face factor so click the link, read on, learn something. You know the drill.

Lately it seems that the interwebs have been going all out nuts with HTML5 and CSS3. Everybody’s a pioneer and everybody’s declaring NOW is the time to start using them. But has anyone actually done more than just dip in?