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Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio * By Cameron Chapman * April 29th, 2009 WordPress is often thought of as just a blogging platform. But it’s capable of so much more. Even WordPress’ documentation includes an entire section on using WordPress as a content management system. Because WordPress is such an easy-to-use platform, it makes sense to consider using it as a platform to build just about any kind of website, a portfolio website included. Whether you’re a photographer, graphic designer, Web designer or any other kind of visual artist, WordPress makes an excellent starting point for developing your online portfolio. And with the wealth of plug-ins and ready-made themes available, you can usually get a perfectly presentable website up and running in a matter of hours. via Ultimate Guide To Using WordPress For A Portfolio - Smashing Magazine.

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Five Best Wallpaper Sites Nobody likes staring at a boring desktop when they fire up their computer every morning. Keep your wallpaper fresh with the five most popular sites Lifehacker readers use to satisfy their wallpaper needs. Photo by goincase. Wallpaper on monitor available here. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite wallpaper site. We quickly learned that—while not everyone has a strong opinion about Linux distributions or encryption software—everyone has a favorite wallpaper site; readers logged nearly 500 votes for their favorite wallpaper sites. Now we're back to share the five most popular sites used by Lifehacker readers to dress up their monitors with fresh wallpaper. via Five Best Wallpaper Sites - Wallpapers - Lifehacker.

Creating a Vintage Ski Poster Design with Illustrator® CS4 – Vector Plus Tutorial Dec 23rd in News, Plus by Neal McCullough We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to create retro illustrative designs, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This one will have you adding those subtle touches that will take your work to the next level! Author: Neal McCullough Hi there Vector Enthusiasts! I just started out this year as a Freelance Illustrator under the name of Hand Drawn Creative. I’ve worked for over a decade as a Graphic Designer/Illustrator throughout the UK and over the years have gained a lot of experience in creating eye-catching vector illustrations for the advertising industry. This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques I'd describe this as an intermediate level tutorial and throughout the process I'll show how you how to add a little Art Deco glamour to your illustrations by making subtle use of the Gradient and Transparency palettes in Illustrator CS4, as well as introducing an aged paper feel with clever use of texture resource files. Tutorial Details * Program: Illustrator CS4 * Difficulty: Intermediate * Estimated Completion Time: 4 hours via Creating a Vintage Ski Poster Design with Illustrator® CS4 – Vector Plus Tutorial | Vectortuts+.

How to Use Retro Colors in Your Designs November 16th, 2009 by Tyler Denis Retro colors are a great way to give your website an older/vintage feel; it can give your design a little something different from the regular fully saturated colors that you see often in modern-themed designs. This article is both a showcase of retro-colored themes in existing web designs, as well as a tutorial on how to achieve retro colors using Adobe Photoshop (you’ll learn about five different techniques). via How to Use Retro Colors in Your Designs.

Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop October 29th, 2009 by Richard Carpenter In this Photoshop web design tutorial, we’re going to create a mock-up of a clean and modern-looking website. This is Part 1 of a tutorial series that will show you how to create the design, and then convert it to an HTML/CSS template. via Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop.

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See how Photoshop & Adobe apps helped make Avatar "Literally the first piece of software we went out and purchased was Photoshop..." Check out this 2-minute overview of how PS, Lightroom, After Effects, and other Adobe tools were used in the production of Avatar: Adobe's Mike Kanfer won an Academy Award working with James Cameron on Titanic & has been a great conduit of information during the making of Avatar. Too bad I never did manage to twist his arm & get behind the scenes during shooting... Ah well: this morning the Photoshop team is off to see Avatar--a welcome little break from the whole march to Cocoa. I justified it to my wife, saying, "Well, they used Photoshop to make the movie." Raising a dubious, I-know-you're-all-cutting-class eyebrow, she asked, "Don't they use Photoshop to make every movie?" Hush, woman!! [Update: Evidently Photoshop co-creator John Knoll was the Avatar visual effects supervisor at ILM.] Semi-related bonus fun thing: Slate talks about Cameron nearly dying while making The Abyss, punching & then firing a rescue diver. Posted by John Nack at 8:34 AM on December 18, 2009 via John Nack on Adobe: See how Photoshop & Adobe apps helped make Avatar.

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Toaster looks and acts like a printer Here's a neat kitchen gadget — a toaster that "prints out" toast. It allows you to feed multiple slices at once from the feeder at top, and spits out finished products from the bottom. It's a concept by Othmar Muehlebach, and it won second place at a design contest in Switzerland last month. Artist's main page via Designboom via Toaster looks and acts like a printer Boing Boing.

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design March 26, 2009 Photoshop, Tutorial All of these tutorials cover the process of designing a modern and highend web page within Adobe Photoshop, as with any great web design it is initially designed with a graphic editor, beginning with a blank canvas building up towards the complete page. Below you will find 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design. Download or Buy Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended » via 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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20 Beautiful HDR Photographs of the Marvels and Mysteries of Iceland August 3, 2009 Inspiration, Photography The only place in the world were you can witness such marvels and mysteries of nature as a huge iceberg and endless glaciers, towering volcanoes and powerful geysers, raging rivers, magnificent waterfalls, jagged fjyords and experience the barren Highlands. Yes, Iceland is a photographers dream. Iceland is the home of Ásmundur E. Þorkelsson, a painter and photographer who lives on the small south coast island of Vestmannaeyjar (the Westmen Isles). His images may look unreal to “orthodox” photographers, but that’s exactly what he wants, the avoidance of kitsch. All the images below are his, and they speak for themselves. “From an early age I enjoyed paging through books about art and admired the paintings of many painters, ranging from the renaissance masters to contemporaries as well as the few painters working in my home town of Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Nowadays I find inspiration for my photography in the works of painters like Edvard Munch, Odd Nerdrum, Lucian Freud and J.M.V. Turner, as well as in many of the classic and contemporary photographers.“ Ásmundur E. Þorkelsson via 20 Beautiful HDR Photographs of the Marvels and Mysteries of Iceland : Speckyboy Design Magazine.