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20 Pure Websites with Clean White Backgrounds

Whenever we start work designing a website one of the first things we always do is throw a bunch of colours and textures onto the canvas, but sometimes a design will benefit from the clean and crisp appearance of a pure white background. This showcase rounds up 20 minimal website designs that prove that sometimes [...]

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April 30, 2012 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

20 Free Peeling Paint Textures For Your Designs

Today we have come up with an interesting assortment of Peeling Paint Textures for you that you can download for free. Peeling Paint Textures can also be considered a part of Grunge Textures. Textures are recognized for their flexibility and their outstanding effects to a desired output.

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February 2, 2012 at 5:29 am Comments (0)

Coolest Apps From 2011 You Would Never Want To Miss In 2012

The year 2011 has ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2012. I hope designers, developers and programmers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. They are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of Coolest Apps Of 2011 You Would Never Want To Miss In 2012. We have categorized them as Web Apps, Desktop Apps and Smartphone/Tablet PC Apps. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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January 4, 2012 at 3:46 pm Comments (0)

Best Of 2011: 70 Beautiful And High Quality Free Textures

For the designing fraternity, premium quality texture, backgrounds and patterns are the most necessitated freebies on the internet. Use of texture in web designs is tremendously frequent. As a result every designer is in search of good quality textures, although they do not get all at one place. Therefore, in this collection we have gathered different types of textures like grunge, rust, watercolor, fabric, metal, natural, wall, stone, flower, paper, graffiti and more.

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December 20, 2011 at 9:08 pm Comments (0)

How To Create Repeating Texture & Pattern Images

Repeating background images are safest method of styling up your website background other than a plain old CSS background color. Websites are viewed in all types and sizes of browser these days, so a repeating background ensures the whole of the user’s screen will be filled with your design, unlike a static image that can [...]

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October 10, 2011 at 7:00 am Comments (0)

Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Abstract Backgrounds


  

   An attractive and compelling background adds depth to your graphics, banners or ads; and for this reason is of great importance. Sure there are some people who might not notice backgrounds, but the role they play in making the entire artwork look more interesting and visually alluring is paramount. They really do help to [...]

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April 29, 2011 at 9:45 am Comments (0)