Archive for July, 2010

July 28th, 2010 - TS Editorial

Best bookmarklets for web developers and designers

When you’re trying to organize your favorite websites, the common thing to do is save them as bookmarks, which are folders that allow you to organize information so you can access in an easy way to it at anytime, but there is more than just having your bookmarks organized, you can use your bookmarks toolbar to place something known as the bookmarklets, which are tiny pieces of JavaScript code that allows you to do different things that will enhance your experience while you’re navigating.

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Today we are going to explain the benefits that you can obtain by using bookmarklets, we will show you also examples of some of the nicest bookmarklets out there.

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July 23rd, 2010 - TS Editorial

Logo design tutorial

When a company starts, the image is often one of the things that can impulse the acknowledgment of the business existence around their area of influence. A company’s image primary consists of the logo, the stationery, presentation cards, mail templates and even digital signatures. Once the company starts to gain reconnaissance, other elements are developed, such as the website, social networks and others. On this tutorial we will be focusing our attention on one of the main elements of any company’s image, the logo. Using Adobe Photoshop we are going to show you how to design a logo that works both in communication and aesthetic levels.

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July 12th, 2010 - TS Editorial

Vector macaw with illustrator

Hello guys, today we are going to guide you on how to create a realistic icon, in this case, a realistic macaw, full of colors and volume. We will be using Adobe Illustrator and its pen tool, gradients and blur filter, it’s time to begin.

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July 12th, 2010 - TS Editorial

Vector slider with illustrator

What’s up guys?. I hope you’re doing fine because we are about to start a new tutorial. In this opportunity we are going to show how to create a complete GUI set slider using Adobe Illustrator. For those who are not familiar with the GUI term, it goes after the words Graphical User Interface and as its name suggests it, is a type of user interface item that allows people to interact with programs in more ways than typing, it uses images rather than text commands. A GUI displays graphical icons and visual indicators to completely represent the information and actions that are available to the user. These actions are usually performed by a directly manipulation of the graphical elements. After this short introduction, let me tell you that through all this article we will be practicing the graphic styles option. Now its time to start this tutorial.

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July 12th, 2010 - TS Editorial

Tutorial: How to create your Twitter background

OK, if you’re reading this it means you have been trying to compose your background and everything got messed up when you tried to upload it, also all of your images got caught behind the Twitter box.

Alas my friend, here is the answer to your prayers. In the following tutorial you will find the exact measures of a background that doesn’t crop before it should (when viewing at 100% in your browser) and also where to locate your designs in your background.

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July 12th, 2010 - TS Editorial

Illustrator Tutorial: Desiging a vector astronaut

Hello guys, it is time for a new tutorial. If you are a Twitter user probably you have seen our site, including the background. If you haven’t let us tell you that we created a pretty cool background with some great characters. What we are going to do is show you step by step how to create one of this characters using Adobe Illustrator, so lets get it started.

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July 12th, 2010 - TS Editorial

Designing a glow menu with photoshop

What’s up folks?. It’s time for a new Photoshop Tutorial. In this case, a special one for those who are starting to work on the web market or are beginning to create one of their one. We will be working with custom brushes, layer styles and other items. Well no more talk, let’s get it started.

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July 12th, 2010 - TS Editorial

Illustrator Tutorial: realistic camera icon

Welcome to a new tutorial. In this occasion, we will be working on Adobe Illustrator.We are going to make a very realistic camera icon, so fasten your seatbelts and let’s go.

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