FOR BETTER DESIGNS

Free pack of icons from graphics designer Umar

A.D.K. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:05:33 +0000

It is that time again to present you a new packs of free icons. This time the icons are made by very talented graphics designer Umar Irshad.

Umar Irshad is not only icon designer he is doing all kind of designs and you can find all his works on his deviant art page here: Umar Irshad gallery

Now here is his newest released set of icons for your personal designs.

32px Mantra

This ultimate 32px icon pack consists of approximately 50 icons.

You can download this pack of icons from his page here.

More icons from him:

Social and Web Icons

Total 57 icons in total, Format: PNG and Resolution: 64 px

Download link

Social and Web Icons v2

Total 49 icons in total, Format: PNG and Resolution: 64 px

Download Link

Mini Disk Icons

12 iPhone style inspired icon set for Mac OS X.

Format: PNG ICO ICNS and Resolution: 32x32 px 64x64 px

Download link

All the icons are free to use in your personal and non commercial works.

I am sure you will find all those icons very useful! And don’t forget to share this article with your friends.

Have a nice day!

10 Awesome Photoshop actions for your photos.

A.D.K. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:37:26 +0000

Using action can make the work of a designers and photographers much more interesting and fun. It can also help us very much to make our work faster. In this article I am happy to share with you 10 awesome Photoshop action you can use in your photos. They’re all very nice, useful and you’ll achieve awesome results using them. Enjoy!

Example of what you can do:

I have used this stock image and some of the actions from this post to show you what effects you’ll achieve by using this actions.

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

As you see this actions can be very beneficial and you can do a lot with them.

Here is my list of 10 awesome Photoshop actions for your photos, you can download only from the pages of the artists. Click on the images to visit their pages:

Action Season pack PS by ~SissieBelle

Focus Action by ~Amr-Mohsen

Actions set by ~surrender—x3

Old Photo Action by ~shagagraf

Photoshop actions — 32 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 55 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 57 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 69 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 139 by ‘night-fate

Photoshop actions — 142 by ‘night-fate

I hope you will like this actions and they will be in great use for you. Feel free to share and post your comments.

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Photo Editing: Disappearing

A.D.K. — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:59:36 +0000

This is a quick post about my newest photo editing I did yesterday. A chair disappearing from the beach. I hope you’ll like it a bit.

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The icon designer Kyo Tux and his new set of icons

A.D.K. — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:27:21 +0000

One of the most important things in web design and development is using of beautifully created icons. Designing Icons is hard, you need to have talent, skills, ideas, knowledge and good software to produce your work. From this words that I have said, you can have the software, you can have the ideas and knowledge, maybe you’ll have some skills in design too, but there is 1 thing that’s not always there. It’s the talent! In this post I would like to present you, one really talented with those gift to design icons artist.

His name is Asher and he call himself Kyo-tux , you can find him and his works on his Deviantart page here: Kyo Tux

He and his beautiful works are really famous, he ussualy give his works for free use with some requirements and permissions which you can read in his profile:

It’s possible that you have used some of his icons and you didn’t know about it. You can find his sets of icons also on
Tutorial9 and IconFinder and other web site for free icons.

We’re also very happy to inform you about his new release set of icons Nixus which you can find here:

NiXUS

and new social set of icons Roundy

Roundy

Download this set from here

This are really a great set of icons and we’re thankful to him.

Here are some of his old set of icons possibly you already saw or used before:

Phuzion

Soft Icons

For all of his Icons and works you can visit his gallery here Kyo-tux gallery

Hope you liked them and don’t forget to share and comment.

Review artwork and a brief tutorial.

A.D.K. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:48:03 +0000

I have just finished my lates artwork called I love the coffee smell. It’s made from scratch in Photoshop and Illustrator. In this post I will show you the final artwork and a brief explanation of how I made it.

It’s a mix of vectors and paintings which give this nice look and feel. Hope you like this.

Step 1

First I started this artwork willing to design a simple cup of coffee in Illustrator. So the first image was this cup I designed:

The cup looked nice but too simple. I was not satisfied of this result. So the next thing with a suggestion from friend the first thing was to change the colors of this.

Step 2

The more good looking colored cup:

This 1 is much better, the red colors give a new look of the cup and they fit good with the hearts.

Step 3

Need a background:

The beautiful cup need a beautiful background. So I have copied the work from Illustrator and paste in Photoshop as a Smart object. Started to play with the brush tool, adding the background, the table first, the window and the curtains. Feels better but still simple.

Step 4

This curtains does not look so much good. Change them!

Here a friend give me those suggestions: The curtains not look good, add book and maybe a vase and work on the window. Yes this tips are useful and exactly good critique. The book and the pen are vector here. Other objects just a drawing.

Step 5

This curtains need to be more transparent.

That is a good tip again for this artwork and definitely worked well. Just played a bit with the opacity of the curtains layer to make them a bit more transparent.

Step 6

Add a picture at the wall and we’re done.

So added a picture and moved the cup and the book around till I like it. That’s my final artwork.

Hope you like it and feel free to reply to this with your questions suggestions or critique.

Free download 3d vector box designed in Illustrator

A.D.K. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:23:39 +0000

I have designed this free 3D vector box in Illustrator and I am giving it for free to you. You can use it in your works as you wish, please link back to this web site if you use it in commercial projects. That’s all I want if you do so. If you use in personal projects it’s completely free. Enjoy!

The vector box is designed in Illustrator in 3 versions and you can download from the link below:

3D vector box for free (13)

5 Very beautiful vector artworks for your inspiration.

A.D.K. — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:51:56 +0000

As a graphics designer, one of my favourite styles in graphics design today is Vector style. This is a style that I really like and very often do. In fact mostly of my artworks are in vector style, because I am most of all a fan on quality. As such I often look at others artworks and get some inspiration ideas and so on.

In this post I will show you 5 very beautiful and impressive artworks I have found in Deviant art. They’re really well done and If you’re fan of vector arts don’t miss to see this beautiful artworks.

Spring_by_alegas

Love_Results_by_legeneral

Red Chevrolet Corvette by *VisionHaus

Color_rainbow_by_oceanbobo

VeKtor Force_Escape by ~Norzeele

I am sure you like them, yes they’re really impressive and I hope you’ll get your inspiration from them.

Have a good day everyone.

Best food for designers and web developers

A.D.K. — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:41:31 +0000

Designers and web developers can be called the heroes of world wide web. They’re the people who make everything on Internet working, they are the people who make web sites beautiful, functional and if a person got a good idea for web site the designers and web developers can make the idea come true.

As such, the new heroes of our time and Internet need the best food. Don’t ever ever think that being a designer or developer is an easy job. We stay too much on the chare, on our desks, in our offices or in home in front of the computer and we put a lot of effort for a single web site to work well.

In this post I want to show you some of the best food a web designer or developer can have, so his day can be full of energy and he can work with pleasure and not feel hungry all the time.

Many people use to eat some fast foods because they think like that: ” I have a lot of work and I can’t take the extra to eat a real food. 1 fast food and I will be ok”. Yes but not, because after eating it hour or two and you’ll be hungry again.Also this foods don’t give you the enough energy and vitamins your body needs. Go get some real food and you’ll have energy to work much more and most important you’ll be happy…

The good food give you the good mood. Here’s my suggestions:

Foods:

Fish

Fish is one of the best food you can have in your day and in your week. The best is to include fish 2 –3 times in a week if that’s possible. Fish gives high quality protein and a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A and D, phosphorus, magnesium, selenium. It’s very good for the brain and also very delicious

Nuts of almonds and hazelnuts

Nuts of all kinds are useful for the body, but some of the best are nuts of almonds and hazelnuts.

Hazelnut is the best known source for Vitamin E which is essential for the healthy heart muscles and other muscles of the body as well. It is also necessary for normal functioning of the reproduction system. Another benefit of Vitamin E which is found in hazelnut is to prevent the factors which prepare the basis for cancer disease. If cancer is already formed in the body, then it fights to defuse the harmful cells.

Eating almonds has the same effect as the cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins. A one and a half ounce handful of almonds is a leading source of vitamin E and magnesium and offers protein, fiber, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and iron in 246 calories. Also, almonds (and other nuts) contain phytochemicals, which are plant chemicals that may provide powerful protection against heart disease, stroke, and other chronic diseases.

Fruit salad

All fruits have a benefits for the body, they are giving directly vitamins and good amount of energy for you. And they’re also so delicious. There is almost no a person who don’t like fruits. And why not make a fruit salad from your favourites? You can do this after your meal or for your breakfast. You’ll feel fresh and happy for the whole day if you get your fruits at the start of your day. Don’t forget about them!

Chocolate

Chocolate, who don’t like it ? I am including this in this post, but you should be careful with it. Eating it small amounts can give you a lot of benefits but eating it a lot can be harmful. Yes this is a good food but be careful. Seriously!

nuts

Juice of fruits

Juice of fruits are best drinks you can get for the day. It’s better than just water, it’s fresh and cool. But be careful, most of the juice fruits they’re selling on the markets are not so much real juice fruits. You can be sure of that, the best way for you to be sure what you’re drinking is to do it your self. It’s easy, just go buy some lemons. oranges, grapefruit or other you like and squeeze the fruits, you can add water and sugar. That’s the best, it will give you fresh mood, energy and real vitamins.

Be happy people, hope you like this post, off course everyone have his own favourite foods, but in the field this are some of the best and always better than fast foods.

Feel free to reply to me and add any comments with critique, questions and suggestions.

My progress on wordrepss theme design.

A.D.K. — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:25:02 +0000

In the past 4–5 months I was working on this blog from time to time, as some of you may know, I prommised that I will build this blog from nothing and I will make a post and tutorials for everything I am doing here. Since now the design have been changed 3 times. At the beginning it was just a white space with only texts and no CSS or any images.

In the next image you can see the 3 themes I have designed and used here from the begining. They were just for learning me and my readers who need this basic info of designing and using themes for wordpress.

So after all this is the final theme. It will remain like this until I get bored with it. In the future you can expect a lot of posts here. Generally articles about design, some tutorials about my work, posts for inspiration, sharing artwork and useful information mostly about design.

It take me some time to understand everything about Wordress, but now I can do a theme and use it here for 2–3 days. I am sure that if you looked at my tutorials you surely learned something. See ya in my next posts.

Feel free to ask me anything, I am here to answer you questions always.

For better designs theme 2: Fresh green. Free download

A.D.K. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:45:53 +0000

My second Wordpress theme is called Fresh green and it’s now free for download. The 1st one you can find here: Simple elegant And all my themes will be in category themes of this site.

My next theme is also ready and I will start to work on it immediately after this post. it’s nice fresh and looks just cool. I have a lot of ideas to come after this theme.

The next theme will be the original for this web site and I am stoping with making video tutorials for designing themes. If I’ll make a tutorial they’ll be of another kind.This not means I’ll stop making themes, I will and I will just post them for free download here. But this will be in future, this web site will be transformed in a lot of ways, just as I promies..

Now here is the free Fresh green theme: Fresh Green Theme free download (12)