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It’s easy to lock some piano chords to a drum beat or groove of your choice by using a few simple tricks. We’ll make a simple beat, paint in some piano chords and then lock them together so they groove together by side-chaining. Side-chaining has been talked about extensively, but this trick is a good [...]

Quick Tip: Lock Your Chords to Your Groove

Posted 6 hours ago to Audiotuts+

“In this tutorial, you’ll learn to design a realistic calligraphy pen from scratch. The tutorial involves a simple use of the Pen Tool and a few flexible Layer Styles. Lighting and reflection techniques are explained throughout the tutorial. This might be a quite useful for icon enthusiasts. Let’s dive in Asher Abbasi.” Here is a link [...]

How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen – Screencast

Posted 13 hours ago to Psdtuts+

The use of textures can dramatically improve your print design work. You can (if used sensibly) add more depth to your work, whether your work be business cards, advertisements or posters. The results of using texture in your print design projects can be completely different every time, depending on various factors such as what textures [...]

Showcase of Textures in Print Design

Posted 14 hours ago to Psdtuts+

Repetitive tasks can quickly become tedious. As a designer, you probably often find yourself designing the same elements over and over from scratch. STOP! Wasting time is so old-fashioned. It also means you’re wasting money! So, let’s review some ways that you can automate and systematize your Photoshop workflow. And be sure to download the project [...]

Save Time and Money by Systematizing your Photoshop Workflow

Posted 14 hours ago to Nettuts+

How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly

Posted 15 hours ago to Vectortuts+

File Type: AI, EPS, and CDR License: Free for Personal and Commercial Use This set of professional T-shirt designs can be used in a variety of ways, with 30 different emblems to choose from you’ll be sure to find something for your next project.

30 Fashionable T-shirt Designs

Posted 15 hours ago to Vectortuts+

So, what are the 12 Basic Principles of Animation and why should you care about them? The goal of the principles is to bring life and excitement to any animation – to take the mediocre and make it exceptional. Originally created by Disney animators for hand drawn animation, these are principles that anyone hoping to [...]

The 12 Basic Principles of Animation Day 1 – AE Premium

Posted 18 hours ago to Aetuts+

The Contemporary Musician’s Guide to Counterpoint – Audio Premium

Posted 22 hours ago to Audiotuts+

Open Mic: Tell Us About the Musical Instruments You Play

Posted 1 day ago to Audiotuts+

Over the weekend, Elijah Manor tweeted about a new IDE, called WebStorm, that is currently being offered as a public preview, from JetBrains. After spending a few hours with it, I’m extremely impressed! In this video quick tip, I thought I’d show you some of my favorite features that you, frankly, just don’t see much [...]

Quick Tip: My Favorite New IDE: WebStorm

Posted 1 day ago to Nettuts+

jQuery is not always as it appears. There's a lot of cool stuff going on under the surface, and there are many methods just waiting to be discovered, and many potential usages of jQuery's API that you may not have considered before. In this article I'll be taking you through a few of the not-so-obvious [...]

Uncovering jQuery’s Hidden Features

Posted 1 day ago to Nettuts+

My clients often ask me to create impossible scenarios, weird landscapes and surreal images for their projects; images that wouldn’t be possible in real life. It’s situations like these where photo manipulation becomes a powerful design tool. In today’s tutorial I will show you how to design a CD cover using several photo manipulation techniques, [...]

Use Photo Manipulation and 3D Layers to Design a Surreal Cover Art Illustration

Posted 1 day ago to Psdtuts+

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw the front and the back side of a pocket watch from scratch. This tutorial is detailed and by the end you will know how to draw all kinds of shapes, like cog-wheels and small screws. You’ll learn to create the scatter brushes used for the designs [...]

Draw a Glowing, Vector Pocket Watch – Front and Back

Posted 1 day ago to Vectortuts+

In this Quick Tip I’ll show you how to examine the way visitors are using your websites, widgets and games. Then we’ll look at how to improve them based on this info! Introduction Building nice looking websites is great; building websites that have a high Return Of Investment is priceless. Recently I joined the web team of [...]

Quick Tip: How to use Google Analytics for Tracking in Flash

Posted 1 day ago to Activetuts+

Unless you frequently experiment with a wide variety of musical styles and genres, it can be easy to fall into musical habits or patterns that prevent your songs from sounding fresh – or worse – can cause many of your songs to sound the same. Overuse of simple on-beat or off-beat basslines is one way [...]

How to Introduce Variety In Your Basslines