Top 10 Most Purchased WordPress Themes on Themeforest

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ December 26, 2010 \ Collections, Wordpress \ 10 Comments

There are always roundups of the most beautiful themes or the newly released themes, but what we don’t see often is a post about the most purchased themes. I decided to roundup the top ten most purchased wordpress themes on Themeforest. If you thought guys weren’t making any money through

Photoshop Actions: 1100+ Latest and Greatest Actions

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 21, 2010 \ Freebies \ 8 Comments

We are always trying to find a way to cut off some time from our work schedules or wanting to make a photo beautiful in a rush. Photoshop Actions is your answer, a lot of people have their friends and colleagues baffled by the colors and crispness of their photos,

Creating the Step Up 3D Effect in Photoshop

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ August 30, 2010 \ Tutorials \ 45 Comments

3D is taking over the film industry, with more and more movies, games and magazines being released in 3D I thought I would share the secret with you on how to achieve 3D effects in your photos using Photoshop. I am going to use Step Up 3D’s Movie poster and

Smashing Your Creative Block – Photoshop Tutorial

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ February 25, 2010 \ Tutorials \ 148 Comments

The question arises so much nowadays, How do you overcome your Creative Block? I made it simple for everyone today and created a Photoshop Tutorial to smash your creative block. I will use simple and easy techniques to create a smashing composition text tutorial. It won’t take you to long

Creating a Sleek Navigation Bar in 6 Simple Steps

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 19, 2009 \ Tutorials \ 5 Comments

I spent about 2 hours today just surfing the net looking for inspiration to write about, and the one thing about a lot of sites that I noticed is that they don’t have very sleek/neat looking navigation bar. I decided to write a quick tutorial on how to create a

Creating a Colorful Vibrant Business Card

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 18, 2009 \ Tutorials \ 37 Comments

Every Designer definitely needs a Business Card or Information card of some sort, even if it’s just a piece of paper with your name and number on, ok well not just a piece of paper. A designer has to brand him/her self with uniqueness to catch a clients eye. Some

10 Free Retouching Photoshop Files

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 11, 2009 \ Freebies \ 9 Comments

I constantly hear people moan in every day life about how people make themselves look good in photos. The thing is you can’t really believe what you see in photos anymore, because you will see this beautiful girl on the cover of vogue and you will then see her one

40+ Creative Business Cards

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 8, 2009 \ Business Cards, Inspiration \ 5 Comments

Its always nice going through posts that have some decent Business Card Inspiration especially if you have a job to do for a client or just a project you are working on. I have compiled a list of 40+ Insanely Creative Business Cards that I love. 5

10 Exceptional Tutorial Blogs you have to Follow

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 8, 2009 \ Tutorials \ 8 Comments

I did a previous post about 10 Inspirational Design Blogs to follow so, I thought I would do a little post about Tutorial blogs. I know there is a lot of people out their that want to improve their skills in Photoshop and Illustrator so I have written this post

10 Adobe Air Apps Essential for Designers

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ September 30, 2009 \ Collections \ 10 Comments

Adobe Air is a wonderful platform and is so versatile with all the applications out at the moment, from Financing to being able to choose your color schemes for projects. 10