Introducing Exotico UI Set, Free and Premium Versions
Published April 26th, 2012 in Free Resources, Products - 15 Comments
Today we are excited to release an extensive UI set called Exotico. It’s one of the largest UI sets available anywhere and it includes elements for navigation menus, buttons, media players, calendars, sliders, and much more.
The premium set includes 4 PSD files full of UI elements that are ready to be added to your own designs and mockups. You can use this set to drastically speed up the design process, and it helps you to create a stylish and attractive design. Each PSD is layered to allow you to edit each individual resource to suit your own needs. The elements included are previewed in the images below. Please view the detail by clicking on the images to see them in full-size.
The premium set costs just $19 and comes with a multi-use, extended license. Use it on as many projects as you would like, including templates and themes that will be sold or given away. Full license details are available here. And if you’re a Vandelay Premier member you can download Exotico at no additional cost here.
To make the set useful to as many people as possible, we’re also giving away a free version of Exotico that includes just some of the resources. See the bottom of this post for details and a download link.
12 Essential Tools to Build Your Online Portfolio
Published April 25th, 2012 in Marketing - 10 Comments
As a creative professional, you need a repository of your work that you can show other people. This is called a portfolio. Since we now live in the internet age where anyone can access anything anytime, it is imperative that you have an online portfolio. The only real problem is figuring out where to put your work – there are so many online portfolio tools and communities, it can be challenging to determine which one will work best for you. I’ve written this article to help you decide how to get your portfolio up and running ASAP.
25 Outstanding Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials
Published April 24th, 2012 in Design, Photoshop Tutorials - 2 Comments
Photo manipulation can be one of the most fun things to do in Photoshop, and it also provides for an excellent creative outlet. The process of creating a detailed photo manipulation can be intimidating if you are new to the process or if you aren’t very familiar with Photoshop’s tools, but fortunately there are plenty of good tutorials that teach you how to create a sample photo manipulation.
One of the great things about photo manipulation tutorials is that you can follow along with the sample creation, but you’ll also learn techniques that can be used on your own original photo manipulations as you are experimenting.
In this post we’ve collected 25 tutorials that will lead you through the process of photo manipulation in Photoshop
Lonely – Manipulation Tutorial
Comment to Win Die Cut Business Cards from UPrinting!
Published in Site News - 62 Comments
Our friends at UPrinting have offered to give 250 die cut business cards each to 3 readers of the Vandelay Design Blog! Business cards can be a critical marketing tool for designers and developers, and high-quality die cut cards from UPrinting provide a great way to make a positive impression.
UPDATE: The contest has no ended.
35 Amazing Examples of Splatter Effects
Published April 23rd, 2012 in Galleries - 7 Comments
Splatter effects can be used effectively in all types of graphic design. There are a number of Photoshop brush sets and vector sets available for adding splatter effects to your work, or you could create your own custom splatters.
In this post we’ll showcase 35 examples of designs that make use of splatter effects. They should certainly provide some inspiration for ways to use splatters in your own work.
Simple Church WordPress Theme
Published April 20th, 2012 in WordPress Themes - 0 Comments
For churches that are working with limited budgets, free WordPress themes can be an excellent option. Our Simple Church WordPress theme will provide your church with a quality website that includes important functionality to highlight upcoming events and to offer sermon/massage audio files for visitors.
Theme features include:
- Image slider on the homepage that can be customized through the WordPress dashboard
- Media page where visitors can listen to your recent sermons or messages
- Events calendar that displays events in chronological order
- Upload your own logo
25 Photoshop 3D Effects Tutorials
Published in Design, Photoshop Tutorials - 1 Comment
Photoshop allows designers to do a lot of amazing things, including 3D effects. If you’re not familiar with Photoshop’s 3D effects or if you are interested in improving your own skills in this area, we have compiled 25 of the best tutorials that teach and demonstrate how to accomplish different things.
Many of the tutorials focus on 3D text effects, and others show various objects designed in 3D. Whatever you are looking to design, you should be able to find a tutorial here that will show the steps needed.
Free Set of Photography Icons
Published April 19th, 2012 in Free Resources, Icons - 7 Comments
Our friends at Iconshock have designed a beautiful set of photography icons for you, the readers of the Vandelay Design blog! The set includes 10 high-quality icons that are perfect for use in photography-related web projects. Each icon comes in .png format (256 px x 256 px).
25 Free and Premium jQuery Menu Scripts
Published April 18th, 2012 in Web Development - 3 Comments
If you are designing or developing websites chances are you are going to be using jQuery on many of your projects. Navigation menus are just one of the elements of a website that can be enhanced by jQuery, and there are a number of ready-made scripts that can be implemented into your work very quickly.
While you always have the option of coding a jQuery menu from scratch, sometimes there is a script already available that will help you to accomplish exactly what you need in a fraction of the time it would take to code from scratch.
In this post we’ll link to 25 different jQuery scripts that can be used in your own work. Some are free and some will cost a few dollars. (the free ones are listed first).
Free jQuery Menu Scripts:
Rocking and Rolling Rounded Menu with jQuery
25 Websites with Outstanding Illustrations
Published April 17th, 2012 in Galleries - 5 Comments
Quality illustrations can make a web design memorable, interesting, and fun. Character illustrations and nature-inspired illustrations are especially popular in web design right now. In this post we’ll showcase 25 examples for your own inspiration.
As you will see from the selection of sites below, there are plenty of different ways to use illustration in web design. Most of the designs shown here are colorful and inviting to visitors.
