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Delicious bookmarks december 7 – december 10:

• Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set – Smashing Magazine – Christmas is coming and, of course, it’s just the right time to provide you with some nice freebies to fresh up your designs. To celebrate the holidays, our friends from IconEden designed “Smashing Christmas”, a free icon set, dedicated to the design community and released especially for Smashing Magazine’s readers.
• 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season | Naldz Graphics – The holiday spirit is once again here. Santas, Christmas trees and Christmas balls are once again in fashion… We are once again in search of items that would uplift the season. For sure most of you will look for some Christmas Concept tutorials maybe to create various of Christmas cards, wallpapers or posters. As our respond to this clamor, we have collected 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season.
• Freebie Release: 45 High Quality Fruits Stock Photos | Graphics – Today for the very first time in hongkiat.com, we are releasing stock photos. The collection is made up of 45 high quality fruit photos and they are all free to download with no strings attached.
• Free Texture Tuesday: Grunge Frost | BittBox – I want to do some winter-themed textures in the weeks leading up to Christmas and I thought I’d start off with something a little out of the box: grungy frost.
• 25 Awesome Gift Ideas for Designers & Developers – The holiday season of 2009 is upon us and if you’re not sure what to get your designer or developer friend, family member, and/or significant other, we’re here to help.
• Create an Animated “Call to Action” Button – In this web design and development tutorial, you’ll get a walkthrough for creating a "Call to Action" button sprite in Photoshop as well as how to use jQuery to animate it. This tutorial is broken up into three sections: Photoshop, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.
• CMS For Flash Websites: FlashMoto CMS – When we hear about a Flash CMS, there is mostly a prejudice that it may not be that functional.

  FlashMoto CMS is a totally different one which is quite impressive & really works for managing Flash-based websites.

• 30 Amazingly Creative Photo Manipulated Wallpaper to Tune Up Your Desktop | PSD Vault – Extra Unique Adobe Photoshop Tutorial – In this post, I will show you 30 amazingly beautiful, ultra-creative Photo Manipulated wallpaper I collected and stored in my browser favourites. They’re some of the best ones I have come across and I have to say the skills used in making those wallpaper are simply first-class. Really Really good.
• Vintage Magazine Covers with a “Wow Factor” | Webdesigner Depot – Back in the day, it was considered to be very prestigious to have your artwork or photograph featured on a magazine cover, and some of the greatest artists of our time designed magazine covers.
• Guide to Low-cost Usability Tools – As someone who works with start-ups and SMBs, finding low-cost, high-impact tools is an absolute necessity. Fortunately, the usability world has been blessed by dozens of new tools over the last couple of years. While many excellent blog posts have been written about these tools, I decided that it was time to take a deeper dive. Most importantly, I wanted to test these tools on User Effect and try to provide real data and screenshots.
• 15 Clean Style Wallpapers Done with Selective Coloring | Blaberize – Today I want to show you some clean style wallpapers that uses selective coloring. The meaning of an selective coloring is listed in Wikipedia as: “a post-processing technique where most of a photo is converted to black and white, but some parts are left in color.” Color is very powerful when it comes to drawing attention and expressing the emotion. That power is magnified when color is used as an accent in an otherwise colorless image. Selective coloring of one area of an image is cool technique to make it standout. It’s an simple effect to apply, but it can take a lot of time to get stunning results. Here now some stunning clean style wallpaper done with selective color effect.
• 100+ Photoshop Actions for Amazing Color Enhancements | Web Design Ledger – Color plays a major role in the story that a photograph has to tell, but sometimes the color that the camera captures isn’t exactly what we have in mind. This is where Photoshop can be a big help, and more specifically Photoshop actions. With the click of a button an action can help us achieve time consuming effects in no time. Here are over 100 Photoshop actions that will add amazing color enhancements to your photos.
• A Showcase of Clever Negative Space in Logo Design | Web Design Ledger – Negative space is the space around and between the main objects in a design. This space often goes unnoticed, unless a creative designer is able to turn the negative space into a key element of the design. Logo designers often use negative space in a way that it becomes just as important as the positive space in conveying the meaning of the logo. Here is a showcase of logos that all possess creative use of negative space.
• Designing With Fonts: 30 Useful & Free Dingbats –
• Easy: A Front-End (CSS/JS/HTML) Framework For Developing Faster – Easy is a front-end (CSS/JS/HTML) framework, by Alen Grakalic of CSS Globe, for converting design into HTML faster & providing a solid base for future development.

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