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There's plenty of free advice and tuition out there for web designers. Get your teeth into these great free resources.
Looking for a little expertise in HTML5, coding or going it alone? Well, to need to get bogged down in hefty hardbacks - there’s a huge range of digestible ebooks for you to get your teeth into. And most importantly, many of them are free. Here we list of 10 of the best.
A beginner's guide to web design, this free ebook from Jennifer Niederst Robbins starts with the very basics of how web pages work, and goes on to take you through to CSS layouts and optimised graphic files.
Rather than trail through heavy texts on HTML5, this Quick Learning Guide provides a round up of everything you need to know in no time. The guide covers the main elements of HTML5 and focuses on the basics to help get you started, quickly.
Advertising executive and creative Hugh MacLeod provides 26 ‘tried-and-true tips’ to help guide your creative self through the business world. Famous for drawing cartoons on the back of business cards, each of his tips is brilliantly presented by a cartoon drawing with advice ranging from ‘ignore everybody’, ‘put the hours in’ and ‘keep your day job’.
A designer’s ebook staple, Keven Airgid’s 'Web Designer’s Success Guide' is a comprehensive narrative on how to set up as a freelancer, and profit. Covering topics such as making the transition to self-employment, marketing your design skills and knowing what to charge, this ebook has all the answers you’re looking for when choosing to go it alone.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
With praise from well-known typographer Herman Zapf, who calls Robert Bringhurst’s book "a must for everybody in the graphic arts", 'The Elements of Typographic Style' is a one-stop shop. It's worth checking out the print version as it includes the he foundations, philosophy and approach to good typography in any medium, which aren’t included in the ebook.
Another for the rookie, 'Design Your Imagination' is a complete beginner’s guide to web design, although it includes great tips for old-timers, too. The book uses examples to guide the reader through its 28 chapters, ranging from the history of web design, to design principles, planning and so much more.
A professor of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, Daniel Shiffman’s ebook focuses on the programming strategies and techniques behind computer simulations of natural systems. However, bear in mind that 'The Nature of Code' is not one for beginners, and you’re likely to need a background in coding to understand it completely.
A compilation of interviews with notable industry figures such as Jeffrey Zeldman (A List Apart), Karen McGrane, and Aarron Walter, and agencies like B-Reel, Unit9 and Ultranoir, this ebook outlines predictions for the future of web technologies and design for different devices. Also available to download and read on your iPad, Kindle and a wide range of devices and ereaders.
Following mobile’s phenomenal growth in 2012, this ebook provides tips on how to build amazing websites for mobile devices. It spans problems to consider when designing the user experience, 50 strategic approaches to create multi-screen designs and 50+ best practices to streamline your mobile design skills.
The Woork Handbook is a collection of Antonio Lupetti’s blog posts, after receiving requests by some of his four million website visitors in 2008 for a printable version. Topics cover CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other aspects about web design.
Create awesome images and amazing designs with our selection of the 30 most creative, useful, time-saving and powerful Photoshop plugins around.
Photoshop is an amazing tool - capable of producing sublime images, high-quality video and, with CS6 Extended, even create very passable 3D renders. All this power offers a world of possibilities - but occasionally it’s worth adding a few optional extras to get the most out of your investment. In this article we’ve lined up some of the best Photoshop plugins available for Adobe's photo editing giant today!
If you’re a designer in a hurry, or you’re not yet confident using Photoshop to create stylised images, virtualPhotographer is a quick and effective way to get some sophisticated looks in a hurry.
This free plugin uses the cloud to perform the calculations required to convert your Photoshop layers into CSS3 layers, complete with live-rendered effects where these are achievable with CSS. So, drop-shadows, strokes, outer glows, text and rounded corners are all converted to CSS3 automatically. Well worth a try to see if it could save you valuable coding time.
This plugin carries an expensive price tag, but the results it can produce are absolutely stunning. Like Nik’s Viveza plugin (number 25 on this list), there’s a wide range of options with easy-to-use controls, but all focussed around producing the best black and white photographs possible. Give the free trial a go and see what you think.
This unusual plugin uses fractal patterns, apparently hidden within the source image, to generate procedural effects that are reminiscent of pencil sketches, or stylised light glow streaks.
This all-encompassing suite of effects covers everything from textures to pseudo-3D effects, tonal correction and borders. It’s not cheap, but covers such a wide range of effects that if you want to buy just one plugin, this should be in your shortlist of options.
This straightforward plugin makes it simple to create diptych (double), triptych (triple) and ntych (quadrule+) panels within Photoshop. Choose the alignment, number of rows and columns, or hybrid layouts, and Tych Panel 2 will create the layout for you utilizing Smart Objects and layer masks to avoid destructive editing.
This simple Photoshop plugin makes it easy to create a grid system in your Photoshop document, hijacking the built-in guides system to create a pinpoint accurate grid according to your chosen settings. You can use negative margins for special hanging columns, separately define individual margins and gutters, and save your preferred options for quick access in the future. Perfect for anyone using a grid to help them create their layouts.
This super-handy CS6-only plugin makes it easy to export your designs from Photoshop to the web. Rather than rely on Photoshop’s outdated export for web functionality, Cut&Slice me offers a new way of doing things; allowing overlapping slices, multiple button states and even exporting different resolutions of the same assets to cater for different screen sizes and devices.
This in-depth plugin integrates with Photoshop to allow for the creation of complete, functioning WordPress themes directly from a PSD file. You start by generating a PSD from within the plugin’s own screens, then adapt the boilerplate design to suit your own aesthetic treatment. Once complete, you can export directly to WordPress, and edit otherwise static content using a special WordPress plugin. Ideal for non-technical users who want to get started in web template development.
This handy Photoshop script converts layer comps into a storyboard view, compositing your individual comps into a layout that can be easily output as PDF for printing and sharing with others. This turns Photoshop into a great place to create your blockbuster’s storyboard, doing away with all the tedious manual positioning and exporting associated with generating your own board manually.
Exposure is a creative tool that allows you to simulate film effects on your digital images, rendering analog-style finishes, borders, scratches and processing in a realistic and rewarding style. Version 4 adds to the already excellent Exposure 3 with additional controls for black/white, split toning and custom colour effects.
A combination of three different filters for Photoshop that each provide seamless and rich textures you can incorporate into your designs. Some of these are a little predictable, but the sheer range available, along with the ability to generate true fractals, makes this a great addition to Photoshop.
Masking is a fine art all in itself, and while Photoshop has improved its built-in masking tools with CS5 and CS6, there’s still plenty of room for a dedicated tool to help you get the cleanest and most accurate masks possible - especially around problem areas such as hair and fur. Fluid Mask makes this normally laborious process quick and (relatively) easy!
Portraiture is a combined plugin for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture that automates the process of retouching portraits for a perfect-skin look. The plugin automatically smooths skin tones while removing blemishes and, crucially, avoids softening or destroying detail areas such as eyelashes and skin texture.
This filter brings insanely beautiful scratchy textures to your designs and images with accurate, believable weathering and aging effects. Effects include the ability to place artwork on a leather base, render onto wood with the grain visible through the artwork and rust effects. It produces especially nice effects on simple typography.
While Photoshop has come on leaps and bounds with its own 3D engine and rendering, there’s still room for additional tools that can simplify the process of creating complex 3D scenes and models. This plugin features a simple object editor that uses a pen-like tool for drawing and editing shapes.
Blow Up allows you to create pin-sharp enlargements from photos without compromising on quality. The algorithm is more advanced than Photoshop’s own bicubic filters, which allows the plugin to produce accurate images without artifacts. This makes it a great tool for designers where clients send over images that aren’t of a high-enough resolution.
Photomatix Pro is an High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing and toning tool that integrates with Photoshop either standalone or as a plugin (depending upon which version you go for). This tool goes beyond Photoshop’s built-in HDR processing capabilities, especially with the toning aspects and allows for the creation of extreme HDR images with relative ease.
Perfect Effects 3 FREE is a handy tool for getting a quick effect on an image, whether that’s a colour treatment, addition of texture and noise, or creative borders. The plugin features an effects library (a bit like the filter gallery in Photoshop) and allows you to stack multiple effects to achieve interesting new results.
Noise is a problem for everyone, but no more so than Photographers who need to present clients with clean images regardless of the conditions when the shot was captured. Noiseware is a specialist noise-suppression tool that will both remove noise and sharpen at the same time making it a really useful addition to Photoshop.
If you’re a regular user of the PNG format, you’ll know that Photoshop can sometimes struggle a bit to render PNGs quickly. SuperPNG aims to fix this by offering more control over your PNG output, allowing for a balance between speed and file size, control over the alpha channel and meta data. SuperPNG’s a handy tool for taking control of your image export, and is free!
SiteGrinder is a tool for converting Photoshop mockups into fully functioning HTML and CSS webpages. It includes support for an eCommerce module to further enhance the output, and a CMS-based module adds the ability to maintain websites created using the tool. This isn’t really aimed at web professionals, but could be handy for novice designers.
Wire Worm is a free plugin with a single, simple purpose that may save you a lot of time removing telephone wires, fences and similar obstructions in your images. The interface is simple, allowing you to select an area around a wire or other obstruction and have the tool automatically remove it. Results are surprisingly good, especially for the price!
EyeCandy has been around for over a decade, offering a broad range of effects ranging from fire to chrome, glass to extrusions. Useful for many different scenarios, a lot of the effects need dialing down from the default settings to achieve something other than a cheesy result, but there’s a lot of hidden gems in the suite.
Viveza 2 is a great solution for applying localised colour and lighting effects to your image. Working in a similar way to Lightroom’s local corrections feature, Viveza allows you to place points on your image and apply a series of effects that are automatically blended to give a professional result. Fantastic results are pretty easy to achieve, and above all else it’s quick to use!
ToonIt is a straightforward way to turn regular photos into a cartoon-style image, suitable for use in graphic novels or other scenarios where you don’t want photo-realistic images but need to base images on a photographic original. The plugin works automatically on an image, but there is a degree of control you can exercise to change the final output. Niche, but fun!
Red Giant is better known for its range of After Effects plugins, but they’ve also brought their Looks plugin to Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture. This features the same interface as in Magic Bullet Looks for After Effects and features a range of adjustment tools to help you achieve the exact 'look' you desire. A range of usable presets make this a great quick-fix tool.
Similar to its After Effects big brother, Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop allows you to create a host of advanced lens flares, integrating them into your image and adding immediate impact. There are over 100 presets, and you can build new flare effects to your own taste. A great tool for adding instant drama to photographs.
Digital Film Tools’ Ozone plugin is a toning system for images that duplicates a lot of the functionality found in Photoshop itself, but makes it more accessible to novice users. Based on the zone systemestablished by Ansel Adams, it allows for different parts of an image to be toned according to taste, defining the relative importance and relationship of elements within an image.
Photoshop Edge FX is a simple solution for adding creative borders around your images. The plugin ships with 100 frames and edges and also allows you to create your own mattes for additional borders. Simple and effective, this isn’t offering anything you couldn’t achieve manually, but does the job quickly and efficiently.
