Cool Flash Portfolio Showcase Tools
How you showcase your portfolio is very important for any freelancer or design company. It reflects the way you do business, your attention to details and gives an overall feel of professional work. It can mean the difference from getting or losing clients.
To enrich your portfolio showcase you can use Javascripts based on the Prototype or Moo.Fx libraries, scripts such as Litebox, LightBox 2, Highslide JS, ThickBox & many others. These all work just fine, but are a bit too common these days. If you want something special, you have to go the extra distance, XML Flash based gallery scripts.
Here are some resources you can try. They all use XML and ActionScript and are fully customizable.
Featured Designer #8 - Nick La
Nick La is a web and graphic designer based in Canada. You may recognize him by the websites he owns : N.Design-Studio (his portfolio website), Web Designer Wall (a beautiful blog about design trends and tutorials) and Best Web Gallery (one of the best web galleries on the web).
For his great vectorial art, Wordpress design, and web design skills Nickhas received recognition from big design magazines such as : Computer Arts, Digit Magazine and Web Designer Magazine.
40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008
2008 has brought some big changes in the design trends. One of the major ones was the end of the so called “glossy revolution“, the wrongful design interpretation of the web 2.0 current. You know what I am talking about : the glossy, vivid and colorful logos and website designs, the major usage of reflections and two tone colors. This style is used less and less, and some new design trends are starting to emerge (the vintage style seems to be catching on)
The sites below are the most representative designs, collected by us for our CSS and Flash Web Gallery. Apart from the showcase we added a little description of each website so you can get an idea what’s it about.
Blog Solid is for bloggers and those interested in blogging as an exciting and effective way of communicating. Blogsolid is a growing collection of tips, advice and ideas for better blogging.
Dara’s Garden fashions a fabulous setting for you to make memories you will love and cherish. Whether you’re envisioning an intimate ceremony or a large gathering, Dara’s Garden offers the finest location for any event.
OLDesign is the portfolio of Olof Lönnroth, a webdesigner, musician and soon to be Bachelor of Informatics, living in Gothenburg, Sweden.
FortySeven Media is the portfolio of Jonathan Longnecker and Nate Croft and the do, as described by themselves, kick awesome web design, graphic design and media creation.
Efingo is the portfolio of a romanian designer specialized in Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW and 3D Studio MAX.
Caty Design Studio is the portfolio of very talented graphic and web designer Caty Ng from Singapore.
Saizen Media is the portfolio of a very talented design team. They do mainly (spectacular) Flash websites.
N.Design Studio is the portfolio and design resources website of Nick La, the owner of 2 other well-known websites Web Designer Wall and Best Web Gallery.
Larissa Meek is the website of 3D animator, Miss USA finalist, bikini model, actress and reality TV star Larissa Meek.
Kulturbanause is the blog, portfolio and online playground of Jonas Hellwig.
Best Design Resources of July 2008
It’s been another busy month in the world of design. Here are the highlights of July 2008:
Photoshop
Tutorials
Enhance Your Ad Designs with 3D Splashes - a Photoshop tutorial on how to enrich your images and designs with 3D splashes.
Design a refreshing beer ad in Photoshop - enhance a basic beer ad giving it a fresh look
100 wonderful photo effects Photoshop tutorials
Star Wars Text Effect - learn how to create the Star Wars text effect in Photoshop
Tutorials Garden - a tutorial bookmarking website hosting links to over 1900 Photoshop tutorials.
41 Nicest Photoshop Photo Effects. Looking at how powerful Photoshop can be in terms of photo editing, it’s probably not important if you suck at taking photographs or being labeled an amateur.Take a look and see some professional photo editing skills.
Photoshop Tutorials you should see - a collection of 40 Photoshop top tutorials.
6 Quick’n’Dirty Photoshop Text Effects From Scratch
Create a Polaroid Photo Effect
Textures
99 Free Canvas, Paper, Paint, and Metal Textures
Sand, wet sand and rocks textures
300+ Vintage Style Textures and Photoshop Brushes
Brushes
Photoshop Brushes - Top 10 Releases for Summer 2008
General Design Resources
Studio 7 Designs - 101 design links
Featured Photographer #1 - Amanda Chapman
Amanda Chapman is a freelance portrait photographer, and although she’s been behind the camera only for 1 year, her shots look amazing. You can see more great photos and find out more about her by checking her website, blog or JPG Magazine profile.
