Featured Designer #5 - Jonathan Winbush
Jonathan Winbush is a motion graphics artist that works in the field of broadcast, theatrical, game, menus and trailer art. In his own words :
I design as well as animate whole packages. In my works I try to establish a visual relationship between the work and the actual viewer.
Some of his work :
Free Photoshop brushes - The Collection
For the 5th edition of the Sunday Design Resource we put together a large collection of free Photoshop brushes, free for download.
Brusheezy - a collection of great free high-resolution Photoshop brushes.
PixelMoon Studio - 12 high resolution free bush sets.
Damned in black - colorful, nice textured Photoshop brushes.
Design Fruit Japanese Foliage - nice japanese inspired, high resolution free Photoshop brushes.
Obsidian Dawn free Photoshop brushes - collection of fantasy, handwriting, symbols, nature, people, sci-fi brushes.
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Increase your productivity - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver keyboard shortcuts
It’s a proven fact that by using keyboard shortcuts your productivity with that software increases. This tutorial contains all the keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS2, CS, 7, Adobe Illustrator CS3, CS2 and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, both Windows and Mac versions.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts
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Featured Designer #4 - Jeremy Prasatik
jp33.com is an award winning website/portfolio that has been featured in numerous magazines and websites across the globe.
How to add a favicon to your blog / website
A favicon, also known as shortcut icon, website icon, page icon or urlicon is a small, square icon, usually 16×16px in size, that is displayed alongside the URL in the web address bar of a web browser.
The reason for using a favicon is branding. Most modern web browsers allow tabbed browsing. This means that a user can open several websites in the same browser window. A nice favicon design will distinguish your blog / website from the other websites.
Some modern browsers also allow favicons to be displayed in the Bookmarks section. Again, this will ensure your website will be distinguished from the others.
Favicon formats
The most widely used favicon format is .ico. Other favicon formats used are .gif and .png. You can also add an animated gif as a favicon, but this is currently only supported by Mozilla Firefox. Even though this is only supported by Firefox, there is the possibility of using multiple favicons. For example you can use an animated one which will display in Firefox and a static one which will display in the rest of the browsers.
Favicon Design
A favicon has a 16×16px size so to design it it’s advisable to use a larger size such as 128×128px and then scale it to 16×16px. For more information regarding the design process view our favicon design tutorial.
Implementation
Most browsers search by default for favicon.ico in the root folder of the website / blog the access. So it’s enough to place your favicon.ico in the root folder without adding additional code and the favicon will be displayed. However the code below should be used, especially if the favicon is not located in the root folder.
The code
Guidelines
- The link elements must be inside the head element in the HTML.
- Use the appropriate resolution and color depth : ICO - include multiple resolutions (the most commonly used being 16×16 and 32×32, with 64×64 and 128×128 sometimes used by Mac OS X) and bit-depths ; GIF - use 16×16 in 256 colors ; PNG - use 16×16 in either 256 colors or 24-bit.
- For XHTML, the link element must be terminated by ” />” instead of “>”.
- The .ico file format will be read correctly by all browsers that can display favicons.
Favicon Inspiration
