Creattica launched today an inspiration gallery and, along with the updated design and new features for finding and contacting creatives for hire, they also added some new categories. To can get the new sections off the ground, they launched an interesting contest.

With a great balance and taste of colors, Vlad is known for its wallpaper and e-cards website. Over the years, the simplicity (in a good way) and the joy from his works created a style what is easily recognized.

In this collection we bring you some 3D photorealistic renders from various artists across the globe. List contain nature scenes, people poses, portraits, city corners, cars and buildings, what make you to wonder what technique was used, in special because many of them are done now more then 5 years ago.

This is a quick tip for Photoshop beginners about how to alter blending options applied to a text for a nice and realist effects against a stripes background.

When you need to make a mockup or a render of the dvd / cd cover box / book / ecover designed, instead to spend time to make the final image, you may consider one of the following affordable Photoshop actions what can save hours with just 2$ – 15$ paid once.

Did this happen to you, in special when you are working in same time with more heavy softwares and is need to switch between them, and your Photoshop or Illustrator are stuck on Hand Tool?

Rainbow is a virtual business card (vcard) template where you can post a short visual bio of your creative and professional designer profile. Light, clean, can represent a web presence for you till your complex website will be ready.

The dark themes doesn’t mean just using a lot of black color. You can use many grey shades and light graphics to achieve a nice and fast loading website template with a dark theme. This tutorial is an example for some of most used effects in creation of website backgrounds and graphics with a dark color palette.

Take a look at this HellToyz ideas done by Ira_Melanox, a nickname of a 2D romanian artist. Each doll have its theme and unsaid story.

Adobe Illustrator is a great tool for making logos, but this is not the only one solution here. Even Adobe Photoshop is well-known for photo editing, it can be a proficient software to make resizable logos, in special for web design use.