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Polish Your Skills with 30+ Useful Photoshop Guides and Tutorials

If you’re a designer there’s a good chance you’re already using Photoshop a lot. This very versatile software is one of the most popular out there and the available tutorials and websites are many. The experience I have with many Photoshop users I’ve met is that they are really good at what they do the most, but sometimes the basic skills in some of the more usual aspects of the software can be a bit rusty.

This time I’ve collected 20 Photoshop tutorials that aren’t about making all that crazy and spectacular stuff that we many times see in the most popular tutorials. This collection has some tutorials that really help you gain some new techniques and refresh your knowledge.

These tutorials/guides are great for both beginners and the intermediate users that want to fresh up some of their knowledge. Definitely something here for everyone.

Enjoy!

Create Your Own Custom Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts

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15 Indispensible Tools For PHP Developers

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages.  As a general-purpose programming language, PHP code is processed by an interpreter application in command-line  mode performing desired operating system operations and producing program output on its standard output channel.

In this article, we have listed some of the very important and indispensible tools and resources for PHP developers

Phing

A project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP “task” classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. Features include running PHPUnit and SimpleTest unit tests, file transformations, file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS/SVN operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more.

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Get Inspired: 44 Amazing Creative Blue Logos

Logo design is a form of art that finally seems to start getting it’s well deserved minutes of fame these days. The showcases displaying designers from all over the word are getting more and more popular. This time we’ve decided to show you some really great blue designs. The color blue can often be related to water, air and technology. And who haven’t seen the Twitter logo that’s given the color a new popularity.

Enjoy!

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