On the hunt for the best open source resources and more

In most times, when you made gradients in Photoshop, there are some strokes that makes your gradient less attractive. A while ago I read somewhere how we can get rid of those strokes. I can’t remember where it was, but the filter in Photoshop I do remember because now I use it almost every time when I use a gradient.

The number of mobile devices (smartphone’s and tablets) are growing fast, Apple has sold more than 8 million ipads, and more then 50 million iphones. Google OS called Android is also growing fast, there are more than 8 million android users.

The newest kind of mobile device is the tablet. This kind of device is gaining a lot of terrain now, so a lot of big companies have announced that they will come with there own tablet, which have a OS like Windows Phone 7 or a own OS.

Apple announced there newest gadget called ipad a couple of days back. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly, thats why Geoff Teehan created iPad GUI PSD for us.

The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.

If you are working with Photoshop, Dreamweaver or  Illustrator, it’s very usefull and easery to work with shortcuts. If found shortcuts for…..

No a days design is very important, so for some (more) insparation i have put together a list of text effects tutorials, 44 photoshop text effects tutorials to be precise. I think this are the best text effects tutorials on the web (it’s al about taste). So i hope you can use this for some insparation and learning.

I found some useful web styles and swatches for Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and even Gimp on dezinerfolio. These styles and swatches can speed up your designing process.