Author: Max Stanworth

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too you can also follow me on twitter @designshard.

15 Awesome 3D Text Effect Tutorials

I like to think that this is a list of some of the more high quality 3D text effect tutorials out there, Some of these aren't for the faint hearted as they use programs such as Xara and 3DS Max.

May 31st, 2010 Posted in Tutorials 28 Comments Continue Reading

25 Examples of Clean and Well designed Web Sites

Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or an initial great first impression of the site, here are jsut a few of what im liking.

October 17th, 2009 Posted in Inspiration 129 Comments Continue Reading

10 Free Original Hi-Res Fully Stained Paper Textures

These were created by soaking A4 pieces of paper in a tray filled with food colouring and then left to dry in the sun.

October 5th, 2009 Posted in Freebies 52 Comments Continue Reading

5 Free Hi-Res Stock Picture Frame Images

We had some old picture frames in bags so I took the opportunity to take photos of them and remove the backgrounds and the actual paintings in Photoshop and create some stock .png images

September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Freebies 57 Comments Continue Reading

16 Great Photoshop Light Effect Tutorials

I've selected various Photoshop tutorials that I'm liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs.

August 24th, 2009 Posted in Tutorials 112 Comments Continue Reading

Free Desktop Wallpaper: Smoke On The Water

Free Smoke On The Water digital wallpaper download in various sizes and for iphone.

July 16th, 2009 Posted in Freebies 35 Comments Continue Reading

20 Free Original Hi-Res Stained Paper Textures

Ive had these fully stained paper textures scanned in a while now made by soaking them in coffee for a few days, you can see all the little details on them and they look great in my opinion!.

July 13th, 2009 Posted in Freebies 29 Comments Continue Reading

Twitter Hash Tags for Designers and Developers

I've collected a few twitter accounts together that retweet certain #hashtags that you apply to your tweets, id reccomend adding one or two to the end of your tweets of the related subject.

July 9th, 2009 Posted in General 30 Comments Continue Reading

25 Examples Of Light Effects In Web Design

Some examples of how people use light effects to enhance their web designs either by giving it more colour or by giving it more depth, check out my selction from around the web for some inspiration.

July 6th, 2009 Posted in Inspiration 65 Comments Continue Reading

Freebie: Tiled Ornamental Twitter Background

Here’s a free repeating pattern that is ideal to be used as a twitter background, created from Victorian images from some books I’ve arranged them in a way that they will tile perfectly... how convenient!

July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Freebies 22 Comments Continue Reading

11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

I’ve tried to collect a few photo effects tutorials that are very much centred around one subject rather than a complete photo manipulation.

June 29th, 2009 Posted in Tutorials 182 Comments Continue Reading

Friday Freebie: Old Vintage Paper Tag

I saw this old sort of vintage tag on a bed and thought damn that’s awesome, Download it for free

June 26th, 2009 Posted in Freebies 36 Comments Continue Reading

25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design

I’ve collected some great examples of space and lighting effects that are quite commonly used in web design these days as inspiration, usually accompanied by vivid colours and streaks of light, which is currently one of my favourite styles.

June 22nd, 2009 Posted in Inspiration 57 Comments Continue Reading

19 Awesome Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

This is a collection of my favourite Photoshop text effects that look pretty sweet in, I would recommend experimenting with these styles if your looking for some thing a little bit different

June 15th, 2009 Posted in Tutorials 93 Comments Continue Reading

New Site Launch: Texture Lovers

You may or may not know I’ve been working on a little side project and now its ready to be launched so here it is Texture Lovers, and a little bit about it...

June 8th, 2009 Posted in General 29 Comments Continue Reading
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