Author Archives: Max Stanworth

Author: Max Stanworth
Website: http://www.designshard.com
Im an avid designer specialising in xhtml and css, but alos enjoy graphic design, illustration and typography.

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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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...
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Textures For Commercial & Personal Use with No Attribution

The new project is actually almost finished and ready to be released its sort of like a directory for textures from around the web but only for free textures that can be used for commercial and personal use without giving attribution, but i need your help!
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20 Free Original Hi-Res Ink Stained Paper Textures

So i say these are ink, and they do look like ink but there actually food colouring / dye , they give the same effect pretty much , but i wanted to give them a watered down feel with strong pieces of colour in some places and lighter in others.
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6 Wordpress Themes Giveaway Worth $249 Comment To Win

Felix from RichWP has agreed to give you all a special treat he has activated a discount code specially for Design Shard readers to get 15% off any of his themes till 30th of April 2009 just use discount code designshard, you can also win 6 of his themes!
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Space and Planet Photoshop Tutorials To Create Amazing Space Scenes

There a lot of space tutorials out there some are better than others, i have managed to try and select a few of what I think can allow you to get great effects that look like they belong and don’t look completely Photoshopped.
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