Author: Max Stanworth

I am the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources. I hope you find them as interesting and useful as I do. By day I am a UX focused product designer.

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.

The people who are following these accounts can then see your tweets which could mean some much more targeted traffic, here are the ones that i found.

hashdesigns

Finding news about #design and #webdesign and RT them

hashwp

hashwp #wp
Finding news about #wp and #wordpress and RT them

hashwordpress

Retweeting the people who talk about #wordpress

hashwindows

Finding news about #win and #windows and RT them

hashweb

Retweeting #html #css #htm #xml

hashsocial

Finding news about #social and RT them

hashphp

Finding news about #php and RT them

hashphotoshop

Finding news about #photoshop and RT them

hashphoto

Finding news about #photo and RT them

hashlinux

Finding news about #linux and RT them

hashjoomla

Finding news about #joomla and RT them

hashjava

Finding news about #java and RT them

hashiphone

Finding news about #iphone and RT them

hashfail

Finding news about #fail and RT them

Example of Hash Tags In Use

example

Here you can see the #wordpress tag in action this can then be re-tweeted by the hashwordpress account, but obviously you can tag any of your tweets with any thing you want making it easy to use twitter search to find relevant content.

Comments

Do you know of any twitter accounts that re-tweet your specific tweets? Please leave a link in the comments

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 selection from around the web for some inspiration.

You might also enjoy: 25 Examples of Light and Space Effects In Web Design

Trent Cruising

trentcruising

Squarespace

squarespace

Theater Website Services

theaterwebsiteservices

Serj

serj

Mediocore

mediocore

Macalicious

macalicious

Yourt Web Job

yourwebjob

Jamison Banham

jbanham

Alcomi

alcomi

Us trendy

ustrendy

Poolie Studios

pooliestudios

Pixel-House

pixel-house

Twiistup

twiistup

Source Bits

sourcebits

Sergey Stanchev

sergeystanchev

Icon Dock

icondock

Graphik

graphik

Future Tap

futuretap

Fernando Sergio

fernandosergio

Feels TV

feelstv

Digimurai

digimurai

Design Disease

designdisease

Causecast

causecast

Box Wish

boxwish

Code Art Media

codeartmedia

Comments

Seen any more light effects in designs any where feel free to leave a link in the comments.

Freebie: Tiled Ornamental Twitter Background

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

A few of you may know that I’m really in to my ornaments and swirls so you can get a bit of inspiration from this post I wrote earlier: Ornamental design inspiration – Baroque

Download The Background

There are 3 variations to choose from below – Right Click the image and “Save As”

Light

grotesque_light

Dark

grotesque_dark

Stained

The subtle stains were added using my free grunge stained paper textures.

grotesque_stained

Example In Use

Click the image to see a biger preview

grotesque_preview_small

Comments

If you use it on your twitter profile feel free to post a link in the comments so we can all see it in action

11 Great Photoshop Photo Effects Tutorials

I’ve tried to collect a few photo effects tutorials that are very much centered around one subject rather than a complete photo manipulation. If you don’t like the finished product I’m sure you’ll find some cool techniques to do certain effects in these tutorials.

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Texture Lovers has some great free textures for use in your photo manipulations too.

How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

cinematic-photo-effect

Dance Photo Manipulation

dance-photo-effect

Water Effect Photo Montage

water-photo-effect

Create A Vibrant Image Using Photoshop

vibrant-photo-effect

Creating a Vector Composite Effect from a Photo

vector-photo-effect

Beautiful Lady Light Effects

lady-photo-effect

Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation

flaming-photo-effect

Create a Sparkling Fantasy Photo Manipulation

fantasy-photo-effect

Electrifying Energy Beams

energybeams-photo-effect

Create dynamic distortion effects

distortion-photo-effect

Disintegration Effect

disintegration-photo-effect

Use lighting Effects To Make Photos Sparkle

This one isnt really a tutorial beacuse it doesnt supply any of the assets to complete it, but i thought id ad it here to serve as inspiration.

digitalarts-photo-effect

Friday Freebie: Old Vintage Paper Tag

I saw this old sort of vintage tag on a bed and thought damn that’s awesome ( pretty obsessive haha ) so I took a snap of it and removed the background and the text so its great for adding to web designs or photo manipulations.

The tag is in .PNG format with a transparent background, one with the text and one with it removed, in the preview i used a Burlap Texture for the background i released on Texture Lovers which you can also download for free.

What Size is it?

The tag is about 1776 x 578 px so its pretty big to work with, which is always a good thing!

tag-preview

Download Via RapidShare

http://rapidshare.com/files/248593670/designshard-old-tag.zip

Download Via MediaFire

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jjydntm5zyy/designshard-old-tag.zip

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Usage Terms

Use it for Commercial and Non Commercial Projects for free, No credits required but please don’t redistribute or repackage and sell it.

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