41 High Quality Photo Manipulations For Inspiration

Most of the photo manipulations that you see on various galleries and portfolios are simple ones which can be easily made after learning a tutorial or two, but there are some photo manipulations that simply can’t be done that easily. They require a lot of hard work and experience on behalf of their authors.

Becoming Missarwana

Eden

SporTV

Baby come back

Here and there

Somnambulas

Surprise

Misarwana

Carve Your Own Destiny

A Soul’s Silhouette

Road workers’ Coffee Break

The God of Smoke

The GARDENS

Immersing

The Gymnast

Them

Chaos of 2012

The Mask of Sorrow

Opium Dreams

Genesis

The Missarwana Evolution

Inception

Two sides

Survival vs. Intelligence

Downside of the upside

Nuclear winter

Morning Mist

Amalgamate

Moony day

Kissing pages

Work on the sea

Kaffeslump

Living Water

Common sense crossing

Twisted seasons

Milk and choco

Aqua custodia

Fishy island

The New World

Deep impact

Mother nature

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Get Your Kits: Fresh Web and Mobile UI Kits, Wireframe Kits and PSD’s

Today, we have a useful compilation for our readers of fresh web UI kits, mobile UI kits and wireframe kits complete with PSD files that will certainly come in handy when you are designing projects. Some basic user interface elements are always welcome toolbox additions by designers. We need them for a wide range of projects in order to able to easily create an accurate UI model of either a website or app.

We hope that this round up of web and mobile user interface kits will prove helpful for the next mock-ups your projects demand. There were quite a bit of tools crammed into this post, so we have split it up onto two pages. Enjoy!

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Butterscotch UI Kit
This free download is a gorgeous UI kit with resizable shape layers in a clean, well organized PSD file.

Free Candy UI Kit
This bright and cheerful user interface kit contains clean, pixel precise elements that are ideal for web and app projects.

Free Dark UI Kit
Each element in this sharp, clean pack has been hand-crafted in Photoshop, and is fully scalable with vector shape layers. Enjoy!

Light UI Kit (PSD)
This kit has a very light look to it and is also very clean. Everything is 100% vector so you can re-scale this to any size needed.

Heads Up Display UI Kit
Here is a collection of over 50 pixel perfect HUD (Heads Up Display) user interface elements, for wire-framing and mocking-up desktop and web apps.

New Twitter Profile Page GUI PSD
The PSD provides the full mockup with all layers in vectors, allowing you to scale up the design elements without loss of quality.

iPhone UI Kit
These fresh iPhone and iPod Touch user interface elements are beautifully simple and elegant. This kit contains menu bars, list styles, buttons, form elements, icons, and more.

UI Kit
This set contains some truly beautiful UI elements. The link will take you to the comment where you can download the UI kit.

The Ultimate Wireframe UI Kit
This set contains over 60 of the most popular elements in web design. And each element has been created from scratch with Shape Layers, meaning that the whole kit is 100% scalable, and super-easy to edit.

Dark UI kit
Everthing in this wonderful, dark kit is 100% vector, so you can re-scale the elements to any size needed. It also includes a Photoshop PSD file.

Wireframe Sketch Sheets
Included in this set of sketch sheets are 10 printable templates for website designs, and iPhone and iPad app mock-ups. The designs are proportional and use a grid of 32 pixel squares for guidance and straightforward translation to Photoshop or Fireworks etc. when you are finished.

Votes & Ratings UI Kit
Here is a set of fully layered, editable Photoshop web elements for voting systems and ratings on the web. Everything in the pack should be scalable without any redrawing or major effort.

Simple UI Kit
This simple kit includes radio buttons, checkboxes, search boxes, regular and rounded buttons, on and off gui switches and more! Everything is 100% vector and can be re-scaled to any size if needed.

Blanc Web Elements
This set of web and user interface elements was created specifically for light, crisp websites and applications.

Minion UI
The idea behind this user interface kit was to make a dark but sleek UI, that borrows on styles from OS X and Ubuntu. Mission accomplished.

Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD
This kit allows you to mock-up fan pages for your clients looking to expand their brand to FB. All layers are vectorized, allowing you to scale up the GUI without loss of quality.

Lion Ui Kit Preview
This Mac OS Lion UI kit is perfect for those who need to create mock-ups in a Lion environment. The link will take you to the comment where you can download the UI kit.

Creamy UI Kit
This kit includes radio buttons, checkboxes, a percent slider, previous/next buttons, rectangular/circular buttons, search boxes, tick/cross buttons, and the on/off GUI. Everything is 100% vector and can be scaled to any size if needed.

Media Toolbar UI
This is a simple, sleek designed media toolbar user interface that’s 100% vector, so you can re-scale this to any size if needed.

iTunes UI Kit
This unique set contains some rather beautiful iTunes based UI design elements that could be just what your next project needs.

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7 Photoshop tips for designing clean and modern websites

Clean, elegant, and beautiful web design is often a matter of personal perspective. I look at hundreds of websites every week, and several of them stand out to me, but not all of them are necessarily effective.

Too often designers boil a concept down too far, producing a final design that is nothing more than text and a grid. While these minimal designs have their aesthetic appeal, particularly when paired with excellent typography, they risk falling short of notice.

Personal opinions aside, there are certain features of a design that allow it to be proudly labeled as clean or modern and enhance its usability and likability on a universal level. Simplicity is not a design trend, but rather an attribute of good design.

Photoshop grants us a versatile set of tools for creating depth and interest, and invites us to integrate subtle detail where we would leave a blank space. You need only a handful of these tools to infuse the qualities of modern design into a layout. By mastering them, you can create clean designs that express functionality clearly and effectively.

1. Space

White space allows for the visual separation of design elements without the use of boxes, lines, or additional graphics and is possibly the most important aspect of modern design. It is essential to content presentation and readability. When used correctly, white space gives your layout its clean and elegant feel.

Guides and Grids are available in Photoshop to help you position elements precisely. The grid overlays your entire document whereas the guides can be set manually. Use guidelines early to set invisible borders, margins, and padding used to define your white space.

Create a guide by hitting Ctrl+R (Win) or Cmd+R (Mac) to enable the ruler and then click the top or left ruler to drag a guideline to your desired position. Here are some additional shortcuts to help you manage guides while you work:

• To move a guideline: Ctrl(Win) or Cmd(Mac) and click the guide
• Show/Hide guides: Hit Ctrl+; (Win) or Cmd+; (Mac)
• Show/Hide the grid: Hit Ctrl+’ (Win) or Cmd+’ (Mac)

Enable your Smart Guides under View > Show > Smart Guides. Smart Guides appear automatically when you draw a shape, align text, or create a selection or slide and will save you the work of setting up guidelines for these elements in advance.

Aligning objects using guides and grids makes your design easier to digest and will give the overall result a more polished look.

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2. Depth

Depth created with light and shadow makes your elements appear crisp and real. Shadow effects can be applied to any object, selection, or text layer, but the trick is to choose a color that matches the background and forgo the default black.

Not all shadows must be dark. Combine the Inner Shadow effect with a white or light-colored Drop Shadow to create a sunken or “letterpress” feel with text or form fields.

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3. Detail

Both the gradient tool and the gradient layer effects play a large role in clean and modern design. Gradients are present in every aspect of modern styling, from shadows and highlights to backgrounds and buttons.

To access the gradient tool, hit Shift+G. To create a gradient, click the canvas, drag, and release. This tool is best used for large areas such as backgrounds, lights, or radial shadows. When working with individual elements such as sections, buttons, or icons, the Gradient Overlay layer effect is a more efficient means of establishing surface styles or textures. This tool is accessed by double-clicking the element layer and selecting the “Gradient Overlay” checkbox.

Use this effect to give subtle dimension to your buttons and navigation bars, or to mimic the style and texture of paper or metals.

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4. Definition

By over-defining edges and borders, you ensure your elements have proper contrast.

The Stroke layer effect will outline elements such as text or buttons where you need an equally weighted outline on all sides. Using this effect will free up the Inner and Drop shadows to extend your options.

It is tempting to head for the pen tool to draw straight lines and horizontal rules, but if you want to apply gradients or shadows to the line, it is easier to use the Single Row Marquee Tool, which is tucked discreetly behind the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Use the Single Row tool on a new layer and a white or light-colored drop shadow to create highlight lines along section borders or separators where you are not able to apply an effect to the element itself.

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5. Interest

Clean and modern does not need to equal boring, white, or minimal. Clever use of texture and pattern will make your design stand out, while communicating style and brand. Use subtle techniques such as adding noise (Filter > Add Noise) or the Texture Overlay layer effect on background areas or interface elements to help set them apart. The more real and clear an element appears, the more enticing it is to the viewer.

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6. Perspective

Perspective is the most underused technique in modern web design simply because ongoing trends focus consistently on symmetry and grids. By applying perspective to images and elements in your design, you can introduce depth, dimension, modernism, and interest to your design in one easy step.

Perspective can be given to any shape or image by choosing the “Free Transform Path” option in the right-click menu and clicking the “Warp” button located in the tool options bar.

The illusion of perspective can also be produced by creating asymmetrical shapes or frames and using gradients and shadows appropriately to place the objects apart.

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7. Readability

Strong type is well loved in the design community, and an even stronger component of clean design. It can replace imagery and graphics that may otherwise overcomplicate a design and convey the total essence of the above techniques in a simple and straightforward way.

To add textures to text, convert your text layer to a Smart Object first by right clicking the layer and choosing “Convert to Smart Object.” You are limited to layer effects by default unless your text is rasterized, a practice you want to avoid, even when designing for the screen. Converting to Smart Objects allows you to apply filters and other techniques to the text while preserving your editing capabilities in the event you need to change what the text says later.

Remember that you have tracking and kerning options available to you when setting up text elements. Even if your text is destined to be reproduced in CSS, you should experiment with line and letter spacing early on to better visualize how your content will appear within the space you have given it. Also, remember to use “Crisp” or “Sharp” text to retain definition and clarity.

How you present your content in clean design is more important than any other style simply because there is less going on visually to distract the viewer. By using the tips above to space text and objects appropriately, add definition and interest, and set the content apart from the interface, your design will achieve optimal effectiveness.

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