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Typography is a critical aspect of web and graphic design, but finding the right font can often be a challenge. If you’re looking for a quality thin or light font, this post should be an excellent resource for you. Here you’ll find 25 free thin fonts. As always when dealing with freebies, be sure to check the license before using it in your own work.

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Photoshop actions allow designers and photographers to automate common sequences for increased efficiency. There are countless actions available that can be downloaded for free, and in this post we’ll feature 45 of them. Some of these are individual actions and others are sets that include multiple actions.

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Here I’ve collected 30 amazing iOS apps for freelancers. These are useful applications for those working on their own in any field. Tasks can help with time management, processing workload, tasks lists, and so much more!

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Create Chunky Buttons

Creating Seamless Textures

Create a Reusable Retro Type Treatment

Create a Polished Raised Type Treatment

* GUI library – Hundreds vector elements for interface design
* Minimal UI icons set – 260 vector icons for Illustrator
* Styles library – 200 styles to apply in Illustrator

A free User Interface Design tool for Web Designers

• Design faster wireframes and create better mockup deliverables in Illustrator.
• Design usable application interface with hundreds of common GUI elements : just drop them from Illustrator Panels or pick them in the library files.
• Customize easily the vectors GUI elements to your own needs : you can easily resize, color or tweak their appearance.
• Benefit from a consistent UI elements library made by a web designer expert in application interface design.

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Link for Productive Web Design With… Adobe Illustrator?

To help with your search for the latest and greatest templates we have put this post together. Not only are these templates beautifully built, they all in there own way offer something different and unique (HTML5, CSS3 and some marvelous Javascript techniques). You’ll love them!

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In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to create the following nice looking Glossy Emblem Text Effect with Adobe Photoshop in 4 simple steps.

Read more: Glossy Emblem Text Effects with Photoshop http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/glossy-emblem-text-effects-photoshop_tutorials/#ixzz1CtGieEjF

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freebie: an original set of four exclusive minimal, clean WordPress themes designed by Marios Lublinski2 and released for web design community. As usual, the themes are free to use for private as well as commerical projects. The themes are beautifully built with minimal and clean designs. These themes will come handy for artists, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers who’d like to have a clean, minimal portfolio to showcase their work.

The themes are simple but powerful, with a touch of traditional Swiss design and layout techniques. The unique style and design is what separates these themes from others. You will also be able to withhold the focus on your work, since you are the artist and should be in control of what the observer sees when visiting your site. Each one comes with a full video overview and support of how to use and manage it.

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This tutorial seems to be MUST keep for reference.

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The look of the generated image by the php script is easy to customize by editing the script file or on-the-fly (by url(AIP)). The main features of this user counter script are, it doesn’t require a database to run and it allows you to display this information on any page you are not just limited to PHP pages.

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