Best of the web for Design and Web Development August 2021

• August 30th, 2021
• News

With the month drawing to an end we are wrapping up in our usual fashion, by looking rounding up all the best design tutorial and web articles published ion the month of June.

The roundup features some great photoshop and illustrator tutorials from unique text effects to camo patterns. The second half of the post is some great web articles worth reading through from “how to create gradients to sexy gradients” to the ultimate guide to web design.

This is another great roundup and we hope you enjoy all the posts featured in the roundup.

Design tutorials

How to Create a Fall Text Effect in Illustrator

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to make a leaf brush in Illustrator and how to create a fall text effect.

How to Create “Exploring Distant Planet” Photo Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you will learn the process of how to create a distant planet exploration scene in Photoshop. We will transform a simple mountain stock photo into a hostile, alien planet in just 5 steps.

How to Make Digital Camo Patterns in Photoshop

This tutorial will focus on creating the more modern digital pattern styles that are made up of tiny pixel-like squares. 

How to make a composite portrait in Adobe Photoshop.

Blend photos and fabric patterns for the ultimate fashion design.

How to Make a Halloween Flyer

Want to learn how to make a Halloween flyer? In this tutorial, we’ll create a Halloween costume contest flyer, and you could use these concepts to create any kind of Halloween event flyer you prefer. We’ll also take a look at some Halloween flyer ideas.

Web and Design articles

Useful Figma Plugins And Tools

Useful Figma plugins that will help you fix all the little slowdowns and boost your productivity. From color management and image assets to SVG shapes and animation. That’s our new guide to Figma.

Four Useful VSCode Extensions For Web Developers

VS Code can be supercharged wuth hundreds of VS Code extensions. In this article, Leonardo shares four useful extensions that help him in his daily work

Writing great alt text: Emotion matters

Good alt text means that screen reader users get the same ‘meaning’ from the page as a fully sighted user. But sometimes that’s easier said than done.

How to Design Sexy Gradients

Actionable UI tips to help you design better gradients.

The Ultimate Guide to Web Design for Beginners

Take the first steps in your web design career with this comprehensive guide for beginners. Learn about the different theories, rules, best practices and more, and dive into the pool of knowledge we’ve prepared for you.

How to Host WordPress on Google Cloud Platform

Alongside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the world’s most popular providers of cloud computing services.

Quick Ways to Make a Webpage More Scannable

In the information age, time is a valuable commodity and something people don’t want to spend too much of. As a result, the average visitor only reads about 20% of the content of a page.