Author: Mahabubul

These days if you are looking for high quality and free stock photos to use, you are spoiled for choice, more and more websites have been appearing which offer photos which you can download for free and use under a license like Creative Commons Zero. Creative Commons Zero or CC0, is a license which means you are free to use the images however you like without having to worry about crediting the photographer or worrying about how you can and can’t use the photo. , making it part of the public domain: CC0 is the “no copyright reserved” option in…

If you are a designer or artist who needs to present a piece of work to a client or on your website or portfolio etc, it can be nice to display the work in place in a work space setting to give it that finishing touch. Unfortunately not all of us have a beautiful ( or tidy! ) workspace we can use to do so, which is where a workspace mock-up comes in. You can download an image of your desired workspace which could include things like a PC or MAC screen, a desk, seating and other elements like books,…

Using wood within your designs can look great when used as a background or overlaid texture but it can be a little difficult to create from scratch so you really need to resort to taking photos of real wood to get an authentic look. Luckily, as most of us aren’t great photographers, there is another way to use it – you can download a free pre-made Wood texture or Wood pattern created by another designer – we love these types of resources at Parameter. In this post we have put together a collection of over 30 different packs of Free…

At the moment we are seeing a huge boost in popularity to all things vintage, retro and classic looking – people like to fill their homes with vintage pieces of decoration and furniture, the trend is spurred on by websites like Pinterest and Etsy where you can shop for vintage items. This trend has also been extended into design with web designers and logo and identity designers also going for the vintage look for appropriate businesses, its a welcome addition which goes against the ultra-clean corporate look of recent times. If you wish to use this style of design for…

Photoshop actions are a set of steps in Photoshop that have been created and saved in the actions format, the action can then be applied with one-click to any image within Photoshop. They are a huge time saver if you ever perform the same set of steps over and over again, you can record just about any effects using actions, they function similar to Presets in Lightroom. There are a large number of paid and free photoshop actions which you can download but with there being so many, it can be hard to track down the high quality ones you…

In this collection we have more tools for your designer’s arsenal – we have gathered together over 30 different sets of vector badges, symbols, emblems, insignias and other elements. These are perfect to use for logos, website elements, stationary designs, printed leaflets and so on. Anything that calls for a badge can be created using one of these designs. Click through below and you can download the badges in EPS, PDF, AI, PSD formats for use in your vector editing software of choice. Flat Vector Badges In this collection, you will get 10 flat vector badges. By using these badges,…

Flexbox allows us as CSS developers a new and very useful control method over layouts which was previously difficult to achieve, it allows us to create grids which are flexible in nature meaning that they are aware of content within them so will stretch to accommodate the content. This allows us to focus more on the creation process instead of having to worry about employing hacks such as floats to achieve the same result. As of today, most modern browsers now support the Flexbox spec so its safe to go ahead and start using it within your projects. To help…

If you are building a web application or a website which requires an Admin section, you can save yourself many hours of development time by using a Free Bootstrap Admin Template. Bootstrap is the excellent framework created by Twitter which helps to speed up the process of creating websites by providing CSS and JS which can be used within it – you don’t have to manually code each element over and over again for different projects. There are a large number of Admin templates available and a great number of free ones to download, which is why we have put…

If you are seeking full-time or freelance work then you will know the power of having a good professional looking resume or CV: It helps you stand out from the crowd of boring resumes created in Microsoft Word using standard fonts. A well-designed resume with good content adds that final bit of polish to your job application. However, not everyone is a designer so if you try creating something more unique yourself you run the risk of creating a poor layout and weak font choices. That is where this post is here to help you – professional designers have created…

If you run your own blog with WordPress, a nice way to help you to connect with your readers is by displaying some information about yourself – you can do this on your blog’s about page where it might not been seen, you could also display a short bio on each post or in the sidebar where it is more likely to be viewed. This is known as an author box, and typically you will include a short bio about yourself, maybe your photo and some links to your social media profiles. If you run a multi-author blog, then author…