Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

There are people all over the internet that are willing to give away their work for promotional purposes or because they want to spread their design talent to other people.

For this reason we are lucky enough to have a wide variety of free PSD website templates for your use and enjoyment. I have collected some of the best ones I found from around the web to bring to you, already split up into layers in Photoshop. Enjoy!

1) Design Studio PSD Template

2) Orange PSD Template

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Would you like a Transparent Website Layout? It can be very useful if you would like to have a different theme for your website, but do not want to change too much of the design. Simply changing the background image can also give you a whole different feeling sometimes. We are going to teach you how to design a transparent website layout in Photoshop. Hope you would find it useful.

Final Result

A Transparent Website Layout is what we are about to make. You can click on the image to see a full-scale version.

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Photoshop offers one of the most robust graphics editing experiences available. Sometimes, we just cannot stop ourselves applying some nice effects to beautifully designed typefaces. Therefore, we have created our own amazing text effect photoshop tutorial for you.

In this tutorial, I will show you the process involved in creating this golden flame text effect with soft smoke texture in Photoshop.

Final Result

To complete this tutorial, you will need the following stocks:
Font
Soft Smoke Texture

Step 1
Create a new document sized 1200 * 800px, fill the background with black colour. On the background type, use the font we’ve just downloaded to type some texts onto it. (more…)

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Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of web browsers. The ability to update and maintain web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity.

A modern and easy to use Admin User Interface is the key to success of web applications. We are going to show you How To Create a Web Application Admin User Interface in Photoshop. So that you can easily create your own admin user interface for your web applications.

Final Result
This Web Application Admin User Interface is what we are about to make. You can click on the image to see a full-scale version.

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Sometimes, you may find it difficult to look for some of the highest quality photoshop tutorials. In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for us.

Eventually, they have come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008. These are selected from their published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from Photoshop users and readers. Most of the tutorials are high quality with detailed steps, they are suitable for both beginners and advanced Photoshop users.

Source: The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2008

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Photoshop Lady aims to pick the best free photoshop tutorials around the world and deliver the latest selection tutorials to your hand. Photoshop Lady is updated daily. All of the high quality photoshop tutorials are categorized into 3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect, Texture & Patterns and User Interface Design. You can also bookmark your favorite tutorials easily and allow you to make your tutorial collection in a single place.

Source: Photoshop Lady – Best Free Photoshop Tutorials around the World

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I should have posted this great photoshop tutorial site long time ago, but I do not know which category I should put this in. Now, I am going to share this great site no matter what. PSDtuts is a blog/photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. They publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain in a friendly, approachable manner.

Photoshop is a fantastically powerful program and there are a million ways to do anything, they hope that reading PSDtuts will help us learn a few tricks, techniques and tips that we might not have seen before and help us maximize their creative potential!

You can see two of the amazing photoshop tutorials as above. All tutorials are really practical and helpful. The quality of every tutorial is really high. I high recommend this site to all web designers and developers.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://psdtuts.com/
License: License Free

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