PSD Pack #2

Every month up until christmas i’l be giving away a FREE PSD pack. Each pack will contain 10 FREE PSD files for your photoshop pleasure. PSD PACK #2 License and Attribution This PSD PACK is licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for personal purposes ONLY. No attribution is needed but it(…)

1 Year Hosting Giveaway From Zyma

Zyma.com one of the fastest growing hosting companies in the UK have partnered with hv-­?designs.co.uk to give-­?away 5 lucky winners a web hosting account completely FREE for one whole year! Zyma’s customer base covers over 80 different countries in four different continents, and their unlimited web hosting package is one of the most comprehensive around.(…)

Tracing Tutorial

Open up your image that you want to trace, then goto “layer > new > layer from background” rename this layer “original” then create 2 more layers one called “white” and the other one called “lines” your layers pallet should look like this. Now select your “white layer” and fill it with the color white(…)

Learn How To Create A Scrollable Website

Good evening all, today were going to be diving into some jquery. What we’ll be creating is a small low key website which scrolls down to each section when a navigation item is clicked. The Live Demo Click the image to see the full working demo. Resources Needed In This Tutorial jQuery Libary 1.4.2 Pre-Made(…)

Business Layout Tutorial

Create a new document 800×800 pixels with a white background. Double click your background layer and press ok when the new layer box pops up, doing this will unlock the background layer. Add this layer style to your background layer. Now select the rounded rectangle tool with a radius of 20pixels. Draw out a rectangle(…)

Flickr Submissions #5

The HV-Designs Flickr Pool has been up for a while now, so todays round-up is going to feature some of the submissions made by members from our flickr group. I Love Music By Paulo Roberto Dgrafico Rain London By Neslirawles Not Again By Neslirawles More Than Human By The Brok Be Happy 2 By Ricardo(…)

Richard-Carpenter.co.uk – Re Launch

Re-Launched my portfolio. Now its even better than before. Hello, just sharing with you guys my new shiny portfolio. I decided to give it all a big fresh new look, and on top of that i decided to use wordpress as it has good CMS capabilities. Check it out and let me know what you(…)

2010-12-24-blog-writing-professional-icon-

Okay boys&girls, today we’ll learn about Blogs. I bet’cha know what sort of creature they are, crawling all over the net with their millions of tiny posts…I mean legs….I bet also you  rode…wrote..at least one yourself! Okay, so. How about making a blog writing icon? =] Yea? Okay, leeeet’s ..roll….! ^__^ This is what we’ll(…)

Themes Kingdom Giveaway Winners Announced

We’ve teamed up with our friends at Themes Kingdom, an awesome group of people working hard to bring you amazing WordPress Themes, to hook up 5 lucky readers with lifetime memberships (worth $29 a year). We received a great response from our giveaway and are proud to announce the three winners of the blog contest!(…)

2010-10-04-so-you-want-to-be-a-freelancer-

So you want to be a freelancer? To be a freelancer requires a level of dedication that is rarely seen from someone in a job or career. There are so many aspects to being a freelance designer that you will always be trying to catch up no matter what you do, but that doesn’t mean(…)

Blog Writing professional icon

Okay boys&girls, today we’ll learn about Blogs. I bet’cha know what sort of creature they are, crawling all over the net with their millions of tiny posts…I mean legs….I bet also you  rode…wrote..at least one yourself! Okay, so. How about making a blog writing icon? =] Yea? Okay, leeeet’s ..roll….! ^__^ This is what we’ll(…)

Design Lab #2: FREE PSD

Download the FREE PSD file of the design lab #2 layout. Enjoy. The Layout License and Attribution This PSD is licensed under the Creative Commons license and can be used for personal purposes ONLY. Attribution is required and is always appreciated.

Annual Holiday

Going on holiday see you in a weeks time What Does This Mean For HV-Designs Because hv-designs doesn’t have any staff or anyone to take over while im away ive had to put everything on hold this means: – NO comments will be moderated or approved – There will be no new tutorials released –(…)

Cloth, Patch & Stitches

Hello and welcome to another tutorial by the hv-designs team, in this tutorial il show you how to create a neat little patch, as in a patch on some clothes. We’l be creating everything from scratch, the material texture, stitches even a safety pin. Right lets get started the first thing you need to do(…)

Clan Website Design Tutorial

Start a new document size 800×600 with a background color of #131313. Select the “rectangular marquee tool” and draw a rectangle three quarters of the way down from the top fill with the color #222222 and add a 1 pixel black stroke to it. You should have something like this. Now draw a rectangle at(…)

Portfolio Layout #10

Hello, welcome to my next tutorial on hv-designs sorry for the slight delay its been abit hectic. In this tutorial were going to be creating a simple straight to the point portfolio. Ive had tons of emails requesting for a portfolio layout. So here it is. Il also be showing you how to code this(…)

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Today I will be walking you through the process of turning our Freelance Home Page PSD into a working HTML / CSS template. The Live Version You can check out the Live Version of the template by clicking here. The template has been tested in the following browsers without any problems; however, due to our(…)

Product/Business Style Layout

Hello everybody welcome to a new tutorial from HV-Designs. In this tutorial ill be walking you through the process of creating a product layout. What We’ll Be Creating Click image for full view. Resources Used In This Tutorial Woofunction 178 Amazing Icons Lets Get Started Create a new document 1200 x 1225 pixels with a(…)

2007-10-09-orb-site-icons-tutorial-

Create a new document 640×480 with a white background, select the elliptical marquee tool and draw out your circle, fill with any color as this will change in a minute. Now add these layer styles, im going for a blueish looking icon, just change the colors accordingly in the layer styles to suit your needs.(…)

Windows Vista/XP Icons Tutorial

Create a new document 250×250, select the “elliptical marquee tool” and draw out a circle. Fill with a “radial gradient” with your 2 chosen colors, ive chosen 2 shades of blue. (#295ea3 and #214b83). Create a new layer under your blue circle (or wot ever color you have chosen). Hold down “ctrl” and click on(…)

Number Plate Tutorial

Create a new document, select the “rounded rectangle tool” and draw out a rectangle, color it black. With the same tool draw out another rectangle but this time about 8 pixels smaller, color this #ddb105, place the layer over your black rectangle layer. Select the rectangular marquee tool and make a selection on the yellow(…)