April 08, 2009 PauloGabriel's blog

350+ Great CSS Tools and Techniques

One of the most enjoyable moments for a web designer is coding CSS. It's such a nice language that it

Featured Tutorial

Easy Wax Seal in Illustrator and Photoshop
Easy Wax Seal in Illustrator and Photoshop
A few weeks ago I was having my Maker's Mark and decided it was time to do the wax effect they have on their brand using Photoshop. After looking for some references I found some references and started creating a wax seal using Illustrator and Photoshop. So in this tutorial we will create a Wax Seal effect using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. The whole process is pretty much done using Layer Styles and won't take more than 45 minutes to be achieved.

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Wallpaper of the Week #91
Wallpaper of the Week #91
The wallpaper of this week is the image I created for the last week's tutorial here on Abduzeedo, the Playing with Vectors in Illustrator. I have been using this wallpaper for more than three weeks already and it's beautiful, I hope you like it too. Desktop Version

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion: Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping
Book Suggestion: Why We Buy - The Science of Shopping
The book of this week is not a design book per se but it's an incredible book. I have just finished it and I got so much valuable information that can be applied in my day to day job as designer. The book is called Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping--Updated and Revised for the Internet, the Global Consumer, and Beyond by Paco Underhill.