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Product Layout – Freebie
Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Download the free PSD file for Product/Business Layout. Enjoy.
Business/Product Layout FREE PSD
The Tutorial
You can view the full tutorial HERE, if you haven’t already seen it.
License and Attribution
This PSD is licensed under the Creative Common…
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HV-Designs For Sale
Posted on 03. Jul, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Hello everybody unfortunetly today i have some bad news, i regret to inform you all that HV-Designs is now for sale.
The Bad News
After much debate i’ve decided to put HV-Designs up for sale due to my personal circumstances changing. Head over to flippa for more information.
The Good News
There is some good news, the good news [...]
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Product/Business Style Layout
Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
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 white background. Set your foreground color [...]
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How to Make a Sleek Aluminium Hard Drive in Photoshop
Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
In this Adobe Photoshop tutorial, we will create — from scratch — an external hard drive that has a smooth, metallic finish. We’ll take advantage of a few fundamental tools in Photoshop such as shape tools, layer styles, and transform commands — combining them with easy and creative techniques to come up with a graphic [...]
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Mobile App’s Layout #2 – FREEBIE
Posted on 21. Jun, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Download the free PSD file for Mobile App’s Layout #2. Enjoy.
Mobile App’s Layout #2 Freebie
The Tutorial
You can view the full tutorial HERE, if you haven’t already seen it.
License and Attribution
This PSD is licensed under the Creati…
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Create An Apple Mac Mini
Posted on 15. Jun, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
In this Photoshop graphic design tutorial, I will be walking you through the method of designing an Apple Mac Mini completely from scratch. I’ll be showing you how easy and simple it is to achieve realistic and detailed effects using only the basic tools available in Photoshop such as selection tools, the Free Transform command, [...]
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DeviantArt Illustrations #12
Posted on 14. Jun, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
The internet is full of great artists and in this round-up ive listed 19 exceptional illustrations from deviantART. You’ll be amazed at some of this work.
Fei Long
Circus
Theme 54 Tower
The Marsh Monster
Legend
Witchfinder General’s Parlour
Greed
Masquerade
My Best Friend
Little Lo
Aion Love
Fly Me To The Moon
Gintama Jouishishi
They Used To Bow
Haha It’s A Game
Pinkitude
Sea Monkey
Chillaxin
D2m3k34
Thanks to all the artist’s for sharing [...]
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Mobile App’s Layout #2
Posted on 08. Jun, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
hello everybody welcome to another tutorial. In today’s tutorial i’ll be showing you how to create an apple theme mobile app layout.
What We’ll Be Creating
Click image for full view.
Resources Used In This Tutorial
Iphone Icon
Iphone Button Icons
Iphone 3G/3GS PSD
Lets Get Started
Create a new document 1200 x 1200 pixels with any color background. Change your foreground color [...]
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Flickr Submissions #5
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
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 Fx’s
Global Control
By Ricardo Fx’s
XR13
By Ricardo Fx’s
Dance With Me
By Ricardo Fx’s
Space [...]
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Friday Freebies #4
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Good evening fellow photoshoppers, today on HV-Designs it’s “Freebie Friday”. Freebie Friday is basically the new day in which i’ll be releasing PSD files, code etc… from previous tutorials. All for FREE, so grab them while you can.
Metal Text PSD File
You can view the full tutorial HERE, if you haven’t already seen it.
Mobile App’s Layout [...]
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Learn How To Create A Scrollable Website
Posted on 27. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
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 PSD File
Lets get started…
Slicing The [...]
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DeviantArt Illustrations #11
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
The internet is full of great artists and in this round-up ive listed 20 exceptional illustrations from deviantART. You’ll be amazed at some of this work.
Don’t Worry, I Have It Covered
Navi And Ikran
20100314
Mating Season
AN FF AC
Mermaid
Desolate Huntress
Perseverance
Princess
Thank God I’m Pretty
Fleeing Creativity
Human Mage
Infest
Man Eats World
Contract Art Contest
Hold Your Breathe
Online Flirting
Gothic Zombie Girl Face
Space
Fire Mage
Thanks to all [...]
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Learn To Create A Photography Style Web Layout
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Hello everybody, welcome to another tutorial by HV-Designs. In this tutorial I’ll be walking your through the process of creating a photography/portfolio style web layout.
What We’ll Be Creating
Click image for bigger version.
Resources Used In This Tutorial
Nikon D40 Iphoto Icon
Longhorn R2 Icon Pack
Front Row Realistic Skin Icon Pack
Lets Get Started
Create a new document 1200 x 1200 [...]
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40 Free PSD Files
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Everybody loves something for free, so in this round-up i’ve listed 40 FREE PSD files in which you can download and use. Enjoy.
3D Cube
Digital Stamp
Magnifying Glass
Under Construction Builders Hat
Skateboards
Mac Mini
Macbook Air
Airport Express
Speakers
Stratocaster Classic
Ipad
Metallic Box
Renault Radiance Truck
PSD Man
Mac Book
Sony PSP
Magazine
Coffee Cup
Apple
Battery PSD
T-Shirt
DVD Case
DVD Plastic Case
Iphone 3G
Knob Mash
Nerd
Free Button Pack
Knife Party
Playstation 3 Slim
Lady Bug
Gas Can
HTC Smart Phone
Apple [...]
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Learn How To Create Metal Textured Text
Posted on 13. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Today were going to be creating something a little bit different. Were going to be using a mixture of textures and layer styles to create the perfect looking rough metal style text.
What We’ll Be Creating
Click the image for full view.
Resources Used In This Tutorial
Metal Texture
Lets Get Started
Create a new document 800 x 600 pixels with [...]
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WordPress & Flash Cookbook Giveaway Winner
Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Announcing the winner for our giveaway – Congratulations to…
Book Overview
Learn how to make your WordPress blog or website stand out with Flash
Embed, encode, and distribute your video content in your Wordpress site or blog
Build your own .swf files using various plugins
Develop your own Flash audio player using audio and podcasting plugins
Filled with many useful and [...]
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Mobile App Layout
Posted on 10. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Mobile app’s are on the never ending increase and now so are mobile app websites. In today’s tutorial I’ll be showing you how create a dark theme mobile app web layout.
What Were Creating
This is what we’ll be creating in this tutorial, click the image for a bigger version of the layout.
Resources Used In This Tutorial
Icons [...]
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Friday Freebies #3
Posted on 07. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Good evening fellow photoshoppers, today on HV-Designs it’s “Freebie Friday”. Freebie Friday is basically the new day in which i’ll be releasing PSD files, code etc… from previous tutorials. All for FREE, so grab them while you can.
Software Layout #6 PSD File
You can view the full tutorial HERE, if you haven’t already seen it.
Pop-Up CSS [...]
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WordPress & Flash Cookbook Giveaway
Posted on 03. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
Hello, today you have the chance of winning a brand new book launched on “Packt Publishing” worth £19.99. The book is called “Wordpress & Flash 10x Cookbook“, read on for more information.
Book Overview
Learn how to make your WordPress blog or website stand out with Flash
Embed, encode, and distribute your video content in your Wordpress site [...]
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Make a Dark Blog Web Design Layout with Photoshop
Posted on 01. May, 2010 by Richard Carpenter.
I will be showing you a quick and easy way to develop a simple dark-themed blog layout with the use of Photoshop. When I say “quick and easy”, I mean it. We will only rely on basic Photoshop tools such as the marquee selection tools and layer styles. The outcome will be a professional-level website [...]

