It has to be said that a bit of craft is great fun. Fiddling around with real life objects (as opposed to digital ones) is not only enjoyable but also allows you to create some fantastic digital effects that would be very hard to make using only Photoshop (although of course a bit of polishing on the computer will help to make the final project look even better). It’s amazing what a bit of tape will do – and it’s cheap too.

I’m not saying that these tape images are suitable for O2 or BP or some super corporate company, but they look great on a blog like mine – or yours! When you’ve got the hang of creating your own tape images you can go on to create other similar pictures. Different shades and textures of paper, stamps, packaging and postcards all make great resources. Get creatin’ folks.

I hope you enjoy this royalty free high resolution tape image. Tutorial to follow soon, it has Ben Blogged! (use this image for personal or commercial work but please do not redistribute or sell this file)

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If you’re a freelance Web Designer like me at some point you will have to create a Google Map. Embedding Google maps used to be a big time hassle, lucky for us its now way easier. Lets make our clients happy!

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Well being a web designer I’m a bit embarrassed to admit I didn’t learn how to create a favicon.ico till not long ago. I think I never really thought about it or realized how important they are. So what is a favicon, they are the tiny icons that appear in the address bar (in front of your URL) and in your bookmarks/favorites.

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Creating a rollover image with css is not all that difficult to do. Typically people will simply change the hover state or use the sliding door technique in order to avoid that in between flicker…but with just a simple bit of css code you can create a time saving and slick alternative!

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