This week we have some crazy fonts on Behance, an awesome realistic bamboo tutorial from Tutorial 9, an easy to do monster illustration from Spoon Graphics, Letterpress business cards from Visual Swirl, Velvet Ant has some poster from the 1980′s, and I wrote an Zombie article for PSD tuts+.

If you have something that you have created, be it a design piece or article that you would like me to take a look at, let me know (email me at info@denisdesigns.com) and it could make into one of the roundups.

Enjoy!

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This week we have a wide variety of items from around the web. We have a really cool tutorial for making paper texture, extremely realistic babies sculptures, some interesting US dollar redesigns and more. Check out the rest of our weekly round up.

If you have something that you have created, be it a design piece or article that you would like me to take a look at, let me know (email me at info@denisdesigns.com) and it could make into one of the roundups.

Enjoy!

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Starting this week, and hopefully from now on, I am going to feature some articles, tutorials, videos, etc. that I find on the web throughout the week. It is usually going to be design related, but occasionally I might throw in something different.

Also, if you have something that you have created, be it a design piece or article that you would like me to take a look at, let me know (email me at info@denisdesigns.com) and it could make into one of the roundups.

Enjoy!

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This collection of 26 free movie fonts is mainly for the hardcore fans out there. Please don’t be mad if I didn’t include the font from YOUR favorite movie :). These 26 are from my point of view, the best free movie fonts out there. Enjoy!

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I don’t usually run press release articles but this website has a pretty cool idea of getting professional custom photography at a fairly reasonable price.

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Photo by arinas74

For all you part-time freelance designers out there with a full-time non-design job, here is a guide to help you improve your freelance career. When you have a non-design job during the day it may be hard to keep that creativity flowing, but you have to find the opportunity to help to improve yourself.

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Now that Denis Designs is a little more than a half a year old, I thought I would recap some tutorials that I have created over the past few months. Since I really like working with text, I’ll showcase some of those tutorials. Enjoy!

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If you are a talented web designer, or even just a student getting an online web design degree, the Internet is the perfect place for you to showcase your work. However, it does not matter how skilled you are if you do not take advantage of good website building that uses less resources on a web server.

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If you’re a designer, you have a few primary needs for a laptop. It has to display colors accurately. It has to have a large enough resolution for you to be able to work without constant scrolling. It has to have enough power to run your applications without slowing down. And if it could look good while doing it, that wouldn’t hurt either. Those of you are who are designers will probably already know a fair bit about what works for you and what doesn’t. You will know if you like to incorporate the latest o2 Mobile Broadband into your computer usage and if you want to use the latest and most hi-tech equipment that you can. What we want to do is to help you make those important decisions, so you can continue with excellent design work. The following is a list of the top 5 laptops for designers that fit these needs.

5. Dell Studio XPS 16

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Being a good designer is more than just pumping out something that looks nice, you also have to be quick about it. Learning your shortcuts is the best way to be quick in Photoshop, or any other program for that matter and is essential for you to be good designer. It’s not a guarantee that you will be a good designer, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Below, I have listed some important short cut, key commands that every designer should know. The top one is the Mac version, and the bottom one is the PC version. These will help you with the basic functions, as well as functions that designers use on a daily basis. Lets check them out.

General Commands

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