As some of my readers will know, I've been on a vacation for a while. I wanted to share the summertime feeling with everyone by creating a summertime compilation poster.

In this Photoshop tutorial is explained how to create a nice compilation image: Cutting and selecting objects from pictures, placing and combining them in beautiful artwork.

You can download the PSD from this tutorial in the download section.

This is the first time I created something using this technique, but I believe the outcome is really good.

Time for a little bit of design inspiration from other artists. Today in the spotlight, Javier Velasco from Spain.

Javier Velasco was born in Madrid in 1974.He studied design at "Infographic Studies Centre" in Madrid before training in painting at the "Arco Verde" Artistic Centre in Madrid. He now works as Art Director for a company dealing in new technologies.

Many people own a widescreen monitor. This is mainly because most laptops are widescreen and more laptops than normal PC's are sold. Another thing that people love these days is working with dual screens (two or more screens). I'm working dual too: 15,4" on my laptop, together with a 21" widescreen. It really improves my workflow as a programmer / designer.

One of the problems with these wide screen resolutions, is that many backgrounds (wallpapers) will not fit since most of them are made for a normal screen. This is the reason I collected 33 of the most breathtaking dual- and widescreen wallpapers.

If you don't own a wide- / dualscreen monitor, don't hold back to check out this article. Most backgrounds are a great design inspiration too.

I just came back from my awesome vacation and wanted to give my readers a better day. Here's another imagedump, with a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from July 2008.

Hope this will make a smile on your face. If not, you could also try checking out part one of this month. Enjoy!

This tutorial is inspired by one of the creations I placed in the beauty of 3d typography article. By combining the powers of Illustrator and Photoshop, you can recreate this awesome technique.

Typography is a really hot topic at this moment in the design sphere and neon light is and has always been an effective way to attract users. Combine these two to make some beautiful artwork.

Most of this tutorial is done in Photoshop, the 3D characters are created in Illustrator. If you don't have Illustrator, you can also try making 3D letters in Photoshop.

Get ready to make some amazing typography artwork. You can download my final result as PSD from the download section.

As a web developer or programmer, you want to make your software as dynamic as possible. This means that you can easily change the code or contents, without digging in and rebuilding your original source.

(Flash) Image rotators are a pretty effective and attractive way to show your images. Most of the times, these Flash image rotators are not dynamic and need to rebuild every time you want to change the images. Here's a solution for this problem, because I'll explain how to create a Flash image viewer by reading directory contents.

Just place all images you want to rotate in the same directory as the Flash file and this script does all the work for you. If you want to add an image, just place it online and the Flash viewer will show it.

Check out the demo of the Flash image viewer, or download the flash image viewer by reading directory contents from the download section.

A while ago I placed another freebie (4x high resolution textures) online. I got a couple of reactions from people that really liked the textures. That texture pack has been downloaded over 100 times.

Now I'm presenting you another high resolution texture pack to download: Old and Rusty. This texture pack contains 5 high resolution textures from old and rusty objects.

You can download the "Old and Rusty" textures in one big pack from the download section, free for all kinds of use.

Time for another imagedump, just to make you smile and make your day better. Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from July 2008.

Don't forget to check out the other imagedumps and stick around to see part 2 of this month.

IconsPedia is one of the leading resources where you can download high quality icons for free. I gathered a lot of quality icon packs, for your inspiration but you can also use them where you want.

This article is showcasing free quality icon packs that'll make you drool, including 7 tutorials on how to create your very own.

Do you also have seen enough of your standard icons? Try using one (or more) of these free quality icon packs that'll make you (and possibly others) drool! You can use them on your blog, website or desktop.

Just a little reminder of the Marcofolio.net Summer 2008 Guest authors contest. A while ago I told you about this contest with great prizes and the deadline will be this Sunday (30th of June).

So if you still want to participate, please react fast. Good luck everyone! You would help me out big time too.