Everyone has special and perhaps, particular, tastes when it comes to their code editor. There are literally thousands of themes out there, and for good reason: a thing of beauty and enhancement to productivity for one can be a hindrance to another. It’s been an item on my bucket list to create my own theme. I was coding very late …

What You’ll Be Creating The theme of this tutorial is drawing animal horns with graphite pencils, but before we proceed to the artistic part, let’s dwell on the terminology just for a moment. A horn is a pointed projection of a simple unbranched structure on the head of an animal; it consists of a keratin covering that surrounds a core …

As a freelancer, you have to keep track of everything. From monitoring budgets to planning new creative ventures, there’s way too much information to keep track of. Some people work on paper or cobble together tables in word processors, but both of these options are difficult to manage. If you own Excel, however, you have access to a much easier …

While browsing the latest award-winning websites, you may notice a lot of fancy image distortion animations or neat 3D effects. Most of them are created with WebGL, an API allowing GPU-accelerated image processing effects and animations. They also tend to use libraries built on top of WebGL such as three.js or pixi.js. Both are very powerful tools to create respectively …

In our previous tutorial about regular expressions in JavaScript, you learned about the usefulness of regular expressions and how to write some of your own to match simple patterns. Regular Expressions A Beginner’s Guide to Regular Expressions in JavaScript Monty Shokeen After reading the previous tutorial, you should now have a good understanding of special characters like a backslash and …

CSS is easy, some might argue, but that “easiness” can cause messy code. This is especially true through power of preprocessors like Sass or Less where, if you aren’t careful, your CSS can become harder to deal with instead of easier. Sass? Harder? This Gist shows a great example of Sass nesting hell. If your Sass code looks like that, …

Street photographers and photojournalists tell stories with photographs; they have to get the audience’s attention. Here, we’ve put together some useful helpers to make your presentation as engaging as the stories you cover. With these presets for Adobe Lightroom, you can showcase your images in the best possible way. This bundle has been carefully crafted with 13 options to give …

The act of becoming a freelancer often comes from having a true passion for your work. Many of us are consumed with keeping up with the latest technologies and keeping clients happy. But the fact is that we’re also running a business – something that can be easy to overlook. My own personal freelance journey started out this way. I …

Back in 2012, Internet Explorer 10 came out and, among other things, it finally supported CSS gradients and, in addition to that, the ability to animate them with just CSS! No other browser supported this at the time, but I was hopeful for the future. Sadly, six years have passed and nothing has changed in this department. Edge supports animating …

In the past few years, the retro “VHS Look” has become quite popular. In this tutorial, we explore how to add a VHS look to our footage in After Effects, without using any third-party plugins. We will also look at how to create a “VHS style” transition that can be used to accent a video. I see this VHS-style transition …