Season of Valentine’s Day has begun,and the clock is ticking till the big day of 14 !Probably the town is full of heart-shaped outlines,love messages on the walls and people buying presents for the loved persons.

To show our gratitude for Valentine`s Day,me and my beloved fiance gathered 23 sweet and beautiful wallpapers celebrating love,just perfect for your desktop.So,If you don`t know how to enter into the spirit of the holiday,start with these small things like changing your desktop background!

In the last year or so, there has been a significant increase in the number of “design to code conversion” service providers available .With the websites transforming into foremost gateway of communication, responsibility on obtaining unique and pixel-perfect websites is increasingly becoming important. This shows the importance of the best and functional website designs, which is incomplete without perfect coding i.e., conversion of PSD to XHTML in the best possible way is the need of the hour. but how well do these service providers really work?

Pixelcrayons , is one of the few sites which has achieved a high credibility in its last successful five years. Its special division called xhtml.pixelcrayons.com is doing extremely well in “design to code conversion” services. It actually deliver professionally prepared XHTML designs on the exact time, which they committed to client.

Is nearly a month since the beginning of the new year and Wordpress developers created some great premium wordpress themes for us.The search for Wordpress themes is never ending and developers know that.

Now,why to choose a premium wordpress theme?If you want an eye-catching wordpress layout or something unique or perfectly coded to render with all browsers or something of SEO magic to be noticed on the internet,than you should choose a premium Wordpress theme.Also,you`ll get full support to set the theme up.

Month of January offers us 20 beautiful and creative premium wordpress themes from the biggest places,like Elegant Themes and Theme Forest.Take a look and choose your favorite theme!

Wordpress has became in the last years the most used blogging platform,being utilized by millions of people.

The reason is simple:Is so easy to use it,it has many features and more and more people comes with themes,tutorials and plug-ins just to help you and to make your life easier.

Because of this,I gathered 47 of the most beautiful Wordpress based websites that I found on the internet.

Today I’ll take you through the creative process of designing a beautiful and clean portfolio website layout in Photoshop.

The layout will have incorporated a beautiful slider to show your work,an original Twitter integration,displaying your latest tweet and a social area where will be displayed your links to your social network pages.

Not long ago,Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr released their latest book, Digging Into Wordpress ,a truly Wordpress Bible.Are you asking why I named it “Bible”? Maybe that`s because it`s stuffed with everything you need to take your WordPress skills to the next level and really get the most out of WordPress,or maybe is because it has 400 Pages of Practical Information,from the first steps all the way trough the most deeper secrets of Wordpress.

Even if by blog doesn`t have many Wordpress related content,the entire website sits on a Wordpress platform and seems like it will never leave it.I`m a big fan of Wordpress and my opinion is that if you want to have one of the best possible blog ever,you should start reading the book immediately!

In this tutorial I`m gonna show you how to create a piece of metal with a graved text on it.

Along the way I`ll show you how to create effects like Metal Effect,Inner Graved Text Effect or Mirror Reflection Effect in Photoshop.We`ll use two custom elements:a Custom Font and an original Grunge Brush Set.

Check it Out!

Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening right now in all the corners of the Earth.

Twitter has became the favorite tools for almost everyone,being used in all domains,like campaigns,politics,sport,education,public relations,even space exploration.

More and more businesses are somehow influenced by Twitter,being the result of this Social service.

If you`re interested in starting a Twitter related business,check out these 40 Twitter Inspired Logo Designs first.Who knows,maybe one of them will become your business logo.

We all know that Photoshop is a great design software.But there are many other tools created for another kind of design,like 3D Max.This is the most used software in creating architectural and interior designs.

Combining 3D Max with the V-Ray render engine plug-in and also with Photoshop,plays a big role to achieve more realistic results.Photoshop is especially for editing purpose such as shadows,contrast, color balance and so on.

Here are 50 amazing futuristic house interior designs rendered in 3D Max.Those are truly amazing but I must tell you that using the software is not so easily.Is very hard to reach the level for creating such pieces of modern art.Check them out and tell me which you liked the most!

This week OurTuts is offering another Freebie:A free portfolio PSD template for every designer who want to have a website for showing his work.

The template has a beautiful orange-gray color scheme and is created using the 960 Grid System.The PSD file has been created in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and is fully editable,layers being organized in relevant groups.