Weekly Design News - Tutorials, Freebies and Resources (N. 1)

Today we are launching a new section at WebDesign Library. Henceforth, once a week we'll bring you the finest tutorials, resources and freebies from the Web. We decided to share all design related information with our readers... we decided to share our love.

So...this is our first weekly selection of the most stunning and useful design related resources, tutorials, articles and freebies. We have gathered this material during all the week. Hope you'll find it impressive and helpful. If you want to get more information, you can visit our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter.

Tutorials:

Check these Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials and try to gain the same result... or even better :)

Ice Cube With Cherry Inside

You can reach this stunning result using only basic Photoshop tools such as 3D, Rectangle and Polygonal Lasso. Have fun :)

Song For A Raven - Manipulation Tutorial

Merge some stock photos to get this fairytale result. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Gaussian blur for backgrounds, apply textures for changing the tones,use the brushes and make your images sharpen without losing the quality of the image.

How to Create a Sci-Fi Giant Tortoise Shelter Photo-Manipulation

Learn how to create the surreal "Sci-Fi Giant Tortoise Shelter" scene. This tutorial will show you how to create giant-sized objects and other photo manipulation techniques for combining images.

Design a Photorealistic App Icon in Photoshop

Take a look at this Photoshop tutorial to learn how to design a record player app icon. You will use some light and shadow to make this realistic artwork .

Create a Walking City With Photoshop

The extremely stunning "Walking city" composition will bring you a lot of inspiration. Very detailed and useful tutorial.

Create a Fairy Castle Using Adobe Illustrator and DrawScribe Plugin - InkScribe Tool

Learn how to use the InkScribe Tool and the Dynamic Sketch Tool in Adobe Illustrator to create this stunning result from sketch of a castle.

Resources:

HTML5 Snippets is absolutely packed full of fantastic snippets of code.

Create user interface for an iPhone app with help of iPhone Mockup

An unique alternative to Lorem Ipsum. Fillerati generates blocks of real text for your mockup.

Freebies:

Beautiful free MacOS icons

A nice gift for all Mac lovers - an awesome batch of six free eye-catching icons.

New (Version 2) Google +1 Buttons (PSD)

Super handy and free version of the new Google +1 buttons for using within your mockups.

Free Mini Vector App Icons - the collection of 150 pixel-perfect, mini vector icons.

58 Photoshop PSD Files For FREE!

Here you can find buttons, layouts, icons, illustrations etc.

FREE Vector Infographic Kit

This is a huge vector set for creating infographics (over 50 elements). Enjoy!

Credit Card Icons

Cool collection of different credit card icons (19 items)

25 Sets of Useful Notes Icon

Free icons with many extra features which you can use to replace the default notes icon on your phone or even desktop.

Articles:

Should Your Business Be on Pinterest? [INFOGRAPHIC]

WordPress Conditional Tags (And Snippets) for Beginners

Code a Responsive Navigation Menu

Game over :)
Let us know what you think and what you want to see in the next weekly report.