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You may remember a previous article I wrote here on JungleJar.com called Using Custom Fields To Post Your Images, but if not, I'm going to reintroduce a few of the code snippets and methods I wrote about in the tutorial about how to save and display image data from custom fields within Wordpress. In this article I'm also going to cover a few of the small yet robust code block methods I myself tend to practice quite a bit that I didn't previously touch on. So, if you're looking for a solid tutorial on how to use Wordpress Custom Fields to display blog post thumbnails in an easy and flexible manner, then this article is for you.

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After my constant bothersome attempts to contact them, the Design Give team finally cracked and made time to finish up our interview. To give you a general idea of what Design Give.com is all about, and why this interview was so important to me, I'll offer up to you this beautifully written statement by the team.. As artists we were given a talent to create, it's up to you to use those talents to try and make a difference in the world.

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Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn't remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor? Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas. And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don't always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.

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This article features desktop wallpaper sets that are, without a doubt, the absolute cream of the crop, and the epitome of beautiful and flawless digital artwork sized down to cover your desktop perfectly. While the wallpaper artist list might not be that extensive, I settled on the fact that it just wouldn't be. With the few artists I've featured, the amount of quality high resolution wallpapers is almost overwhelming.

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We at JungleJar were fortunate enough to have Chicago-based illustrator and designer John Solimine of Spike Press (spikepress.com) do an interview for us. This makes for another fantastic interview as John gets fundamentally honest with us and talks about freelancer hardships, Flatstock, and supporting your local library. John not only has an impressive portfolio to take a look at aesthetically, but just as impressive are the names of some of John's clients, but I try not to embarrass him too much.

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If you use Adobe Photoshop, whether you're a graphic designer, a website designer, a print media designer -- okay, a designer of just about any sort, then you know how useful and helpful a quality website that offers free Photoshop brushes can be. In this article I've gathered a list of my absolute favorites, and in my opinion, having this list means you no longer have to go searching Google or follow blind links for high quality Photoshop brushes.

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Are you an amateur video producer, novice, professional, or just someone in need of quality templates for such things as DVD covers, cases, inlays and boxes or perhaps a music producer / artist looking to save a bit of money by designing their own CD print media? If so, I've put together a nice list of both DVD and CD related templates for you to assist in the independent process.

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DeviantArt.com has recently launched its very own online web-application based portfolio creation service, and they even host it for you as well. Users have the choice of either signing up for a free account or a premium account. In this article I'm going to cover the free account portfolio service they offer, show you a few images of the user interface and give my honest opinion on its worth -- for better or worse.

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Textures are absolutely fantastic when working with a variety of mediums. For instance, if you need something to spruce up a photograph, logo, website elements or just about anything else graphic-based, chances are you can find a texture somewhere to help. This article contains my favorite free high resolution textures that I think are absolutely interesting to look at and could also be very well useful for a designer.

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When developing Wordpress Templates, we sometimes overlook the small easy things we can do to make our theme much better. When you're days into a project, any project, developing developers tunnel vision isn't hard to do. This article serves not as the ultimate go-to guide for Wordpress shortcodes, but instead it serves to remind us of a few small and easy things we can incorporate into our themes within seconds and they function with robust and flexible ease.

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I've always had a strong appreciation for both umbrellas and photography ..and the rain as well for that matter. Anyway, I find umbrellas to be aesthetically interesting and with the right colors laid over them, a work of art in themselves.. And what better way to show off umbrella designs than with inspired photography? This post has been a long time coming.

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I've put together this list of quality websites that offer free graphical vector files that also offer either a direct download link to the file or a direct link to the author's original release posting. None of these websites require a membership, a bit of change from your pocket or provide you with a hastle.

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Pictoplasma is one of the most impressive, stunning, visually inspiring and overall mind blowing entities out there for publishing, exhibiting, and writing on artistically conceived character design and art and the relationship between the character design and the message behind the piece. I definitely believe that if you're into design of any nature, especially logo design or designs meant to represent a larger entity of any sort, then Pictoplasma should be an organization that you are at least somewhat familiar with.

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If you've been a reader of JungleJar for any length of time now, or you tend to stop by just to check on our Wordpress Templates, then you most likely know that minimalism is my thing. I love the classy, elegant and aesthetically dramatic feeling a clean and relatively 'simple' design can articulate with as little text / graphics as possible. However, don't mistake minimalism design for something that is easily done..

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ProFolio is a professional ready to go portfolio that is perfectly suitable for both a personal portfolio or a more professionally oriented portfolio. Essentially anyone that wants an easy yet customizable way to display their graphical presentations such as photographs, digital art, web designs, etc would most likely be content with this software. Currently ProFolio is free, but the developers behind the software have been saying for as long as I've been aware of ProFolio that at some point in the somewhat near future they will be charging for further downloads. So, I wouldn't drag my feet too long before I gave this one a try.

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The intro.portfolio development process, and to a lesser needed degree, the design process, have both now come to a close. introportfolio was the last website to join the aPlannedProject network, which is why the updates to the website are significantly less than that of The Colorists and iyecon.com.

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This article features some of the more useful and free desktop graphics editors I've come across whether you're creating/editing an icon, a vector file or otherwise. I hope that everyone finds this article useful, and I also hope that it's read before you shell out $300 for a commercial graphic editor elsewhere. What you will not find in this article are the more well known image editing applications such as The Gimp

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We've released another free and high quality Wordpress Template for all of you guys to download and hopefully enjoy. All of the features from our previous Wordpress Themes are in this one of course, and I've also included an extra here and there.

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This article covers some of the more helpful and useful web browser addons, bookmarklets and favelets available today to assist the web designer / web developer with their tasks.

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