Although most of the focus on food for Halloween is around the bountiful amounts of candy that children collect, such as Reese’s cups, lollipops, Hershey’s chocolate bars, Kit-Kats, and of course candy corn, that’s not the only food that can be festive for Halloween. In fact, since Halloween parties continue to grow in popularity, it’s becoming more common to have a variety of prepared foods such as baked cupcakes and cookies, Jello shots, and other foods that are designed to be delicious yet spooky. So, to commemorate the season, here you’ll find some spooky, scary, creepy, even disturbing (but hopefully delicious) food designs for Halloween! Zombie Brain Jello Shots Raspberry Jello Worms Blood Spatter Cupcakes Ghost Cupcakes Green Fingers Chocolate Spider Bark RIP Cupcakes Whoopie Spiders Carved Watermelon Skulls Witch Sandwich Related Posts Creating Food in Photoshop - 10 Useful Tutorials Delicious Examples of Food Photography Delicious Looking Food Photographs Amazing Creative Food Typography Deliciously Creative Food Logo Designs

Dressing up in costumes is one of the most popular parts of Halloween. For young children, they frequently dress up as superheroes, comic book characters, movie characters, fantasy princesses or other iconic characters. For older people, however, it’s more popular to dress up as scary characters, either from scary movies or scary fiction, or simply as scary characters like zombies or monsters. Using masks is one way to build a costume. You’ll be absolutely terrified by these horrifying Halloween masks: Related Posts Festive and Spooky Halloween Wallpapers 30 Ridiculous (and Unnerving) Clown Photographs Magical Silhouette Photographs Spooky and Awesome Halloween Characters Festive & Free Halloween Fonts

Just a little over a day until Halloween is here, so to finish up our series of Halloween-themed posts, we’ve decided to feature some great Photoshop (and Illustrator) tutorials. Whether you want to create your own poster, illustration, haunted house painting, zombies or just scary characters, you’ll find what you need here. To create an effective Halloween scene, you need to capture some of the mood of Halloween. For spooky/scary Halloween scenes, this includes scary characters, dark and dramatic lighting, a sense of fear, unnerving elements and scary feelings. Let’s check out these tutorials that are perfectly festive for Halloween for Photoshop and Illustrator: Create a Sinister Haunted House in Photoshop Create a Horror Movie-Themed Photo Composition in Photoshop Making of a Scary Mental Hospital Scene Create a Digital Painting of a Zombie From Scratch in Adobe Photoshop Mysterious Hollow Dark Landscape Create a Spooky Forest Setting in Adobe Photoshop Convert a Portrait Into a Creepy Human Puppet for Halloween Create a Ghostly Demonic Being in Photoshop Create a fantasy-horror scene in Photoshop Create a Hauntingly Beautiful Cleopatra Mummy in Adobe Photoshop Related Posts Creating Food in Photoshop - 10 Useful Tutorials iOS Icon Design Tutorials Burning Hot Photoshop Fire and Flame Tutorials Outstanding Photoshop Illustration Tutorials Best Photoshop Tutorials from 2012

The more vivid something is, the more saturated and bright the colors are. Vivid colors catch the eye for a reason, as usually they signify something in nature and this corresponds to how humans perceive various colors. For example, bright red is very eye-catching, and it’s used by some animals to attract mates, while humans use it to find berries, and sometimes to recognize things that are hazardous or important. In photographs, these vivid colors often provide a great visual focal point and lead to some beautiful results: Divine Makeover By Mahesh Balasubramanian Magical Lower Antelope Canyon By Nanouk el Gamal - Wijchers Little secret By Wil Mijer Women of India By Nitin Das @ By SR Zok Goodbye My Love By Allan Wallberg This is not Namibia… By Konrad Szuszkiewicz Colorful !!!! By Madhu M.V Unwind By C.S.Tjandra Elfin By Art Lionse fern leaf detail By Arletta Cwalina Spring is Flaring By Victor Wolansky Sunflowers By Jorge Sanz Martin glory of the snow By Arletta Cwalina soft light park autumn By Sean Gladwell sunshine scottish river By Sean Gladwell Bay Atrium Centred By Rémi Carreiro Lady Bug By Chainfoto Sunflower field By Jorge Sanz Martin Living on the Edge By Will Yeong vivid house By Joana Kruse Jurassic Lorikeet By Steve Brown A vivid intruder By Adrian Popan Virutas By Ana Gaztelu Bubble By Kirsten Bird mixed colors By Burger Jochen paint box By Utzel-Butzel Candyland By Lauri Laukkanen Lights of Geneva By M. Elmahdi Abdulwahab Straws By Danny Springgay Related Posts Eyecatching Photographs of Green Insects Heartwarmingly Cute Baby Photographs Ringing in the New Year with Fireworks Photography Pebbles, Stones and Rocks in Photography 30 Vividly Yellow Photographs

Today I have a set of mixed vintage wood textures that you can use for your next project. They also work well as backgrounds or overlays. Enjoy! Download all textures as ZIP from copy.com (65.1Mb) Did you like these textures? Let us know by leaving a comment, and you can even post a link if you used them in your artwork. Related Posts Free Texture Friday - Worn Wood Panels 2 Free Texture Friday - Old B&W Wood Free Texture Friday - Worn Wood Panels Free Texture Friday - B&W Moss and Rocks Free Texture Friday - Christmas Bokeh

A rainbow is an optical concept resulting from reflecting and refracting light in water droplets that appear in nature. Rainbows can also be created in a variety of other methods, including by prisms. Rainbow colors include red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. The rainbow is an important concept, as it can represent diversity, as well as the beauty of nature, and they are incredibly popular photography subjects. Other variations of natural rainbows can occur, including double rainbows, twinned, full circle and moonbows. One of the most notable aspects of rainbows are the colors and their vividness: Rainbow by John White Color Scramble by myruby Rainbow Glitter by HappyRoses Balloon Flight at Methven by Paul Kelly May Your 2008 Be Full of Colors by mtbl Flowermouse Design by RainbowMice Rainbow by animepunk A Walk in the Rain by Marcel Germain Rainbow Lips by mishulkaa The Wall by Marco Pece Untitled by LindenTea Rainbow Dandelion Puff by Kathy Balloons to the Sky by ishmaelo Windows by Giuseppe Lotito Shoestring Rainbow by kekzsfolt Paris Pride by twiga Rampant Color by Rick Casual Fridays by Mithril Chrysant Rainbow by happyroses Candidplatz by Christian Gonzalez Rainbow by chickin Hair Comb by decina Rainbow by Alexandra Leigh Rainbow Carpet by foek Rainbow Snail by mimzyandtweaks Related Posts Free Serif Fonts for Designers Amazing Fireworks to Celebrate New Years 10 Awesome Free Paper Textures Valentine’s Day Heart Photography Absolutely Horrifying Halloween Masks

While sans-serif fonts are often more commonly used in design, particularly web design, serif fonts still have their place, particularly for headers, logos, and other graphic design projects. Serifs are small embellishments or lines attached to the end of a letter, and can have some readability benefits (particularly for lower case l and capital I). In this post, you’ll find some great free serif fonts for designers. Serrific Goudy Trajan Regular Florence Verily Serif Mono Apple Garamond Nouvelle Vogue Znikomit Rainbow Mansion Night Still Comes AC Big Serif Related Posts Festive & Free Halloween Fonts Awesome Free Fonts You Should Download Out of this World Futuristic Sci-Fi Fonts 10 Great Free Fonts from 2011 10 High Quality Free Script Fonts

Most of us interact with doors on a daily (if not hourly) basis. Doors have been an important development in human architecture and societal progress. They help provide security, comfort, and privacy, as well as limiting noise and preventing pests from entering a building. Doors also have psychological significance. They help compartmentalize activities and assign meaning to areas, and studies have shown that humans are more likely to forget or lose their train of thought when they pass through a doorway. In this post, we’ll look at door photographs. The Doors by Valatis Zoumis Travelling hearts by Schnette Closed Doors by AmandineVanRay Door Step by AhmadTurk Heavens door by Hartmut-Lerch Door by Pooya Ahmaripour Door by clasicalfreak The Blue Door by Joao Tremoceiro Iron Door by Geoffrey-Montagu The doorsby IndependentlyConceal Metal net door by Michael Pettersson The Doors by Tavarin Door to paradise? I hope by Kamel Eddine Creepy Door by AustriaAngloAlliance Door by Julian DeBono Behind Closed Doors by TheFoxAndTheRaven door of arches by nj dodge Green Doors by ZerberuZ Flowers inDoor by Giorgio Mostarda Blue Door by Olha Kuzmyn A door to the past by Adriana Ludwig Loebel Doors into a allery by Smutyo door,time and woman by soide55 Doors by Emo-Sells Doors of wood by FrankAndCarySTOCK Doors by Bethan-Powell Door by Pooyan Sedghi The Doors by pjones747 Doors at Montmartre by Angel Pastor Related Posts Free Texture Friday - Rusted Door Windows: More than Just an Opening in Photography Heartwarmingly Cute Baby Photographs Photographers at Work in Pictures 30 Bright and Vivid Photographs to Catch Your Eye

Progress bars are a stable in web app, mobile app, and user interface design. They help users estimate the time remaining, and also know that progress is happening even if there aren’t visible changes on the page or in the app. Progress bars can come in a variety of styles, such as rounded bars, progress steps, or rounded dials. Each has advantages with regards to space and precision. In this post, I’ve showcased some great free progress bar PSDs that you can use in your projects: Percentage Bars Skills Progress Bar Simple Progress Bar Pink Circles Dark UI Circular Progress Bar Step Badge Progress Bar Loading Bar Multicolored Bars Related Posts Awesome New CSS3 Tutorials to Try Out Login & Signup Form Free PSDs to Download Free iPhone 6 Templates, Mockups and PSDs Free Dashboard UI Kits and Elements PSDs Free and Useful Photoshop Actions

Humans and birds have a long history, as they are some of the most recognizable and friendly (as well as least dangerous) animals on the planet. Aside from being able to lead humans to food and water, as well as warn of danger, birds have also served as food sources for humans, and also have benefited from human activities with more secure places to build nests. Birds come in a diverse range of colors, sizes, and characteristics, but generally are small to medium sized animals with 2 wings and feathers. Birds can be difficult to photograph due to their ability to fly away, but their colors, ability to fly and other characteristics make photographing birds a true joy: Siesta by Istvan Lichner Birds by Strykmig Bird by Kenny (zoompict) Teo European Bee-eater fight by Filipe Caetano Seagull by Ruslan Hvostunov Bird by Thomas Riecken Mirror by Seyed Babak Musavi Birds by eongun Bird - Seagull close up by blmiers2 Merops Apiaster by Bruno Calha Birds by jjuuhhaa Bird Watching by Wayne Shipley Kingfisher by Savatage Birds-3947 by Robert Amazing Technicolor Coat by Jim Tallon Love Birds by minormiracle Bird by Rubens LP Golden-crowned-Kinglet by Mircea Costina Friendly Birds by emizael The Birds of Winter by Krittergirl Bird of prey by Niko Vega incompatibility of character by Alessandro Maffucci Bird by Snull Beautiful Couple by Jacqueline Hammer Eastern King Bird by Jessica Kirste I am Invisible by Bhavya Joshi Christmas card by Mircea Costina Red Bird by smiles7 In the air by Roumen Raykovski birds by Sharon Drummond Related Posts Rich Color in Birds Photography Chaos and Disorder in Photography 30 Bright and Vivid Photographs to Catch Your Eye Heartwarmingly Cute Baby Photographs Pebbles, Stones and Rocks in Photography