I’ve developed a little annual tradition to look back at my yearly content and summarise my posts into a greatest hits compilation. Today’s article collates my top content from 2013 based on the total number of social media likes and shares each post received. Were there any you missed? I’d love to know which post from my 2013 archives was your favourite!
In last year’s summary I talked about how social media votes for my posts had dramatically declined from 2011. Thankfully this year I’m seeing some nice figures from those Twitter, StumbleUpon, Facebook and the newly added Pinterest buttons. Previously I based my top content collection purely on StumbleUpon votes, but SU popularity can be very hit or miss, so this year I’ve tallied up the figures to give a grand total for each post. As always the results are surprising! I’ll have to take notes for the type of content to produce in 2014.
How To Make a Cool Cinemagraph Image in Photoshop
Read this tutorial 328,615 votes
Free Pack of 14 Quality Photo Effect Photoshop Actions
Download this freebie 3114 votes
How To Create a Retro Style Race Poster in Photoshop
How To Create an Abstract Geometric Poster Design
12 Free High Res Dry Brush Stroke Photoshop Brushes
Download this freebie 2085 votes
How To Create a Military Style Emblem Logo Design
How To Give Your Photos a Gloomy Split Toning Effect
Free Light Leak Texture Pack To Retrofy Your Photos
Download this freebie 1492 votes
How To Create a Simple Landscape Scene in Illustrator
How To Create a Classic Tattoo Style Vector Illustration
Create a Trendy Retro Landscape Design in Photoshop
Create a Trendy Vintage Style Barber Logo in Illustrator
6 Free Customizable Retro/Vintage Logos & Emblems
Download this freebie 1312 votes
The Making of My New Twitter Background Design
How To Create a Lomography Photo Effect in Photoshop
6 Free High Resolution Colored Background Textures
Download this freebie 650 votes
How To Make a Letterpress Texture Effect in Photoshop
How To Set Up Your Graphic Design Projects for Print
How To Enhance a Photo with Color & Lighting Effects
How To Create a Dark Lunar Poster Design with PS & AI
Really amazing collection, loved all these tutorials and I remember reading the Lomography one. There are a lot of those out there but I enjoyed that particular one ;)
Thanks Luis, photo effect tutorials always seem to do well. I’ll have to think of more for 2014!
These are all such quality tutorials, Chris – I find it hard to pick a real favourite. I think the Twitter background tut is particularly handy though, because it’s a real beginning-to-end guide for creating a strong personal / professional brand.
Plus it uses textures, which are always fun.
Happy New Year in advance!
Thanks Mark, it’s funny because I remember creating the Twitter post because I was stuck for other tutorial ideas at the time. I guess it worked out well.
Thanks for the great list of tutorials, there’s hours of great watching/reading here. I particularly like the background textures tutorial. Just what I was looking for yesterday on my new project. Cheers for spending the time on this quality post.
It’s great to hear those older posts are still proving useful, thanks!
Love your tutorials Chris. Happy holidays and I hope you have a great 2014.
You too! My 2013 was pretty awesome with it including our wedding and honeymoon, it’s going to be difficult to match.
Great set of tutorials I look forward to giving them a try and see what happens. Happy New Year to Chris and everyone else.
Thanks Josten, there will be plenty more throughout 2014. Keep an eye out for new posts.
Maybe you should read your text before publishing again?
Spotted a typo? It would be great if you could actually point it out.
Another great year Chris!
Great quality and relevant post from from last year. Looking forward to even better this 2014. Happy new year Mr. Spooner!
Liked and tweeted this list to my friends.
Great tutorials, I like twitter tut so much!
A great collection for 2013. Here’s to 2014!
Hey Chris,
Thanks for the rewind. These are some of the best which you have mentioned and quite useful too. And yeah! Happy new year and in this year also I hope you will come-up with some amazing tutorials.
Well done! Loved and followed these tutorials. Awesome!
Wonderful roundup of your best. Love that Lunar poster and the motorcycle photo tut. Thanks for putting your time into these for us.
nice article with lots of information :)
Really nice and useful collection of tutorials. Thanks for sharing :-)
Wow this is a great tutorial collection!!!!
very nice article.
Thanks
Whenever I come here, i get my reality check, and on it, it’s usually written: “Uh-uh, You still need to do more”.
Thanks, Chris! You make me better!
Also realized how much you infuse textures, mostly grungy textures, in many of your designs.
Style!!!
Creative tutorial for graphic designer.Thanks for creative article.