All of us would have been working on different concepts/ideas over our designs. Here is a set of design styles we love to use.

Lights n Shadows

This is one of our favorites. These designs make you feel as if the elements were on a virtual stage with spotlights over them.

A Wallpaper of the same concept:

A Video Tutorial:

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Reflections

There is nothing much to explain here... this too brings the feel of the image placed on a stage.

Tutorials:

• Reflection Tutorial
• PanosFX - Creating Reflections
• Photoshop Effects - How to Create Reflection Text

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Gloss

Our all time favorites...

Few Tutorials:

• Adding a Gloss Effect Photoshop Tutorial
• Gloss Orb

A Video Tutorial

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Frames

Frames are very much used as image placeholders for galleries and slideshows. They seem to give a real photo frame style feel to the images.

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Tear

Feels like the element tears trough the page...

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Transparency

Remember the Vista UI and the OSX Dock? Transparency adds a new dimension to designs.

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Peels

Peel effects are normally used over images and layouts that are non-liquid. There are a lot of Javascripts & Flash based solutions to this too.

Few tutorials:

• Creating a page curl in Photoshop 
• Page Peel Effect Using Warp Tool
• Create a Realistic Page Curl in Photoshop
• Page Curl Effect Tutorial
• Creating Paper Folds and Creases

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Have some more design trendz? please share them below.