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  • Photography and design tips
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    Photography and design tips

    I’ve collected a few tutorials and articles I came across on my daily surfing. Some interesting Photoshop tutorials and photography tips & tricks, plus a great Photoshop brush resource (I love brushes!). The perfect way to spend your Sunday afternoon. Food Photography Tips from Pixar’s Sharon Calahan, director of Photography on the movie Ratatouille How…

  • 15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography

    15 Excellent Examples of Web Typography

    A followup on my post on typography yesterday, spotted on digg.com today. We all love these top lists, don’t we? Web typography has come a long way. Now, with a little CSS anyone can improve the design of their web site. read more | digg story

  • Five simple steps to better typography

    Five simple steps to better typography

    An article by Mark Boulton (since 2005) on how you can improve your use of typography, both online and offline. The article is split into 5 steps as listed below. This is one of the best articles about typography I’ve read in a long time. If you are serious about design, this is a “must…

  • Free Icons by YellowIcon

    Free Icons by YellowIcon

    YellowIcon is a team of 10 high skilled multidisciplinary professionals crazy for graphic, interaction and icon design. Or so they say at their website. I must agree with the “crazy” part, as their work is indeed mind-blowing and the icons are incredibly good looking. Offering over 2000 free icons, you can really say that they…

  • Photoshop – Advanced Glow Effects

    Photoshop – Advanced Glow Effects

    A great tutorial by PSDTuts.com on how to create this type of glowing effects using various techniques in Photoshop. “In this tutorial we’re going to create some really sharp looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the pen tool and colour blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you’ll pick up…

  • StripeMania – Free online tool

    StripeMania – Free online tool

    Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes. Feel free to play with it. You are allowed to use…

  • Photoshop Secret Shortcuts

    Photoshop Secret Shortcuts

    WebDesignerWall.com has put together and posted a list of 30 undocumented “secret” keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop. The list is very detailed and documented with image screen shots as well. You might already be familiar to some of them, but I’m sure you’ll see some new ones that will speed up your productivity, specially if…

  • How to avoid blown out flash in your photos
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    How to avoid blown out flash in your photos

    A great video by Photo Chick on how to set your camera manual settings and avoid too much flash in your pictures. Works for stock photography as well as your party photos! [youtube K0P9Wadydck nolink]

  • Make your photos dramatic with Serpia

    Make your photos dramatic with Serpia

    This Photoshop tutorial was submitted to Tutorialvault.net today, and I just had to share it with you. It shows you how to create a beautiful and dramatic effect to your images, as the samples below are illustrating. Visit Photoshoptutorials.ws to read the tutorial. Before: After:

  • Photography tips and tricks
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    Photography tips and tricks

    It’s time for some tips & tricks on how to shoot better and more interesting photos. In my opinion, digital-photography-school.com is one of the best photography resources out there. Below I have listed a few interesting articles from their site that will teach you how to master your equipment and make you a better photographer.…

  • Simple and Effective Photographic Tips for Beginners

    Simple and Effective Photographic Tips for Beginners

    Quite a good resource for beginners, as well as for advanced Photographers. Some simple but very useful and effective Photoshop Tips. read more | digg story