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Halloween Photography Tips
Article by digital-photography-school.com There are plenty of subjects around to photograph at Halloween ranging from the traditional jack-o-lantern through to people in costume, to trick or treat ‘treats’ etc. It’s a time of color, emotion and lots of interesting subjects. The keys to capturing them are not that different from the normal keys to good…
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Selling Your Pictures as Stock Photos
Todays post is written by our guest poster Chad Lockwood of stockphotoguides.com So you’ve purchased a quality digital camera, learned how to use it, and are taking brilliant photos. Even if you have no desire to become a professional photographer, you can still earn a little bit of cash from your hobby by selling your…
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12 Fantastic Fall Photo Tips
The fall is upon us and now is the perfect time to read Photojojo’s advise and tips on how-to and what-to take pictures of. Their article features techniques, what to photograph and a few good creative tips. “Fall has up and arrived – kamikaze leaves crash down on unsuspecting passersby, leaf peeping is a thing…
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6 simple tips for landscape photography
6 short and simple tips on how to shoot interesting landscape photos by Denver Wang. Click here to read the whole article.
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Key Ingredients for Black and White Images
Another excellent and informational article from digital-photography-school.com about black & white photography. The author shares 4 ‘key ingredients’ of that will help you to visualize whether a scene will work as a black and white image or not, plus a tip for black & white landscapes from the authors of dps. Look for Contrast Wait…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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When Manual Focus is Better than Auto Focus
Another excellent article by Digital Photography School. Digital Cameras present photographers with an ever increasing array of Automatic and Semi Automatic shooting modes. Most of these center around different ways of exposing your shots – however many cameras also give options for different focusing modes (auto, continuous focusing for moving subjects and manual). When is…
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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…
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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…