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Free Texture Friday – Brown Paper
Today I’ve got a nice set of scanned brown paper textures for you. These will really come in handy when trying to add just a little bit of texture to your designs of photographs. I’ve always considered paper textures to be the most useful ones of all. Enjoy and let me know if you make…
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10 Stunning Minimal Photographic Artworks
The absence of something can be even more significant than the presence of it. For example, ambient occlusion is a lighting scenario in which light itself is not directly shining, but instead is occluded, resulting in a dramatic and moody scene. Many negative space logos use a minimalist concept to bring out a hidden meaning.…
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Beautiful and Serene Tree Photographs
Trees are essential to life on Earth, as photosynthesis provides the breathable oxygen that much of life relies on in order to survive. Trees also are excellent subjects for photographers, as they provide excellent focal points for photographs, as well as occluding light and causing beautiful godrays, and also helping to frame a composition. Here…
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Free Texture Friday – Wood
Wood textures are some of the most ubiquitous and useful design resources to have. Today I’ve got a set of five various wood textures for you to use. They work perfect as design and web backgrounds, among many other things. Enjoy!
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Magical Infrared Photos to Refresh You
Infrared photography is a photographic technique involving special filters for your camera that filter out visible light and is only sensitive to infrared light. This results in different, almost false-color images that can be truly breathtaking. The resulting whites and blues can be quite refreshing, and sometimes it can be moved to a black and…
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Amazing Fireworks to Celebrate New Years
We’ve just welcomed the new year of 2011 a few days ago, so in this post, we’ll be looking at amazing photographs of fireworks commemorating the new year. Fireworks are often used in celebrations both for New Year’s as well as independence day celebrations around the globe. The beautiful lights and colors combined with the…
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Beautiful Examples of Blue Business Cards
Blue is one of the most appealing colors to the eye, and the different shades of blue can evoke feelings of royalty with deep blues, to cleanliness and happiness with lighter shades of blue. Possibly the most common color for designers (aside from grayscales), blue is one of the easiest colors to design with. Here…
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Free Texture Friday – Stone Tiles
Today I’ve got a highly useful set of stone tile textures. I have a large personal collection of these stone textures that I use in a lot of my designs and creation of other textures, so I thought I’d share some of them with you. I hope you find some good uses for them too.…
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Fun and Useful Image Manipulation Tutorials
Photomanipulations are one of the best ways for people to begin using Photoshop, as it exposes you to a wide variety of techniques within the program while still allowing for a base image to be worked on, reducing the problems with color control, composition, contrast and quality. Thus, you can quickly learn how to manipulate,…
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Creative Single Page Websites
Single page websites are growing in popularity, as users are moving more quickly on the web and the bounce rate for many websites is upwards of 50%. Thus, it becomes important to convey the information easily and quickly to the user and to not require them to click links on your site in order to…
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Free Texture Friday: B&W Grunge
Today I’ve got a unique set of five black & white grunge textures. These were made by combining several different types of textures in Photoshop, in various blending layers. I hope you enjoy them and have a Merry Christmas!
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Crisp and Cold Photographs of Winter
Winter is often admired for its pure beauty and crisp, clean colors, where red and green often stand out and contrast with the pure white, dark skies and blueish tones from the winter skies. With snowmen, icicles, frozen lakes and blinding snowstorms, photographers have tons of subjects to work with. Here’s some crisp and cold…
