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8 eBooks That Every Photographer Should Read
With high-quality digital cameras now in widespread, it is quite easy to get into photography inexpensively. A snapshot here a shot there and voila! You’re good to go. However, though seemingly an easy task to undertake, photography still remains a difficult skill to learn on your own. In fact, it takes most people years of…
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Fun and Instructive Icon Design Tutorials
These days, custom icons are everywhere, being used not only for web applications, but also desktop and mobile applications, application icons, favicons and even some icons that are adapted as logos. Being able to create quality icons is not as easy as it seems. It requires a minimal touch while still achieving enough detail for…
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Out of this World Photo manipulation Tutorials
Photomanipulation allows artists to create out of this world imaginative artworks, whether it’s using subtle replacement and matte painting techniques, or complete photoreal manipulations that couldn’t exist in real life. Photomanipulation is one of the most essential skills for aspiring designers. Here are some of the best photomanipulation tutorials that will teach you valuable techniques!…
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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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Best Surreal Photoshop Tutorials
One of the best uses for stock images like those here at StockVault is photomanipulation, namely, taking free photos and altering them to create a digital artwork or creative composition. There are a variety of styles that can be achieved, from abstract to fantasy, science fiction and landscape. In this post, you’ll find the best…
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PSDTuts Photoshop Video Channel
“When it comes to learning, everyone has their own preference, whether it’s through images, words or … by watching! That’s why I’m happy to announce that we’ve opened a Photoshop Video Channel at the very cool Vimeo video site for anyone and everyone to contribute to!” If you prefer watching videos rather than reading tutorials,…
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Create a textured background image
“A tutorial by Elliot Jay Stocks: It seems that a fair amount of people want to know how I create background images like the one on this site. Well, the lovely chaps at .net magazine have given me permission to re-publish the tutorials I write for the mag on elliotjaystocks.com, so, from issue #168, here’s…
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HDR Photography – Examples and tutorials
HDR stands for “High Dynamic Range”, and is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. HDR was originally developed for use with purely computer-generated images. Later, methods were developed to produce a high dynamic range image…
