Saturday, February 6, 2010

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

Guide To Architectural Photography

Bridge2 in 50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials

Despite architecture’s diversity there are a number of simple rules that apply in most situations, or will at least get you thinking more deeply about how you can best portray a particular piece of architecture..

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

5 Black and White Photography Tips


Eye in 50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials


A short, but useful article by by Darren Rowse, featuring shoot in RAW, low ISO and other techniques. You may also consider reading the articles Key Ingredients for Black and White Images

Photography Composition Rules


Thirds in 50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials


This post reviews important rules of good photography, such as Rules of Thirds, balancing elements, leading lines, symmetry and patterns, viewpoint, background, depth, framing, cropping and experim

Architecture photography, a beginners’ guide

Piers1 in 50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials

Insightful tips for photography of stationary subjects by Michael Jenkins. You may also want to learn how to shoot bridges, statues, buildings and piers.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Photography - Composition - Freebies

Find the perfect site for stock photos www.photoxpress.com

Eye in 50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials


Tired and sick of low res photo Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 620.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your blog? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.. thanks to Donald for this site

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Adobe - Photoshop - Tutorial

95+ Great Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Awesome Photo Manipulation Tricks


Photoshop is simply brilliant for creating Stunning Effects from simple elements and for fixing Photos that got the right scene but isn’t ok fx. in the light or color balance. In the hands of someone who knows how to control Photoshop it is able to do some really cool tricks but it isn’t easy at all for beginners. I find large compilations of Tutorials for Photoshop a great resource for inspiration and learning and I hope this article will be a good help for everyone including people new to Photoshop trying to do some photo magic for the first time.

Introduction

This article focus on all the fancy thing you can do in Photoshop with photos or elements from photos. It is possible to apply effects to photos fx. making them look like comic drawings or like really old pictures – possibilities are almost endless. Also if you got the codac moment photo but for some reason it got too dark or too light Photoshop will be there to save you. Finally if you want to catch a scene with your camera but for some reason cant Photoshop may help you create the illution that you did it… Photo Manipulation is one of the really strong sides of Photoshop and it is almost possible to create any idea you can come up with. The materials used (photos, graphical elements et.) is of cause important but knowing the secret tricks of Photoshop is possibly even more important. The Tutorials in this article will not turn you into a pro-photohopper over night but you will certainly be on the way…

Design - Texture Collection - Photos

20+ Stunning Textures of Decay from stock.xchng


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Textures are essential building blocks for some types of design and having the right textures at hand may speed up the design process, inspire you and improve the final result. Images of decay can be used in many ways and it is only the creativity and imagination that sets the limits. They are obviously useful for grunge style designs but can also be used to give an authentic and realistic look to other types of creative work. This post showcase more than 20 great looking textures of decay for inspiration and use in your designs. Please check license before using even though all textures are located at stock.xchng.