Four Simple and Quick Photo Effects

Jul 22
2010

High quality photo effects are not only reserved for professionals or tech-savvy image editing specialists, they can be achieved by anyone, as today’s design news demonstrates. We have collected four recent photo editing tutorials that can be easily followed and achieved by anyone with a digital camera and a desire to give a little bit of coolness and professionalism to there shots.

Give Your Photos a Vintage Look

Give Your Photos a Vintage Look

This tutorial is for anyone who doesn’t have photo editing know-how, expensive editing software or a load of time to spare, and shows you how to create a retro profile pic in a matter of minutes using some absolutely free, entirely online services.
Give Your Photos a Vintage Look

How To Give Your Photos a Cool Retro Analog Effect

How To Give Your Photos a Cool Retro Analog Effect

Back in the days of analog photography imperfections were part of the job. Colour washes, light leaks, vignettes and blurs were all common problems that appeared during the processing of your film, particularly from cheap cameras such as the Holga, or simply down to human error. While these problems don’t affect digital cameras, you can recreate the cool effects in Photoshop to give your shots that cool lo-fi retro effect.
How To Give Your Photos a Cool Retro Analog Effect

Foggy Window Effect in Photoshop

Foggy Window Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will be shown how to create a foggy window effect in Photoshop, using stock photo, brushes, and layer styles to create the simple effect. The whole process is quite simple and it won't take you more than 30 minutes to achieve.
Foggy Window Effect in Photoshop

Quick HDR Effect Photoshop CS5 Tutorial

Quick HDR Effect Photoshop CS5 Tutorial

To create High Dynamic Range pictures, you typically need at least 3 different exposures of the same photo, but in this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create HDR from a single image.

This technique will make the bright portions of the image darker, and dark portions of the image lighter. This also gives the image a lot more realistic look.
Quick HDR Effect Photoshop CS5 Tutorial

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).

The Most Complete Set of Vector Banners

Jul 22
2010


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To Flash or Not – Let Your Website Decide

Jul 22
2010


flash or not vector To Flash or Not – Let Your Website Decide

Adobe’s Flash was in the news recently for all the wrong reasons – the launch of Apple’s iPad saw a barrage of criticism directed towards Steve Jobs’ company for its failure to include Flash in the gadget, but Apple seemed to think the application was no great shakes. In the world of web design however, Flash is an all-important tool that holds immense potential. It allows designers to control every pixel and generates beautiful sites that are well, flashy and aesthetically appealing. However, in spite of all these advantages, Flash seems to have developed a reputation as the bad boy of web design and something that designers must avoid like the plague.

While it’s true that Flash has various drawbacks – the site takes longer to load, it can be disabled by users who are familiar with it, it does not offer support for search engine optimization and that websites that are embedded in Flash do not show in the lists that search engines throw up on a query, it makes we analytics very difficult because it does not show where a user enters and leaves a webpage, it does not conform to standards on the web in that it is difficult to use the back button in your browser or link to text within a page, and changing even a small part of your site requires a designer who is adept at Flash – the biggest disadvantage of this application is that it is used erratically and irresponsibly.

So what is inherently a mistake on the part of the designer becomes a blot on the reputation of Flash. However, those who know this application better and are aware of how to use it judiciously, also know that is that it is not meant for every website. In general, Flash holds its own when it is necessary to the site – for content that is media-rich, animations that bolster the quality of a site, and photographs and videos that add to the informational and aesthetic appeal of a site, it’s ok to use Flash.

When programming a website with Flash, it’s important to remember these points:

  • Never use Flash when plain HTML will do.
  • Never use Flash just for the sake of using Flash – it’s not a skill that you have to show off at all times.
  • Embed Flash into a part of your page so that there is text and links for the search engines to index.
  • Provide a faster way for Flash movies to load
  • Allow visitors to opt out of viewing the Flash bits on your site. If they’re repeat visitors, they won’t want to sit through the same presentation over and over again.

Bottom line – use Flash judiciously and enjoy the benefits that this application brings to your website.

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This guest post is contributed by Bailey Digger, she writes on the topic of web design degree . She welcomes your comments at her email id: [email protected].

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Webmaster and Tech Forum for sale

Jul 22
2010


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About LovingTech

  • LovingTech is a bespoke and high quality, beautiful forum.
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  • Established in January 2009.

LovingTech became a rapid success and was featured in many highly reputable tech and webmaster sites such as; Tech Patio, Blognamic, Dragonblogger, Untwistedvortex, Blogengage.

This website will have an immediate ability to make $800 – $1800 per month, depending on the advertisers you wish to have. It is not monitized currently, so if you do so you will see a return quickly.

See the live auction if you’re interested

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