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How to Create Your Own Textures
Here at DPS, we’ve already covered how to use textures in your photos to give them a completely different look and feel, but now it’s time to get inspired and create your own textures – all around your house.
Finding Textures
I typically shoot landscape photography. And when I’m shooting a landscape, I’m looking at the big picture – where the horizon is, where the sun is at, the reflection [...]
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The Beauty of Winter Photography
By: Joanna Gerber
Gorgeous landscapes, early morning fog lifting off the frozen lake, the glistening icicles on the tree branches. Photography opportunities meet you at every corner.
When your winter vacation takes you to the secluded, covered in snow, corner of Ontario; and you just discovered that perfect winter paradise scene; now you want to get it on film, or store it for latter so you can plaster [...]
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Black And White Photography: Open Your Eyes To A Different Reality
Written by: Andrew Goodall
Photos by: Rory Mole
"The One Tree" captured by Colin Jennings
Black and white photography is a rewarding and challenging field of artistic photography. Even people who don’t care about photography can find themselves drawn to a great black and white image. As a photographer, black and white can allow you to discover a whole new character in a familiar subject. [...]
Things To Consider Before Shooting Pictures
Before you are able to take the kind of pictures you want to learn to take, it is important to think about the equipment you would like to start out with. Probably the most important decision you will have to make is what kind of camera to buy. There are so many options and companies now that the whole process can seem quite overwhelming.
If you are planning to become a serious photographer [...]
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Travel Photography Tips and Preparation
I just returned from a trip through Europe as a tour photographer and gained some useful knowledge that could be helpful to any photographers, amateur or professional who are planning a trip. This article deals with: obtaining the necessary equipment, carrying the equipment and always being in the right place at the right time. If you are hoping to get a professional collection of pictures from a vacation [...]
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Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures by Kodak
This Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures was provided by Kodak.
1. Direct eye contact can be as engaging in a picture as it is in real life. When taking a picture of someone, hold the camera at the person’s eye level to unleash the power of those magnetic gazes and mesmerizing smiles. For children, that means stooping to their level. And your subject need not always stare at the camera. All by [...]
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Portrait Photography
In portrait photography there are a few guidelines that you should review and think about when you take pictures of people. The three general types of portrait photography are: close-ups or facial shots, upper body shots, or environmental portraits (where you focus on the subject and the surrounding environment that gives the subject character).
Some of the best portraits are where the subjects [...]
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Examples Of Rain Photography
Most photographers do not feel comfortable in taking photographs in bad weather. Yet bad weather sometimes presents the perfect opportunity to get most out of our skills. In particular, in the beginning of autumn rain can provide the perfect opportunity to capture wonderful photos. Shooting in rain produces dramatic atmosphere and soft romantic scenes. Whether you are after lightning strikes or water [...]
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Use of Light in Photography
The use of light in a photograph can be the deciding factor of whether that picture will be spectacular or terrible. When you use your camera to automatically chose aperture and shutter speed, what your camera is actually doing is using the built in light meter and measuring how much light is being reflected to the camera.
But that doesn’t mean that’s all there is to it. You should [...]
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Photography: The Rules of Composition
Composition is the combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole. In photography that thought is very important in taking good pictures. The following guidelines are just to be thought about though, it is not necessary to try to use them with every picture you take or there wouldn’t be any creativity in your work. Once you learn these rules and strategies you will be more prepared [...]
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Night Photography
Photography at night can be used to create amazing pictures. For this kind of photography a tripod is almost a must. If you want to get a clear exposure with a great depth-of-field, then you will need a tripod. Usually when we take pictures of sunsets or bright lights we just center all the coloring and shoot the picture.
But something that you should think about doing is adding some foreground [...]
25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots
Macro photography is the art of taking close-up pictures that reveal details which can’t be seen with the naked eye. For example, while we can see the fly on the wall, our eyes aren’t equipped to make out the fine details of the hairs on it’s face. This is where macro photography comes in. It gives us a glimpse into the world of the very small, which goes largely unnoticed by us as we hurriedly [...]
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50 Stunning Underwater Photos
Victor Amor
J.Lambusphoto
Scott (lundysd)
Numera Tokyo
National Geographics
Neverletmego
Kenvin Pinardy
Dancing underwater.
Sugarock99
Dustin Humphrey
Gattaldo
Water just makes every situation more poetic and graceful.
Anatoly Beloschin
Unknown
Zena Holloway
Camilo Acuña
Eldad Hagar
Oracle
John Carleton
Barbara Cole
Tintinian
Smodger
Colorful scene captured using [...]
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Adobe Photoshop Techniques
Color adjustment tutorial
This tutorial shows how to get more mood into your pictures via Adjustment Layers and some other effects.
Vector Polishing Techniques
This tutorial includes 9 Photoshop techniques that will show you how to add more depth, color, contrast, and texture into your vector art.
Advanced Black and White Conversion
In this tutorial, we will convert an RGB image to Black and White [...]
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Texteffects, Buttons, Logos & Menus
Texteffects
3D typographic effects Photoshop is an astounding post-production tool – and here Nik Ainley of Shiny Binary shows you how to add the wow factor to 3D text using Photoshop’s art tools.
Slow shutter text effect Learn how to create this stunning slow shutter text effect using just Photoshop.
Create a Spectacular Flaming Meteor Effect on Text Take typography one step further by having [...]
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Drawings, Paintings, Cartoons
Sexy Girl Comic With Photoshop
This tutorial describes a way to create a sexy comic girl from a paper sketch.
Skin Painting Tutorial
Learn how to paint a realistically looking skin with Photoshop.
Making of The Blues Singer Leaves Town
This picture was done in a hot summer day, in the memory of an old anime series I used to watch as a kid, about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Historically, [...]
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Top Ten Digital Photography Tips
provided by: http://macdevcenter.com
1. Warm Up Those Tones
Have you ever noticed that your shots sometimes have a cool, clammy feel to them? If so, you’re not alone. The default white balance setting for digital cameras isauto, which is fine for most snapshots, but tends to be a bit on the “cool” side.
When shooting outdoor portraits and sunny landscapes, try changing your white [...]
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35 Fantastic HDR Pictures
Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. In graphics HDR imaging is a set of techniques that allow a far greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, [...]
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Adobe Illustrator
Face, Hair, Clothing Illustrator Tutorial Learn how to create real-looking human face, hair and cloth.
Illustrator: Golden Selection Have you ever wondered why a profound piece of art is so compositionally pleasing? The artist probably employed the use of the Divine Proportion, which is a phenomenon that suggests that there’s a mathematical equation that’s consistent with the aesthetics of good [...]
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Adobe Illustrator
Posted by BenGske on October 30, 2009 · 4 Comments
Illustrator Tutorials
Creating a Crazy Cool Logo In this post I will show you how we created the logo. I will skip the drawing parts, yes there were tons of drawings before going to the computer, because when they stole my computer and backups in 2006 they took all my photos of the drawings.
Spice up Pie Charts For some charts you might only want to spice up the most important slice or the biggest [...]
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Celebration Of High-Speed Photography
A digital camera, some fast-moving subject, and a bit of knowledge about how to take the best pictures of moving subjects will launch you on the road to some of the most interesting photographs you’ve ever taken. Although some blurring can be effective in communicating a sense of high-speed motion, some photographers want the subject to be frozen in time to get some pretty special photographic effects. [...]
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Beautiful Black and White Photography
Article From: Smashing Magazine Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation. Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Here close attention to composition, lighting, perspective [...]
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Photoshop Tutorials
MP3 Player Design In this tutorial you will learn how to design a product in Photoshop. The product is a RCA Lyra X3030 portable media player. Although the chances are, you are thinking “why would I need to make it?”, the reason for this tutorial is to teach people the techniques used for mocking up a product design.
Magic Lighting Effect How to create a nice light and magic effect.
Beautiful [...]
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Canon camera profits rise despite falling sales
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Nik Viveza 2 for Photoshop, Lightroom and Aperture
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