When the sun goes down and sky gradually turns dark doesn’t mean you’ll have to keep your camera in the bag. In fact, it is during the night where some of the most beautiful photos are snapped. No doubt shooting under low light is challenging, but by getting familiar with the shutter speed, exposures, lightning and taking advantages of surrounding objects often help compensate the light and create amazing output.
Here’s a collection of 60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots, taken by avid and professional photographers who jumped into action when the sun sets.
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At the size of 48×48, Twitter avatars definitely have more rooms for creativity compared to a 16×16 website favicon. Having a nicely designed Twitter avatar is fairly important, especially when it comes to profile branding and attracting new followers.
If a nice Twitter avatar is what you are looking for, we’d like to take a bit of your time to show you some of the really nice Twitter avatars we’ve come across before you start creating one. Here are 100 Extremely Creative Twitter Avatars from the twittersphere, ranging for cartoon and faces, icons, symbols and typography.
Cartoon and faces
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Thumb drives were once used to store files and make data portable, but due to the rapid increase in storage capacity over the pass few years these gadgets now have a bigger role. Some even run the entire operating system on a thumb drive.
The more we rely on thumb drives, the more demands we have in terms of tools and applications to facilitate the transfer and security of files. If your thumb drive plays an important role in your daily job, here are some you might be interested.
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Adobe Photoshop has always been one of the greatest (if not the best) software when it comes to manipulating and editing image. It all started off in 1987 with a Mac application call Display, created by Thomas Knoll. With almost two decades worth of changes and improvements, you almost can’t imagine how the first version of Photoshop would look like by looking at the Photoshop you have on your desktop.
In this post, we attempt to bring you back in time to look at how the very first Photoshop look like, then we scan through each evolution of Photoshop to the latest Adobe Photoshop CS4 in market today.
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Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play’ button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually. Photoshop actions are powerful and great time saver when it comes to batch photo processing.
Adobe Photoshop comes with a default set of actions pre-installed that could give you a pretty good idea how thing works. In this post, we want to show you a list of 60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements.
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Color Balance, Hue/Saturation
Photoshop Action 2
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Cross-Processing ATN
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These interesting photos go by various namings -polar panorama, panorama and polar, little planet, planet panoramas, 360 degree panorama, etc but they all mean the same thing. It is created with a panorama photo under one of Photoshop’s Distort filter, Polar Coordinates.
They are not as hard to create as they looked. In this article, we attempt to show you how some of the nicest Polar Panorama photos we’ve found, together with Photoshop tutorials to that help you to create them. Full list after jump.
Merdeka Square
by riefa
Baroque Planet
by Simon The Fox
The Planet of Detroit
by firelog1970
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We’ve previously showcased some really nice Mac wallpapers and Windows wallpapers. This time around we want to give Ubuntu a try. This following entry is dedicated to all you Ubuntu users. We figured you could wear it proud and for starters, a nice Ubuntu wallpaper on the desktop.
Finding sets of nice looking Ubuntu wallpapers was one challenging task and here’s what we managed to collect – 60 Beautiful Ubuntu Desktop Wallpapers. Full list after jump.
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WordPress is no doubt one powerful blogging platform but the problem is if you don’t customized your theme you end up having the same layout as some others out there. This week we are giving away 3x Premium WordPress themes of your choice (Flash WordPress themes included!). Meaning, you picked them, and if you win, we’ll send that theme your way. Courtesy of FlashMint.
So if you are looking for a change to your WordPress blog and not going to settle for some common themes, read on.
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Whether you are a designer, a web developer just somebody who owns a laptop, you deserved to have that unique personality whenever you carry your laptop with you. When you purchase a laptop, you’ll usually be given a default laptop sleeve (or bag) but that also means that whoever bought the exact same model will have the same bag.
There are a lot of really nice sleek and cool laptop sleeves and bag out there, and chances are one must be perfect for your machine. If you want to be slightly different from the rest of the crowd, we want to show you some laptop sleeves and bag we thought really nice and purchasable. Here’s 50+ Cool Laptop Sleeves and Bags You Can Buy. Full list after jump.
Note: The price stated here are taken from stores we cross-referenced and it might varies from store to store.
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Lots of wonderful things happen around us all the time; being able to see is easy, but being able to capture that very moment is probably the hardest part. A good photo comprise of many things, not only you must hit the shutter at the right time and moment, the perspective, composition and color coordination plays a big role too.
Being a good photographer is not easy, let alone getting to that professional level. This weekend, we want you introduce you some of the greatest photographers around the globe and their awesome portfolios. We hope you’ll be able to get some sort of inspiration from their work. In no particular order, here’s 50 Great Photographers You Should Know. Full list after jump.
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It takes time to search for nice looking WordPress themes, let alone nice and yet free WordPress themes. We constantly keep our eyes on great and free WordPress themes released, bookmarked them and put on a showcase when we think it’s too much to keep.
This following entry comprise of nicely design WordPress themes, magazine alike as well as high quality premium themes you don’t have to pay a penny for. This week for WordPress, we present – 41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes.
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Img2icns is a small little application (Mac only) that converts images in almost any file format to:
- Folder icons,
- Icns file format
- iPhone icons, and
- Favicon (16×16 icon for website)
There are a lot of applications out there that does similar but we thought Img2icns stands out the crowd simply because:
- Easier – Just drag and choose the formats you desired.
- Coverage – Supports most graphic format as input.
With Img2icns, you can either design your own icons in any photo editing software, download from DeviantArt or check out our archives. Get the desired image and convert it on the fly for your folder or website favicon.
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Without a doubt, the WWW is indeed a wonderful place. It’s full of beautiful and professionally designed websites; but is there a creative team (within the company) behind each of these corporate websites? Our guess is probably no.
Most of the time, design studio and agency are the unsung heroes behind most of these great production. Formed by group of passionate designers and developers, these folks understand exactly what their client needs. Not only their work are source of inspiration for many designers, they are also trend setters.
Without further ado, we’d like to reveal you some of the group responsible for great websites we visit everyday. In no particular order, we present 50 Trend-setting Design Studios and Agencies. Full list after jump.
The design studio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain [View portfolio]
Enthusiastic web design studio located near the bustling metropolis of Atlanta, Georgia. As little as 2 man compnay, these folks has done great jobs from planning, designing to managing. [View portfolio]
Japanese design house with awesome lots of portfolio.
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Out of bounds (OOB) photos are post processed photos where the contents are taken outside the boundaries, presented in creative 3-dimensional perspective. OOB photos can be achieve with some basic photo editing skills. Getting an interesting OOB photo depend largely on the photo angle and individual creativity. Here we present – 70 Outstanding Out of Bounds Photos, all hand-picked. Full list after jump.
OOB guy
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3D-rop
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111 Ready for Launch Sir
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