We tend to rely heavily on our favorite desktop applications like Photoshop, GIMP, Audacity, Adobe Premier and so on when it comes to dealing with multimedia files. What if we are on a public machine that doesn’t have the software we need, or worst, what if these public machines prevent users from installing applications? That is where web applications come in handy.
Web applications have gained much attention and popularity over the pass few years. The reasons are simple – ubiquity, convenience and light. As long as you have a web browser that connects to the Internet, you can get your photo, audio or even video edited on the fly.
Here’s a list of free web services that allows you to edit multimedia files (photo, audio and video) online. Full list after jump.
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Here’s another round of freebies giveaway and it’s probably something you should not miss if you are a designer. Today we are giving away 10 VIP accounts of Grafpedia.com to Hongkiat readers. These accounts will give you access to more than 70,000 design goodies that will come in handy for your next design job.
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Snow, ice, and the crispness that comes with freezing temperatures can add a new dimension to your photos. And with winter just around the corner for much of the northern hemisphere, it’s a great time to find some inspiration in winter photos.
From the first snowflakes in late fall to the dripping icicles that come with a spring thaw, winter photography can provide you with ideas for any kind of design. A muted color palette peppered with bright accents made even more striking by their backdrop can be adapted to your web and graphic designs.
Below are 70 excellent winter photos to help inspire you, everything from snow-filled landscapes to macro photos and close-ups.
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Here’s another round of icon freebies for you guys and perhaps the last for the year 2009. Folks at Iconshock designed 8 cute political characters for us and you can download them absolutely free here at hongkiat.com
These 8 character icons are made up of these following politicians:
- Barack Obama (United States of America)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela)
- Silvio Berlusconi (Italy)
- Kim Jong-il (North Korea)
- Alvaro Uribe (Columbia)
- Evo Morales (Bolivia)
- Ali Khamenei (Iran)
- Angela Merkel (Germany)
To give you a better idea of who these politicians are, we’ve put a real photo side by side with the icon. Photos are taken from Wikipedia.
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How time files, Christmas is round the corner again! You know that the wonderful season is here when you hear all your favourite Christmas tunes everywhere you go. While most of us are frantically shopping for gifts and preparing to throw the most joyous party of the year, don’t forget to take time off to chill out and enjoy the festive season with your family and friends.
With no exception this year, in the spirit of Christmas, we are sharing with you a showcase of some of the best designed Christmas theme wallpapers to lighten and spice up your desktop.
More Christmas wallpapers – Here are more Christmas wallpapers we’ve previously published:
Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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Image credit – Winter Wonderland II by Philipp Klinger
Taking amazing photos is something many aspiring amateur photographers strive for. And HDR effects can really make your images pop.
Below is a complete toolbox to get you started with HDR photography on your own. Whether you want to go all out and learn how to take real HDR composite images or if you just want to learn to fake it in Photoshop, the information below can get you started. And, to really inspire you, we’ve also included a showcase of fifty phenomenal HDR images.
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From the dreadful art work created for Nosferatu in 1922 till the present, horror movie posters has evolved with time, immensely. Having celebrated the twisted, the sick, the ghastly, the disgusting and the terrifying, this genre of art is highly evocative. It may be just another creepy photograph conveying malicious promises, or an abstract interpretations rendered by an elaborate painting, designers are experimenting with their creative juices from time immemorial to bring out the ghastly effect in their posters.
Creepy typography, high contrast illustrations, horrific creatures and ominous taglines are trademarks of effective horror movie posters. Creating an aura of mysteriousness while freaking out your audience simultaneously, works best for these posters. Raw terror, suspense and a hint of fright-fest are the things that your poster needs to convey to stimulate the nightmares and excite the curiosity of your potential moviegoers, so that they cannot help but check out for themselves what the movie has in store.
However, it isn’t easy to create a spine-chilling poster, which looks both brutal and spectacular at the same time. Like, blood smearing across the poster may make it look like a finger painting by a kid. The potential of a true designer is revealed in subtly arousing terror in viewer’s imagination by making this ordinary blood look extraordinarily ghastly.
To draw inspiration from some of the best horror movie posters of all time, you can check out our collection of 50+ horror movie poster designs in this article.
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The moment some of you who’ve commented and tweeted in the previous free icons, vector and brush packs contest have been waiting for. We’ve got our winners – 11 of them. 10 winners will walk away each with a vector, icon and brush pack of your choice; 1 winner with a complete designer set with more than 447 packs of 6000+ design elements. Courtesy of Artbox7.com
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