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SHIT ! - StumbleUpon. 80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look. Photoshop actions are great.

80+ Photoshop Actions for Giving Your Pictures a Vintage Look

With just a click of a button you can apply a complicated effect to a photo instantly. One of the most popular type of actions is the vintage or retro style. With the popularity of vintage-inspired Instagram filters and film emulation, the older style is desired with many photos. Fortunately, there are plenty of quality Photoshop actions that will help you to get vintage effects quickly and easily. In this article, I’ve rounded up over eighty Photoshop actions that will add very cool vintage or retro effects to your photos. Instagram Filters (13 actions) Lomocam (10 actions) Lomo Action Hard Lomo Action Holgarizer Vintage Light Leak Action. 5 Trick Photography Techniques. High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging Photo courtesy of Unified Color What It Is High Dynamic Range or HDR imaging is a technique which combines several photos into one shot to increase an image's "dynamic range.

5 Trick Photography Techniques

" Dynamic range is the level of exposure between the light and dark areas of an image; so photos with low dynamic range have dark shadows and bright highlights, while those with high dynamic range have luminance that's evenly balanced, with extra detail. The most popular current use for HDR imaging software is to even out exposure while dramatically increasing the level of detail in an image—especially landscapes at dusk or cityscapes at night—to create a hyper-real or even surreal look. 200++ Photoshop Photo Effects. EmailEmail Have you ever wonder where is that photo effect tutorial you saw the other day and start searching all over the internet but couldn’t find what you saw initially?

200++ Photoshop Photo Effects

Honestly, i have. That is why i throw them all into this article instead. But i also use these article to gain inspiration on what to do with my photo image. Sometimes we are like a lost bird when it comes to creative design. Create your own font from your handwriting. This is a cool little 10-15 minute activity that will keep on giving back to you for years to come.

create your own font from your handwriting

That’s right add that final customizing touch to your Windows, Linux or Mac machine – Your handwriting as a font! With some free time a visit to a website called YourFonts.com, a scanner and a printer you can create a font for use in any application on your computer. To me this sounded way too cool to pass up. I went and downloaded the printable template from here and carefully followed the steps. The template looks like this: You print it out and add your letters to each corresponding box. Quora: What Are Some Amazing Hidden Plot Details Later Linked Together in the Harry Potter Series? This question originally appeared on Quora.

Quora: What Are Some Amazing Hidden Plot Details Later Linked Together in the Harry Potter Series?

By Yilise Lin, Harry Potter Fan In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first thing Snape asks Harry in Potions class is, "Potter! What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? " According to the Victorian Language of Flowers [1], asphodel is a type of lily meaning 'my regrets follow you to the grave,' and wormwoood means 'absence' and symbolizes bitter sorrow. 60 Glorious Photos Of Sir Alex Ferguson’s 25 Imperious Years At Manchester United. By Chris Wright Sir Alex Ferguson, a man who turns 70 on New Year’s Eve, celebrates 25 years as manager of Manchester United on 6th November (tomorrow), so we thought we’d mark this truly astounding milestone and all the incredible accomplishments therein with a suitably colossal retrospective photo essay of the Scot’s time at Old Trafford… 45-year old Ferguson poses in the colours of his new side after being appointed Manchester United manager following the sacking of Ron Atkinson, November 1986.

60 Glorious Photos Of Sir Alex Ferguson’s 25 Imperious Years At Manchester United

'Squeaky bum time!' - Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United career in quotes. The legendary manager has coined many a famous phrase in his 26 years at Old Trafford, while plenty of adversaries have been on the end of the famous hairdryer treatment The day has arrived.

'Squeaky bum time!' - Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United career in quotes

Sir Alex Ferguson has announced that he will retire as Manchester United manager at the end of the season. His has been a career laden with trophies, titles and, sometimes, tantrums. The 71-year-old has come out with some golden quips over the years, whether in praise of his own side or lashing out at his rivals. So strap yourselves in as Goal.com runs through Sir Alex's career in quotes. On other managers "He was certainly full of it, calling me boss and big man when we had our post-match drink after the first leg, but it would help if his greetings were accompanied by a decent glass of wine. "I think he was an angry man. "They say he's an intelligent man, right?

On his players "I remember the first time I saw him. "If he was an inch taller he'd be the best centre-half in Britain. India's Independent Weekly News Magazine. One village. 60 millionaires.

India's Independent Weekly News Magazine

The miracle of Hiware Bazar Ramesh Menon reports on a village in Maharashtra that witnessed an exodus after a severe drought in 1972, but did an amazing turnaround CAN A poverty-ridden village where alcoholism and crime are rampant turn into a showpiece of change and prosperity? Seems highly unlikely. 8 Interesting Facts About Famous Businesses. Photos That Will Hit You In The Right Feels. 10 Novels That Are Scarier Than Most Horror Movies.

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