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Loud Computer Fan Noise? Check Your Printer Queue!

Last week, I noticed Emily was working behind me on the couch on her laptop.

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26 Beautiful Free Retro Fonts | DeMilked - StumbleUpon

It has been long since we posted our last free font collection (see: 20 Free Handwritten Fonts and 21 Incredible Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free ), so we decided it’s a high time to do one more. The use of retro and vintage themes in design is still very popular, so it’s always good to have a big font collection. That’s why we handpicked 26 beautiful and stylish free retro fonts . http://www.demilked.com/free-retro-fonts/

Creative Truths | Ubersuper - StumbleUpon

Creative Truths Nice series called Creative Truths by Shirley-Ann Dick . 28th of September 2010 http://ubersuper.com/creative-truths/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/droplet-water-effect-photoshop-tutorials/ Water is beautiful, but creating its effect digitally from scratch can be dreadful, due to the complexity you have to deal with.

25+ Water Effect Photoshop Tutorials and Brushes

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http://emptyeasel.com/2008/04/29/how-to-add-color-to-black-and-white-photos-in-photoshop/ NOTE: If the following tutorial feels overwhelming, or you’re just not interested in learning the software and would rather pay a professional, there ARE other options. Head over to ColoraPhoto.com to find out more. For everybody else, here’s how to color your photographs yourself: One of Adobe Photoshop’s best features is the ability it gives you to colorize black and white photographs. With Photoshop you can add color to the entire photo, or just “paint” one part of the image to create a focal point—it’s up to you.

How To Add Color To Black and White Photos in Photoshop

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Photoshop cast shadow tutorial in Photoshop

Open your image and remove it from the background. Duplicate the layer by dragging tot the new layer icon in the layers palette. Make sure the foreground color is set to black Now fill the new layer by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Delete Mac:Cmd+Shift+Del (The shift key will make it only fill where there are pixels aka preserve transparancy)

Create Perspective Using Simple 2D Art with Illustrator CS4 | Layers Magazine

Like most things in design, you can make quite an impact by modifying how people perceive things. In this tutorial, we’re going to create a 3D effect using simple 2D art, demonstrating how effective a little perspective can be. 1 [CREATE NEW RGB DOCUMENT] Choose File>New, select Basic RGB from the New Document Profile pop-up menu, and click OK. Open the Symbols panel (Window>Symbols), then click the flyout menu and choose Open Symbol Library>Grime Vector Pack. 2 [DRAG SYMBOL ONTO ARTBOARD] Next, click-and-drag Grime Vector Pack 09 from the Grime Vector Pack panel onto the artboard. http://layersmagazine.com/create-perspective-using-simple-2d-art-with-illustrator-cs4.html
http://blancer.com/tutorials/78622/design-a-coffee-shop-menu-layout-from-scratch-with-photoshop-and-indesign-%e2%80%93-part-2/ Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 2 This is the second part of this tutorial series about creating a ready to print booklet menu for an imaginary coffee shop named "Violet Coffee."

Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign – Part 2 | Blancer.com Tutorials and projects

Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here In our previous article State of The Art Professional Animators’ Site Graphics we presented 40 examples of the best animators’ site. In this post, however, we are going to search for an insight into this industry and we’ll analyze the newest trends in this field in terms of not only the web-design, but also the media strategy applied for most of these sites. http://dzineblog.com/2010/09/40-must-see-cool-short-animation-websites.html

40 Must See Cool Short Animation Websites | Dzine Blog

30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials, Part II

You might not be the best photographer, but this doesn’t mean the photos you publish will suck. We’ve previously showcased 41 nicest photo effects tutorials you can adapt, now here’s more. By adding this new 30+ Nicest Photoshop Photo Tutorials to our previous entry, you have over 70 ways to enhance photos taken with digital camera, or even dSLR.

10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits

3K+ How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor? Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box . You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules . Note : this post is an extract from our Essential Portrait Photography Tips E-book – Grab Your Copy Today! I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography . I’ll share ten of these tips today and a further ten tomorrow (update: you can see the 2nd part here ).