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Hands. Top 10 Digital Photography Tips | Top 10 Photography Tips. Compose in Thirds To use the rule of thirds, imagine four lines, two lying horizontally across the image and two vertical creating nine even squares. Some images will look best with the focal point in the center square, but placing the subject off center will often create a more aesthetically composed photograph.

When a photograph is composed using the rule of thirds the eyes will wander the frame. A picture composed by the rule of thirds is more interesting and pleasing to the eye. Avoid Camera Shake Camera shake or blur is something that can plague any photographer and here are some ways to avoid it. The Sunny 16 Rule The idea with the Sunny 16 rule is that we can use it to predict how to meter our camera on a sunny outdoor day. Use a Polarizing Filter If you can only buy one filter for your lens, make it a polarizer. Create a Sense of Depth When photographing landscapes it really helps to create a sense of depth, in other words, make the viewer feel like they are there. How To Draw. "How to Draw" is a collection of tutorials that will teach you everything from perspective basics to shading chrome. Never picked up a pencil before? Fear not! From simple line drawings to modern art and easy animations, we've got you covered. All projects come from Instructables.com and contain pictures for each step so you can start your masterpiece today!

Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Drawing Lessons - How to Draw the Portrait - Drawing Figure - Drawing Still Life. Get inspired. Get motivated. Practice. Improve your drawing skills! 40 Free Tutorials on Advanced Drawing Techniques. Backlit Canvas Art. Do you have one project that you've been longing to do, but just haven't found the time yet? This is it for me. I call it my Backlit Canvas Art and the inspiration piece has been pinned in my "Crafts to try" Pinterest board for ages. My "pin"speration is an artist's piece made from metal that has hand cut flowers all over it. Its backlit by Christmas lights, and I pretty much love it! So I decided to give it a go and create my version.

There are two main differences between the two: 1. 2. The idea of the canvas is that during the day (ie. with the Christmas light off) you have a beautiful sculpture while at night (you guessed it, with the Christmas lights on!) How about a tutorial? Supply list Mounted canvas (mine is 10"x10") cardstock to fit on your canvas (mine is 12"x12") stamps ink pad X-acto knife light source* *I wasn't sure if I wanted to use a single bulb or Christmas lights so that is why both are in the above picture. I decided to go with the same flower theme as my inspiration piece. Tutorials - Photoshopcontest.com.

20 Superb Adobe Illustrator Tutorials. Encapsulation - Celtic Knotwork: the ultimate tutorial. In this section you are going to learn how to put a nice little knot in a box, what I call "encapsulation". It is based on a mathematical notion called "duality", but stop! Don’t run away, it’s easier to begin with an example to show you that 1. it’s easy; 2. you really need it if you want to do anything big in the celtic knot business. Suppose you like the trefoil knot (I do!) And you want to do something with it. For example, a cross. That’s very nice but requires a lot of fine hand tuning. Very nice indeed but difficult to adjust isn’t it? Duality Going back to the trefoil, suppose, when you extract its graph, you don’t put the vertices into the white but into the black regions (see Extraction). What you’ve just witnessed is the construction of the dual graph of the triangle.

For example the triangular and hexagonal lattices are dual to each other. Now you see that it’s easier to form a little cross using the dual graph, the knot is completley inside a box, a triangular capsule!