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Gardening. Rainforests. 27 incredible photo effects you can create from just one Photoshop menu. In this quick tutorial we show you some of the special photo effects you can create in Photoshop by mixing different images together using Blend modes.

27 incredible photo effects you can create from just one Photoshop menu

The Blend mode drop-down menu that sits near the top-left corner of the Photoshop Layers panel is a powerful addition to the Photoshop user’s toolbox. By changing the Blend mode of a layer, you can alter the way it interacts with the layers beneath it. This enables you to blend layers for creative effect, such as using an abstract texture to age an image. 50 Excellent Photoshop Photo Effect Tutorials. Everyone likes photo effects, especially those that are easy to create and can transform your ordinary shots into stunning artworks.

50 Excellent Photoshop Photo Effect Tutorials

Photo effects will never go out of style. Adobe Photoshop is a superb tool to edit your pictures, so go on and take the best of it. If you’re looking for cool Photoshop guides to follow, this showcase was made specially for you. Pin it There are 50 stunning Photoshop photo effect tutorials below ranging from tricks to give your photo the hipster or Instagram filter look, or the tilt-shift (miniature) look, from reducing wrinkles to giving porcelain skin to your subjects. Do check out Part 1 and Part 2 of Photoshop photo effect tutorial collections. Birding. 23 more Perfectly Timed Animal Shots. After Reading This You Will Never Throw Your Banana Or Orange Peels Away Again. Did you know the peels of some fruits hold some of the most powerful nutrients in the world?

After Reading This You Will Never Throw Your Banana Or Orange Peels Away Again

There are many uses, both medicinal and practical, for orange and banana peels that aren't known by many. So, next time you think about throwing away one of these peels, you may want to remember this information. Orange Peels It's always a good idea to minimize pesticide levels by choosing organic oranges. Oranges tend to be grown with lower pesticide usage than most fruits but a good cleaning with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of white vinegar in 1 cup of water will remove almost any pesticide with ease.

An Orange's peel and apple's skin are similar because most of the nutrients are in the skin of these fruits. Medicinal Properties of Orange Peels. DirSense - Infinite Impression. Des paysages anthropomorphiques. Untitled by Franz Schumacher. ‪Paco de Lucia - Entre Dos Aguas (Vicky Cristina Barcelona OST)‬‏ Cuttle Fish. Singing Fish Hums to Attract Mates. Top 100 - NASA / ESA Hubble space telescope [en] Original Photographs by Ansel Adams. Alec Ee Photography: Landscape. Ansel Adams Wilderness - Photo Gallery. LakeSylvenstein_EN-US5970861221_1366x768.jpg (Image JPEG, 1366x768 pixels) - Redimensionnée (93%) Glaucus Atlanticus. Coconut Octopus. Tourists bask in blue glow of firefly squid. 13 Apr 2006.

Tourists bask in blue glow of firefly squid

Oar Fish. 1802955_uploadsmember203738yourshot-203738-1802955jpg_yexcr5c6vhdqxuo2udd7ir4uxz6efp7ahougetfp4dbeloye3ueq_2880x4313.jpg (Image JPEG, 2880x4313 pixels) - Redimensionnée (18%) Nature Photos Gallery. Pages in Nature. 23 more Perfectly Timed Animal Shots. 36 Perfectly Timed Animal Shots. Hawaii's volcano national park.jpg. The 15 Craziest Things In Nature You Won’t Believe Actually Exist. Mother Nature is beautiful and amazing because we can see many amazing stuff like these 15 things that you won’t believe they actually exist.

The 15 Craziest Things In Nature You Won’t Believe Actually Exist

All these places are real. It is hard to believe in that, but that is true. 1. Volcanic lightning aka “dirty thunderstorms.” 2. Amazing Places. Preachers Rock, Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves - Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli - Iceland Plitvice Lakes – Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake, Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel - Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer, a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Amazing Places

Pacfic Barreleye Fish (the green orbs are his eyes) Meet the world’s only immortal animal. Email If you’re thinking McLeod, you couldn’t be further from the truth.

Meet the world’s only immortal animal

What you have to do is think small; not microscopic, just big enough to see with your naked eye. Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan, and it’s considered by scientists to be the only animal that cheated death. Solitary organisms are (according to current belief) doomed to die, after they completed their life cycle. 12 Beautiful World Heritage Sites.

U.S. Marine Protected Area Photos. Photograph by Paul Chesley The United States' nearly 1,800 marine protected areas contain some of the country's most spectacular reefs, underwater archaeological sites, and most valuable commercial fisheries and tourist diving sites.

U.S. Marine Protected Area Photos

Ranging in size from less than one square mile (2.6 square kilometers) to over 139,797 square miles (362,073 square kilometers), the sites are located from the Arctic to the South Pacific, from Maine to the Caribbean, and as far west as the Philippine Sea. Happy Dolphins. The Bride's Diary - Honeymoons & Holidays: Palau... An Untouched Paradise. A virtually untouched series of limestone islands is now easy for Australians to reach, writes David Barbeler for The Age Traveller.

The Bride's Diary - Honeymoons & Holidays: Palau... An Untouched Paradise

As a Westerner who's visited numerous stunning countries corrupted by tourism, I initially had trouble understanding why the people of Palau were getting so excited. Located 800km east of the Philippines, the Republic of Palau is a series of more than 250 limestone islands virtually untouched by tourists. Many compare it to the feel of Bali 30 years ago. Up until April, it use to take Australians about 24 hours to travel there through a limited number of interconnecting flights and/or boats. However a new A310 Airbus service, operated by Pacific Flier, has just opened the door to Australian tourists for the first time, with a direct flight from Brisbane cutting the trip down to a mere five and a half hours and costing $799 return.

Jellyfish photos. Creatures of the Lembeh Strait. *notcot in nature , 07:40 On visual inspiration, there is something about the overwhelming sense of calm serenity with nothing but the sound of your own bubbles and the occasional boats overhead… as you just swim about watching the most incredible and mind blowing creatures going about their daily lives all around you… so, on “vacation pictures” ~ here are some of the many (there are hundreds of photos, here’s just a selection of fun ones!)

Creatures of the Lembeh Strait

Leafy sea dragon. Lamprey mouth (animals you see on the sides of sharks) The Mansurovs. 2385891927_2aa2aa7136_o.jpg (Image JPEG, 3008x2000 pixels) - Redimensionnée (40. Volcano lightning.jpg. Dancing Saint Petersburg. EarthPorn: Mother Nature in all of her succulent beauty. 6675010731_f4c80c802d_b.jpg (Image JPEG, 950x713 pixels) Extreme Earth Photos, Landscape Photos, Gallery, Wallpaper -– National Geographic. Lake Quilotoa on Fotopedia. Amazing Things in the World. Earth's Green Places Mapped in High Resolution.

Map courtesy NASA/NOAA Earth's gone green in recently released satellite images showing our planet's vegetation (pictured here, the entire planet). Using the NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite, scientists can now detect subtle differences in greenness on the 25 percent of Earth that's made up of land. (See National Geographic pictures of life in green.) The images—taken between April 2012 and 2013—show the darkest green areas as the lushest, while the pale colors signify sparse vegetation cover due to snow, drought, rock, or urban areas, according to the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Mapping vegetation has some practical uses, including forecasting weather or understanding how to best use agricultural land.

The South Island Robin survives much better now. This is a male South Island robin on Moturua ,with his tags; Credit: © Sol Heber The South Island and North Island robins of New Zealand are small birds that evolved from Australian ancestors when they reached the distant islands. They are classed in the same genus as the Australasian species of Petroica. There are black, scarlet rose and pink "robins", despite the lack of relationship to any American or European bird.

Ansel Adams: Landscape Photography at its Finest. 10 Gorgeous Cloud Photos. 06_japan.jpg.

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Photography Tips & Tutorials. Son doong cave. Hi! You've been looking for me? Original Prints by Photographer Ansel Adams. This Damn Beautiful Autumn - Fall in Photographs. Eclipse Web Site. The-Explosion!.jpg nat geo. Fabulous photographs. Dalmadog.jpg. Iceland-waterfall.jpg (Image JPEG, 960x640 pixels) 339.jpg from earthshots.org. Lasilla_panorama_fk-normal.jpg (Image JPEG, 5391x800 pixels) - Redimensionnée (23%) Photos of the World. ² bodycard 0632.