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20 Great Web Page Backgrounds You Can Certainly Use Advertisement There can be times when your web design is almost done but you can’t finalize a beautiful background for your site. Importance of a Background can not be ignored since a site is viewed differently in different browsers and resolutions and the empty space at the background kills the foreground’s beauty. Designing a background yourself is a time consuming process and its hardly required when the fellow designers have heartily and happily contributed so many beautiful backgrounds and patterns for websites. We have collected few sets of Beautiful Backgrounds which will surely be useful to you. If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our other articles on Wallpaper Patterns, Damask Pattern Collection, Grunge Backgrounds, and Great Photoshop Backgrounds.

Nightclub & concert photography tips for the modestly equipped shooter Last night, Ivo sent in an inquiry regarding nightclub and/or concert photography. Ivo has a humble photography kit, as most of us who are not born millionaires do! He was asked to shoot a nightclub event happening in 2 days from now, and he‘s reaching out for help in that area. Since Ivo’s situation is a bit urgent, I had to move up the question queue and give priority to his issue, but this in no way means that I’ve forgotten about all your questions that have been submitted earlier.

Achieving a Vintage Look Through Color Tones in Photoshop CS by Guest Contributor Anna Gay Photographers are often striving for a “vintage” look in their photos, and even though there are endless ways of achieving a vintage look, there are a couple of characteristics to keep in mind. First of all, the color tones in a vintage photo often lean towards either a blue or a red hue, or a cross-processed look. Vintage photos also have an element of noise or grain that can be achieved through textures, and also a certain amount of vignetting around the edges of the photo. In this tutorial, we will look at adjusting color tones and adding vignettes.

Best Photoshop Tutorials Photoshop is what makes the virtual world seem alive. Its nothing less than a blessing for designers. The Internet is full of Photoshop Tutorials and you will find a tutorial on each and every tool. 20 Pretty *free* Printables I spotted some wonderful printables last week while working on the *bespoke* newsletter, and it inspired me to put together this grand list of lovely things! In this post you’ll find 20 useful, cute, fun, and inspiring things to print out and use, and – best of all – they’re all free! 1. Sweet little fruit stickers from Funkytime! Each one is a cute little pun.

Stunning Photoshop Typography Tutorials August 3rd, 2011 The art of creating beautiful text effects is very old and we can trace it from the early ages of the typography development. Of course nowadays we shall talk about a digital typography. Here are great Photoshop typography tutorials and we are sure you’ll love all of these. It is needless to say how important eye-catching and creative typography in web design is, and these informative tutorials will help you enhance your skills in this sphere of web design.

70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below.

List of emoticons A simple smiley This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons. Emoticons can generally be divided into two groups: Western or Horizontal (mainly from America and Europe), and Eastern or Vertical (mainly from east Asia). The most common explanation for these differences is how the different cultures value different parts of the face, i.e. eyes often play a bigger part in figuring out mood in the East while the West puts the eyes as equal to the rest of the face.[1]

Professional Photo Retouching for Perfect Skin Professional Photo Retouching for Perfect Skin Skin tones are rarely even, as a retoucher it’s important to remember that after your healing and dodge and burn (click to read the previous articles) you need to even them out for good results. If we take a look at the following shot provided by Fantasy Fotos: Notice that the model’s skin tones vary, if we focus generally on the legs you’ll see what I mean, there’s a little too much red in the knees and the feet are less saturated than the thighs. That needs fixing, and we’re going to do it with a Gradient Map. Here we are after a little dodge and burn (just enough for the purposes of demonstrating the gradient map, it’s a super quick job to even out the luminosity and it deserves to be afforded a lot more time in this);

Quick Tips: Instagram your images using Photoshop Instagram reinvented the photo sharing on our social media structure. It's a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your pictures to friends and family. And what I like the most about Instagram, are the various schemes that offers you to filter your pictures with your own little touch. My all-time favorite Instagram filter is the "Nashville" and today, I will show you a quick tutorial about how to achieve that same effect on your images. 20 PSD Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Photoshop Guru Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience.