Photoshop Tutorial: Wet Text and Water Droplets We'll start out with a simple gradient for our background, so create a new image with a transparent background. For my example here, I made the image 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels. Next, I set the foreground color to #0a10ff and the background color to #3ed3d5. You can choose other colors to suit your needs, though the water effect looks best against blue. and swipe out a gradient. Now let's add our text. Now let's add some water drops to make it more interesting looking. . 20 Illusional Droste Effect Images that will Twist Your Mind December 31st, 2009 at 11:12 am - First, I want to greet all the readers of Pixzii a Happy New Year, I hope you all have a prosperous new year. In today’s post I’m going to show you some really cool images done in “Droste effect.” “Droste effect,” is named after a 1904 package of Droste brand cocoa. A perfect example of the Droste effect can be simply produced by placing two mirrors in front of each other. Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source Source
25 Free Movie Fonts You all surely love free fonts very much, don’t you? What we’re also sure you love are the movies. And we bet your customers love them as well and often you hear from them they want a font from this or that movie in a design you’re working on for them. Of course we can’t tell for sure if these particular fonts were actually used in the movies – chances are that these ones are just replicas, but these replicas are surely damn good ones! We would like to thank guys from project like urbanfonts.com, famousfonts.smackbomb.com, dafont.com and other font-collecting enthusiasts for a great job that they do – you guys really rock, keep’em coming! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 007 GoldenEye 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. About the Author Edward Korcheg Edward has been with TemplateMonster blog since 2009 and is a great fan of social media and web development trends (especially jQuery and HTML5).
Pondly » Back to the future Article by James Pond I am the owner of Pondly.com / art lover / electrical engineer / software developer / MBA in e-business student. I blog for pleasure and love to share my Internet findings. Irina Werning, a Buenos Aires Photographer asked friends and family to “re-enact” old photos of themselves for an ongoing project, which she christened “Back to the Future.” Did you like these photos? Visit Website Do you want more visual fun? Art, Design, Photography and Free Resources @ Designzzz 66 Mind Blowing Photo Manipulations Art | Inspiration Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. Photo manipulation is an art in itself, that requires a skill and precision as we know, it is one of the most creative artforms to come out of the digital age. This presentation shows an amazing collection of photo manipulation art related to nature, photography, objects, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related concepts. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting to ignite their creativity. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. Mind Blowing Examples of Photo Manipulations Art Photo manipulation can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. More Resources
50 Japanese town logos with kanji ::: Pink Tentacle Here is a collection of 50 Japanese town logos that incorporate stylized kanji characters into the design. Fujinomiya (Shizuoka): The kanji 宮 (miya) inside a cherry blossom with Mt Fuji petals Fukuyama (Hiroshima): Bat-shaped 山 (yama) denotes old name of Kōmoriyama ("Bat Mountain") Ibaraki (Ōsaka): The kanji 茨 (ibara) in the shape of a pigeon Nishino-omote (Kagoshima): The kanji 西 (nishi) Ōme (Tōkyō): The kanji 青 (ao) and plum blossom (ume) signify 青梅 (Ōme) Kanazawa (Ishikawa): The kanji 金 (kana) inside a plum blossom, the Maeda clan symbol Okutama (Tōkyō): The kanji 奥 (oku) Hachinohe (Aomori): The kanji 八戸 (Hachinohe) in the shape of a crane (head and wings) Kitami (Hokkaidō): The kanji 北 (kita) shaped like a sash weight Yūbari (Hokkaidō): The kanji 夕 (yū) inside a hexagon representing coal Hitachi (Ibaraki): A flower-shaped 立 (tachi) kanji inside a circle representing the kanji 日 (hi) Seto (Aichi): The kanji 土 (tsuchi, or "soil") in a clay pot represents the local pottery industry
20 Most Amazing Microscope Shots Pictures !!!! | Green Buzz These microscope pictures are taken from the book ‘ Microcosmos’, created by Brandon Brill . This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye. 01 – A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip 02 – The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip 03 – Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin 04 – The surface of a strawberry 05 – Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue 06 – Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells 07 – The nylon hooks and loops of velcro 08 – Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains 09 -The weave of a nylon stocking 10 – The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth 11 – The head of a mosquito 12 – A human head louse clinging to a hair
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