15 Artistic Watercolor Effects Photoshop Tutorials I’m sure we all share the frustration of trying to get some acceptable results from the Watercolor Photoshop Plugin that is bundled with the default Photoshop installation. As with most of those plugins, to achieve reasonable results you have to go farther than applying a single plugin. These 15 watercolor effects Photoshop tutorials will show you how to create beautiful watercolor paintings from your photos. Transform photo into watercolor painting Dynamic Recessed Watercolor Typography in Photoshop Design a Grungy Floating Island Watercolor Text Easy Watercolor Painting Effect Watercolor Text Painted on a Wet Paper Watercolor Effect Easily Transform Your Photo Into a Watercolor Painting Stunning Watercolor Effect A Quick and Easy Watercolor with Photoshop’s Art History Brush Create Convincing Watercolor Effects Using Photoshop Design a Watercolor Effect Menu Create Cool Watercolor Effects in Photoshop Creating a Watercolor From a Photograph Watercolor Photo Effect
Using Folders And Feeds on Issuu (and Twitter) The Wedding Notebook: Lifting the Veil How did you come to start The Wedding Notebook? Did any of you have previous magazine experience? Andros Xavier Chan: I’ve always wanted to start a wedding website since my university days. Chaiyen Wong: I have been working with renowned magazines and publishing houses in Malaysia and Singapore for over 10 years now. Considering that your audience is primarily based in Asia, what are the distinctive elements of an Asian wedding? Andros: Typically, Asian weddings are huge. I think our readers are looking for creative ways to intertwine these ceremonies without losing their cultural heritage. Chaiyen: Asian weddings are huge and have more religious aspects, which is probably what discourages brides to explore outside the conventional. How has distributing the magazine online helped your overall mission? Andros: Our initial intention was to be a platform for sharing ideas within the Asia Pacific region. Take us through how you plan an issue. Read More 1.
20 of the Best Free Stock Photo Sites | PSDVIBE - Tutorials and 20 of the Best Free Stock Photo Sites When designing a website stock photography can sometimes play a big roll. With all the commercial stock photo sites out there, it’s sometimes hard to find the ones that offer quality images free. So I compiled a list of what I believe are the best free stock photo websites out there. Author: Matthew Heidenreich If you know of any other good free stock photo websites that offer quality images, please be sure to let us know in the comments. RCA Today: Missionaries Support the Christians of "There is an urgent need to support Palestinian Christians in their desire to stay in the region of Israel/Palestine," says Marlin Vis. "They are the glue that holds the three faith communities of the region together." Marlin and Sally Vis organize and lead pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine. "These are not tours," they say, "but opportunities for members of the RCA to experience biblical and archeological sites as well as the 'living stones' of Israel/Palestine, especially Palestinian Christians and others working for peace and justice." To learn more, contact Sally Vis at marlinandsallyvis@gmail.com. Part of that glue, Vis says, is playing an important role as a moral voice in the area. Marlin and his wife Sally, RCA missionaries, know many Palestinian Christians personally. When the Vises couldn't renew their Israeli visas, they returned to the U.S. and continued their work long-distance. The Vises also visit RCA congregations to educate people about the situation in the Middle East.
Easy Illustrator Trick: Oversized Stroke | BittBox Easy Illustrator Trick: Oversized Stroke If our freebies have benefited you personally or have helped you earn a profit please consider donating via paypal. Donate Now Illustrator comes standard with some default brushes. Most of us probably use these brushes as they were intended to be used, but what happens if you push the limits of stroke size? You get a really easy way to create some cool abstract effects in Illustrator. Overview/Explanation: The example you see above contains a few very simple shapes I created in Illustrator (a star, a spiral, a square, etc). Try It Yourself: Start with a simple shape, like a star or a square like below (actual size). Now, make sure there is no fill, and pick an artistic brush stroke to apply to the stroke. Now take the stroke to a big number, like 30pt and see what you get. Here is that same shape, with a different brush, still 30pt stroke: Here is a simple spiral with the same stroke: Tips for Exploring this on your own: The key is to experiment. 1. 2.
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know We’ve updated this guide with the new privacy settings just launched by Facebook. You can get the new Facebook privacy guide now. Everyday I receive an email from somebody about how their account was hacked, how a friend tagged them in the photo and they want a way to avoid it, as well as a number of other complications related to their privacy on Facebook. Over the weekend one individual contacted me to let me know that he would be removing me as a friend from Facebook because he was “going to make a shift with my Facebook use – going to just mostly family stuff.” Perhaps he was tired of receiving my status updates or perhaps he didn’t want me to view photos from his personal life. 1. I can’t tell you how many people are not aware of their friend lists. There are a few very important things to remember about friend lists: I’ll touch on each of the things listed above in more detail later. Using friend lists is also extremely useful for organizing your friends if you have a lot of them.
1000 Awesome Things Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: So you want a Facebook Fan Page for Your Nonprofit? Here's the Scoop! NTEN offered a fantastic Webinar today featuring Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing at Facebook and Adam Conner from the DC Office on the emerging best practices for nonprofits who want to set up Facebook Fan Pages. Here's the description This webinar will be a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good. Expanding on the Non-Profits on Facebook page, we want to help you harness the power of Facebook and bring positive change to the world. Facebook empowers non-profits by enabling them to mobilize communities, organize events, increase fundraising, reduce costs with free online tools, and raise awareness through viral networks. I learned a lot, but I did not capture it all. Here are my notes and I've added some of my own references and links for more context: Overview: Facebook is in 30 languages, with 200 Million Users (want some more demographics on users, check out Nick O'Neil's Demographic Page) Profiles VS Pages Tips for Setting Up Your Fan Page Q&A Nuggets
50 Incredible Stop Motion Videos | Inspiration | Smashing Magazi Advertisement Stop motion animation is one of the hottest areas of film-making today. Stop motion is an animation art through which one can spring life in inanimate things and do the unnatural. Well, how can you make use of stop motion in web design? Below we present over 50 amazing examples of stop motion videos, a tribute to hard work of animators, artists and creative folks. You may be interested in the following related posts: Stop Motion Videos Fat City Reprise – Long Gone7 video by Cesar Kuriyama8 Music video was created entirely from 45,000 Photographs taken by a Nikon D200 DSLR. Human Tetris9 video by www.notsonoisy.com10 Super Mario Bros 3 LEGO11 video by jmehatesyou12 Human Skateboard13 video by SneauxShoesVideo14 Happy Thanksgiving15 video byMentalLapse16 Abstract thoughts17 video by Darryn ray18 A short love story19 video by Carlos Lascano20 Chess clay stop motion21 video by ricx7822 Shaving by Hand23 video by theyear198824 PSP Commercial25 video by dark420bishop26 Video by wemakesoap70
5 Tips for Optimizing Your Brand’s Facebook Presence Steve Coulson is a partner at The Advance Guard, a new media company that creates radical marketing programs using disruptive technologies, community platforms and social media. So – you’ve set up a Facebook public profile for yourself, your brand or your company, and you’re starting to post content. Now what? If you’re like me – a tinkerer and tweaker – you might be interested in ways to fine-tune your profile for maximum affect. This post is part of Mashable’s Facebook Week. 1. Facebook specs recommend that profile pictures should be 200px wide, while height can vary as needed. You'll find the system crops images when generating a thumbnail, losing information around the edge. Also bear in mind that regardless of the shape of your profile image, Facebook thumbnails are square (with rounded corners), and sized based on the length of the shortest side of your image. 2. 3. Public Profiles now allow separate default landing areas for Fans and Non-Fans. 1. 2. 3. 4. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3.
125+ Ultimate Round-Up of Illustrator Tutorials | Showcases | in When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master. Why I need to look any Illustrator tutorial? Out of many reasons there are three reasons for simple explanations. First, Illustrator offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out your design, optimize structure proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. Second, if you have some experience with Illustrator then it is easy to learn the basics and quickly produce very impressive and beautiful results. It’s been months, since we have been Rounding-Up interesting, useful and creative Illustrator Tutorials which can help you to create great designs. Creativity means a lot in any kind of presentation. 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. 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06.