How annoying letters save our written culture

08.10.2010, 15:20

CAPTCHA’s and reCAPTCHA’s

Just recently I stumbled upon an interesting article about CAPTCHA’s and reCAPTCHA’s, which made me read a bit more about this whole thing. Nowadays they are an almost omnipresent part of our online experience, especially when you tend to interact through comments or have an account on Facebook.

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Winner Tiltshift Competion

08.10.2010, 11:52

Winner Tiltshift Competion

Last week we posted a tutorial on creating the tiltshift effect with Photoshop. The effect became quite popular lately through various commercials and youtube videos showing real life scenes which look like a miniature model. It looks amazing and is fairly easy to achieve when you know how it works. So we asked you to try it yourself and send us your results.

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30 fresh logo ideas

07.10.2010, 8:06

30 creative logo designs

nspiration is extremely important for the development of an artist. Sources of inspiration, such as this collection of 30 creative logo designs, play a relevant role in triggering new and fresh ideas in a designer’s mind. They also showcase what other creatives came up with and thus help to avoid accidental duplication.

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30+ awesome texture collections for flyer design

05.10.2010, 8:49

collections for flyer design

Textures are a really versatile tool. They can quite easily be set as background image to form the basis of a flyer, business card or other print products. Especially in the “dirty” grunge style textures play an important role. Yet, glitter and glam styles can also be achieved with trendy Bokeh-textures.

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Facebook Photos is now officially great! | weekly comment

01.10.2010, 15:47

Facebook Photos is now officially great!

Today Facebook officially announced a significant improvement of its photo handling. With more than 15 billion (!!!) pictures online Facebook already is the largest photo sharing platform by far. It dwarves other services like flickr by far and continues to grow at an almost obscene rate of millions a week.

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Tutorial & Competition: Tiltshift with Photoshop

30.09.2010, 11:13

Tutorial & Competition

Like our last tutorial the tiltshift technique originally comes from analogue photography. Today we reproduce it digitally with Photoshop to give a photo of a real situation the appearance of a tiny model railway scene.

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70 great brush sets for photoshop

27.09.2010, 9:50

boost your image editing

Adobe Photoshop can be extended in many ways. Plugins, styles, action, gradients, shapes, textures, patterns, structures, scripts and panels offer a wide choice to boost your image editing.

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E-books didn’t kill print quite yet. | weekly comment

24.09.2010, 10:29

E-books didn’t kill print quite yet

In July Amazon announced that e-books outsold hardcover books by a ratio of almost two to one. Techblogs around the world took this as a hint that the printed book is losing it all and peaks in sales are nothing more than the death throws of a dying giant.

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40 lovely text effects for Photoshop

23.09.2010, 9:00

High quality text effects

High quality text effects are a rare breed. Photoshop also isn’t the perfect tool for first-class lettering. This collection is intended to show you that nevertheless there are some really helpful and usable resources on this topic available on the internet. A current trend are 3D letters, often created in conjunction with software such as Cinema 4D.

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Best of Photoshop tutorials

20.09.2010, 8:10

A good mix of short exercises

Photoshop tutorials help learning new techniques by doing. Quite often the precise goal of the tutorial isn’t what counts. Usually it also doesn’t directly apply to your project. What really pays off are the insights and skills you gain in using the software’s tools and functions while going through the steps.

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