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48 Amazing Morning Dew Photo Gallery
Dew is water in the form of droplets that appears on thin, exposed objects in the morning or evening. As the exposed surface cools by radiating its heat, atmospheric moisture condenses at a rate greater than that at which it can evaporate, resulting in the formation of water droplets. When temperatures are low enough, dew takes the form of ice; this form is called frost.
Because dew is related to the temperature of surfaces, in late summer it is formed most easily on surfaces which are not warmed by conducted heat from deep ground, such as: grass, leaves, railings, car roofs, and bridges.
On this gallery, there will be only grass, leaves & flowers. I’ve sorted some of the best morning dew photos from Flickr & Amolife. They’ve done very good job to get all of wonderful pictures. Enjoy the gallery!
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25 Unique 3D Light Graphics Wallpapers
You may know about light painting, which also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera. In many cases the light source itself does not have to appear in the image. The term light painting also encompasses images lit from outside the frame with hand-held light sources.
But I’m not gonna show you about common light painting generated from photography. What I’m gonna show you is 3D version of light painting wallpapers, which called light graphics. At first, I’m a little bit confused & had no idea what they are called. But finally, i found out that these wallpapers are 3D version of light painting/light graphics, which is definitely not generated by photography technique. It’s generated from 3D rendering technique.
These 3D wallpapers are originally from www.horyma.ru, which is a Russian website. I don’t understand Russian, do i can’t give in depth comment about this website. But these wallpapers are from other website.
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30 Nice Valentine’s Day Wallpapers + Other R...
It’s less than 2 weeks from Valentine’s Day! I bet you have already thought about something that would be given to your spouse? I hope that you give your best present for your spouse this year!
Now, I’m going to share some of nice Valentine’s Day wallpapers which can be downloaded for free! You may use it to design your own artwork in your Valentine’s Day Card. At bottom of this post, i also share about some friends who post Valentine’s Day resources too.
30 Nice Valentine’s Day Wallpapers
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Free 76 High Quality Icons From Elegant Themes
I’m still watching Arsenal vs Manchester United when i write this post. The score is 0-2, which makes me happy, because I’m a Manchester United fan. But that’s not what I’m going to share here. 
Recently, i got a shocking email from elegantthemes, as i am one of elegantthemes members. For the first time, elegantthemes send his members a set of high quality icons which can be redistribute to other people for free! What an unusual moment here! Especially for those who are a web designers. This post should be useful…
This is email from elegantthemes:
Read MoreI needed a few icons for a new theme I am designing, and after being unable to find any open-source/restriction free icons that suited the theme, I resorted to creating some of my own. After I started making them I figured, why not create a whole set? So I sat down all day yesterday and drew a set of basic web icon to be used here at ElegantThemes. Now that I have a decent collection I have decided to release them for free, so hopefully next time someone is looking for some stock icons to use in their commercial project they will have to look no further! These icons are restriction-free. Feel free to use and abuse them, redistribute them, resell them, or anything else you can think of. If you like them, then thank me by linking to this blog post
Officially these icons are dual licensed under the GPL and MIT licenses.
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40 Popular Lists of Photoshop Tutorials
Today, psd-tutorial.com are going to give you roundups of so many adobe photoshop tutorials. I’ve seen so many blogs posting about photoshop tutorial lists. Today, I’m gonna give you list of adobe photoshop roundup that is written by several top graphic design bloggers around the blogosphere.
This list may not represents the best roundup at all. If you have some good roundup articles, feel free to notify me by commenting in this article. At first, I made this article to make me easier to search for adobe photoshop tutorials & enhance my graphic design skills and experience. But then, I’m sure that this article will be very helpful for all of you who wants to learn more about adobe photoshop.
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30 Nice CG Posters From SeventhStreet
SeventhStreet is a graphic design company who employ some of the most talented graphic designers & digital artists to make high quality CG – computer graphics. My first impression after seeing their website is very impressed. They often combine 2D elements with 3D elements in most of their works. I makes their works looks vivid & fresh. Below is a few introduction word from SeventhStreet website:
Read MoreOver 17 years of specializing in retouching and design has taught us that the best work comes through collaboration. Sure, we employ some of the industry’s most talented and accomplished digital artists, but we don’t rely on talent alone. We listen. We offer advice. We’re also happy to help wherever and whenever we can – from concept to finish and anywhere in between. And whether we’re retouching photography to match your creative vision or helping you develop a complex image from photos, CG elements and digital illustration, we’ll make sure you’re as happy with the process as you’ll be with the finished product. We hope you’ll be impressed with what you see here, but we also hope you’ll do more than just look. Download some images for your desktop. Enter our monthly contest. But above all, join the conversation, tell us what you think, and get creative with us.
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25 Nice Aurora Borealis Photos
Auroras, sometimes called the northern and southern (polar) lights or aurorae, are natural light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the polar regions. They typically occur in the ionosphere. They are also referred to as polar auroras.
Auroras are the result of the emissions of photons in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, above 80 km (50 miles), from ionized nitrogen atoms regaining an electron, and oxygen and nitrogen atoms returning from an excited state to ground state. They are ionized or excited by the collision of solar wind particles being funneled down and accelerated along the Earth’s magnetic field lines; excitation energy is lost by the emission of a photon of light, or by collision with another atom or molecule:
- oxygen emissions – Green or brownish-red, depending on the amount of energy absorbed.
- nitrogen emissions – Blue or red. Blue if the atom regains an electron after it has been ionized. Red if returning to ground state from an excited state.
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25 Unique & Creative World Map Design
A world map is a map of the surface of the Earth, which may be made using any of a number of different map projections.
Maps of the world are often either ‘political’ or ‘physical’. The most important purpose of the political map is to show territorial borders; the purpose of the physical map is to show features of geography such as mountains, soil type or land use. Geological maps show not only the physical surface, but characteristics of the underlying rock, fault lines, and subsurface structures.
But today I’m not gonna share about the real & formal world map. I’m gonna present some of unique world map design. They are unique, fun & sometimes weird. Check it out!
Unique & Creative World Map Design
Hexagonal World Map
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25 Excellent Night Photography + Tutorials
Night photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between dusk and dawn. Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure. With the progress of high-speed films, higher-sensitivity digital image sensors, wide-aperture lenses, and the ever-greater power of urban lights, night photography is increasingly possible using available light.
Night Shot Techniques & Equipments
- A tripod is usually necessary due to the long exposure times. Alternatively, the camera may be placed on a steady, flat object e.g. a table or chair, low wall, window sill, etc.
- A shutter release cable or self timer is almost always used to prevent camera shake when the shutter is released.
- Manual focus, since autofocus systems usually operate poorly in low light conditions. Newer digital cameras incorporate a Live View mode which often allows very accurate manual focusing.
- A stopwatch or remote timer, to time very long exposures where the camera’s bulb setting is used. (source)
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25+ Examples of High Speed Photography
High speed photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena. In 1948, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) defined high-speed photography as any set of photographs captured by a camera capable of 128 frames per second or greater, and of at least three consecutive frames. High speed photography can be considered to be the opposite of time-lapse photography.
In common usage, high speed photography may refer to either or both of the following meanings. The first is that the photograph itself may be taken in a way as to appear to freeze the motion, especially to reduce motion blur. The second is that a series of photographs may be taken at a high sampling frequency or frame rate. The first requires a sensor with good sensitivity and either a very good shuttering system or a very fast strobe light. The second requires some means of capturing successive frames, either with a mechanical device or by moving data off electronic sensors very quickly.
Enjoy 25+ examples of high speed photography!
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Amazing Illustrations By Philip Straub
Philip Straub is an Illustrator & Art Director from Seattle. He uses Adobe Photoshop & Corel Painter on most of his works. Philip Straub objective is to create and develop beautiful things that entertain and enrich peoples lives. Philip Straub has so much experience which you can see here – Resume of Philip Straub
Philip’s luminous and meticulously detailed digital and traditional oil paintings have classical influences but are purely based on the fantastic. Many images are derived from the ever present surreal worlds that play out in his mind like lucid dreams throughout the day. His visions are inhabited by unique characters and filled with imaginative architecture and lush vegetation that seems to come to life, bursting with vibrant colors and dramatic lighting. Philip focuses on invoking an emotional response from his images through composition, color, light and subject matter.
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Website Review – CoolPhoto.me
You may have heard about Photofunia. CoolPhoto.me offers you similar effect for your photo just like Photofunia, but this website only provides you 10 effects at time when i write this post. It’s effects are quite simple, so that adobe photoshop user can made these effects easily. But for you who don’t use adobe photoshop, this website offers you great excitement of modifying your photos!
Take a look here! Try what you want here!
