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11 Unique Manipulation Effect Tools By Photofunia

PhotoFunia LAB is a set of very useful image manipulating tools and filters which can be applied directly to your image. Most of the generated images are available in hi resolution and are perfect for turning them into real printed photos or posters.

I decided to share about PhotoFunia Lab after trying to use their calendar manipulation tool. It’s very nice, so that i want to share to you guys! Currently, PhotoFunia Lab has 11 effect manipulation tools which are all great. You can try to manipulate your photos in no time with PhotoFunia Lab.

All of them are unique, but be notified that your image should be in JPEG, GIF or PNG format and must not exceed the size of 8 MB.

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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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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:

1. oxygen emissions – Green or brownish-red, depending on the amount of energy absorbed.
2. 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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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!

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Why is Photoshop Good for Web Design?

Photoshop is a great graphics editor. It was originally designed for photo editing, but it can be used for many other tasks. One of such is web design. Now days, nearly all professional web designers are using Photoshop to build websites because of its powerful features and easy to use tools. If you have never designed a website before you can simply use Photoshop to handle everything from design to code for you. However, this is not the best way to design a website, but it is possible, and if you are new to the web design world you can get a website up and running quickly without learning HTML and CSS.

Using Photoshop to design a website is not the same as designing a brochure for example. You need to know the limitations of the current web browsers and the functions available on the web. For example, you might come up with something that’s totally amazing, but later you find out it isn’t buildable. Understanding the limitations will allow you to bend the rules without breaking them! Many London website design professionals tend to prefer to design the layout and graphics in Photoshop and then slice the images afterward. So if you are serious about designing websites you need to use software like Dreamweaver along with Photoshop.

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Tag Your Friends in Facebook With This Picture!

Do you like to tag your friends in Facebook? I made these small photos/wallpapers for all of you who wants to tag your friend of best friends in your Facebook. Choose your favorite color that you like. I made 5 color, which is Blue, Red, Green, Orange, and Purple. I hope that you like  these simple artworks & make a good use of these artworks to praise your friends as they’ve been your friends all this time. I did this too in my Facebook!

Instructions:

1. Right click on the picture you want to download
2. Save image as (or whatever your browser wants)
3. Upload that picture to your Facebook. Simple, isn’t it?

Have a nice day!

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Photoshop Tips For Novice Web Designers

Have you thought about designing your own website? The truth is you don’t need to be a professional web designer to design websites? However, you do need some design background in order to create a decent looking website. If you have done some research yourself you know the first step starts from Photoshop or paper. You need to create the design first before any coding can take place. Fortunately, it’s actually quite simple when you know the basics of web design and how a website is structured. You might want to read some materials on this before designing one.

Creating a website layout in Photoshop will require you to know there are three main components – the header, the body and the footer. You might also have a sidebar. Think of these as containers that will hold your contents on the page. A web page is normally structured in this way, so if you can get your head around this you will find it much easier in designing it. You should create a folder in the layers palette for each one of these containers and put graphics, text, images in them accordingly. Doing so will keep your document organized.

The next thing you need to decide is the wide of your website. At the time of writing this article, the most common screen resolution is 1024px x 768px. Knowing this, your website layout should be no wider than 950px otherwise the scroll bar will appear. You can take a screenshot of the browser window and use that a guide to help you see how the page would look like with it. Simply cut out the content section after the printscreen command and then stick it on the very top layer. You can switch it on and off to see the difference.