Daily Inspiration #604

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

10 of the Web’s Most Insightful News Infographics

A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better.

Infographics at their best are more than just pictures — they can provide new understandings, succinct summaries, or just plain old fun.

In that… read more

45 Fantastic and Splendid Digital Painting Tutorials

We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more

30 Fantastic and Splendid Digital Painting Tutorials

We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more

Gorgeous 21:9 LCD TV from Philips Goes 3D

Think what you will about the ultra-widescreen, 21:9 format Philips is pushing, but you can’t deny that its cinema-proportioned Full HD LCD TV is gorgeous. Now, Philips plans to push it even further, with a 58-inch, 3D version of the device.

The device, called Philips 3D Cinema 21:9 Platinum, sports a… read more

20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers

Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my… read more

Logo Design: Boats

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on 3D logos… today it’s all about logos with boats!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves, Logo… read more

The Digital Female Nude [Book Review]

Female nude photography has always intrigued me, particularly how a sense of trust is created between photographer and model.

What I find even more intriguing is how, as Australian photographer Peter Adams does in the majority of this book’s pictures, is how he convinces a model to pose outdoors in and… read more

Daily Inspiration #603

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Apple’s Xbox Live-like Game Center to Launch Next Week

Next week, Apple will launch Game Center for the iPhone and the iPod touch. The app and platform will allow video game players to track one another’s achievements, create multiplayer matches and discover new games.

The features are comparable to those found in Xbox Live, the PlayStation Network and Steam —… read more

Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors Now Available

Ultimate Ears, a subsidiary of Logitech, have set loose another pair of custom earbuds that will make ears swoon and wallets groan. The Ultimate Ears In-Ear Reference Monitors feature three individually tuned and balanced armature speakers in each earbud, with 32dB of noise isolation.

This triple speaker format allow the monitors… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

How to Create a Dynamic 3D Puzzle Effect in Adobe Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a nice looking puzzle effect. Using 3D Extrude, Bevel and Map Art options you will learn how to hand craft the individual pieces of the puzzle and arrange it into a dynamic layout.

Step 1

Create a 1000 by 1100px document. First,… read more

51 Tutorials For Creating 3D Animations And Artworks

51 Tutorials For Creating 3D Animations And Artworks

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Excellent Minimalist Photography

As many people preach, less is more. Whether in web design or graphic design or illustration or photography or architecture, minimalist composition tend to really make a point. In a visually polluted world, getting some delight for your eyes is really important.

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So forget element heavy photographs… these minimalist pictures got… read more

20 Useful Graphic Illustration Tutorials in 3D Style

20 Useful Graphic Illustration Tutorials in 3D Style

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Daily Inspiration #602

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

10 Useful iPhone Shortcuts, Tips and Tricks

Here at Mashable, we’ve been putting the iPhone 4 through its paces, and have come up with some handy tips and tricks that can help you get more out of your Apple-flavored mobile.

We’ve covered all kinds of basics, like making search results more relevant, creating shortcuts for your favorite websites,… read more

40 Tutorials and Techniques for Creating Business Logos

A logo alludes to its company’s identity in its appearance and visual impact; that’s how it starts branding. Seeing how important it is, we designers must not underestimate the potential of this simple graphic, and instead hone our skills as much as possible in creating and polishing logos,… read more

The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.53)

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Super Stylish Posters by Protesto

There are all kinds of posters out there. B movies posters, gigs posters, and many others… and I truly dig a good poster design. Yesterday one of our readers, @henriquepetarli, suggested the work of Protesto.

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Protesto is the Brazilian designer Michel Diniz de Carvalho, who’s been living in Norway doing some… read more

Daily Inspiration #601

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Nikon Coolpix P100 [Review]

I fondly remember earlier digicams like the Coolpix 5400 way back in 2003, complete with 5.1 million pixels, a 4x zoom lens and a vari-angle LCD viewfinder. Dirt cheap at AUD1599!

In terms of the Coolpix 5400, the new Nikon Coolpix P100 is definitely retro style-wise, with a severe kick up… read more

Samsung Ships 1 Million Galaxy S Smartphones in the U.S.

It seems that Samsung’s extensive marketing campaign for their Android-based smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S, is paying off: the company announced it has shipped one million of them in the U.S. market.

The Galaxy S is a powerful smartphone with a 1 GHz processor, 512MB of memory and a 4-inch Super AMOLED… read more

50 Refreshing CSS Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped… read more

8 Free Blackberry Games Worth Downloading

It has probably happened to you. You download a free BlackBerry game, full of so much hope and promise, only to discover that it was a waste of time and disk space. “At least it was free,” you tell yourself.

This is an especially common experience for BlackBerry owners. There are,… read more

Daily Inspiration #600

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Packing your Bags for a Photo Shoot

You know I write everything from experience. No point in figuring things out and not passing on the info! So here is a list of simple things to remember (or in my case, forget) when packing up your bags for a photo shoot or wedding:

Choose your bag. I have… read more

Daily Inspiration #599

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Quality Athletic Websites

There are not many aspects in life that can bridge gaps between religion, race, and nationality. Although, one that has proven time and time again is sport. There is not a city across the world that you can visit without seeing a team jersey or logo somewhere! … read more

Net Neutrality: 7 Worst Case Scenarios

Many consumer advocacy groups, web companies and startups are ranting about the perils of losing net neutrality. Net neutrality, they say, is what made the Internet what it is today by giving small companies the opportunity to become big companies, and it rightly puts the user in full control… read more

100+ Free High Quality Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

The demand for good icons are too much in these days and finding the best icon sets from the pool with tens of thousands of packs is not a easy job… read more

Backing Up & Saving Your Images: Part 3 Online Storage Sites & Software Solutions

Storing your images on a safe and sturdy external hard drive is one of the easiest and cheapest options available to photographers, however this shouldn’t be considered as the only option open to you. In recent years there has been a steady growth of online photo storage sites that specifically… read more

Daily Inspiration #598

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Slim Web Gallery- A Free Flash XML Photo Gallery

Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. We’ve again came up with cool freebies as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the instantShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now. We never wait… read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

Logo Design: 3D

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with cars, trucks and vans… today it’s all about 3D logos!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond,… read more

iPhone App Uses Background Location for Automatic Checkins on Foursquare

Foursquare players too busy painting the town red to go to the trouble of whipping out their iPhone and checking in can sit back and let Checkmate do the work for them.

At $1.99, Checkmate offers a convenient alternative for those looking for a passive aggressive way to play the geosocial… read more

Wrap a Ribbon Around a Sphere, Using 3D Revolve

In this Quick Tip, you’ll create a Symbol, which you will then map to a 3D globe. The result looks like a ribbon wrapped around a hollow sphere. Let’s get started!

Step 1

Click once with the Rectangle tool (M) and draw a thin rectangle, about 300px x 20px.

Step 2

Switch to… read more

Daily Inspiration #597

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How to Photograph Bands in Bars, Part 3 – Shooting

A guest post by Music Photographer Rick Bennett.

Bars are challenging shooting environments now matter how you slice it–crappy lighting, drunk crowds, cramped spaces. Add in musicians who like to move around a lot, speakers in photographically inconvenient locations, and microphone stands that tend to bisect heads, and you’ve got an… read more

Viral Blog Pays Tribute to YouTube’s Least Viral Videos

Forget viral vids, here’s the new hot: Videos that no one has ever watched. That’s the premise of this genius single-serving Tumblr blog, 0 Views: The Best of the Bottom of the Barrel.

Blurry clips of smiling children, commercials for “Reiki masters,” Bieber-obsessed girls gazing into mirrors — this here is… read more

Create a Cute 3D Bee in Photoshop

It’s not always necessary to use 3D graphics applications to create 3-dimensional artwork. In many circumstances, you can produce 3D looking artwork in Photoshop without the aide of 3D software at all. In today’s tutorial I will demonstrate how to produce a 3D graphic using a sketch and some of… read more

How to Use the Perspective Grid to Create a Modern TV

In this tutorial you will learn how to create your own modern TV on a stand. Using the Perspective Grid in Illustrator CS5 as the basis of your work you will learn how to quickly create a product illustration with perfect perspective.

Step 1

Open a new document with the size you… read more

Daily Inspiration #596

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

10 iPhone Apps to Get You Back to School

As August nights get cooler, we begin begrudgingly counting down the remaining summer days. Once Labor Day passes, it’s back to school time for millions.

The best part of going back to school is clearly the shopping. Even though a new notebook can go a long way in preparing you for… read more

Top 5 Ways Big Brands are Using Foursquare

This series is supported by The Awareness Social Marketing Hub, a leading enterprise-grade application for marketers struggling with the social media chaos of managing multiple social channels. Click here to learn more.

Unlike other more mainstream social networks, the business potential of Foursquare may not be immediately apparent. At present,… read more

Beautiful Woodwork Art

By János Rácz

In the age of the Web, with personal computers and tablets, we tend to forget that art has been around for a really, really long time and that this digital field is just one of the many media in which art and design have a form. Fortunately, there… read more

5 Tips to Prevent Bad Debt

One of the great things that I have found about freelancing is the thrill of finding new clients.  One of the roughest parts of being a freelancer is waiting to see if your new client is going to pay you for the services you provided.

Here are a few ways that… read more

Two New dSLR Cameras from Sony a33 & a55

Post from: Digital Photography School – Photography Tips.

Two New dSLR Cameras from Sony a33 & a55

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BEST OF: FYC Flickr Group Showcase (6)

There are currently 1791 members in the Fuel Your Creativity Flickr Group, and with that amount of skill in one place there is bound to be something to wet your creative appetite.  Here we will focus our spotlight on some of our favorites that have been contributed to the group. These… read more

Daily Inspiration #595

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Dish Network Begins Streaming TV Shows Online

Beginning Tuesday, satellite TV provider Dish Network will stream TV shows to its subscribers on a website called DishOnline.com and through set-top boxes and mobile devices.

That differentiates Dish’s online offering from some other cable or satellite TV Internet channels like Time Warner and Comcast’s TV Everywhere strategies, which are primarily… read more

Create a Cosmic-Inspired Dreamy Scene in Photoshop

In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use stock photography, 3d elements, and various techniques to create a cosmic-inspired dreamy scene in Photoshop. Let’s get started! Resources Used The following images were used during the production of this tutorial. Grunge Texture Clouds Portrait Crow 3D Abstract Renders Step 1… read more

How to Create a Three-dimensional Airplane with Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed three-dimensional image of an Airplane based on two two-dimensional plans. The knowledge acquired will help you to simulate a three-dimensional image of many different complex objects.

Step 1

Start Illustrator and choose the "print document" type.

Step 2

Start creating two projections… read more

40 New And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

The Internet is bursting with knowledge. Whatever you want is available at your fingertips, and learning new techniques is so easy with the load of useful tutorials that guide you step by step. Adobe Illustrator is powerful indeed, but when used right, it can perform feats that humans will marvel… read more

Daily Inspiration #594

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Sony CyberShot DSC-HX5V [Review]

The Sony Cybershot DSC-HX5V is makes a perfect 10.Three times over!

Ten megapixels (and a bit). Ten times optical zoom. Ten frames a second continuous shooting. Which, as I figure, could make this camera fairly rare.

Get that? Ten full res 3648×2736 pixel images in one second. So you could make ten… read more

10 Classic PC Games That Found New Life on the iPhone

Apple’s iPhone may mark a second golden age of computer gaming for a lot of reasons. The open marketplace means anyone can create a game; from major companies to just a couple of talented people in a garage. The result is a new boom in innovation, the likes of which… read more

Best of the Week #133

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Daily Inspiration #593

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Prospect to Client Tracking Spreadsheet

If you don’t have a client tracking system in place to measure how long it takes to convert a prospect – your potential customer – into a client – a paying customer – you probably will have a hard time predicting what your monthly income will be.

I am not an… read more

Balancing Inspiration and Individuality

I love it when a good story is broken down so that even the simplest of minds can understand. I’m not the smartest, fastest or most creative person in the world, so I don’t like using a lot of big words or fancy jargon to try and impress you —… read more

20 Back to School Apps and Tools for Students

It’s August, which means school is about to start for many high school and college students. You’ve all probably had a nice summer, but now it’s time to get back to pulling all-nighters, listening to boring professors, and attempting to learn something useful.

A lot of you may be dreading school,… read more

36 Cre­ative 3D Typography Designs

3D Typography is an art of collecting and arranging text in three dimension view. So in this showcase we’ve collected 36 creative 3D typography designs

TYPE

FWA – Milk

Requiem

Life’s a journey

Rebuild

PYRAMID EXPERIMENTS

Text Shatter

Outsmoked

Going the wrong way

REJECTED PROJECT

3D

Print Juice

Spirit

Helvetica

Milk Sucks

Boxstyle

Various … read more

Create a Silky Ribbon Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will use the Pen and Gradient tools to create a swirling ribbon text effect. Even though we’re applying the ribbon to text, you can use this this effect to make shapes and scrolls. Let’s get started!

Step 1

Create a 700 by 200px document. Select the Pen… read more

Daily Inspiration #592

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

12 Beginner Tutorials for Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator

This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here.

Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics application, is the tool you use when you need flexible, scalable vector graphics such as logos and artwork… read more

Design Makeover: S Virginia Higher Ed Center

A Smarter Logo

Client:
Southern Virginia Higher Education Center www.svhed.org

BEFORE

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center’s logo is based on an abstract representation of the building itself, which stands on a hill overlooking a river.

The Southern Virginia Higher Education Center calls itself an “educational connector,” in the words of Communications Manager… read more

30 Creative and Inspiring Golf Logos

Sport logos are fantastic to work with – some of the world’s greatest brands are sport-related (think Nike, Adidas, ESPN and Everlast). Golf is a popular sport with wealthy and successful people – as such, golf businesses (such as golf clubs, golf courses and golf websites) can be extremely… read more

Outstanding Advertising Inspiration

Now days ads are everywhere, it’s almost impossible to go somewhere without seeing some kind of ad. The ads that strike me the most are the ones that can combine a good idea with a good execution, and these ads I selected are really interesting and outstanding for that. Check… read more

Interesting Compositions by Markus Bier

Markus Bier is a 21 year old student of communication design at the Institute of Design in Hamburg. His work is quite unique mixing abstract elements with photos. Sometimes it reminds me of David Carson like the bUTTER bEI dE kITCHEN cookbook, however darker. I don’t know how to explain… read more

Drawing the Line

There is a rush of anticipation one feels upon cracking open a fresh sketchbook. The blank page is a small area yet also an expansive laboratory for the creative process. Over time and around the world, artists have developed many ingenious techniques to advance their creative reach.

Despite this, one of the… read more

Logo Design: Cars, trucks and vans

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with hearts… today it’s all about cars, trucks and vans!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo… read more

Envato’s 2010 Birthday Bundle – $20 For $400 Worth of Value

Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of value for only $20.

The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six code packages… read more

10 Fabulous Online Sports Games

Still missing the World Cup South Africa 2010? Is the PGA Tour Season over? We’ve rounded up 10 of the funnest and best web-based sports games to help take your mind off your favorite sporting events until next season.

1. Hattrick

Hattrick.org

Hattrick is a web based online soccer manager game where you… read more

Daily Inspiration #591

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Trapcode Particular 2

GREAT PARTICLE SYSTEM PLUG-IN GETS EVEN BETTER

Regarding Red Giant Software’s Trapcode Particular 2.0, I could basically end the review with an emphasis on the “2” (meaning 2 is better than 1) but I’d really get in trouble with the layout team. Seriously though, if you use Adobe After Effects, you… read more

A Sneak Peek at Premium for Non-members

Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added over 60 Premium tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 10,000 members have formed our unique Premium community. Learn more about the material and resources available to Premium members to Join Premium today.

Join… read more

Great Band Illustrations

I find really nice when bands get illustrated. I remember the music video of “Love Rollercoaster” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers… it was a fun video. But also, there’s a more serious, less cartoonish approach.

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Tamas Gaspar has done some great illustrations for the band Rackajam. These are probably the… read more

Foursquare Focuses on Privacy on Eve of Expected Facebook Location Launch

Foursquare has introduced new privacy settings and updated the pages it uses to explain them, possibly in anticipation of Facebook’s rumored location service announcement tomorrow.

The new settings allow you to hide your e-mail address and phone number from friends or opt out of venues’ “Who’s Here” lists or mayorships, among… read more

Daily Inspiration #590

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

External Hard Drives – Backing Up and Saving Your Images: Part 2

Save it, store it, back it up and back it up again – if you work by this, you may never have to experience that tummy churning sensation of remorse. In this section of our backing up series (read part 1 at Backing Up and Saving Your Images) we look… read more

Xbox Live Comes to Windows Phone 7: Here’s the Games Lineup

An email from Microsoft tonight tells us that Windows Phone 7 will be launching with a whole roster of Xbox Live games to push the envelope of mobile gaming.

A grand total of 63 games from have been announced today, and more will be available by the device’s holiday-season launch. The… read more

Photographs That Use Smoke to Enhance Composition

Photographing smoke can often be a tricky endeavor as it can throw up all sorts of weird exposure problems. On the upside, however, it can really be used nicely to enhance the composition of a photograph.

These photos all use smoke in some way to enhance the composition… read more

Daily Inspiration #589

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Conquer Your Fear of Spiders… in 3D [VIDEO]

To celebrate the upcoming October debut of the UK’s inaugural “at home” channel, Sky TV has come out with a very interesting promotion: what it’s calling the UK’s “first-ever 3D spider phobia treatment.”

So what exactly does that treatment entail? Apparently, its purpose is to help people overcome their arachnophobia by… read more

Mastering Flickr: A Practical Guide

Flickr is probably the most famous of all photo communities on the web.

It’s a place where photographers from all over the world come together, share their work and admire the work of others.

Flickr however, like any other social network, has its own economy and social conventions.

There are professionals, celebrities, enthusiasts,… read more

Reader Tutorial: AeroStuff by Trisme

The tutorial of this week is from one of our readers, his name is Trisme and he is an illustrator, digital artist and web designer from Poland. Trisme will show us how he created the design called AeroStuff, it’s a really cool artwork mixing photos and some 3D objects. The… read more

Reader Case Study: AeroStuff by Trisme

The tutorial of this week is from one of our readers, his name is Trisme and he is an illustrator, digital artist and web designer from Poland. Trisme will show us how he created the design called AeroStuff, it’s a really cool artwork mixing photos and some 3D objects. The… read more

5 Key Benefits of Monitoring Your Client’s Brand on Social Media

Lauren Fernandez is the Agency Community Manager at Radian6, the social media monitoring and engagement platform. She is @cubanalaf on Twitter, and blogs at LAF and MarketingProfs Daily Fix.

From an agency perspective, many utilize social media monitoring at the request of a client who either doesn’t know much about… read more

10 Incredible iPhone Portrait Photographs

Following the incredible landscape photos snapped on iPhones we brought you recently, this time around we’re looking at pictures of people.

With an iPhone in your pocket, a few apps and a good eye, it seems you can take amazing portraits on the go without the expense and bulk of a… read more