Our favorite tweets of the week Jul 11-Jul 17, 2011

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Best of the Week #180

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 #875

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

Finally, Spotify Hits the U.S.

For those of you from the U.K. and other fortunate regions that have been enjoying Spotify for years, this is a non-event. However, for any readers from the U.S., this is huge news. Get ready to completely neglect Grooveshark, Pandora, Last.fm and any other Internet radio you listen to. Spotify… read more

20 High Quality Free Fonts

20 High Quality Free Fonts

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Get Back to the Basics with GetSimple CMS

It’s no secret that I am a huge WordPress advocate. It’s full-featured, extendable, and super powerful. However, depending on the project it could be overkill. You need space and a database backend, and you’ll end up with a lot of features that some clients might not use. Especially if you’re… read more

Daily Inspiration #874

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

Warp Stabilizer in After Effects CS5.5

Franklin goes over how to master the new Warp Stabilizer tool in AE CS5.5, including the subspace warp feature and the synthesize edges option.

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DIY Photography Ring Flash Review

DIY Ring flash + ambient light sources. Flash at 1/32 power, 1/160sec F7.1 ISO320, 51mm.

The assembled DIY Ring Flash with my Canon 580EX and Cybersync radio trigger.

Ring flashes are famous from the fashion world, where the classical make-up ad often uses the light frequently. By surrounding the lens with the… read more

Capturing Powerful Photos of Fire Trails

Photographing fire performers – and the trails they make – is an art form of its own. These incredible artists can put on quite a show, and photographers love the opportunity to capture surreal images using long exposure techniques.

Burning Dan by naturalturn, on Flickr

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Daily Inspiration #873

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

Amazon To Launch Tablet By October [REPORT]

Amazon’s rumored tablet computer will be introduced before October, according to a report.

The tablet, which would vie with Apple’s iPad 2, among other products, will be one of three new hardware products from Amazon coming in the third quarter, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The other devices… read more

Animations and Drawing Tutorials of Adobe Flash

Animations and Drawing Tutorials of Adobe Flash

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50 Must Have Cheat Sheets For Web Designers & Developers

Today we are featuring a collection of more than 50 extremely useful cheat sheets that every designer and developer must have. A cheat sheet is a guide of a peculiar programming language, software or framework that can be printed for easy access.

Cheat sheets are basically intended for those designers and… read more

12 Ways to Add Randomness and Creativity to Your Photography

Photo by Wam Mosely

One of the wonderful things about digital photography is the creativity that you can engage in once you’ve got your image on your computer and in Photoshop. All kinds of effects can be achieved to make your shots look any number of ways.

But what about in-camera techniques… read more

Quick Tip: Adding Movies and Sounds to InDesign PDFs

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Did you know that you can add movie and sound files to an InDesign CS4 project letting you build an Interactive document? In this Quick Tip you’ll learn how to embed files and export your final work to Adobe PDF.

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Vector Art, Utilizing the Colors of the Seasons

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In today’s article, I’m going to show you twenty pieces of amazing vector art, which have color themes that are associated with the four seasons.

Winter Palette Vector Art

What’s surprising to know that although we think of Winter as being the cool season, a Summer palette is also one which… read more

25 examples of symmetry in web design

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7 Inspirational Pro Photographers You Should be Following on Facebook

Facebook is a great place for photography fans to learn about the craft, get inspiration and keep up to date with what other photography lovers are doing. Some pages stand out more than others though. While there are a heap of great photographers on Facebook, we think these… read more

Daily Inspiration #872

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

Paint Sculpture Tutorial

A Guest Post by Henning Huenteler from www.shutter-lag.com.

Paint sculptures are not only beautiful, they also offer a vast variety of different images that depend on many different factors. By experimenting with the main drivers, fantastic variations of different images can be achieved. In the following tutorial, I will introduce the… read more

Pandora Trades Flash for HTML5 in Social Redesign

First Pandora IPO’d, then it hit 100 million users and now it is rolling out a redesign.

Ditching Flash in favor of HTML5, Pandora will be unveiling its new look first to Pandora One subscribers, rolling out to other users in the next few weeks.

We have yet to… read more

Comment to Win – Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook

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Inkscape has been around for some time now, and with each new release it has become the vector editor of choice for many illustrators and web developers the world over. Learning more about Inkscape has been on my "to-do" list for some time now, so today I’m excited to… read more

30 Creative QR code business cards

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A Snapper’s Guide to Street Photography

One of the exciting things about photography is the anticipation of ‘the shot’ – hunting down the moment in time that is worth recording and being there with your camera poised when it happens.

Photo by tom dinning

No genre of photography creates this anticipation like ‘Street Photography’; moving… read more

Simplify File Sharing With UploadingIt

Over the past few months I’ve realized that I don’t have a go-to site or app for sharing large files online. That’s probably because most of the popular services currently available are either slow, clunky or just forgettable. Most of them don’t allow users to keep track of what happened… read more

Daily Inspiration #871

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

Interactive Music Video Lets You Watch 12 Videos at Once

Why watch one music video when you can watch 12 music videos? More is always better — that’s the idea behind the interactive music video for The Bynars’ single, “How Does It Feel to Be in Love?”

“How Does It Feel to Be in Love?” (click to see… read more

How to Photograph a Child’s Birthday Party

Photo by Johnny Blood

I’ve been asked by parents of children to photograph their birthday parties numerous occasions and each time it has been a lot of fun.

Photographing children isn’t always easy – and photographing ‘the birthday party’ presents it’s own unique opportunities and challenges as a photographer.

Birthday Parties present… read more

Tool Hints in InDesign CS5

Questions about a tool? Use InDesign CS5′s new tool hints menu option to get information.

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, July

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

Daily Inspiration #870

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

Facebook Scam Pretends to Connect You With Video Calling [WARNING]

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Best of the Week #179

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 #869

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

Photoshop Pen Tool Practice

Pete Collins teaches some practice exercises for learning and perfecting the use of the pen tool.

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Inside Google’s User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google’s Marcin Wichary

Marcin Wichary’s fascination with the relationship between humans and machines began at an early age. As a boy in Poland, he was mesmerized by the interaction between arcade patrons and the video games they played. Years later, Marcin would help shape the way that millions of computer users interact with… read more

Setting Up an Awesome Beater Mac for Less Than $300

Let’s face it, Macs are expensive. They are more than worth it of course, but there’s no getting around the fact that any recently released Mac, regardless of model, costs a significant amount of money and is a gleaming thief-magnet, liable to being dropped or lost. I love my iPad… read more

Learn How to Create a Flash Website

Learn How to Create a Flash Website

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Daily Inspiration #868

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

EXCLUSIVE: Apple Store Sets Secret Service on Spy Camera Artist

Artist Kyle McDonald installed a program on computers in two New York Apple Store locations that automatically takes a photo every minute. Now his personal computers have been confiscated by the U.S. Secret Service.

McDonald’s project was to capture people’s expressions as they stare at computers, a subject… read more

Ask Dave Podcast: Add Multiple Strokes to One Layer

Ask Dave is a weekly podcast from Photoshop Guy, Dave Cross. In his videos, Dave answers viewer questions about Photoshop tools, actions, settings, etc. Check out the entire series on KelbyTV or subscribe to the feed.

In this episode, Dave demonstrates how to add more than one of the same layer… read more

15 Useful Web Apps for Designers

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There are lots of web apps these days and they are very popular because of time-saving and productivity benefits. Web apps work on almost all platforms and you can access them from any device. You don’t need to install anything and you can save lots of… read more

16 Ways To Play With Instagram

We all love Instagram. I mean, what’s better than taking a photo of your father when he’s sleeping on the couch, just looking nice and relaxed, then stylizing that photo so it looks like it comes from the 1970s, and then, with a click of a button, sharing it on… read more

Daily Inspiration #867

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

7 Winning Examples of Game Mechanics in Action

Gabe Zichermann is the author of Gamification by Design and chair of the upcoming Gamification Summit NYC, where top leaders in the field – such as those profiled here – get together to share insight, key metrics and best practices. Mashable readers are invited to register with… read more

HOW TO: Launch Facebook Skype Video Chat [PICS]

You can now make video calls on Facebook, thanks to a new Skype-powered feature the social network launched Wednesday.

During the product announcement, Mark Zuckerberg described how his elderly neighbor in Palo Alto asked if he could to video chat his grandson on Facebook — without the hassle of setting up… read more

Best Practices For Designing Websites For Kids

Designing websites and related media for kids presents plenty of opportunities for Web designers. Openings are available at many businesses and schools, as well as through parents and kids themselves, giving designers many ways to find work on electronic and print projects that appeal to kids. The types of work… read more

20 Fantastic pseudo-Flash websites

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Correcting White Balance Pre-HDR

RC shows viewers how to correct white balance values before combining multiple exposures in an HDR image.

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Olympus PEN E-PL2 Review

It’s been a while since I’ve seen the PEN E-PL1 and this one comes at the right time — and price — for an entry level camera following the Four Thirds plan. In keeping with the PEN format the camera is mirrorless, dispensing with the pentaprism and optical viewing.

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70+ Inspirational Examples of Websites Designed With HTML5

The web is constantly evolving. New and creative websites are being created every day, pushing the limitations of HTML in every direction. HTML4 has been around for nearly a decade and now its time to move forward. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, HTML5 is proposed as the next… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.93)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources 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,… read more

Interview with Graphic Designer Destill/Mike Harrison

A few weeks ago, I met Mike Harrison at the OFFF festival in Barcelona. We had a little chat and I decided to interview him for abdz. Read all you have to know about the graphic designer & illustrator from England

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, July

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

10 Robust Services To Determine How Fast Your Web Page Loads

Site owners often need to bookmark a number of web page speed testing web tools. These tests include site loading time testers, optimization testers, site comparison tools, and performance tools of any web page. You can read our previous post too where we discussed  7 Excellent Websites To… read more

15 Fresh jQuery Menu Plugins and Tutorials

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We haven’t actually taken a look at what new techniques and plugins are available for building menus with jQuery in quite a long time. For the most part, the plugins below are a great platform/canvas for you to build your navigation by offering fantastic customization options… read more

10 Popular WordPress Plugins for Mobile Devices

10 Popular WordPress Plugins for Mobile Devices

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Creative With Professional CMS Flash Templates

Creative With Professional CMS Flash Templates

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Best of the Week #178

We want to give a big thanks to our sponsors:The Sketchbook Project, Taste of Ink Studios, Shutterstock, PSDstation, W3-Markup, inkd, Site24x7 and MediaLab. A special mention to Media Temple for the excellent service and support with Abduzeedo!

You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe or … read more

20 Biggest Mistakes Designers Make

In web design, the learning never stops. Some of us designers see this as an opportunity, others as a hindrance. We have to keep up with the pace of ever-changing technology, techniques and trends in order to be competitive. In this fast-paced environment, we are bound to make mistakes—and mistakes… read more

Free Flash Gallery Plugin For WordPress

Free Flash Gallery Plugin For WordPress

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Encrypt Stick 5

3-in-1 portable privacy software

Are you a secret agent on a clandestine assignment? Or perhaps, just want to plan a secret getaway for your significant other. Whatever the case may be, here’s an inexpensive way to aid in your covert operation.

Encrypt Stick installs quickly and easily on a USB flash… read more

Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 Review

This camera in Panasonic’s Micro Four Thirds series is highly desirable from a number of angles, not least of which is the touch screen system. And you can buy it in three body colours: black, red and blue

The test camera was supplied with the f3.5/14-42mm kit zoom lens, an average… read more

Best of the Vector Web – June 2011

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Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating dramatic lighting effects in Illustrator, making super-sweet chocolaty styled lettering, designing neon vector effects, and more. We have loads of… read more

30 Creative 404 Error Pages

30 Creative 404 Error Pages

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3 Minutes with Photographer Kelly Castro

Viewing great portraiture can be an extremely rich experience. Great portraiture takes on many forms and styles, but some of the most moving portraits are done in Black & White. A perfect example of  this being the portraiture of Yousuf Karsh. While Karsh was a master of lighting and film, new photographers… read more

Five Desktop Tools To Create Excellent Windows Environment

There are many desktop tools out there for every type of computer users, but getting by good ones and free is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Five Desktop Tools To Create Excellent… read more

Google’s Swiffy Converts Flash Files to HTML5

Google Labs just launched Swiffy, a new web-based tool that allows developers to easily convert Adobe Flash animation SWF files into HTML5. This will allow developers to make Flash ads and basic ActionScript interactions accessible to users on devices that don’t support Flash, like the iPhone and… read more

Create a Media Player and Playlist: New on Premium

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With such a prevalent medium like video on the web it may be a matter of time before you need to build a video section with playlist and player. By using JavaScript (in this case the jQuery framework) a flash player and the new HTML5 data attribute you can… read more

Planet Photoshop: Realistic Balloon

Corey Barker is a Photoshop instructor and graphic designer who maintains a blog at PlanetPhotoshop.com. Visit his site for more tutorials and tips.

Corey creates a realistic balloon against a blue sky all from scratch.

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11 Inspirational Image Collections

One of the most popular types of posts here at DPS are our ‘image collection’ posts where we highlight great examples of different types of photography – all around a theme. Today I dug into our site’s stats and came up with this list of our most popular image collections… read more

80 Apps and Resources for Cloud-Based Web Dev

Web development is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The value of the web has become apparent and business and individuals alike have jumped on board the web bandwagon. During it’s humble beginners, you might find a web developer writing his code in a text editor like… read more

100+ Free Vector Map Files

I find myself constantly searching the web for awesome vector map .eps files to use in my projects. Lately I have been using them for when I create infographics. Unfortunately with the abundance of free ones floating around out there that means there are a lot of free vector maps… read more

Black Rapid RS-7 Camera Strap Review

I recently got my hands on what I think is the most incredible camera strap on the market today; the RS7 from the good folks over at Black Rapid. I’ve searched far and wide for a good camera strap and I definitely found it! In this review I’ll go over… read more

Remembering Michael Jackson: 10 Terrific Tributes [VIDEOS]

Two years ago today, Twitter and the social web was flooded with the sad and unexpected news that the King of Pop had passed.

Rather than dwell on his tabloid-saturated death, we prefer to remember Michael Jackson as the talented artist he was, through the voices and… read more

11 Awesome Facebook Flash Templates

11 Awesome Facebook Flash Templates

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Tesla Discontinues Roadster; Long Live the Model S [PICS]

The Tesla Roadster electric car is dead (see update below). Tesla Motors announced Thursday it would stop taking orders for the $109,000 vehicle in two months, concentrating instead on the development of its next-generation Model S electric car, a four-door sedan that will cost about half… read more

Design a Scroll Bar with Illustrator and Flash Catalyst

After designing a grungy scroll bar in Illustrator, Tom Green takes the AI file into Flash Catalyst and creates a functioning vertical scroll bar.

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A Web Developer’s Guide To Adobe InDesign

Over the past several years, there has been a big divide between designers: those who work in print distribution and those in digital distribution. The irony is that, despite the disputes, name-calling and flat-out arguments between the two camps, their techniques and methods are far more common than many believe…. read more

60 Fresh and High Quality Free PSD Files

Adobe Photoshop ranks high among the ultimate tools used in graphic design and most designers wouldn’t even think of designing without Photoshop installed on their computer. Having high-quality PSD files can not only shave time from your workflow, but can also come handy for any rush jobs a client needs…. read more

Internet Archive Now Supports HTML5 for a Half Million Videos

The Internet Archive’s entire stash of digital videos — that’s more than 500,000 assets — now supports HTML5 as well as Flash.

The Archive, which is best known for hosting older versions of websites, is using technology from open-source video company Kaltura to get the job done.

The Kaltura… read more

How to Deal with the Dreaded Chandler Bing Face

In this post New York Photographer James Maher gives some tips on how to deal with a portrait subject that presents like Chandler Bing from the TV Series Friends..

Photographer: “I’m sorry is the seat uncomfortable.”
Chandler: “No, I am.”

We’ve all been there. You meet this wonderful, outgoing person for… read more

Blending Shapes in Adobe Illustrator CS5

Explore some design options using Illustrator’s blend tool using blend options and the path selection tool.

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The Ultimate Guide to On-Page Optimization

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We work with a great deal of very talented website designers and developers who create first-rate websites for their clients – aesthetically superb but not always the most search engine friendly they could be. Overall it can make the project more expensive for the client because… read more

Do You Read These 8 Cool Photoshop Blogs for Tutorials?

Among the most popular posts here on Light Stalking are our Photoshop tutorials. So in the spirit of everything photoshop, here are some might cool blogs with Photoshop tutorials for both photographers and designers that you should be following.

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Sony NEX 5 Review

A Guest Post by Chris Folsom from Studio Tempura.

Here was my dilemma: I love photography and want to have a camera with me as often as possible, but carrying a DSLR at all times is less than practical. But I want better image quality than most cellphones and point-and-shoots… read more

40 Superb iPhone Wallpapers

40 Superb iPhone Wallpapers

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OK Go’s New Album Premieres on Mashable

Each Monday, Mashable highlights an exclusive new video or song. Check out all our Music Monday picks.

OK Go is a name critics constantly evoke when discussing bands who are exceptionally plugged into the digital scene. For years now, this group of musicians has been testing the… read more

Vintage Graphic Effect with Illustrator Live Trace

Corey uses creates a vintage graphic effect in Illustrator using the live trace feature and artistic effects.

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Useful Resources, Tools and Services for Web Designers

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional Web designers and developers. We regularly look for new resources, tools and services to make the search of these ever-growing techniques easier. Once we have a reasonable number of useful resources, we prepare them in a handy overview for your convenience. In this… read more

The Forgotten Design

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Think about the last time you were in an airport and had to find your way to baggage claim, or in a restaurant and wanted to locate the restroom, or in an office building and needed to find your way to the parking garage. How’d you… read more

Nikon D5100 Review

While nipping at the heels of its top level sibling, the D7000, this baby has a couple of advantages: a smaller size and arguably a less challenging user interface. It is in fact an excellent prosumer or enthusiast camera.

In the hand it’s a practical camera and, at a pinch, could… read more

20 Outstanding Single Page Website Designs

20 Outstanding Single Page Website Designs

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How to photograph children {and other stuff} indoors

When you Google about photographing indoors, one of the most unmistakable feelings you come away with is that you can’t do it with your existing equipment. Kit lenses aren’t ‘fast’, they don’t shoot in a wide open f/1.4, you don’t have a big external flash. All of these things can… read more

Ask Dave Podcast: Make a Vignette Using Smart Filters

Ask Dave is a weekly podcast from Photoshop Guy, Dave Cross. In his videos, Dave answers viewer questions about Photoshop tools, actions, settings, etc. Check out the entire series on KelbyTV or subscribe to the feed.

In this video, Dave shows Photoshop users how to make a vignette using Smart Filters.

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Five Useful Interactive CSS/jQuery Techniques Deconstructed

With the wide variety of CSS3 and JavaScript techniques available today, it’s easier than ever to create unique interactive websites that delight visitors and provide a more engaging user experience.

In this article, we’ll walk through five interactive techniques that you can start using right now. We’ll cover:

Animated text effects,
Animated images… read more

Diving into WebSockets: New Premium Tutorial

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Learn how to leverage the power of asynchronous server-to-browser “push” communication with Node.js and Socket.IO. With Socket.IO, you can allow your server to communicate with your browser clients without having to worry about browser support (HTML5 WebSockets, Flash, polling, etc.). Become a Premium member to read this tutorial, as… read more

35 Of The Best 3D Flash Websites Ever

Beauty will save the world! And digital world will be saved by attractive and magnetic 3D Flash websites which are almost brilliant works of art. This kind of sites quickly draws audience’s attention as it provides rich visual experience. So today we would like to touch the subject of 3D… read more

Why developers cannot afford to ignore design

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