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by Nikiforos Kollaros

With Adobe® Photoshop® Express online apps, it takes no time at all to make good photos look great and great photos look amazing—and then show them off via web galleries and favorite sharing sites. Plus, you can keep your photos well-organized and safely backed up.

link: Photoshop.com | Tools
Neue überarbeitete Version vom “Online-Photoshop”: Photoshop Express. Einfach mit seiner Adobe ID anmelden und ausprobieren!

This time we are bringing you a lot of Photoshop tutorials on all sorts of topics. It’s meant to be a good collection for those who aren’t quite pro yet, but want to be. From making amazing business cards to bringing a stone statue to life, these take us through hours and hours of practicing those skills.

link: 34 Photoshop Tutorials That Will Leave You Looking Like A Pro | Onextrapixel

Seit ein paar Tagen ist meine Twitter-Verlinkung hierher zum Blog defekt; d.h. es werden hier meine Tweets nicht mehr täglich am Abend zusammengefasst gepostet. Das entsprechende Plugin (Forumspost) hat sich bei mir und einigen anderen verabschiedet.
Bis es wieder so weit ist, kann ich euch nur empfehlen mir direkt auf Twitter zu folgen und/oder meinen Twitter-RSS-Feed zu abonnieren.

liberte-se @ MD|flickr

by Malu Oliveira

@Smashing Magazine

Product photography could well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce website. Without the ability to touch, hold, smell, taste or otherwise handle the products they are interested in, potential customers have only images to interact with. Ultimately, the softer, tastier, flashier and more attractive your products look to shoppers, the more confident they’ll feel about purchasing from you and the better your conversion rate will be. While any product can look great in a photo (sometimes deceptively so), keep in mind that your images should match your website’s overall aesthetic and your company’s image. Let’s start with a few great examples of how online retailers have incorporated high-quality product photos onto their websites. In this article, we will focus on images of actual items, rather than models, events or landscapes.
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link: Improve Your E-Commerce Design With Brilliant Product Photos – Smashing Magazine

Video from one of the solid rocket boosters facing the intertank (middle part of external tank). Not too much going on, except the weird noises of the tank draining, until booster seperation. At the end, the camera switches to a view looking straight up so you can see the parachute deployment. The launch clock is in the upper left corner.

…This week we’re going to take a look at the Camera Calibration panel. There’s a few different things you can do here from customizing color based on your camera to using a color target. Also, there’s a couple of things I mentioned in the video. First, here’s the link to the article from Eric Chan if you want to delve into this topic more. It’s uses an older version of Camera Raw but a lot of the information is still relevant. Also, here’s a link to the X-rite ColorChecker Passport that I mentioned as well. …

link: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips

Matt zeigt in dieser Folge von “Lightroom Killer Tips” wie man mittels x-Rite ColorChecker eigene Kamera Profile erstellt.

“Making of” oder “behind the scenes” des 50 days, 50 photos, 50mm Projektes.
Auch die anderen Videos anschauen, sehr interessant!

Yesterday I completed my second Project 50. For those that don’t know Project 50 consists of 50 photos over 50 sequential days taken with a 50mm lens. That’s a lot of 50s, right? So yeah, started on the 1st of July & fifty days later I was done! A lot of you know that last year I did a photo a day for a year (See the set on flickr) you would think that fifty photos in a row must be a walk in the park. Well that would be true if I had approached it in the same way I did my 365 but for this project I wanted to keep the quality really high the whole way through.

Blogpost: Rick Nunn ~ Fifty of Fifty — 2010
MiniPage: Fifty of Fifty 2010 By Rick Nunn

Absolut geniales Projekt und grandiose Fotos! Vielleicht werde ich so etwas auch umsetzen! Wer macht mit?

Encapsulated NatureScript @ MD|flickr

by Paulo Roberto Dgráfico

Most people hate adverts. Intrusive, deceptive and boring are just three adjectives commonly used to describe advertising and its omnipresence in modern society. Say what you like about the 30 hilarious print ads below, however, boring they certainly are not!

link: 30 More Hilarious Print Advertisements | SpyreStudios

Diese Werbungen sind wirklich mehr als nur einen Blick wert. Hier meine Favoriten:

Flickr: Fotostream von Graffiti Technica

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

link: 36 Cre­ative 3D Typography Designs – Web Design Blog – DesignM.ag