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How to Take Good People/Portrait Photographs
People are probably the most widely photographed subjects. However, people photography needs special treatment in terms of composition, lighting, depth of field and most importantly a “natural look”. It is a misconception that shooting people/portraits needs elaborate studio equipment. Contrary to the popular belief, people can be photographed successfully in natural light.
Which Famous Logos have been more Effective – Simple or Complex?
Among so many famous logos, few are simple logos while others are complex logos. Simple logo design of Shell and Nike are memorable while 2012 London Olympic Logo is a complex logo.
How To Add Non-Textual Elements To A Baseline Grid
Most articles that talk about baseline grids focus on textual elements and often neglect to mention non-textual elements such as forms and images. This post, with accompanying demo, adds some non-textual elements to a design and shows how to align them to a baseline grid.
Image map with CSS3 & jQuery tooltips
Tooltips can play a big role in your web designs and that isn’t new anymore. Just use them correctly and they will help you improve user experience.
We have seen before how to create some good looking CSS3 tooltips and today you’ll learn how to create an image map with pins and tooltips.
Collection Of High Quality and Free Brick Textures
Here is another freebie from Designbeep.As you know we share high quality free textures,patterns,brushes et. every weekend and this time we have a great collection of brick textures from various free texture resources. These kind of textures are extremely useful for graphic and web designers and there are 30 brick textures in this collection.
20+ Slider Pricing Design Showcase
If you want to create your own slider pricing you should use JQuery UI Slider, YUI Slider, ExtJS Slider with snap to increment feature. Many websites have use this to showcase their work. This gives the vistor a better impact or a clear view about the website. This not only gives the visitor a better view but also speed up the loading time as compare to Flash image content slider. These slider pricing are also user friendly.
20 Useful Free Mini Icon Sets
Our sets of these mini icons will make your design complete and your users completely satisfied with your design. Our icons will enhance your business prospects and earn you a good fame.
It’s Drizzling Pretty Hard! 30+ Splendid Rain Photography To Inspire You
Most photographers do not feel comfortable in taking photographs in bad weather. Yet bad weather sometimes presents the perfect opportunity to get most out of photographer skills. In particular, well in the beginning of autumn rain can provide the perfect opportunity to capture wonderful photos of rain fall in streets……
HTML5: New Functions Of The Old Tags
It is well known that tags b, , , are presentational, and consequently, in terms of a paradigm “structure, presentation, behavior” their use is not welcomed. Elements strong, em, are seemed more usual. So it was during the long years of development practice. However a great deal changed in semantics of these elements with arrival of HTML5. Now we have 4 new tags with sense and our thoughts are in a muddle.
55 Amazing Black and White Photography
Photography is an art of capturing the best moments for ever. Great photographs are those which have depth and layers of meanings about the person, thing, area or anything which is being portray and this is best done through black and white photography….
Minimalist Designs – Is it a trend or are we just being lazy?
Minimalism is a trend in graphic designing that involves making of a design with its most basic features. However, in graphic designing this trend of minimalism is not understood.
Construct a Framework for a Cross-Cultural Design
Nowadays Graphic Designers work globally in many different Countries. The designer should visually communicate symbols and colors. These elements are part of our social everyday life and come together with a various range of meanings which are different for each culture.This makes obvious how much the study of the cross-cultural communication is important for properly deliver the desired message.
Are CSS Tables Better Than HTML Tables?
What’s the difference between html tables and css tables? Should we use css tables? If so how? This post walks through how to use css tables and then offers thoughts on whether or not they offer an improvement over html tables.
20 Sources to Download Free High Quality Textures
Use of texture in any form of designing is extremely common as it plays a vital role in giving a little bit of depth that every designer is looking for to make the image pop. Today we will bring you another entry for our historical session “Web Resources Compilations” that will show you the top places or websites to download free high quality textures.
3 Cool LinkedIn Labs Products You Might Not Know About (But Should)
LinkedIn is not used as frequently as we use other networking sites. Most of us only check it almost once a week ro maintain it nicely. The free features that a LinkedIn account boasts prove to be good enough for us. But did you know that they have a tiny section called LinkedIn Labs, which hosts a little set of projects and experimental features that can ameliorate your LinkedIn experience?