Archive for December, 2010
Four Excellent iPhone Apps By Adobe
There are many iPhone app out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. Today, we are sharing iPhone apps from Adobe Systems Incorporated . Read each entry in the list and see which iPhone app suits your needs best.
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Adobe LiveCycle Mobile
With LiveCycle Mobile, enterprises can now offer employees the ability to interact with content, applications, and customers where they choose, to improve and extend meaningful experiences with customers beyond the office.
Adobe Photoshop Express
Photoshop Express is a companion to Photoshop.com, your online photo sharing, editing, and hosting resource. You can also create a free Photoshop.com account to upload and store 2GB of photos and videos online.
Adobe Connect Mobile
You can attend Adobe Connect meetings using your iPhone or iPod touch. With this free mobile application, enjoy immediate access to meetings anytime and anywhere. It will help you to watch and listen to live presentations including real-time presenter webcam video and screen sharing demonstrations. You can see who is in the meeting at any given time, and collaborate with others using live text chat.
Adobe Ideas
Adobe Ideas is your digital sketchbook, letting you capture and explore ideas anywhere you go. Adobe Ideas is an ideal companion for the professional design applications from Adobe, including Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
Congratulations To The Winners Of Folx PRO Giveaway
Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win PRO licenses of Folx. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them Folx PRO.
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- Apisit
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- Robhert
- Passuf
- Khanh Le
- Alexander Wood
- Steve
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- PA
Folx is a free download manager for Mac OS X. Its friendly interface will help you take the most of your downloads. It’s not overloaded with tons of unnecessary features and is extremely easy to use. All you have to do to download files is click the link in your web browser and Folx will catch it.
Folx can split the download in threads and thus is much faster. Moreover, you can adjust the download and upload speed. You can prioritize the downloads that are most important to you by just dragging them to the top of the queue. Folx also offers auto-resuming of your downloads in case you were offline, the tracker was down, etc.
With lots of downloads it’s sometimes next to impossible to find the needed file on the hard drive. By tagging your downloads you instruct Folx to save them in folders that correspond to assigned tags using symlinks. So when you need to find your downloaded content, you even don’t have to launch Folx, just look in your main downloads folder and follow your familiar tags structure. You can assign as many tags to the download as you think is needed.
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55 Colorful Masterpieces Of Vintage Advertisement
Here we have gathered some amazingly designed Vintage Ads that show how far we’ve come to portray the thinking and concept of old designers. Vintage ads are basically the advertisement of old era which when depicted in a creative manner becomes very captivating and enchanting.
This is the reason why Vintage Ads are so popular because they give a special feel which reveals the importance a designer give to layout and typography. These two factors make Vintage ads look so enthralling. I hope you enjoy them.
General Electric Peter Max Clocks
The Motorola Calypso portable record player
Popular Photography Italiana 2 (Italy)
Robt. Burns Panatela – 19610825 Life
Lubrication is a matter of timing
Cut loose in Career Club Shirts
Retro giovani – 1967 – pubblicità
Miller High Life – 19490307 Life
Pontiac Tempest – 19610102 Life
Maxell Floppy Disk Robots Fortune Teller Advice (1988)
Colorful Philip Morris Cigarette Ad 2
10 Excellent Websites To Learn Science, Mathematics Or Any Other Subject Online
Internet has become an important source of knowledge for students. Whether its Science, Mathematics or any other subject, many students tend to use internet as their main source of information. Students even use the internet to take external courses and learn different languages using video lectures uploaded on different websites. Today, we have gathered list of websites which can be used by students to learn online.
Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is an excellent online tool which helps students solve computational questions by just typing the equation or mathematical problem. All you have to do is type the equation in the search field and it will give you step by step solution to that problem.
With Mathaway, students can solve different mathematical problems in few seconds. Using Mathaway, students can solve questions related to algebra, calculus, trigonometry, statistics and much more. All they have to do is type the mathematical problem, select the subject and click Answer. You can even signup for a premium account and get advance solution with proper explainations.
Babbel
Babbel is an excellent online utility which can help students learn different languages online. It has an integrated speech recognition tool which can be used to test and improve your pronunciation. You can even connect with people from all over the world and improve you pronunciation skills.
Dynamic Periodic Table
Dynamic Periodic Table is an excellent sources of knowledge for students especially those who are taking chemistry courses. With Dynamic Periodic Table, you can get information about all the elements in the periodic table, there isotopes, there state and much more. Clicking on the element will open a new window which has everything you need to know about that specific element.
Math.com
Math.com can help students learn mathematics principles online. They provide students with different guides, assessments and solutions to help them grasp the basics of mathematics. In addition to solutions, Math.com offers recreational introductions to the world of math that will lead to deeper understanding of different topics.
Tutor2u
Tutor2u is an excellent websites which provides students with lectures and notes related to Economics, Business, Politics, Enterprise, Law, Sociology, History, Religious Studies and related subjects. Tutor2u offers free educations material as well as subscription based material which can be used by students as well as teachers.
LiveMocha
LiveMocha is an excellent source for students who want to learn new languages. Students can even help other students improve their native language and learn other foreign languages online. With LiveMocha, you can get in touch with students from around the globe from different cultures and backgrounds.
Verbalearn
Verbalearn is an excellent source for students who want to improve their English vocabulary. With Verbalearn, you can learn new words daily, track your progress, find you strengths and weaknesses, test yourself and much more.
MyHappyPlanet
Just like LiveMocha, MyHappyPlanet can help students learn different languages online. Students can talk to people from different countries and practice there speaking skills, pronunciation and learn about different cultures from all over the world.
wePapers
With wePapers, students can expand their knowledge and share what they know with others. With wePapers, you can check different lectures and presentations created by other students and share yours with the rest.
Feel free to mention any other useful link related to this topic and we will try to review it soon.
How Much Is A Petabyte? [Graphic]
Do you guys know what comes after Terabyte? It’s Petabyte which is a unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,000 terabytes. Recently, I found an infographic in which you will get the answer of the question “How Much is a Petabyte?”. This infographic was created by Mozy to visualize and understand Petabytes with the help of Gigabytes.
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5 Excellent WordPress Plugins To Add Social Media Buttons On Your Blog
WordPress is the world’s most popular blogging platform where thousands of users register everyday and launch their blogs. The main attraction and comfort of using WordPress is the ability to launch a blog within a matter of minutes. While maintaining a blog it is very important to promote it on social media networks like Digg, Reddit, Stumble and a lot more. If you’re looking for WordPress plugins that automatically adds social networking buttons with every article that you write then We have compiled the perfect list for you guys.
Below are some of the most useful and popular WordPress plugins that will let you and your readers promote your articles easily.
Digg Digg WordPress Plugin
As the name suggests Digg Digg plugin allows you to post articles on various social media networks. Currently it integrates with Digg, Reddit, Dzone, Yahoo Buzz, Twitter, TweetMeme, Topsy, Facebook Share / Like, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Sphinn, Google Buzz buttons, Designbump,The web blend and BogEngage. Other than that you can place your buttons according to your theme’s display.
Social Media Page
Social Media Page is another WordPress plugin that serves the same task. Once installed you can easily add a list of links to your social media profiles on a page or post of your choice through the use of a simple tag. In addition to that a widget is also added so that you can display this list of links in the side menu of the site.
ShareThis
ShareThis is a very popular WordPress plugin currently used by over 850,000 sites. This plugin allows users to share content through email and moer than 50 social networkings including Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Buzz and Facebook.
Gregarious
Offering great interface Gregarious WordPress Plugin allows seamless integration between your WordPress Blog and social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit and more. It is the ultimate social bookmarking plugin for WordPress users.
AddToAny
AddToANy is dedicated to helping people around the world share, bookmark, and email articles using mutilple social networking services like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and many more. It comes with a customizable Smart Meny, which places the services visitors use at the top of the menu, based on each visitor’s browsing and usage history.
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Absolutely Awesome Tutorials To Create (Stunningly Creative) Photo Manipulation
Photo Manipulation is a continually developing collaboration between photography, graphic design and digital editing. It is a process of mixing certain elements and produces an exceptional image that can influence even the most skilled set of eyes.
This is not as easy as it sounds; it requires a very creative set of skills in Photoshop and other tool and also a hell lot of patience. Photo manipulation is an excellent source of inspiration since designers have expressed their creativeness all the way through assorted aspects of design. Here we have collected some amazing examples of photo manipulation. Enjoy!
Alien Photo Manipulation
For this tutorial, you’ll need a photo of a persons head, octopus, and any grunge texture. If you like to use the same portrait of the face used in this tutorial, you may click on the image below to purchase it. Note that we only have the download link for the image of the woman.
Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume
This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images. Let’s get started!
The Making of Mystic
In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You’ll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how Nik creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. Let’s check it out.
Na’vi Avatar Photo Manipulation
This is a Photoshop tutorial showing you all the steps you need to take in order to photo-manipulate yourself into a Na’vi (based on the characters in James Cameron’s movie “Avatar”). Artust used Photoshop CS2 in order to create this, but newer and older versions should do the same, as he used basic Photoshop tools only. He hope you will find this helpful.
Make a Vivid Flaming Skull Conceptual Composition
In this Photoshop tutorial, artist will show you how to combine stock images and typography into a beautiful conceptual composition.
Landscape photo manipulation
In this tutorial, artist will show you how to create your unique wallpapers using photo manipulation. Using some images you’ll learn how to blend in different landscapes creating a surreal effect.
Create a Cloaked, Sword-Wielding Assassin
Robot Woman Photo Manipulation – Psd Plus Tutorial
If you want to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!
How to Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial We will learn a good technique for incorporating glass transparency into photo manipulations, while placing
How to Make a Melting Camera Scene
In this tutorial, we will use the Layer Mask Tool and Liquify filter to “melt” the camera. Artist recommend you work with a tablet for this one (it makes your work easier), but if you don’t have one it is also possible to go through this tutorial. Let’s start!
How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist will show you how he created a fantasy photo manipulation called “You Can Not Frost The Time” with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!
Create a Nature Inspired Photo Manipulation
Eery-Eye Photo Manipulation
In this Photoshop tutorial artist will be walking you through the making of an interesting art piece, “The Eye, the Key of the Soul.”
Design Dark Sea Ship Photomanipulation Scene
It is shown in this tutorial on how to make design a dark sea ship photo manipulation scene.
How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fantasy landscape using some simple and easy techniques. Everyone with basic Photoshop skills can succeed to recreate this simple image using the most important thing in this kind of photo manipulation – the right stock. So let’s go!
Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial artist will show you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. Artist will also show you different techniques of adjustment to get the most realistic results in your photo manipulations!
How to Create a Mythical Creature Photo Manipulation
A useful and awesome tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!
How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water
In this tutorial, we’re going to create a fantasy photo manipulation mixing different images and learning to use and modify the stock images in a creative way. The idea is to get a compact image that looks absolutely real, and at the same time, absolutely impossible!
Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel
Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene.
Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla, one of Mariusz Karasiewicz`s works. He is an amazing artist and his work is absolutly stunning. I want to thank him for allowing me to write this tutorial.
Create an Explosive Cover with Precise Photo Manipulation Techniques
In this tutorial, we’re going to make a creative illustration in a style meant for a video game cover or sci-fi book cover. We’ll create this with mostly photo manipulation techniques. With some cool Photoshop options you can turn all the photos you chose, into one stunning looking explosive cover.
Blissful Landscape Photo Manipulation
Create a breath taking scenery by combining two photos and applying several photo effects. When you follow this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn masking techniques and several photo effects.
How to Make a Vector-Style Woman Composition
How to Create a Dark Emotional Photo Manipulation
This is a tutorial with a simple idea: to create an emotional photo manipulation. Following this tutorial, you will learn how to blend different images to make a dark atmospheric background, modify the dress of the model, apply makeup, paint hair, blend different objects in the background, and more – all to create a moody illustration. So, let’s start!
How to Create a Fallen Angel on Fire Photo Manipulation – Psd Plus Tutorial
If you want to take your photo manipulation work to the next level, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. We’ll work with fire and other images to create this fantasy scene. Learn more at the jump!
How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop
Go simultaneously backward and forward in time with this Steampunk tutorial. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from different sources together to create a cohesive whole. There are many tricks to this end and we shall be looking at light sources, shadows, and image grading.
Animal King Photo Manipulation
In this photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800’s. Let’s get started!
Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist am going to show you how to create a surreal time-themed photomanipulation using Photoshop. The name of this photomanipulation is “Time Guardian” and it was originally created by Mariusz Karasiewicz
Fantastic Disintegration Effect inspired by Watchmen in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create the disintegration effect using brushes and the blur filter. It’s really simple and you will be able to create nice designs using this sort of trendy style of effect.
Design a Dramatic and Surreal Rainy Scene with Photoshop
Learn all about how to manipulate images and combine them to create surreal scenes, in this case a rainy scene. Also, numerous details are covered in this tutorial such as adding highlights, shading, excellent photo-manipulation techniques, and more. Learn all about it at the jump!
Torture a Man and Stitch Him Up
Transform a man into a torture victim with a couple tricks and some basic tools.
Creating a Glowing Sphere in An Inverted Image
Making of the Imaginary Paint Dancers
I came across the amazing set of Paint Tossing freebies from Media Militia the other day and thought that I must create some artwork with them. So I visited my favorite Mjranum’s stock gallery again and done up this tutorial. Hope you will like it.
Making of the Magical Heroes of 10Steps.SG
Let us do something different this week! We will be creating a game poster with magical theme. This tutorial shows how to draw a sword from scratch and also introducing some of the latest high quality brushes on the internet.
Create amazing water-drenched photomontages
How to Create a Mystery Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will show you how to create a mystery photo manipulation using Photoshop brushes, different blend modes, and more. Let’s get started!
How To Create A Ripping And Tearing Poster Effect
Mysterious Hollow Dark landscape
How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene
In this tutorial, we will learn how to manipulate a simple photo into a flooding torrent of a scene. We’ll use some relatively simple techniques to give this image a semi-realistic, stylized feel. Let’s get started!
Alien Invasion
Create a Cyborg With Photoshop
In this tutorial you’ll discover how to incorporate mundane, everyday objects into a photoshop cyborg manipulation. Combining household objects with 3D renders is a technique that can and does have interesting results.
Scared Photomanipulation Tutorial
This tutorial will be a little different than all the other tutorials I wrote. Here I will teach you some basic things about Photomanipulation.
How to Create a Slice of Nature Photo Manipulation
Today I’m going to show you how to put together a complex tree illustration. The idea for this tutorial is to show a workflow from concept to finish, not just so you can copy this illustration, but so that you can take the ideas behind it and use them for any design you have. It’s not just the finished design but the process we are after.
Dreamy photo effect
In this tutorial we will take a photo and use different color adjustments and something like pattern floral brushes to make it better or to make a different mood to our picture. So let’s go.
Self-initiated abstract art
In this tutorial I’ll show you how – with a little time on your side – you can overcome the common myth of low budget work, creating an impressive piece of abstract work using Photoshop.
Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation
In this detailed and lengthy Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to combine photos and add special effects to turn a normal photograph into a stunning artwork. You will also learn several tricks to reduce your Photoshop document file size and number of layers and layer styles.
How to Create a Fantasy Scene with Death
Create a Colorful Woodpecker and Tree Scenery
This tutorial is intended for everyone who is beginning at digital drawing/painting, if you like drawing and Photoshop then you are the perfect candidate to follow this tutorial.
Create a Beautiful Lonely Fantasy Fairy
This tutorial will explain how to make a beautiful fairy from a single source image. We’ll go over each step on how to make the feathers, the hat, the background, the grass and the mountains.
How To Create a Futuristic Sci-Fi Scene
In this tutorial, I will guide you through the steps to create a futuristic sci-fi scene. We will transform original pictures using Photoshop tools that will help to give the image a more spectacular look.
Creating Medusa With Photo Manipulation
This tutorial will teach you how to create the piece ‘Medusa’ using a range of techniques including photo manipulation.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of November
This is a post in which we want to say a big Thank You to the SmashingApps’ fastest growing community for regularly visiting our blog. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and be the one of 600k+ subscribers. But how can we forget to say a Great Thanks to our valued sponsors who helped us to make this blog possible in reach of everyone in the month of November, 2010 as well.
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