Archive for March, 2011
Bird’s Eye View Photography That Make You Say ‘Wow’
One can find inspiration out of anything and amongst some great sources of inspiration; photography is one source designers can derive inspiration from. Taking bird’s eye view photographs is the newest trend in the photography arena. The term bird’s eye view is analogous to aerial viewpoint and aerial view, and denotes the superior view of an object from above. Bird’s view photographs are taken with a perspective as if the observer was a bird.
Here we have collected an amazing assortment of dazzling Bird’s Eye View Photography and Pictures taken by different artists all over the world. We wish that as soon as you start browsing through this post in details, it will indisputably revive your memory.
The Great Mosque, Makkah, Mecca By Chinx786
Three Cliffs Bay By Anthony Thomas
Intersection By Gabi Sarlay
High above Dubai By momentaryawe.com
Chicago from Above By Stuck in Customs
Kites on ice By KAP’n Craig
Wrangells By photo61guy
Red Sea 1995 By KAP’n Craig
Le Thalasso Bora Bora By Pierre Lesage
Henningsvær from the air By afloden
KAP on Sydney Opera House By Pierre Lesage
Fanning out By Rob Millenaar
Finis Terra By Rafyta.com
Cristo Redentor By Rickipanema
Surreal but Real By ms4jah
Qantas Shadow By Emerton
Flock of sheep By Aerial Photography
Toronto 01 by Airblue
IMG_8472 By Craig Stephen
Palazzo Pool Aerial By Disneymike
My favorite part of town By Joost N.
Mirny diamond mine by jchip8
Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer By KAPturer
California Academy of Sciences By Michael Layefsky
Boat wake, Richmond, California By KAP Cris
Lighthouse and Racine By cookinghamus
Climb By hanselpedia
Spijk 5 By KAPturer
Tyne Cot Cemetery (Belgium) By Emmanuel LECONTE
Kraftwerk Birsfelden und Blick auf Basel By schnitzgeli1
Reitdiep canal near Garnwerd, the Netherlands By KAPturer
Delphinari By KAP Poliakov Anapa
Carillon on Evening Island By Fotoflyer
10 Lesser-Known But Absolutely Useful Mac OS X Apps
No matter how many applications you have installed on your mac machine, you are always on the lookout for the next free and fun mac app that may help you in your daily routine. Thanks to countless mac app developers you have a plethora of such apps to choose from. To save your time that would otherwise be spent on searching for these apps, we present a wonderful list of free and useful mac applications that are absolutely useful. These apps are freely available at recently launched mac app store.
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iConify
Are tired of exporting different sizes for different iOS devices? Fear not, iConify is a quick and easy app to generate assets for your iOS app. With iConify, you can generate all these images straight from your PSD files.
Backdrop
Backdrop is a simple utility to fill your screen with a giant blank window. Fill the window with a solid color or a custom image, your choice. Also, includes a Pixel Test mode to check for bad pixels on your displays.
Windows Phone 7 Connector
Windows Phone 7 Connector is a simple, easy-to-use application designed to sync your favorite media files from your Mac, with your Windows Phone 7 or Zune HD. You can also sync photos and videos you captured on your phone with your Mac, and when needed, update your Windows Phone 7 software.
Remind Me Later
Remind Me Later adds events to iCal in two clicks. Type “Buy groceries at 4pm tomorrow”, and it will add “Buy groceries” to iCal at 4pm tomorrow.
PixAM
With PixAM, you can clip a full screen, a window or a custom rectangle and share any image with your friends with one click.
GIFQuickMaker
With GIFQuickMaker, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, JPEG and GIF image transmission combination and GIF animations can be created.
StoreSizer
StoreSizer is a Mac application that allows you to easily resize the AppStore 512×512 PNG icons into 57×57, 75×75, 29×29, … icons that can be used on iPhone and iPad applications.
Moxier Wallet
Moxier Wallet allows you to safely & conveniently store, organize, and retrieve your personal information. The latest version of Moxier Wallet offers multi-platform data synchronization for secure data access from your iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows PC, and Mac Computer.
MiniUsage
MiniUsage displays various data like CPU usage, amount of network flow, battery status and process names which uses much CPU time in a menubar. It takes little space and can display various data, so it’s suitable for notebook.
EasyFind
Think Mac OS X’s Spotlight could use some help, especially when searching for text files? Download EasyFind, an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight and find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing. EasyFind is especially useful for those tired of slow or impossible indexing, outdated or corrupted indices, or those just looking for features missing in the Finder or Spotlight.
45 Totally Awesome Tutorials And Techniques To Become A Master Of Photography
This post showcases a list of useful and unique photography related tutorials that will help you learning the skills of a trained photographer. The field of photography has extensively grown over the past few years to such a huge industry with millions of photographers emerging every day around the globe and mastering their skills in different areas of photography.
The tutorials listed below let you learn how to capture a digital photograph in a better way and then direct you all the way throughout photo-editing process by means of using photo-editing software such as Photoshop.
Professional Photograph Restoration Workflow
In this tutorial, we’ll take an in-depth look at restoring an old torn photograph.
Here’s a tutorial showing you how artist go about aging a woman’s face in Photoshop.
Here in this tutorial we will teach how to change a person’s hair color using Photoshop’s brush tool and the soft light blend.
Colorizing Black-And-White Photos
Using Photoshop to create a classic hand-painted effect.
Street photography is one of those techniques that sounds simple, ‘just go out and take some photos of people wondering about’, but some time it is very difficult, in this guide you will find some tips and basics for great street photography.
Self Portrait Photography Guide
In this guide you will learn some useful tips for snapping self-photos.
Waterfall Photography Tips and Techniques
Waterfalls provide their own unique set of problems which requires a unique set of solutions. This article is about those unique problems and the solutions that allow photographers to produce images that communicate the power and beauty that is inherent in the waterfalls that stand before their lenses.
In this guide you will learn some useful tips about comets photography.
Imagine one day you announce to all your friends that you have a twin, by showing them a very realistic photo. There must be many fun then! In this tutorial artis will show you how to do that in this photoshop tutorial.
Infrared Photography Technique
Infrared photography is one of those techniques that requires a bit of practice. Its not that hard to produce an infrared photograph but adjusting the image in post processing is a business that yeilds different results each and every time, learn all about it through this guide.
Dual View Photo Editing in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll look at how to give ourselves two different views of the same image by opening it in two separate document windows, each set to a different zoom level, making it much easier to judge the effect our edits are having on the overall image.
Is your lens lacking contrast? Find out how to simulate the contrast qualities of high quality lens with this Photoshop retouching tutorial. This effect increases visible detail and edge contrast without increasing the overall image contrast.
Use Photoshop to Turn Day Into Dusk
In this tutorial we will demonstrate a quick technique to make your photos look as if they were taken at night. Let’s get started!
There are times when a regular photo just doesn’t cut it and you need your photo to pack a punch. Here is one technique that you may find useful.
In this guide you will learn tips and techniques for taking professional level weddings photography.
Add a Realistic Rainbow to a Photo in Photoshop
In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we’ll learn how to easily add a rainbow, and even a double rainbow, to a photo! As we’ll see, Photoshop ships with a ready-made rainbow gradient for us to use. We’ll learn where to find it and how to load it in.
Remove a Person from a Photo with Photoshop CS5
One of the new features we will be looking at this tutorial is called Content Aware. This feature allows you to quickly fill in a selection with surrounding content making it look like a part of the original image.
How to Use Lines in Photography Compositions
In this guide we will discuss the usefulness of lines for better shots.
How to Capture Really Sharp Photos
One of the most frustrating experiences for a photographer is to get home from a photo trip with some great images only to find that some of the images are not sharp. To help solve this problem, this article covers seven things that a photographer can do to create really sharp images.
Ok, So You Wanna Look Muscular? But don’t afford the money nor the time to train in a gym? Who cares, it’s only a quick impression picture that matters, right? Well, You can be right! Check out this tutorial to see how you can improve yourself!
Create Your Own Bokeh for Beautiful Photo Effect
What’s a bokeh you say? It’s that oh-so-wonderful fuzziness in the background of photographs with a shallow depth of field and accompanying starry highlights. You can create you own bokeh effects with a little craftiness.
Photographing Complex Architecture
Photographer Philipp Klinger gives his advice on capturing elaborate structures.
Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial
This tutorial has been produced using Photoshop CS2 on a PC and shows you how to give a city shot a neat miniaturization effect.
Try this simple step-by-step process for making beautiful monochrome images.
Color Correction Basics in Photoshop
Have you wanted to learn more about color correction? The focus of this tutorial is to help you delve deeper into color correcting to up the production value of your images. Learn a few simple techniques while creating.
How to Photograph Wakeboarders & Waterskiing
In this tutorial we will find some useful tips on how to achieve great wakeboarding pictures.
Camera Toss Photography Technique
In this step by step guide we will learn some technique of camera toss photography.
There are so many methods to change your photo’s color, but here artist will show you some best ways to do that.
Give a Photo a Complete Glamour Makeover With Stunning Light and 3D Effects
In this tutorial, you will learn how to retouch a model’s face and subtly manipulate her hair. In addition, we will enhance the canvas by adding attractive lighting and 3D effects.
Color Correction in Photoshop with the Curves Adjustment Tool
This tutorial will teach you how to use this tool to color correct photos efficiently.
Reducing Wrinkles With the Healing Brush in Photoshop
In this tutorial, we will look at the Healing Brush, by far the best photo retouching tool in all of Photoshop, and how we can use it to easily reduce distracting skin wrinkles in an image.
Portrait Lighting Tutorial: Character Study
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a portrait more honorable and admirable.
Photographing insects in flight is one of the greatest challenges for all wildlife photographers. This article describes how to capture crisp, sharp images of the Emperor Dragonfly.
A Guide To Nightclub Photography
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a beauty makeover with cool retouching effects:
Shutter Priority is an auto exposure system in which the camera achieves correct exposure by selecting the aperture after the user has selected the shutter speed.
How to Create Sunshine Effect in Studio with Artificial Sunlight
In this tutorial video we’ll give you tips on how to cheat Mother Nature and show you How to Create Your Own Sunshine in the Studio.
How To Photograph Moving Vehicles
A step-by-step guide to capturing that perfect motion shot.
Tips for better technical and creative results shooting video with your DSLR.
Professional Lighting in Model Photography
This case study shows how lighting was manipulated to create the perfect environment for a fashion photoshoot.
Portable Lighting for the Studio and on Location
In this lesson, we decided to keep things very simple and just illustrate some uses of this one simple shoe mount flash lighting kit, the XS OctoDome nxt Basic Kit with Grids, for both indoor and outdoor portraits.
Photography Tutorial: Get the Right Light
When shooting portraits, good lighting is all-important. To make sure you have it, you can buy expensive lighting rigs and multiple flash units. Or you can spend a few bucks and carry just the right mix of sun and clouds in your pack.
How to take close-up pictures of small things.
DIY – High Speed Photography at Home
You can use this technique to take picture of exploding things like tomatoes, water balloons, watermelons, or even your Canon camera as you smash it against a wall for not understanding the menus.
Tips and techniques for using shallow depth of field to add impact to your macro shots.
In this tutorial you will learn how to expand your photo’s tonal range when HDR techniques aren’t ideal.
10 Excellent Yet Free To Use Web Tools Worth Checking Out
Now and then I keep discovering interesting websites that I share with my friends. These sites range from helpful utilities to simple games; whatever their category is, the sites are surely great finds.
I decided to share with you all 10 of the recent wonderful websites I discovered. Like I mentioned before, they cover different categories and you will find each of them helpful in one way or another. Check them out below.
Emailerr
Emailerr gives you a PNG image of any email address you type. Sharing the image instead of typing your email on websites will prevent spambots from detecting your email address and spamming it. In addition to the image you get its permalink, JavaScript code, and HTML code.
Klowdz
Klowdz is a drawing website that lets you sketch drawings on a backdrop of clouds. Various cloud settings are provided and so are various colors and sketching brushes. You can put your creativity to the test and produce amazing results which can be shared with others.
TxtJet
For people with regular phones that let them only send and receive phone calls and text messages, checking their email on the phone is impossible… unless of course they are using TxtJet. Through TxtJet you can have your emails sent to you via text messages – a greatly convenient service for regular phone owners.
Knoword
Knoword is a cool vocabulary testing and building game. It asks you to type certain words with their meaning and first letter given. A timer checks your speed and sees how many words you can get in.
isNSFW
isNSFW translates to “is not safe for work.” It is a URL shortener for NSFW URLs. In addition to shortening your URL it lets you categorize the URL as Offensive, Gore, Nudity, or XXX. When a visitor clicks on the shortened URL he is first shown that the content belongs to one of these categories. This way if the link is being opened at work or some other sensitive place, the person will be more careful.
DaysToPay
DaysToPay helps you find how long you will need to work in order to purchase a particular item. You start by entering the item’s price along with your salary rates, region, and other information. The time before you will have the purchasing money is quickly calculated and shown.
PhoneGetters
If you have lost your cell-phone in your apartment and do not have another phone, you can use PhoneGetters to call your cell-phone. By listening to the ringtone your phones sounds off, you can easily locate it. PhoneGetters works for US numbers only.
StrikeApp
StrikeApp is a wonderful to-do list manager that works within your web browser. Your tasks lists are given a unique URL that can be visited and edited from anywhere. Color themes, different view styles, and user-friendliness make StrikeApp an excellent website.
PicScatter
PicScatter is for all Facebook users who want to have fun with the way Facebook shows photographs on one’s profile. Through this tool you can take a big image and break it down into parts so that the pieces, when uploaded to your Facebook, give the impression of a single image on your Facebook profile.
CrocoDoc
CrocoDoc is an excellent online tool to share and annotate PDF files. If your friends do not have PDF file reader, you can upload the file to CrocoDoc and it will become viewable in the site’s HTML5 interface. The PDF file can also be annotated. The original and annotated versions can be downloaded separately by visitors to the PDF’s URL.
Thank You Our Valued Sponsors For Being With Us In The Month Of February 2011
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Wix.com is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash website. Create a free website like whether it’s business or personal, music or art. Wix’s Flash website builder is simple to use with a “drag and drop” builder and is the complete solution to publish & promote your Flash website like a pro.
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Site24x7 is a hosted website monitoring service that helps webmasters ensure their websites are up and running at peak performance. The Site24x7 servers send out HTTP or HTTPS requests to your website at regular intervals of time and alerts you if it is down.
Intervals is web-based project management software that marries time tracking and task management in a collaborative online space with powerful reporting.
FullSail University’s online Web Design and Development Bachelor’s Degree Program will teach you the tools and fundamentals to create dynamic, intuitive web environments. You’ll learn the latest software and programming languages, explore design fundamentals, and produce web and mobile sites. They also offers Mobile Development Bachelor’s Degree Online.
FreshBooks is an online invoicing and time tracking service that saves you time and makes you look professional.
Join The App Army and earn FREE iOS apps of your choosing by evaluating and reviewing apps by their partner developers.
Sensational Jobs is an impressive job board which features some of the latest design and development job leads, meant for both job seekers and employers. What separates the portal from the rest of the job boards is the quality of available jobs or employees, not just adding every other job available on the planet and populating the pages with unknown companies.
PapaClick will bring you Professional, Affordable and Quality Web Hosting. They provide Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, Business Hosting, Virtual Private Servers,Dedicated Servers and many more solutions for individuals, families, organizations and businesses.
ThemeForest is a website from where you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to signup for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.
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