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What Is A Cross Device Compatible Website?

Naaz — Sun, 27 May 2012 07:33:05 +0000

Basically speaking, a cross device compatible website is a site that is accessible and properly formatted no matter what device is being used – whether it is a computer, laptop, smartphone, or tablet. As a website owner it is important to keep your website updated so that absolutely anyone can use it.

Most website owners use some kind of service to track each visitor that logs onto their page. These services provide statistics such as the location of the person and what device they were using. These used to simply read MAC or PC, but nowadays there are new systems coming out constantly, meaning there are more systems to try to cater towards.

With this increase in operating systems obviously comes an increase in visitors, as people now have access to the Internet sitting right in their pocket wherever they go. This gives businesses the chance to increase sales to the increased amount of traffic. However, often what happens is websites begin to receive negative feedback from mobile device users, with them complaining that the site is just too hard to navigate or read. This is when it becomes important to implement change.

This can seem like a daunting task as many websites made for proper computers are made simply from templates and HTML knowledge was now even necessary. Yet when adapting sites there is much more technical information to handle and process.

Large companies can afford to purchase each and every new mobile device in existence, and pay a professional programmer to check their website on each one and fix any bugs or issues. This is all good and well when money is not an issue, but most businesses do not have this option.

There are some things to keep in mind when creating the best mobile adaption for your customers. Such as making sure to prompt them to choose which device they are using right when they enter the site. Users should not have to search around and entire webpage before finding the button to use the mobile version instead.

URLs for mobile devices should be kept simple and use only regular characters as a way to keep the user experience as easy as possible. Trying to type complex stretches of characters on a small keypad could prove a little frustrating! Lots of sites opt for a basic /mobile URL.

Once most of the hard work has been done it is essential to go through rigorous testing. As mentioned, if funds are somewhat unlimited it is easy to go out and buy each device and test the webpage directly. If not there are some excellent programs called emulators. These, once installed, act exactly like the specified device only right there on your computer’s desktop. Simply open the page through the emulator and explore and troubleshoot any issues.

Once everything is completed you should experience much higher levels of traffic and inbound marketing. Meaning the people visiting your site are doing so because they are genuinely interested in what you have to offer.

Author Bio:- Sunny Popali is SEO Director at tempocreative.com, TempoCreative servicing Inbound Marketing in Arizona from More than 10 years & Many big brands has benefited from Tempo & Team for digital & internet marketing needs.

65 Smashing Letterhead Designs

Naaz — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:44:58 +0000

Every business has its own stationery set that is made up of envelopes, business cards and letterheads. Having them designed by the professional is very important in building your business brand. It is important that designs would match one another to maintain consistency and create a more corporate identity look.

One of the most noticed parts of this set is the letterhead. Since you use this piece of paper in your day-to-day business communication such as in issuing receipts, invoices, bills, verification, among other things. Even famous businesses and people would spend time to have their personalized letterheads. Check these letterhead designs below to see what some amazing designers have done for companies. Most of these designs showcase entire identity packages, so you can get a good sense of what quality and consistent branding looks like.

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Astonishing Examples of Incredible Artwork

Naaz — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:22:48 +0000

Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Art comes in many different unthinkable and controversial forms. Graphics artwork is the field of visual thinking, turning concepts and creative imagery into design applications. Using digital imaging and vector drawing tools using a range of the most widely used programs on the market and discover and perfect their techniques in color formulation, typography, and composition of other design elements.

In this article, we bring you the most Astonishing Examples of Incredible Artwork to appease your innate passion for arts. Hope you will like this collection

Tips on creating websites for International Audiences

Naaz — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:18:18 +0000

The explosion of the internet has made business more global than ever before. In theory, even if you run a very small business, you can connect with customers and partners almost anywhere in the world for very little money, thanks to the power of the web.

That’s why it’s so important to put a lot of thought into designing your website, including how it will appear and appeal to international audiences.

The tools of the trade

Careful planning is the key to successfully designing a website for international audiences. Choosing the right tools from the very start of the project will help you to design your website well for a global audience.

For example, because using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) keeps the content of a website separate from the design, this makes it easier to adapt the content for specific target markets, even at a later date. You’ll be able to tailor the content to a particular language or country without having to recreate each page from scratch. You can even change the direction the text reads in, which would be useful if you’re translating into Hebrew or Arabic, for example.

Character coding tools such as Unicode UTF-8 are also useful. Compatible with numerous different languages, these tools allow you to easily switch between different scripts and characters without creating extra work.

In color

There are some color ‘rules’ which apply almost anywhere – for example, white text on a yellow background would always be a no-no because it is not clear enough and could cause eye strain. Anyone who sees that on your site, wherever they are from, is likely to close their browser pretty sharpish.

However, there are also cultural considerations to bear in mind when it comes to color. In some cultures certain colors will have different meanings which should be borne in mind. For example, whilst in western cultures the color white is associated with weddings and cleanliness, in some Asian cultures it has strong connotations with death.

Similarly, red represents ‘danger’ or ‘passion’ in North America and Western Europe but it can mean ‘purity’ in India. Orange is often the color associated with the fall in the US, but in Northern Ireland, for example, it holds religious connotations.

It is best to consult an expert on the culture you’re targeting so that you do not make any faux pas and have the best chance of impressing international visitors.

Cultural sensitivities

As with color, it’s important to consider the cultural connotations of images and text on your website and a straight replication between one country and another is not necessarily appropriate. For example, a thumbs-up gesture is a positive sign in most western cultures but it can be very offensive in parts of West Africa, South America and the Middle East.

Again, the best thing to do is consult someone who is an expert in the culture that you’re targeting – they will help you avoid making an embarrassing and potentially costly mistake.

Whatever countries you’re targeting, it always helps to get a second opinion on your website. You can get so involved in the details that you miss the glaringly obvious. Take the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin, for example – their acronym used to be WTF until they wisely changed it to TFW.

Flash off

Whilst graphics and animation can often improve a website, experts agree that it’s best to avoid Flash due to t problems such as SEO disadvantages and usability issues. It’s also a good idea to bear load speeds in mind – in many countries there is limited access to fast broadband connections. In some parts of the world, web access is still billed by the minute so websites that are slow to load will lose you visitors.

Images will also be a consideration here. Whilst images undoubtedly make a website more appealing, they do take longer to download. Consider limiting the size and number of images, especially when targeting countries with slower internet connections.

Navigation

You should bear the navigation of your website in mind carefully if you’re considering adapting it for right-to-left languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew. Moving text and image boxes from one side of the page to the other each time you need to make a switch can be a lot of work. You can avoid this by keeping your site design symmetrical and using a horizontal rather than vertical navigation bar.

None of this means you should necessarily build a different website for each of your target markets – it just means it pays to be wary of cultural connotations and issues at the design stage of your website and use the right tools. This gives you the flexibility to adapt your web presence for different target markets.

About the author

Christian Arno is the founder of Lingo24, a top translation service in the USA. Launched in 2001, Lingo24 now has over 150 employees spanning three continents and clients in over sixty countries. In the past twelve months, they have translated over forty million words for businesses in every industry sector, including the likes of MTV, World Bank and American Express. Follow Lingo24 on Twitter: @Lingo24.

Things to Be Considered When Designing Video Game

Naaz — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:57:54 +0000

Playing a video is very intriguing. Have you ever imagined how intriguing designing a video would be? Apart from some intricate aspects of video game design, you need to consider some basic aspects of video game development before designing. Given below are some of them:

Make a plan: When you plan to make a video game, you would need to make a rough plan of how you would be going about it. Once you have a set plan, you would next need to find out which software would be appropriate for the kind of game you are planning to design. There are two major types of video games, 2D video games and 3D video games and various kinds of game playing platforms i.e. PC and console. If you are not well versed with the respective type of software you would need to take a course in the same. However, if you were short of time, the only alternative would be looking out for a video game designer who would design the game for you.

Understand the target player group: When you make something for someone, you need to understand the likes and dislikes of that person. This is very important when it comes to video game designing. If you design a game for a 10-15 year old age group, putting intricate game settings and game player controls would make the player group lose interest in your game. Moreover, you should also understand the level of understanding of that player group. Using violent game characters or making the game too gory would have an adverse effect on the mind of the player.

Think like a gamer: Although there is no rule that to know gaming if one wishes to play a game, it is preferable to have played games at some point in your life. This comes handy when playing games as the perspective of the gamer is much different as compared to the perspective of a non-gamer.

Criticism is good: Getting honest feedback from your beta version will help you make changes in the final copy of your video game. Don’t rely on your own judgment alone. You are aware of what is going to happen when. The best option would be hiring game testers who would provide the necessary accurate feedback. After you receive their feedback, make changes in the game and you are ready to release it.

Author Bio:
Bill Brown is a professional at Atlanta Video, Inc. Atlanta Video, Inc. has been producing broadcast programming since 1976. Atlanta video produces commercials, music videos, training videos, and more. If you like to create video for your business, find video production in Atlanta.

80 Creepy Horror Movie Posters Design

Naaz — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:50:18 +0000

When it comes to movies, the advertising poster is your porthole to what you can expect from the actual movie. One of the most popular genres is horror. Horror film is a world defined by serial killers, ghosts, ghouls, cannibalism, werewolves, ancient curses, Satanism, demons, vicious animals.

Everyone remembers their first horror film, for me it was hiding underneath the covers shaking with fear while Freddy haunted dreams and Ash battled the ultimate evil of the Necromonicon. These classic movies, along with their earlier counterparts, began my life long love of horror.

While walking through the aisles of the local video store the horror section always provided the most intrigue, with the promise of knife wielding dolls, zombies and tongue in cheek gore displayed by the video covers and posters hanging on the walls.

A designer has an idea that a horror movie poster includes certain emotions like scary, suspenseful, and even terrifying while entertaining at the same time invoking the fear and the specific elements that come to life to tell a story.

Dead Silence

The Crazies

The Broken

The Children

Agora

The Unborn

Excision

The Hills Run Red

Khouj

One Missed Call

Boogeyman

Midnight Movie

Eskalofrio

Pandorum

Gauri

Saw

Saw 3

Saw 5

Silent Hill

9 Dead Snow

Monster Slayer

The Howling

House

Hellraiser

Final Destination 4

Encarnacio

Day of the Dead

Feads

Asylum

Identity

The Descent

Drag me to the hell

The Descent 2

The Hunting

The Collector

Blood Letting

Wtopmoboe

Skin Walkers

Semum

The Exorcism

The mask of Jason

The dead matter

Eden Lake

The Intervention

Saw 3D

My Bloody Valentine

Chucky

A Night mare on Elm Street

Pathology

Pet Sematary

Red Sands

Pluse 2

The Kentucky

End of the Line

Red Mist

The Strangers

REC-Fear revised

Hatchet

Grudge-Japanese

Spit on your Grave

Jeepers Creepers

Let me In

Mirrors

The Mist

See No Evil

The Eye

From Hell

Halloween 2

Trick and Treat

30 days of Night

The Hills Run Red

The Hills Have Eyes

The Devils Reject

The Amityville Horror

Splice

The Unborn

The Ring 2

The Burrowers

The Theatre Bizarre

Anti Christ

The Turistas

65 Stunning Visiting Cards Printed Letterpress Designs

Naaz — Sun, 06 May 2012 07:25:38 +0000

This time we are presenting a beautiful collection of some impressive and stunning visiting cards designs for you that you can use to give your designs a fresh feel and finish. Business cards or visiting cards designs are different from other designs since the textures and shading used in these designs are slightly different.

Letterpress printing basically is a technique used to press the design into the paper giving it an embossed or raised finish. Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a “type-high bed” printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image. It was the normal form of printing text from its invention by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century until the 19th century and remained in wide use for books and other uses until the second half of the 20th century.

By using this technique to your designs, you can simply make your designs look visually stunning; although so much quirks and intricacies are involved in learning the use of letterpress equipment. We hope that you will like this Stunning Visiting Cards Printed Letterpress Designs collection and sure they will inspire you.

D. James Goodwin

Letterpress Business Card

Rogers Reel Business Card

At Media

Bret Sano

Jannis

Chop Shop

Dinner Invite

Love You

Workshops

Bella Figura

Business Card for: Sarah Powers Media

Blue Bird Design Card

Custom letterpress business card – Boxcar Press

Torello Letterpress Business Card

Letterpress Business Card

Letterpress Business Card F256

Cool Business Card YoMeSubo

Our business cards-They are printed in thick stock

Amamda Lucier Business Cards

My Old Red Hat

Figments

Letterpress Business Card – Silver/Black

E Ticket

Ficcinoes Asiaticas

Ficciones

Design Creative

Heroes

The New Wine

Kimast

SVA Magaizne

Historic Tattoo business card detail

Business cards for Ellen

My_old_card

Javier Garcia Letterpress Business Card

Foil on Boxcard Business Card

Letterpress Fotoalias Business Card

Le Tank Creative

Domestic Construction

Business Card for: Anick Bauer

Business Card for: John Henry Donovan

Running Doves Press

Letterpress Card

Scott Salvator Letterpress Business Cards

Vida

Chocolate Maker’s Studio

Kyle Van Horn

The Mandate Press

Business Card for: iamtiago

Cinematographer Business Card

Colorful Mei Yen Chua Business Card

Zoe Grave Studio Cards

Fresh Impression Card

Pearls lace

Ink Pixel Paper Letterpress

Dingbat Letterpress Card

Distillery

Letterpress Business Cards Printed in 2 different colors

Cotton & Gold Letterpress Wedding Stationery

6 color letterpress business cards – printed by Boxcar Press

Blas

EKKO

Spring Summer

Espresso Republic

15 jQuery Plugin for Animation and Typography

Naaz — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:41:26 +0000

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. Only a few years ago, if something was animated on a website it was automatically assumed to be Flash. However, this is not the case today. With the growing popularity and wide spread use of JavaScript frameworks, sometimes you have to take a closer look to find out what is powering all of those smooth animations.

JQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library. Through its capability of creating plugins, web developers are able to extend its functions. Some of its features are used in navigating HTML documents, handling events, performing animations and embedding ajax interactions to web pages. Nowadays, users of JQuery have been incredibly increasing. So, don’t be left behind, here is a 15 Powerful jQuery Plugin – Animation and Typography that will help you a lot in making your website stand out from the rest.

1. Lettering.js

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A jQuery plugin designed to facilitate “radical web typography,” Lettering.js allows designers the ability to set dynamic and eye-catching typography that would be either prohibitively difficult or impossible to do using other methods. The goal of Lettering.js is to give you complete control over a web page’s type, right down to the manipulation of individual letters.

2. Shuffle Letters Effect

A short tutorial for making a jQuery plugin that will shuffle the text content of any DOM element – an interesting effect that can be used in headings, logos and slideshows.

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3. jMetronome

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A popular concept in typography that aids in the spacing and arrangement of beautiful, easy-to-read type is called typographic rhythm. This is the idea — well established in the typography world — that the relationship between text and space in a document creates a visual rhythm, which affects the overall aesthetic tone and readability of the document.

In web pages, when body text is interspersed with images, tables, blockquotes and other elements, it can become difficult to maintain vertical rhythm without sacrificing content editing and flexibility.

The jMetronome plugin for jQuery helps make it easier to maintain the typographic rhythm of a web page even with the addition of non-textual elements.

4. FitText

FitText helps you with typesetting, especially when crafting responsive web designs. The plugin automatically scales your text elements depending on the browser’s viewport size. An example scenario would be if you would like your headings to scale down when viewed in mobile devices to reduce the screen real estate they take up.

5. FontEffect

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FontEffect is a jQuery plugin that gives designers the ability to apply text effects such as outlines, shadows, gradients and mirroring onto normal HTML text elements. This means FontEffect applies the desired effects without the need for images. Though these text effects can be achieved using CSS3, FontEffect could be useful if you prefer or need to use JavaScript.

6. jQuery Approach

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This jQuery plugin provides web designers with the ability to make text objects change depending on the proximity of a user’s mouse cursor. For example, a designer can use Approach to configure a text element to grow smaller and lighter as the cursor approaches it, and to expand and become darker as it gets further away.

This is a great plugin for designers who want to provide users with an interactive experience upon visiting the site.

7. jqIsoText

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The jqIsoText jQuery plugin is a simple plugin that does one thing: It renders an arching effect whereby the characters of the target text element get bigger as you approach the center and then tapers off as you get to the last character. It mimics, to the best of its abilities, an isometric/reflective appearance. It’s an interesting, fun and single-purpose plugin that might be useful for calling attention to important text content using distinctive design principles.

8. Airport

The Airport jQuery plugin is a text-animation plugin that mimics the old, flickering schedule/information boards you used to see in airports, train stations, bus stations, etc.

This plugin provides you with the ability to creatively style and animate text that you’d like to garner attention.

9. jQuery Glow

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As the name implies, this simple jQuery plugin gives you the ability to make your text glow when you hover over them. Though a similar effect can be done with CSS3 (for ideas, see some interesting CSS3 experiments and demos), aside from the fact that many users still do not use CSS3-capable web browsers, using JavaScript allows you to bind the glow effect based on events outside of hover, trigger, focus, etc. that CSS can’t listen to.

10. jQuery sIFR Plugin

The jQuery sIFR Plugin allows for the easy implementation of sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement).

sIFR is an old method of rendering text that use non-web-safe fonts. It uses Flash. Though @font-face is now the popular way of composing web type using custom fonts, it might have limitations that might make you choose sIFR instead. (However, sIFR has its own downfalls that can steer you away from it as well.)

11. jFontSize

I’m sure you’ve seen the text size buttons on websites, before. This is what you need to do it!

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12. jQuery Text Resizer Plugin

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The jQuery Text Resizer Plugin gives your users a degree of control over font sizes. The plugin, by default, adds three user commands to a web page (increase font size, decrease font size and reset to the normal font size).

Though most mainstream web browsers do offer text-resizing functionality, many Internet users aren’t aware that these features exist and might appreciate an in-page way to resize text.

The plugin works in tandem with the jQuery Cookie plugin so that it’s able to remember the user’s settings when they next visit (if they have cookies enabled, of course).

Another similar plugin to check out is Font Resizer.

13. BigText

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The BigText jQuery plugin is simple: It automatically sizes your text to fit inside its parent element. This results in, among other things, perfect justified alignment (though typically justified alignment is achieved by altering the spacing of characters and words, not through font size). What’s great about this plugin is that it works in dynamic, editable text areas so that as the user types, the font resizes.

Animation Plugins

14. jQuery Transit

jQuery Transit will aid you in creating super-duper-smooth CSS3 transformations and transitions for jQuery.

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15. jRumble

This is a fun plugin. If anything, take a look at jRumble just to try it out.

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Invention of the Ipad – A Great Idea with a Great Design

Naaz — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:21:40 +0000

Apple is often considered one of the most innovative technology companies in the world today not because they are exclusively the first or the only ones to invent a product but because they are the most tenacious about reinventing a product so that everyone will love it.

If you look at the iPad you can see that it learned from other computer tablets and that more recent versions also learned from the iTouch.

Apple Inc. started work on the iPad on April 23^rd, 2008. The first iPad came out on April 3, 2010 (although Apple took pre-orders before then), iPad 2 came out in March 2011, and the most recent version of the iPad 3 came out on March 16^th, 2012.

It took almost two years for the first design to come out because the designers wanted to make sure that all the apps would work well with this new system. What makes the iPads great are that they are so easy to read and so easy to use.

The new iPad features an improved retina display with four times the pixels of iPad 2 and quad-core graphics, a camera, an improved sharper image, anti-glare screens and more. The iPad is considered the best selling non-phone technical gadget of all time.

The iPad was a great invention because it brought the functions that people needed most, watching movies, drawing ideas and designs, reading books, into a format that was easily portable.

While tablets had been tried before, it was the great innovative design of the iPad that made it such a hit. Steve Jobs is known for his groundbreaking innovative ideas, cutting-edge designs, and staying ahead of the curve. Jobs said that the iPad may be his greatest invention and the project he is most proud of.

If you haven’t tried the new iPad you may want to take it for a test drive. You might be surprised at how the new design, a great design, exceeds your expectations.

Author Bio: Joel is the Marketing lead at Idea design studio. Idea Design Studio is a product development firm that specializes in top-of-the-line design work for inventors. If you have any question on how to get invention help just contact Idea Design Studio.

A Collection of Beautifully Designed Logos

Naaz — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:36:47 +0000

Bland, uninspiring logos are, sadly, far too common these days. While a company may be interesting, or creative or fun, there are times when the logo doesn’t reflect that. When you’re designing a logo, you have to keep in mind that the design needs to portray the personality of the company – and an elegant, beautifully designed logo can help to stand out and get attention.

We’ve brought together a collection of amazingly elegant logos created by some extremely talented designers. Hopefully they’ll inspire you for your next logo design.

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/83837-Brewed-with-Care

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/523898-Pixelboard-Identity-for-WordPress-Theme

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/265222-Charlotte-User-Experience-Logo

Source: http://diegoguevara.com/blog/2010/08/25/matt-chase/

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/525210-Redstone

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/13527-Method-Craft-Logo-Stacked

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/493150-Cardinal

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/51713-clockingbird-logo

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/81215-Typeinspire-logo

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/525728-Screen-Shot-2012-04-21-At-12-41-16-Am

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/265383-Shiftfwd-Logo

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/39975-RedShift-Logo

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/232138-Shopaholla

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/446466-Spacedown-Creative-Logo

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/104280-Personal-Logo-Concept

Source: http://dribbble.com/shots/333411-Tokyo-Bicycles-Logo
Are there any elegant & beautifully designed logos that you’ve found that deserve a mention? Let us know in the comments.

Dan writes for gift ideas experts The Handpicked Collection, who specialise in Father’s Day gifts & presents. In his spare time he studies graphic and web design, and learns to code.

Best Ipad Drawing Apps

Naaz — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 06:20:35 +0000

When famous photographer Annie Leibovitz was asked what’s the best camera she said, the iphone4. Why? Because the best camera is the one on you. The same thinking can be applied to the ipad. When you’re struck with inspiration on a plane, train or automobile you don’t have your desk top and even your laptop is a little cumbersome to pull out – you might have already had your ipad open catching up on your design blogs. So how do you ensure you have the right tools in your ipad arsenal to accommodate even the most elaborate of ideas. The ipad is the moleskin of our generation – and unlike the moleskin when you’re done sketching you can pull the images onto your computer and clean them up – without having to start from scratch.

With dozens to of creative tools choose from, ranging from $2.99 to $15 you can easily sink tons of money into buying apps you may never use. If you’re looking for easy to use drawing apps with beautiful results here’s my recommendations.

1. Best bang for your buck: Sketch Club ($2.99) – This is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, drawing app with a robust set of brushes and features – at $2.99 you can’t beat it with a stick. SketchClub has a social feature where you can post your drawings and get feedback as you progress. Here’s a piece I did for a graphic design class, the assignment was to create a character and setting.

2. Best for complex illustrations: Procreate ($4.99) – This app features loads of amazing, realistic brushes and a retina display option for creating very detailed images. This app is incredibly user-friendly and filled with powerful tools. Here’s an in-depth review of Procreate’s updated version.

3. Best for jotting down concepts: Paper (free or $7.99 for full tool set) – This gorgeous app received a lot of hype since being released earlier this year and since you can download it and play with one tool for free, why not? It’s an innovative way to store ideas and get concepts out of your head quickly. Doing anything more in-depth is difficult because there isn’t an undo feature, it’s got a limited color pallet and no layers – just like real paper. Here’s an idea I whipped up in less than 5 minutes.

4. Best transition to Photoshop or Illustrator: Adobe Ideas ($9.99) – It only makes sense, get the organic shapes and general ideas on the ipad screen and then pull the PDF into Photoshop or Illustrator for the finishing touches. This app is perfect for that, being in the family and all. You can use layers and simple vector tools, zoom without getting pixelated, utilize a giant canvas, pull color themes from photos and there’s a 50-level undo.

5. Best for vector illustration: iDesign ($4.99) – Need something totally MATHEMATICAL? Well this app allows for precise vector drawings with the touch of a finger. Working primarily with lines you can add strokes, fills, points and basically everything you’d do with the pen tool in illustrator. Overall a great tool to begin a project, you’ll have to add gradients in Illustrator after the fact.

Melody Stone is a journalist/blogger and designer living in Sacramento Ca. She work as a custom t-shirt designer and marketing director at Fibers.com and spends her free time riding her bike in dresses and high heels.

Excellent Examples of Conceptual Photography

Naaz — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:31:58 +0000

Conceptual photography is a kind of photography in which the photographer makes a photo based on a concept or idea. Usually this message is conveyed through some abstract pictures which can be interpreted by the viewer. Even though most photographers have a specific meaning they are trying to get across, usually the image can be interpreted in many different ways.

The idea is already there in the mind, all the elements required to convey that idea is setup up an then that perfect photograph conveying the concept, big or small, comes alive. Many a times, computers are used to give the picture its final touch, but still many photographers prefer the old style in getting the real life on to the camera. He or She is usually trying to deliver a message or “concept”. Usually this message uses graphical symbols to represent ideas, movements, moods and everything that the photographer might want to say, through a photographic message.

Conceptual photography often involves the use of computer editing to achieve the desired effects. But, many photographers just use what is already available to them in front of the lens. Conceptual photography is an open door to imagination and creativity. In this post we are publishing Excellent Examples of Conceptual Photography for your inspiration.

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