Playing online poker is a great way to pass the time and learn a new skill. There are people from around the world play for both fun and money and there is a reason for that. Poker is a game that anyone can play, there are no language barriers and it creates a competition that anyone can succeed at. If you are the type that enjoys outwitting your opponent, playing online poker may be just the game for you.

There are many facets of playing poker, but one in particular is to understand the math behind your hand’s strength. In order to be able to recognize your odds of making any particular hand, you will need to understand a simple system. This system will allow you to easily figure out your position strength and you can use that information to make the best move that you can. The system breaks down to counting how many “outs” you have. Below, we will explain what an out is and how to count them.

What is an “Out”?

An out is a card which has not been put into play yet that can make your hand stronger. For example, if you need a “6” to complete a straight, you would have four outs. If you need a 6 to complete a straight or a club to complete a flush, you have 4+8 outs (four 6’s, 13 clubs, less the 6 of clubs and the 4 clubs that are in play). At first, it may be tough to count your outs. Many people will miss cards or count an out more than once. When you start using this method, double check that you are counting them correctly so that your numbers come out to be correct.

With this information, you can quickly translate your hand into a statistical percentage. There are 52 cars in a deck which means you can basically double the amount of outs that you have to get the percent chance that you will complete a good hand. For example if you have 8 outs, that means that you will have a 8*2=16% chance to complete your hand. If you have multiple chances to get that card, you can multiply that number by that amount of times. 16%*2=32% chance to complete your hand if you have 2cards to go. You can find more information HERE

This method is a great way to quickly understand your position with any given hand in poker. This will not give the exact odds of completing your hand, so beware, but it will be accurate enough that you will be able to use it to your advantage. You can use this information to improve your play and win more often. Over time, you will become better with this method and it will become second nature to you. You will be able to adjust your strategy and aggressiveness based on your hand’s strength. If you would like to test your skills out, a good place to play is at pkr download.

After the refreshing spring months come the warm summer months. We eagerly wait for these two months as the coming of this season implies going out on a vacation in some exotic beach destination and taking a much needed break after a long time. In a perfect summer afternoon, as the oblique rays of the sun reach us hits the Earth, the cool breeze, juicy fruits and warm colors of the flowers keep us cool. Since summer months are approaching, we have endeavored to put up some cool Photoshop brushes to complement the mood set up by nature.

The summer season is often related to things like vacation on a hill station or beach destination, bright blossoming flowers, sea shells, palm trees, water sports and many more. To help the graphic artists create the perfect mood of summer in any of the web designs or artworks, Photoshop brushes can be very useful. Whether it is a blog about the summer clothes that are in vogue this season, or the official travel website informing the viewers about the destination they must visit this year, these brushes will be extremely helpful for creating cute summer graphics and designs.

In this editorial, the readers are going to come across twenty sets of summer brushes. This is the most exhaustive lists which will not only be helpful for coming up with a great summer designs; moreover it will also give some cool idea for your future projects. Make the best use of these brushes to create attractive graphic designs. Enjoy!!

1. At The Beach

2. Beach Tropic Brushes

3. Hot Summer

4. Retro Summer

5. Sand Print Brushes

6. Seaside Memories Brush Set

7. Shells Brushes

8. Summer Beach

9. Summer Brushes

10. Summer Brushes byFartoolate

11. Girls In Beach Brushes

12. Summer Brushes byRoula

13. Summer Brushes PS

14. Summer Flowers Brushes

15. Summer Frames & Grundy Scrolls

16. Summer Landscapes

17. Summer LIFE

18. Summer Mood

19. Summer Sails

20. Summer Surround

Author Bio – Christopher Jackson is an editor at DesignCrowd UK where he researches design trends.

There are always doubts about the adoption and the use of any new technology. Sometimes, these doubts are misplaced, and at other times they are well founded. The doubts arise because nobody has used the technology before, because of the expenses incurred during implementation and a fear that the technology won’t be as efficient and as profitable as promised.

I am sure that the first T-shirt retailers, who implemented the use of DTG (Direct to Garment) printing, were troubled by the same doubts. What if the technology didn’t catch on? What if the overheads went up, instead of down? What if the quality of the print was not of top grade? What if their investment just failed to deliver value? So on and so forth.

But, one look at the apparel industry and you find that the number of T-shirt retailers that are using this printing technology has gone up and that too by a long way. It’s a trend that is catching on, although a DTG printer is an expensive buy, even new retailers are installing this printer, as soon as they have a business up and running.

That’s because DTG printing is delivering returns.

Personalization of Small Orders

Imagine a scenario say some 5 years ago, wherein you are an online T-shirt retailer store owner and one of your customers, needs two T-shirts customized with a design of their choice. What’s your answer going to be? It’s going to be No, can’t do that.

This answer isn’t a mistake, because back then using DTG for your retail store wasn’t a viable commercial option. But cut to the present and installing a DTG printer in your retailer store to satisfy a customer’s need for customized T-shirts does make perfect business sense. With the use of this printing technology, T-shirt retailers can now execute even the smallest orders of personalization. Whether it’s one T-shirt or two, it really doesn’t matter; the order can be fulfilled without a lot of investment in the process. It’s a typical win-win situation for both the retailer and the customer.

Making Financial Sense

If you look at it, the only investment that you need to make if you want to offer the ‘online t-shirt design software’ option to your customer is in the printer. That’s it. They can create a design on their own, upload it on your website and all that you have to do at your end is press the ‘print’ button. Of course, this isn’t as simplistic as it sounds, but this is the gist of it.

Now let’s take a look at the demand perspective, because an investment in expensive technology only makes sense if there is a demand for the products that are made, using that technology. So is there a demand for custom T-shirts? There is and there is plenty of it.

T-shirts have always been popular, so you shouldn’t have any doubts on that front. But what about the need for designing one’s own T-shirt, is that a popular trend? The clear and definitive answer is that this is a popular trend and it is not going away soon.

More and more people, across all age groups want to wear custom clothing. Yes, that’s right, in order to stand out from the crowd, they want to make a definitive style statement, that is only about them and nobody else. So, if a person X subscribes to a particular school of thought, or wants to show his love for a particular person or product, he wants the world to know and the easiest way of doing this is by wearing a T-shirt proclaiming this fact.

It’s all about individualism and there is a great demand for products that are unique; this is why custom designed T-shirts are in such great demand these days. Buyers can make sure that the design on their T-shirts will not be found on any other T-shirt.

Does your Retail Store stand out?

Now that we have understood that there is a demand for personalized T-shirts and it makes sense to use DTG printing technology, it’s also important to understand that there is tough competition out there. There are plenty of T-shirt retailers offering this service, so why should customers make their way to you and not somebody else?

The key again lies in differentiation. What are you offering that others aren’t? This is the question you must answer. But let’s face it; at the end of the day every trick in the book seems done to death. So if you think you are offering unbeatable discounts, you will find that others are offering more discounts. If you are offering a money back guarantee, there will be others who will be doing the same.

So, the trick is just do what you are doing, but do it really very well. Yes, as a T-shirt retailer you are willing to take up even small personalized T-shirt orders from your customers, but you must ensure that these are delivered on time, and the printing is of top quality.

After all, once you have covered the cost perspective (making personalization affordable) all you need to do is focus on quality. This is what your target shoppers are looking for and this is a great way of acquiring and retaining customers, all other things being equal.

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The lack of set up costs and instant turn-around time have made DTG printing a big hit amongst T-shirt retailers and their customers alike. But, in order to ensure that you are able to get the maximum returns from your investment in this technology, it’s important that you choose the best printer and high quality ink. You don’t want the design to be lost in translation do you?

Author bio

Hi, this is Nirmal Mali. I am working with Designnbuy.com Design’N’Buy is a super talented team of creative minds developing the best web to print software. We offer easy to use t-shirt design software and other product design software with preloaded fonts and clipart galleries and also with detailed user manuals and training videos. For any further information, solution and query feel free to get in touch to us here at Design’N’Buy.

Action photographs are amongst the most compelling. Without much forethought on your part, you can create an image that has drama, movement and a little story in it. Instead of having to plan and set up a shot, you ostensibly just show up and snap away. That is somewhat true but a gross simplification, too. Taking action photos does take some forethought, but you don’t have control over the final outcome. In many ways, this makes it much more exciting and challenging.

In fact, it is so exciting that photographers have developed two distinct ways of creating photos that have action in them.

Single photographs of an action
This is the traditional action photograph that lends so much vibrancy to newspapers’ and websites’ written coverage of sport and other events. To create great action photos you need knowledge of the event you’re capturing, solid photography technique and pure dumb luck. You need to know the event you’re covering well because you actually need to start taking the photograph before the event happens, to give your camera time to react. You also need to have solid photography techniques down, so you can prepare your camera settings – and yourself – before things get started. After all, if you are covering a horse racing event, you don’t want to have to look away to change things on your camera or bring it up to your eye after the horses start running. If you do, you’ll miss everything.

Ultimately, though, it is down to a combination of luck and experience. You have to get your camera set, be ready to go as soon as the action starts, then take hundreds of photos and hope some of them work. As you get more experience photographing action, though, more and more of them will work. You will begin to have a sense of where the right places part of the equation is. You will also get an idea of when things are about to get interesting. Finally, you will have a good instinct about whether to use a fast shutter speed to freeze the subject in place or a slow shutter speed to blur the image and give a sense of quick movement. You can also get a crisp shot of the subject but a blurred background by lowering the shutter speed and turning at the waist to track the subject with your camera. If done right, the subject will be crisp and clear, whilst the background reflects the speed of its movement.

Layering a series of photos into one image
This technique creates an image that shows how the subject has moved through the space, like a time lapse video but as a static image. To do this, you need to know how to use photo editing software like Photoshop or GIMP, an open source program, and you need to take a series of photographs using your camera’s burst setting. This setting will take a series of images rapidly, so you can capture all the movement of a particular event.

In your photo editing program, create a canvas that is twice the height of your images and as long as all of the images in the sequence lined up next to each other. Then start placing the images, with the first image in the first layer, the second in the second and so on. Line up the images using the horizon or other fixed points as a reference. The easiest way to do this is to place all the images down. Make the first layer completely opaque, then set the second image to 50% transparency and make all the other images invisible. Line up the first and second image to your satisfaction, and repeat until all the images are aligned.

Now it’s time to cut and assemble the image. Set the second image to 50% transparent, the first to opaque and the others to clear. Cut away from the second image, sticking as close to the subject as possible while also ensuring there is no empty gap between the images. You can also set your eraser to 50% and blend the images together. Repeat the steps until all the images are blended together, and play around until you get the look you like.

With both of these techniques, you too can create photographs that simply explode with action. You can see some more examples of some great action photography below:

My author bio can be found below:
Claire writes for Print Express, a leading printing specialist based in the UK. Claire is a budding photographer, and enjoys experimenting with Photoshop.

Fonts, fonts and fonts, that’s what Kreativ Font is all about. You remember those days that you just can’t find a matching font for your artwork? Simple because you don’t know where to look or because you visit websites that show no details about the fonts at all? Well… Kreativ Font features a collection of the best typefaces out there and also acts as a fonts foundry and recently has started creating their own fonts. Best of all, Kreativ Font makes it easy to find the fonts you need.

Kreativ Font doesn’t say exactly how many fonts they present but the great thing is you can find them all on one page. Simply scroll down the page and look at the fonts thumbnails to choose what you need for the next project. After you see a font that you liked, click on it to see more details about it like the font description, format and price. If you think you’re not quite there with this font, there’s a selection of related fonts displayed at the bottom as thumbnails that may satisfy your type needs. What else do you need?

However that’s not all. Not all designer can afford to pay for their fonts, or some just design as a hobby. For those people there is the Kreativ Font Freebies page. This page contains a growing collection of fonts created by Kreativ Font and are all free to download.

Kreativ Font is also unique because of their App for the Chrome browser, users can install their Kreativ Font App, which is a useful extension that will present you the latest fonts, the hottest font and deals without going to their website everyday.

So why should you use Kreativ Font? Simple, they have a huge collection of beautiful fonts, there are free fonts for designers on u budget, the Kreativ Font website is very easy to navigate, updates daily with new downloads and deals, and you can just enjoy the beautiful typefaces of many designers from all over the world to help you inspire! So head over to Kreativ Font and find out for yourself.

Facebook, once considered to be a social medium is now transforming into a giant marketing medium.

With more than 1 billion users, undoubtedly it is the best platform to promote your products and services. Today, we could witness numerous companies striving hard to set their promotional campaigns on the Facebook in order to turn the attention of billion customers toward their business. And, Facebook realizes the entire buzz that is happening all around and has come up with some incredible and innovative tools on implementing which promoting products via this medium would be highly valuable. So, as an online business entrepreneur you don’t have to worry a lot about running promotional events, deals and offering publicity to different customers using Facebook. Here, I have mentioned some of the interesting tools and ideas which help you increase your ROI using Facebook as a medium.

Decide your goals first:

It doesn’t matter whatever medium you choose, if you lack professional planning and strategic approach all your efforts to promote the entire business will vanish in thin air. So, perform some groundwork and research about the medium and type of clients that exist there to start your business needs in a positive note. Define your goals clearly and visualize whether the medium you have chosen and clients there would be helpful in your venture. If you are sure about your goal set and medium, then just march ahead.

Set up an online store in Facebook using extensions:

Thrive into the online market by setting up an online store in Facebook extensions. Whatever may be your website platform, Magento, WordPress or Joomla, today we have extensions for all the platforms that allow to connect with the Facebook pages to promote the products. In fact, most of the extensions are cost-effective and easy-to-set up as well. The extension that you have installed in your website helps you in integrating your website with the Facebook page. What exactly FB offers for facebook online store entrepreneurs to promote their business?

Benefit from the advanced tools for Facebook:

Facebook no longer is a social medium as I mentioned above and it has really realized the necessity of business promotions and how to help online businesses with that without affecting the trust of the customers they have on it. They have come up with some trend-setting tools to encourage businesses to perform a better marketing campaign leading to rich benefits. Two interesting tool update that eased the pressure of most online businesses are “Timeline” and “Open Graph.” Both these are boon for online companies as they provide a handful of options to online entrepreneurs for reaping rich benefits.

Timeline:

Well, in the last part of the year 2012 most ecommerce businesses suffered a setback while adding information on the Facebook wall. In fact, organizing the entire information in an effective way was proved to be quite troublesome. Facebook, realizing this trouble has come up with an impressive tool called “Timeline” to organize the wall information effectively and efficiently. Besides, it allows the entrepreneurs to present information in a visual format with additional effects. This has got a huge response from most online ecommerce businesses and in fact a few are making use of this interesting tool to improve their businesses.

Open Graph:

It is yet another innovation introduced by Facebook! Even though it is not newly introduced this year, a special feature called “Custom App Actions” added to this significant feature. With this additional feature, customers are not just limited to likes and in fact they are free to come up with innovative comments despite just talking about something. It is always better to add some information rather than just liking something, right? And this custom app actions allows the users to perform this.

Run creative campaign:

Being creative and unique is the key to exhibit your marketing skills in Facebook. Sharing a unique content with rich information would obviously please more customers on Facebook which in turn forces them to like and share your content. Adding sponsored stories could be a great move in improving business promotions.

Create social experience post purchase:

If you are into the online business for a long time, you would probably know what exactly customer reviews can do to improve business. By providing an opportunity to the customers in order to share their experiences post product purchase, you could easily improve your sales rate by a huge extent as Facebook has an option of posting reviews on the wall. It is an interesting and intelligent strategy to pull more customers toward your site.

Engage customers with your business:

This is one of the strategies that most online businesses fail to account for. Facebook promotions are not about posting one or two high-quality innovative content for just a few days. But, in fact, it has to be performed on a constant basis. Once you have garnered recognition and reputation over your business, you have to keep up to their expectations as they tend to expect more useful information via you. So, never stop your online campaign after traffic starts flowing to your website. By doing so, you’ll allow customers to build trust with you and your business which could assist in the growth of your business.

Release updates in a crisp and precise manner:

Remember, the more long your update information is the less people engage to it! So, whenever you plan to release an update, make sure it is crisp, precise and meaningful. Anything below 150 characters would give your customers a bright chance to read the entire information which in turn benefits your business.

The points provided in this article are tried and proven strategies that have worked well for most online businesses. Try this for your website and improve the performance of your online business to a great extent. I hope everyone enjoyed this article and it proved useful to many.

AUTHOR-BIO

Riya Sherin is a designer who has a love for creativity and enjoy experimenting with various techniques in web. Her speciality is ecommerce development and develops airbnb software with best design reviewing.

Ever wondered where to find the best designer to create your logo design, website, t-shirts and other print and graphic designs? Don’t search any longer! Designcrowd is an online platform that connects businesses with designers to complete design projects. If you need a designer you can publish your project on Designcrowd, where over 100,000 graphic designers can see your project. These designers can submit their designs and you simply choose the one you like.

Thanks to their designer-friendly crowdsourcing system it only takes minutes to get your project seen by thousands of designers. It works like this. First you describe your project, set your deadline, deposit your project budget and wait for designers from all over the world to do what they do best. Ones a number of designers submitted their idea/design “which can grow to over 100+ designs” you can give feedback, request changes or share designs with your colleagues to find out which design will be the best for your project. Ones you found your favourite design, simple approve the files, download the files and release payment. It’s as simple as that.

As a designer, you can simply create an account and browse the many design jobs available in different categories. Before you join a contest, you see how much you earn if you create the winning design, how many designers joined the contest, how many days you have left to submit a design and it includes a good description of what the client is looking for. A nice bonus, even if you are not the winner, you can still earn some cash since all projects offer “participation payments”.

So if you are a graphic designer, which can be a webdesigner, print designer, icon designer, etc and you are looking for extra design projects or just a fun challenge, head over to DesignCrowd.com and join the fast growing design community. To give you a better impression of the designs submitted by designcrowd members check out their design gallery here.

Back in January we started a giveaway here on TutorialFreakz.com where you could win 1000 Frosted Plastic Business Cards from EliteFlyers.com and $100 cash. On February 1st we chose one lucky winner…. “Stephanie Johnson”, congratulations! Stephanie created the winning business card for the site sljohnsonimages.com and received the 1000 Frosted Plastic Cards about ten days ago.

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Are you one of those designers that is always looking for new fonts to use in their latest artwork? Well there are actually many websites that offer tons of fonts that you can download for free and one of those websites is ffonts.net. At Ffonts.net you can download many Free Fonts in different categories and when I say “many” I am talking about 44000+ free fonts and counting.

There is no registration required, you simple browse their font collection and ones you found the font you like, click the download button. You can search fonts sorted by age “50s, 60s, 80s”, you can find fonts for different seasons “Christmas, Halloween, Easter” or just search for a specific style “asian, futuristic, cartoon”. Options are endless.

When you select a font you like, you see a list of information about the font. This includes font weight, font name, no. of caracters and a preview of the font to make sure this is the font style you like.

As a font designer you may not be looking for font downloads, but instead would like to share your own fonts. Well, you can also “Submit Your Own Font” to ffonts.net, simple create an account, log in and click on “Submit”. Now you can select a categorie for your font and upload your font to your account, via the “Fonts By” button you get an overview of fonts submitted by you.

So head over to ffonts.net and download those fonts that are still missing in your font collection.

Are you one of those people that is always looking for new icons to expand their icon collection? Or are you just looking for some Metro Sport Vector Icons to use in your new sport template? Icon Land is a great icon collection website/store where you can purchase icons that you can use in your commercial design works. It is simple and does the job, you just select one of the  icon sets in one of the many categories such as smileys, sport, transport, love, etc and pay to download.

Best of all? It does not have to be expensive. Lets say that you selected this pretty Vector Multiple Smileys set, but you only need one of the icons in this set… of course you do not want to pay 180 dollar if you only gonna use one of the icons right? Well, Icon Land allows you to contact them and purchase icons individually. So in this case you wouldn’t pay $180, but only $15. Icons are available in different price classes and can be purches from $5 and up.

Thats not all, they also offer a free sample pack of every icon set available on their website. It includes several icons in all sizes under Icons-Land Demo License Agreement. This way you can test the icons before spending your precious money.

If you can’t find the icon set that you are looking for, you can use their custom icon design service. This service allows you to create exclusive icons sets and will not be sold to anybody else but you, or you can extend existing stock icons sets that you purchased from their store. You can request a Price Quote for your project here.

So if you are looking for simple icons or vector icons, one icon or hundreds of icons, for a low or high budget, Icon Land is a site many designers will add to their favorites.