Surreal Photography- As the name says, surreal photography is all about unleashing your dreams, pushing the limits of your imagination, giving creativity a new meaning and bringing it out through the medium of photography. It is a highly interesting medium for both, the composer and the audience, where on one hand the composer (photographer), with its unique perspective gives a whole new and unique dimension to his creativity, and the audience on the other hand, enjoys and get to see a whole new creative.

Some say that it is a very interesting way to portray a creative, for some it is very mysterious and the rest see it as a very bizarre style.

Below are some surreal creative, and let’s see what you think of them. Do comment your thoughts.

Assembler

Ballon Head

Being Together

Brain

Brain Wash

Broken

Carausel

Communio

Confused With Face

Core

Crawling on the Wall

Dreams

Egg

Falling

Flying Brain

Flying Glasses

Flying Guitar

Growing Within

Guitar

Hollow Hills

Home

In Pieces

Inspiration

Jamie Valentina

Lemon

Light fear

Mirror & I

Moon

MoonLight

Multiple Cooks

Neptune

New Life

Oni

Open Mind

Papercut

Resistance

San Surreal

Self Portrait

Serenity

Shhh

Sitting High

Soul

Souls in Darkness

Stone Smile

Surreal Crow

Surreal City

Survive

Tangled Angel

Wool

Wounded Heart

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For the first time in BestDesigntuts we bring you the most creative and hilarious advertisements of the world, made by some of the big ad agencies. These creative creations have everything that takes an ad to be the successful one. The base, concept, idea, storyline and the design of these ads truly delivers the message and have the strength to create a buzz about their product/service.

Such ads are true material for viral marketing, and thus attract lots of attention. Today, we brought you 40, and above, such ads which will define the meaning of the term ‘out-of-box.’

• Be Stupid

  

• Before its too Late

  

• Adidas-Quite Smoking

  

• Life-Too Short for Wrong Job

  

• Bajaj

  

• Before its too Late

  

• Bose-Noise Reduction Headphone

  

• Canon Cyber Shot

  

• Cemex-Fast Drying Concrete

  

• Chocolate Licking

  

• Coca Cola Light

  

• Comcast- We Make Big Fast

  

• copenhagen Zoo Bus

  

• Dare for Me

  

• Don’t Dring & Drive-Brake Pedals

  

• Don’t Dring & Drive-Gear Lever

  

• Espn Couch

  

• Florida Centre Book

  

• Friends of the Earth

  

• harley davidson-Roadking

  

• Harley Davidson-Stop Dreaming

  

• Heineken

  

• Heinz Ketchup

  

• Recruitment Campaign

  

• Internet Service Provider_plug

  

• Internet Services Berlin

  

• Internet Services Gandhi

  

• Internet Services Hitler

  

• Internet Services Marylin

  

• Lamborghini- Part of Italy

  

• MCDonalds- The Real Milkshake

  

• Nikon D700

  

• Nokin Face Detect

  

• Omax Wide Lense

  

• Papermate ultra fine

  

• Pepsi Twist

  

• Roulette Baggage Carousel

  

• Rowenta

  

• Sexy Drink

  

• Sony-Makebelieve

  

• Tobaconomia

  

• Ultra Perk Chocolate balloon

  

• Vitae Shelters

  

• Volkswagen-Parking Made Easy

  

• Help Against Global Warming

  

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Adobe Illustrator is vector graphic tool developed by Adobe. It is used by design professionals worldwide. Adobe Creative Suite (CS) is a collection of graphic editing, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe System. The latest version CS5 was officially released on12th April 2010. Since then, it has become hot topic in the world of design. Long discussions are taking place on whether we should shift to different applications of CS5 or not! Till date, details comparisons are being made between different applications in CS5 and the CS4. In this, we will do the comparison of Adobe Illustrator CS5 and Illustrator CS4.

Why you need to upgrade to CS5:

Adobe Creative Suite 5, the newest release of Adobe’s creative toolset, enables new creative possibilities and smarter workflows, allowing you to deliver your ideas more naturally across a broad range of media. With more than 250 new and enhanced features and dramatically improved integration across products, Creative Suite 5 gives you the freedom and control to realize your ideas more completely and quickly than ever before. With Creative Suite 5 your work can impact more people in more places.

The launch of Creative Suite 5 brings with it the introduction of an exciting new product, Adobe Flash® Catalyst™ CS5. Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 is a professional interaction design tool for creative professionals who want to create expressive interfaces and interactive content without writing code. To learn more about Flash Catalyst, visit the Flash Catalyst CS5 product page.

Creative Suite 5 is also the first version of Creative Suite to integrate with new Adobe CS Live online services. Adobe CS Live is a set of online services that significantly enhance how your work flows, allowing you to focus on creating your most impactful work. There are currently five online services included with CS Live: Adobe BrowserLab, Adobe CS Review, SiteCatalyst® NetAverages™, Acrobat.com, and Adobe Story. CS Live online services are complimentary for a limited time. To learn more about Adobe CS Live online services, see the CS Live section of this FAQ and visit the CS Live services page.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 software provides precision and power with sophisticated drawing tools expressive natural brushes, a host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live online services CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time. Let’s explore the features needed for

a) Design Projects: From ideas to output, take advantage of the power and precision of Adobe® Illustrator® software. Create beautiful and effective vector artwork using sophisticated drawing tools, expressive natural brushes, a host of time-savers, and integration with Adobe CS Live online services.* CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time.

New Features—

Beautiful Strokes: They, very interactively adjust stroke width using new width handles. Precisely position arrowheads and symmetrically align dashes. Once you control stretch at any point with the scaling art brushes on a path, the patterns can be observed behaving beautifully at corners.

Perspective Drawing: It makes use of perspective grids to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective, and create the look of realistic depth and distance.

Integration with Adobe CS Review: It enables to create and share online reviews for clients down the hall or around the world using Adobe CS Review, one of the new CS Live online services.

Bristle Brush: It facilitates paints with vectors that resemble real-world brush strokes and achieves the expressiveness of natural media with the scalability of vector graphics.

Shape Builder Tool: As the name suggests, it combines, edits, and fills shapes directly on your artboard without accessing multiple tools and panels.

Resolution-independent effects: It helps applying raster effects, such as drop shadows, blurs, and textures, that maintains a consistent appearance across media.

Enhanced Features—

Gradients and Transparency: Interact with gradients directly on your objects and control the transparency of individual colors in gradients and gradient meshes.

Multiple artboard Enhancements: Now, you can work on up to 100 artboards of varying sizes in one file— named, organized, and viewed the way you want.

Drawing Enhancements: Join paths with a keystroke, draw behind, and draw inside and get to work faster with everyday tools.

b) Web projects: Design websites, interactive experiences, and original vector graphics that developers will love with Adobe® Illustrator®. Create pixel-aligned artwork that stays crisp when rasterized and define up to 100 artboards in a single file.

Apart from having features like Resolution independent effects, multiple artboards for web and interactive, there are some new and enhanced features like

(New) Crisp graphics for web and mobile: Create vector objects precisely on the file’s pixel grid for delivering pixel-aligned artwork. Generate clean, sharp raster graphics by turning on Align To Pixel Grid and using text anti-aliasing options for individual text frames.

Enhanced Features:
Integration with Adobe Flash Professional: Import Illustrator files into Flash® Professional with type better preserved and symbol registration points supported.

New Document Profiles for web and mobile devices: Get access to new pixel-grid alignment from web and mobile device profiles, which also include relevant dimensions, color groups, and more.

Versatile slicing tools: You are now fully equipped to create vector-based slices from objects, groups of objects, or layers that are preserved when exporting your artwork as a SWF or PSD file.

c) For Video Projects: With the powerful vector drawing tools in Adobe® Illustrator®, you can design intricate and sophisticated artwork for video. Use multiple artboards with video-specific presets and create layers, masks, gradients, and effects that import beautifully into Adobe After Effects.

The features like beautiful strokes, multiple artboards for motion and effects. Gradients and transparency, sophisticated vector drawing tools, advanced typography have been specifically designed for the video projects.

Comparison between Illustrator CS5 and Illustrator CS4:
There are 3 aspects, the grounds on which the above two can be compared— Creative tools, Productivity and Workspace features, typography and web, video and mobile support.
To the first part, CS5 incorporates new features like Perspective Drawing, Bristle Brush, Beautiful Strokes, where as features like transparency in gradients, clipping masks, tablet support, Adobe Photoshop raster effects have been enhanced.

If we consider the productivity aspect, there are some new amazing features in CS5 like Integration with CS Review, Shape building tools where as the features like Multiple artboards, Adobe Bridge, control panel, selection tools have been enhanced.

If we talk about the third area, to enhance typography, Clean, sharp text for web and mobile devices has been introduced. For supporting web, video and mobile in a better way, clean and sharp graphics for mobile and web has been facilitated also providing with the support for roundtrip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst. Not just this, the already present features like multiple artboards for web, mobile, Adobe device central have been modified to a better ones.

SOME ISSUES STILL NOT FIXED:
A few things that we would have liked to see in the release of Adobe Illustrator CS5 went untouched by Adobe. For instance, gradient swatches do not save gradient angle and placement. Similarly, copying a gradient from one object to another using the Eyedropper tool resets the gradient to the default angle and placement. That can be frustrating, as can working with 3D Extrude & Bevel because Adobe seems incapable of improving that feature to eliminate the frequent occurrence of self-intersections.

The blending modes in Adobe Illustrator CS5 still have not been updated to match the more fully featured set introduced in Photoshop CS2 (Vivid Light, Color Dodge, and others). For years, users have been asking for enhancements to long-standing Illustrator features like blending, charts and graphs, 3D effects, and others, but CS5 once again ignores those requested refinements.

Conclusion: Thus, closely observing each and every aspect very closely, we do find no difficulty in shifting to Adobe CS5. Obviously, as we have already said that humans are bound to change, and with the change in technology repeatedly, we ought to remain open to changes.

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Time for some more inspiration. Designers derive inspiration from almost everything. Still the major sources of inspiration are photography, themes, graffiti artworks, wallpapers. Wallpapers are a great and very effective source of inspiration. Not just designers, even a common man derive pleasure out of looking at the beautiful and splendid themes of wallpapers. If you’ve noticed close enough, you’ll see that with every operating system recently launched comes a set of great nature wallpapers. So keeping the value for wallpapers as the source of inspiration, BestDesignTuts has decided to inspire designers(specifically) by giving them amazing collection of wallpapers. This post will have two series- consisting two different collection of wallpapers. Check out the first part of the series.

Seasonscape by alexiuss

Love Juice by DivineError

Something Like an Astronomer

LolBirdHouse by pronouncedyou

Bleach Ichirin no Hana by iDNAR

Sailor Moon 5 Warriors by daekazu

Paint Dancers Wallpaper Pack by JurgenDoe

Bully by machine guts

Where subscriber’s money goes by priteeboy

RR Project: 002 by ravenskar

Poetry in Motion by JaxeNL

Abstract Fractal by nmsmith

The charm of the seventh wave by hotburrito2

What inside of the mask by heise

The Defiant – Yhihre by budgie

Your Choice is Your Way by Osokin

Music by Hallucination Walker

Tower Bridge. by phyzer

Ecosystem by Frelon

Halcyon by alexiuss

Chromatic fruits by =k3 studio

Kawaii Onigiri Wallpaper by QueenOfDorks

Prelude to the End by lastscionz

AstralCastles III by love1008

AstralCastles III by love1008

L’arc en Ciel chibi wallpaper by QueenOfDorks

YotsuBOT by lastscionz

Chocolate dreams by NKeo

She loves me, yeah, yeah, yeah by daekazu

Bright Eyes by Shanezory

On the Grass by lastscionz

Tablefy – little light by ethe

Artificial Evolution by wirestyle

Rainbow Concepts II. by jugga lizzle

Eiffel_Tower by phyzer

Technical Imperfection by DivineError

Ouran Koukou Host Club by Zaphk

Love For Japanese Code Geass by Akarix

Royal straight flush by k3 studio

Car Lover by celsojunior

olorama by yofikus

asian by Feni_x

Apple Desktop by squaresailor

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