Fragile_Hopscotch Design

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

2010-02-06T21:07:00.000-08:00

Flash Photography With The Elinchrom Octa

Chris Burfoot demonstrates the Elinchrom Octa, a giant softbox, used as a white background. and also demonstrates the Elinchrom Octa, a giant softbox, used as a huge ringflash for fashion and lifestyle portraits.

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

2010-02-06T19:46:00.000-08:00

Wonderful Wedding Photography by: Captured Moments Photography

Take a peek on some of Heather Marie Ryn's Wonderful wedding photography... She captures your images as timeless art with a modern flare and become one of the most important resource for sharing memories and staying in touch with family, relatives and friends. she believe that being her treasured clients, you deserve only the best service available, and she hopes that you enjoy browsing and sharing your most treasured memories. She was looking forward to bring creativity to the most important event of your life. -fragile

Graphic Design - Inspirational - Photography - Free

2010-02-06T06:47:00.000-08:00

19 Amazing Free Graphic and Image Editors for Designers and Photographers

"In this article you will find a range of Free editors that can be used by graphic designers, photographers, animators, artists and even kids. Some have basic functionality, for the amateur or learner, others are very powerful and professional, suitable for the professional."

Photography - Composition - Inspirational - Tutorial

2010-02-06T06:40:00.000-08:00

My HDR Tutorial by: Markus Linke

Clear tutorial on using your digital camera, Photomatix and Photoshop, by Markus Linke.

HDR tutorial

Tutorial on HDR with free-of-charge software GIMP and Qtpfsgui

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

2010-02-06T06:30:00.000-08:00

If you don’t like these kinds of photos, please move along. No complaints will be accepted.

35 Fantastic HDR Pictures
This post covers 35 beautiful and perfectly executed HDR pictures. Some of them may look surreal, too colorful, even magic or fake, but they are not. Keep in mind that they’ve all been developed from normal photos; not a single image is an illustration.

HDR Tutorial
HDR how-to guide, mostly related to Mac users.

HDR: High Dynamic Range Photography
HDR how-to guide with Photoshop CS2

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

2010-02-06T06:25:00.000-08:00

Digital Black and White
This site features professional photography articles written by Keith Cooper. It covers black/white-photography-techniques, image manipulation techniques, tools, articles and camera reviews.

The Top 5 Black & White Photography Tips
Five handy tips to get you going in the right direction: practice, focus on contrast, focus on texture, use color filters and more. If you want to learn more about the actual black and white conversion process in Photoshop, see the article 12 Ways to Make a Black & White Photo as well.

Black and White - Photography - Guide

2010-02-06T06:23:00.000-08:00

Black and White Photography Guide
Black and white photography starts before the shot is even taken. In this article you’ll find some quick tips on what to look for to ensure the perfect black and white landscape – e.g. camera settings for black and white photography and what filters are good for black and white landscapes.

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

2010-02-06T06:16:00.001-08:00

Guide To Architectural Photography

Despite architecture’s diversity there are a number of simple rules that apply in most situations, or will at least get you thinking more deeply about how you can best portray a particular piece of architecture..

Photography - Composition - Inspirational

2010-02-06T06:15:00.000-08:00

5 Black and White Photography Tips

A short, but useful article by by Darren Rowse, featuring shoot in RAW, low ISO and other techniques. You may also consider reading the articles Key Ingredients for Black and White Images

2010-02-06T06:14:00.001-08:00

Photography Composition Rules

This post reviews important rules of good photography, such as Rules of Thirds, balancing elements, leading lines, symmetry and patterns, viewpoint, background, depth, framing, cropping and experim

2010-02-06T06:10:00.000-08:00

Architecture photography, a beginners’ guide

Insightful tips for photography of stationary subjects by Michael Jenkins. You may also want to learn how to shoot bridges, statues, buildings and piers.

Photography - Composition - Freebies

2010-02-04T17:56:00.000-08:00

Find the perfect site for stock photos www.photoxpress.com

Tired and sick of low res photo Browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 620.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers! Need a wallpaper for your desktop or illustration for your blog? Need a pic for your commercial website design? Looking for inspiration? Have a look around.. thanks to Donald for this site

Adobe - Photoshop - Tutorial

2010-02-02T05:21:00.000-08:00

95+ Great Photoshop Tutorials to Learn Awesome Photo Manipulation Tricks

Photoshop is simply brilliant for creating Stunning Effects from simple elements and for fixing Photos that got the right scene but isn’t ok fx. in the light or color balance. In the hands of someone who knows how to control Photoshop it is able to do some really cool tricks but it isn’t easy at all for beginners. I find large compilations of Tutorials for Photoshop a great resource for inspiration and learning and I hope this article will be a good help for everyone including people new to Photoshop trying to do some photo magic for the first time.

Introduction

This article focus on all the fancy thing you can do in Photoshop with photos or elements from photos. It is possible to apply effects to photos fx. making them look like comic drawings or like really old pictures – possibilities are almost endless. Also if you got the codac moment photo but for some reason it got too dark or too light Photoshop will be there to save you. Finally if you want to catch a scene with your camera but for some reason cant Photoshop may help you create the illution that you did it… Photo Manipulation is one of the really strong sides of Photoshop and it is almost possible to create any idea you can come up with. The materials used (photos, graphical elements et.) is of cause important but knowing the secret tricks of Photoshop is possibly even more important. The Tutorials in this article will not turn you into a pro-photohopper over night but you will certainly be on the way…

Design - Texture Collection - Photos

2010-02-02T05:18:00.000-08:00

20+ Stunning Textures of Decay from stock.xchng

Textures are essential building blocks for some types of design and having the right textures at hand may speed up the design process, inspire you and improve the final result. Images of decay can be used in many ways and it is only the creativity and imagination that sets the limits. They are obviously useful for grunge style designs but can also be used to give an authentic and realistic look to other types of creative work. This post showcase more than 20 great looking textures of decay for inspiration and use in your designs. Please check license before using even though all textures are located at stock.xchng.

Design - Logo - Inspiration

2010-02-02T05:12:00.000-08:00

170+ Excellent Fresh Logos Inspirational Showcase

Working on a design for a new Logo? Looking for inspiration? You have come to the right place! This article “Fresh Logos Inspirational Showcase” will take you through a seriously large series of intelligent, well designed and inspirational Logos. Good Logos isn’t something designers just create – Good Logos need to catch attention and be easy to memorize. This is the hard part really but as you can see below there are plenty of ideas to stimulate the human mind and force us to say…hmmm what is that? Hope you will produce some unique ideas of your own by going through the list below!

Fonts - Free - Graphic/Web Design

2010-02-02T05:09:00.000-08:00

65+ Currently Some of the Best Free Fonts Available!

As a designer you are probably hungering for good quality Fonts that are not going to destroy your budget but that at the same time are giving what you need to be at the front foot as a professional. Fonts are used everywhere and I bet you agree that adding more to your tool box won’t be too bad. Go on and see if there’s anything you can use!

Graphic Design - Inspirational

2010-02-02T05:07:00.001-08:00

10 Essential On-line Generators for Designers

Inventing the wheel every time you need a ride wouldn’t be smart right. If you’re Web Designer the same basic principle rules – don’t start from scratch every time! Reuse, be inspired and use tools that make your life easier. Many great tools are available for free or at a low cost and if you find the right ones for you it may really help you out. This post focus on on-line generators for fx. creating buttons, tabs, background images and more. Take a look and see if some of these can make a difference for you…

Adobe - Photoshop - Tutorial

2010-02-02T05:05:00.000-08:00

140+ High Quality Categorized Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Typography is defined as the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyph. With Photoshop and the right skills and techniques at your disposal you can push the limits of Typography to the edge. This article is one of the largest categorized collections of Text Effect Tutorials will be able to find. All tutorials have large preview images and all links have been verified today. Don’t forget to bookmark, share and come back because I assure you this “elephant post” must be cut up and consumed in smaller slices! I you do so I bet your Photoshop skills will soon be hard to compete with…

Typographic - Graphic Design - Inspirational

2010-02-02T04:45:00.002-08:00

25+ Experimental Typography Showcases

We all know it – “A picture is worth a thousand words“. This is certainly true in most cases but clever use of typography can also turn words into pictures and then interesting things start to happen. Some people experiment with the idea of turning typography into art and pictures and I believe the results can be very interesting and inspiring. In particular this type of art is commonly seen on posters, in logos, on walls (graffiti), etc. Sit back and enjoy the Experimental Typography I discovered on Flickr today. If you fall in love with some of the art featured here I would recommend that you credit it with a comment on Flickr – just follow the link by clicking on the pictures.

2010-02-02T04:45:00.000-08:00

45+ Useful Air Applications for Web Design and Development Freelancers

Abobe Air may not get a lot of attention but maybe it should. The amount of good free applications available is rather surprising. Generally the applications are light weight, are easy to use and have good and intuitive user interfaces. This article list a very broad selection of useful tools based in Abobe Air. You will find anything from image editors, mind mappers, html editors, sql admin, snippet management, snapshot creaters etc. Please comment if you know a good Air tool that is not on the list!

Web Design - Inspirational

2010-02-02T04:37:00.000-08:00

25 Website Designs with Great use of Textures

Using textures in web design have become quite popular. Textures are great for giving the design a more realistic look and feel but should be used with caution. Adding too much texture risk making the design too messy and it easily becomes a bit grunge’ish. I personally like simple textures or simply noise that break the colours a bit and gives depth and brings the design to life when used right. This post brings 25 sites with different use of textures for your inspiration. Drop a comment and share if you like some of them or if you know others I should add.

3D Text - Tutorial

2010-01-30T23:32:00.001-08:00

30 High Quality 3D Text Tutorials | Spoonfed Design

www.spoonfeddesign.com

A showcase of outstanding tutorials on designing, decorating and using 3D text, using Photoshop, Illustrator and Cinema 4D.

Adobe - Photoshop - Tutorial

2010-01-30T23:30:00.000-08:00

Design a Colorful Illustration Using Patterns and Shapes - Psdtuts+

psd.tutsplus.com

A good friend and amazing artist Bram Vanhaeren and I decided to collaborate on an illustration to then create a t

Graphic Design - Inspirational

2010-01-30T23:26:00.000-08:00

Creative Business Cards: Uses of various shapes and materials | designrfix.com

designrfix.com

Business cards are no longer used just to provide basic information about yourself and your company. Today, more and more companies are using creatively

Design - Logo - Inspiration

2010-01-30T23:18:00.000-08:00

23 Brilliant Logos With Hidden Messages | The Roxor | Design blog for resources and inspiration

theroxor.com

Because Design Rocks!