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There has been a lot of words said and written in the praise and awesomeness of creativity. We have also witnessed a lot of such acts that make us utter words Wow!. Today’s post was first imagined to be something else but I ended up with collecting some very nice photos that certainly deserve to be proclaimed as Wow. War between pencil and camera is not fierce and violent but highly creative and impressive. It is a mix of two completely different techniques in a very novel way which was never seen before but has become popular in recent past. It do gives the impression of photoshop but until you know it for sure no one should just tag it photoshopped.

Furthermore, the problem with such mix method is you cannot really give them a name. They are photos or drawings? I leave this question for you but use these super cool all new pencil camera war pics in any possible way even for  sticker printing door posters, or wallpapers but at least do use them.

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Today’s post is about brochure designs and it is basically due to their undeniable importance and significance from both client and designer’s perspective. Most of the clients really judge the capabilities of a designer through its brochure designing skills. Designing a brochure is completely different then preparing it for online printing services. Nowaday’s most of printing stuff is done via Internet so, clients don’t really have to go through the hassle of hiring a designer and getting things done offline. It further highlights the talent of a designer because the time of impressing client via offline brochure has gone so, you will have to do the task through your online designing skills. Moreover, if you have good inspiration or creative idea in mind for design then the possibility of pocketing clients is way better. In order to give you some brief ideas we have collected some really nice brochure designs and to train you for the task of designing them there is a list of brochure tutorials that will certainly leave you designing brochures like a pro.  I am sure after going through the post your questions regarding brochure designing will be answered if not then you can check the possible 10 F.A.Qs one can ask about brochure designing.  Do let us know if you like the effort.

Brochure Designing Tutorials:

Design a Ready to Print Brochure in Photoshop

Making a corporative style – Corporate brochure style

Corporate Brochure Design

How to Design and Layout a Brochure

Brochure Design Inspiration:

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The stock photos that are available easily online for the people download and they can be used as per the policy of the download service provider. The download pictures are very good in the terms of the photo quality as they are shot by the professionals in the field. The stock photography can be used for the non-professional work as well. Stock photos in today’s time can be used for multiple purposes including stickers, designs, and other design related requirements.

How It Helps?

You can increase the beauty of your design using the stock photo, which can make the design better ethically and make it look very professional. The designs that you might need for your need are supposed to be made at least of certain standard to be appreciated. The modern design of the photos can be done using the stock photos. The stock photos can also act as a source of the inspiration, when you are out of the ideas for the new design of your work. The design inspirations can be had from the stock photos and it’s nothing bad, In fact unless you are copying directing from the original, the work can be acceptably good. The design should also be done fast in less time. The way to do this is to go for a design photo using a stock photo. The photos that are used for the design can be downloaded from the internet for a small payment of certain amount of money, which ranges from monthly pay service to the payment for each photo. You can go ahead and select the option that is most appropriate for your needs. The most essential step is choosing of the most appropriate photo for your need. This can be done easily tough using the search option that is available on the website that provides this service. The service is also very topic centric so that you can browse the selection and choose for yourself from the categories and browse through the photos easily without any confusion. The photos available on the websites are very attractive.

Quality of Photos

The photos have a certain quality with them, which makes them good or bad and this is the same for the designs that you have made from them. The photos can be used extensively for the design process and they can help you gain the edge over the bad deign just on the basis of the design only. You should keep an eye on the quality of the over design and also on the details like the composition of the design, the rule of the thirds and the other designs fundamentals. Well, if these terms sound like Greek to you, don’t worry, you can learn about the basics of the design theory just by viewing few videos on the YouTube.

Applications and Programs

Photoshop is great software that you can use to edit stock photos and create beautiful design. You can download a demo version of the software for free from adobe’s website. This software is only limited by the imagination and skill of the user. You can morph one photo upon another, change backgrounds and do all kind of wonders with it.

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Business should not be boring and yes you might have known it and heard it before however, the practical examples are just keep pouring in from creative minds. Design blogs are filled with such amazing business cards, but it does not mean there is no space for more, new ideas are always required. So, keeping business card printing process success and huge demand of such inspirational designs in mind, I have compiled a list of few but actually awesome business card designs. The designs have taken a shift from mere informative to multi purpose. In these designs, you will see how can you use your ordinary business cards for multiple things and everything you do with them is fun.

The list also does not contain cards for only one particular industry. Business card should reflect your business so, these cards are for everyone who are looking to redesign their identity or just want to have fresh start. Have a look at them and do let me know if any of these has made you say Wow! because it happened to me and I am sure you will feel similar goosebumps. Enjoy the treat!

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Rapid media technological evolution has brought this world on new stage where there is a evolutionary change on each turn with even better and unique features. Podcast and webinar are one of these advancements. They both possess the unique features which make them different from even each other.

Webinar:

Etymologically webinar is a unique combination made of the word “web” and “inar” taken from seminar. Webinar refers to the web – based – seminars, conferences, online lectures and meetings. It’s used for conveying hard information that is the one for which you are even willing to pay.

Podcast:

Many terms were introduced in the Guardian referring to this new digital media which now is named as podcast.

Etymologically it is a hybrid of iPod and broadcast as “pod” is taken from iPod and cast from the broadcast. It’s a digital media which consist of series of audio files divided into the episodic form.

Differences between the two as below:

• Webinar Live, Podcast recorded

Podcasting cannot compete with webinar as people listen to webinar as the listen to the lectures being delivered in the classroom or as if people are sitting in meeting. Webinar is taken as serious note whereas podcast is like a radio to people though it’s not a radio but people listen to it in free time for the purpose of relaxation.

• Informative or entertaining: 

Podcast is entertaining for sure but at times it can be both informative and entertaining whereas webinar has a strong relationship with information majorly.

• Two way communication:

Webinar is considered to be live in which the potential of two way communication exist whereas podcast has one way communication mode. Only one side is audible in the form of recording.

• Effective feedback

In webinar communication is even effective due the possibility of effective feedback. Some people urges that it’s more of a one way as most communication is from the speaker to the audience but webinar has included question answer sessions and other activities which make it two way communication with effective feedback.

• Turning webinar in podcast

If one give a series of webinar on any topic and place them on iTunes as a podcast episodic series it may help in merging the episodes with a blur line. In this way you can turn webinar into podcast but you cannot turn podcast into webinar.

• Webinar not free

Webinar series can be bought at times for listening again in free time but people are willing to pay for its effective, useful and objective information. While podcast is free of cost.

• Live

Webinar can be live as well as recorded whereas podcast can’t never be live it is always recorded.

• Audio/Video

Podcast majorly has ability to play audio files and now some podcasts can show still images whereas webinar facilitate through audio, video (live or streaming from internet), and text documents. Even text chat also occurs for the purpose of question answer session but this text chat is limited to the people connected for the meeting or conference purpose.

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So many things are going on about Facebook, its including Facebook IPO, investment markets and recently the purchasing of Instgram from it. The most recent and up to date debate about Facebook is the efficacy of its advertisement as General Motors have pulled its ads from Facebook. However, the company says it their routine job to keep changing the outlets. Moreover, the most talked about thing is Facebook’s ability to be worthy of 35-38$ a share. Talking about investment, we all know it is a risky business especially when the most immaculate banker Jamie Dimon disclosed the current losses his bank faced. So, we all need to be aware while spending our money. This post however, does not really deal with such information rather it outlines the new Facebook face recognition app which created quite a buzz in recent weeks. Have you ever give it a thought that whenever you upload new photos on Facebook it automatically suggests you the names to tag them but how it recognize the person in the photo?

Facebook in December 2010 introduced the new application of facial recognition which recognizes friends and you in all the photos ask you if Facebook has tagged correctly and you want to save the tagging or skip it. Though it’s convenient for those uploading hundreds of photos and wants to tag their friends and family in them but at the same time critics have already called it a huge threat to the privacy of Facebook users.

How Facebook Facial Recognition Software Works

Whenever any photo is uploaded by a user on his or her Facebook account, this new feature that is Facial Recognition software or application then scans all the photos with facial recognition software to match or find maximum resemblance of the people in the photos with other photos in which they might have been previously tagged.

Facebook Facial Recognition Software – Bio-matric fingerprints of our Faces

Facebook not only knows you, your friends, where you live, track what you like and even who your sibling and now it also knows your face. Out of five million users Facebook can recognize your face too. Facebook users have been loading more than 20 million photos and Facebook has been making bio-matric fingerprints of all our marks. Now Facebook has the massive collection of our faces or it might not be wrong to say probably the largest collection in the World.

Pros

Only plus point I have come across so far is it makes tagging a bit easy and even if people had no plans of tagging they still do because Facebook has done half of the work for them.

Cons

Facebook like always get itself trapped in one major issue that is of privacy protection. Introduction of this feature in the default settings of Facebook users without their prior consent is labeled as the biggest offense.

Many online as well as office privacy protecting officials had launched investigations against this feature of Facebook which is now more than 2 years old. On the top of these were European Union data-protection regulators and Sophos, a British Internet security firm. They have called this feature creepy and others called it dangerous. Even I somewhere read the comment of a man considering this application best feature of Facebook as said and I quote:

“Awesome! Now I can take pictures of cute girls at the grocery store or at the park, upload them and Facebook will tell me who they are! (I’m pretty sure that’s not [how] it works but I’m sure it will get there)”

There is not any doubt in near future Facebook can take us to any level as we willingly have given bulks of personal knowledge to Facebook without considering the circumstances which we might face. Time can come when FBI will be contacting Facebook for taking the information about the convicts they are looking for.

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Russel Browne wants to provide some useful tips which would be quite beneficial to smooth the way of Test4prep exam clearance. Would you like to go through GIAC Certifications guide self assessment tutorials.

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Mobile phones used to be only for making calls and sending text messages. Nowadays, with Android smartphones and similar high-tech devices, we are able to do almost anything we think of using our mobile phones. If you are a sports fan, you will probably be very interested to find out that there is an abundance of sports apps for your Android-based smartphone, and that getting them on your smartphone and using them afterwards is everything but difficult. Therefore, it is easy to figure out why so many people are using these Android apps and enjoying them to the fullest – they are easy to use, they are fun, and they are very practical – what more could you ask for when it comes to an app on your smartphone?

The 5 Best Android Apps for Sports Fans

Here will be presented the list of five fantastic, fun and very useful Android apps for you, providing that you are a sports fan. All of these Android apps are designed specifically for sports fans and this is exactly why they are so popular and so commonly used by sports enthusiasts from all around the globe. So, keep reading and find out which of the apps made it to the list:

Yahoo! Fantasy Football

This is a massively popular game, and you will probably benefit greatly from getting the Android app if you are addicted to it. Many players will worry about their teams for hours while away from their computers, and they can now have their fantasy football team right there in their pocket.

NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile SM

For all of NASCAR enthusiasts out there with an Android smartphone in their pockets, there is the perfect app for you; it is called the NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile SM. You will get all the information you need on your favorite drivers, including live feeds from in-car radios, live practice, news and much more.

Sports Tap

For real sports fanatics, Score Mobile provides you with a great app. You will be able to follow all of the teams you are interested in, regardless of the sport – football, basketball, Formula One, Indy Car, Nas car and even soccer teams from Europe, Brazil and Mexico. Also, you can get all the update alerts for your favorite teams right on your cell phone.

Sprint NBA Mobile 2011-2012

Logically, this is made for those hard-core NBA fans who want to take the news relating to their favorite teams wherever they go. Lice results, game highlights, game statistics, game alerts and a lot more fun stuff.

MMA News Arena

For all MMA fans, this is the best app they can possible download. It is the number one MMA news source for Android cell phones and devices.

More Android Apps for Sports Enthusiasts

These are just the top five Android apps for sports fans across the world. If you do not like the list, you can always find hundreds of other apps for your Android cell phone and enjoy your favorite sports and teams even when you are on the go.

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You love your mother and you intend to wish her in best possible way then you need to have this freebee Mother’s Day greeting card PSD which can be downloaded for free and altered in desired way. It is a complete design with perfection and created just to pay tribute to mother’s around the world as they hold the highest and most appreciative position among all other emotional attachments of human beings. So, in order to make your Mother’s day more cheerful you need to download the card, add your own text and just get it printed to present it to your mother. We have done most of the task but you still have to add words which should express your own feelings for your mother.

Click the image to download it.

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Web designers and web developers who are passionate about their work are always looking for ways where they can learn more. Where their job is to make drawings and illustrations, they learn from all the sources they can to enhance their talents. Photoshop and Illustrator have brought revolution in the web designing work. They have opened up a lot of ways for the web designers to experiment with their creativities and employ them in the best manner.

So for all this, we have brought you today Photoshop and Illustrator Based 50 Awesome Character Illustration Tutorials that will blow you away. So that you are also introduced to the world where you can become experts of your field. So take a look at these illustrations, try out all or any of these which may interest you. These are the posts which have been selected exclusively of the type where you can learn as many tips and tricks as are required in web designing, and even if some are missed out, some of these will provide the basis for what you want to create and then it will also become a breeze, So let’s cut back on the talking and head to the post. Enjoy!

Drawing Kurosaki Ichigo In Photoshop

Create a waste paper bin

Creating the Bird God

Creating a cardboard character

Draw Fairy Tale Characters in Photoshop

How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale

How to Get that Anime Look in Photoshop Using a Flexible Workflow

Girl

Create the Face of a Singing Pig

Creating a character

How to draw cartoon character

Rigging a character for After Effects

Create cool character art

Design a character for a T-shirt print

How to Create an Original Pin-Up Girl in Photoshop

Cartoon Character in Photoshop

Yupyland character art

Design 3D characters

Japanese kamon and hanko stamp workshop

Iron Man movie wallpaper

Blurring effects

Drawing figures from photos

Inking and Coloring the Comic Strip “The Brads

Designing food packaging

Calligraphic strokes

Creating Line Drawings in Adobe Illustrator

Design and build a flatpack toy

Manga Style

Colour your fantasy figures

Create Sketchy-Style Vectors

Drawing a Doll in Illustrator Tutorial

PAINTING TUTORIAL

Pixels and vectors

Photoshop character faces

Build your character’s back story

How to Create a Fantasy Character in Illustrator

How to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character

Drawing Homer Simpson

How to Create a Cartoon Character with Expressive Lines

Primitive Art Man Cartoon

Character design: the Warbot MkIV

Create a Cute Furry Vector Monster in Illustrator

Drawing a Penguin Cartoon

How to create amazing animated characters

Create your own monster

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Bug Tutorial

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Snail Tutorial

Create a Traditional Japanese Koi Carp Illustration

Create a Vector Pirate Cartoon Character from a Hand Drawn Sketch

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Mother’s day 2012 is just around the corner and all the beloved children are looking something to gift their mothers. Mother is a gift of nature which cannot be substituted and nothing can match the affection and love of a mother. So, in this year we want to offer all of you to do something special and think out of the box for one who took so much pain to raise you. I have collected the list of number of design elements that’s going to help you to create a greeting card for your mother on this mother’s day 2012.

The list below contains hi res free design elements that can be used in creating a beautiful mother’s day greeting card for free and I believe much more valuable than any other gift. Let your mom praise you and feel proud that she has raised a good and skillful human being. Trust me the replacement of mother can never be found and the love is undeniably without any interest or greed. Love your mothers and Happy Mother’s day from us. Download all of these from the link below:

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