Though Graffiti is one art form that has been around since the ancient times but its charm remains intact till date. A simple phrase painted on the wall cannot be termed as Graffito. It is the creative designs and stylish fonts imparted by the professional designers that make an ordinary slogan look extraordinary and thereby qualify it for Graffiti. From colorful advertisements to customized t-shirts, this type of art is seen everywhere these days. The digital world is also not oblivious from the craze for wall writing anymore. Hence, to help our designer friends give their best in making Graffito, we bring forth a list of some exclusive Graffiti fonts in our given post. You can now rely on these free graffiti fonts and include them in your designer arsenal right away.
Whoa! font

MY TURTLE font

Street Soul font

Toy Soldiers font

BLiNG RiNG font

Writers font

Graffito font

Reticulum 3 font

08 Underground font

Subway font

5 cent font

Da Bomb font

Writers 2 font

Arkham Graffiti

Sprayerz Font

KevoeWestFont

Crawn Fat

Fatboy Slim

Graffiti

Jungle

Krylon Gothic

Pyromane

ReskaGraf

Street Soul

The Battle Continuez

Zit Graffiti

Degrassi Font

Flash It Font

Graffonti 3d Drop

El and Font Tag

Most Wasted

(el and font BLOCK)

Street Writer

Nosegrind

Amsterdam Graffiti

DJ Gross

Grand Stylus

Bring Tha Noize

Bored Schoolboy

Graffiti Treat

Mad Bubbles

Raslani Undaground

Eskis

Hardkaze

Aerosol Menace

Hawkeye

Urban Scrawl

Trasher 2

Indonesiana Go Graffitiana

Aaaiight!

In this ultimate collection we’ve gathered 25 most unique, most stylish and most beautiful mugs from all over the web. They differs from standart by their shapes, materials they’re made from, and even their color. This collection will come in handy if you’re looking for the present for your friend – all cups/mugs can be bought in online-stores. Also we recommend not watch the last set to impressionable people because of its provocative character.

Ceramic Wine Mug [ via I Want One Of Those ]

Unusual connection of mug and wine glass. As the creators promise Wine Mug will help you to wake up the next morning after a party smoothly and without any consequences.

Guzzini mugs [ via redcandy ]

This white classic ceramic mug looks much more different and stylish thanks to funky red handle made from plastic.

Biodegradable Corn Travel Mug [ via Grassroots ]

These mugs are differ not only by their shape but also because they’re created from 100% U.S. corn plastic (natural fermented corn starch with less than 1% non-toxic dye). So it’s completely biodegradable! And eco-friendly!

Stag Horn Mug [ via Vivre ]

Feel yourself as Viking using this silver-plated mug with real stag horn as a handle.

Pura Tea Cup [ via Amazon.com ]

Amazing fusion of stainless steel and porcelain make this simple tea cup and saucer set looks modern and stylish.

O! luna Mug [ via DineByDesign ]

Being the part of O! luna Crockery Set and created from the finest design-led porcelain this mug amazes by its creative geometry. Brilliant idea and qualitive execution.

The Skase [ via Steve Watson ]

Another great idea of symbiosis. The mug created from white glazed creamware and the saucer of unusual form made from wood. Simple and elegant set for modern life.

Heath Ceramics Studio Mug [ via Amazon.com ]

This mug is original by the form and place of its handle. Quite unusual, don’t you think?

Tea-Code [ via Kedo ]

Are you bored with this tea bag which couldn’t behave itself? Kedo present you great solution! Tea Code Cup has a look of a sleeve with cute button on it. Just lace up your tea bag around the button and relax with hot delicious tea.

Coffee Mug with Thanksgiving Decor [ via Amazon.com ]

This cute pumpkin shaped coffee mug decorated with fall leaf and will be a great present for upcoming Thanksgiving Day.

Ego [ via Amazon.com ]

This elegant coofe cup is interesting by the form of its handle and saucer. Long handle rests in the saucer and it gives to the set a certain stability

Coffee sets [ via Sentou ]

Created by french design studio these coffee sets will surely make your coffee break bright and funny.

Drink Selector Mug [ via Amazon.com ]

This mug is perfect for office. Combimed with rings which can show your choice of drink and your milk and sugar preferences! No words need! Just twist rings!

Gun Mug [ via shopmodi ]

Intereseting mugs with a handles in the form of gun trigger. Available in two variations: black with platinum trigger or white with gold-plated trigger.

Snap Cups [ via Angela Schwab ]

This series of cups/mugs have one similar feature – 3 metal clothing snaps on each item. You could snap them together or add handle or two – you pick.

Cupple Coffee Mug & Holder [ via Generate ]

Designer of this cup thought about not only its appearence but also about its storage. Then it isn’t using the mug’s handle fits snugly into the base or the rubber wall mounted holder. Stylish and smart solution.

The Ultimate Coffee Cup [ via Lux-Delux ]

This cup is interesting by its shape. Designer David Pier created “a revolutionary cup that is unusual and beautiful in appearance and superior in function. The form flows from the shape of hand and mouth, the weight and volume of the contained fluid, and the relations between these. ”

One week coffee cup [ via IOHANNA PANI ]

Unusual relief inside the cup will make classic cup unique.

Flame-On Bead Mug [ via Etsy ]

Another great example on how decoration of handle can make from simple cup stylish kitchens accessory.

Carabiner Mug [ via I Want One Of Those ]

Besides its cool appearence thes mugs are really usefull. Their handles are carabines at the same time and it’s harder to lose your mug if you can clip it onto the side of your backpack.

The pouch mug [ via Catching Fireflies ]

It’s a great idea to combine mug and saucer together. In the small pouch at the side of the mug you could put tea bag to use again or trash when you return to the kitchen.

Rx Mugs [ via this next ]

A perfect set of 2 mugs for couple. One mug is for her and another one is for him.

Panda Face Mug [ via ModCloth ]

Extremely cute panda mug. The fun is in the fact that this is bottom of the mug.

Angel Mug [ via Cloudberry Living ]

These high quality beautiful ceramic mugs are hand-made by the Finnish designer Sami Rinne.

Antonio Murado Salome Coffee Set [ via New Store Museim ]

This provocative coffee set isn’t for everyone. The crimson handprints and smears are hardly awake your desire to drink a cup of coffee but … you should try.

If you’ve completed the Professional Retouching – Healing tutorial with your chosen image, you’re ready to jump into the next step in your professional workflow, Dodging and Burning. This is an advanced retouching tutorial, so stick with it and keep practicing!

You may know the Dodge and Burn tools (O) alter local exposure, lightening or darkening your image in brush strokes. By using Dodge and Burn we’re going to smooth and perfect skin while leaving texture intact, which is of critical importance in professional work. If you’ve ever followed those blurry skin tutorials on other sites, this is definitely the article for you. Some may have refined their understanding of blurring to a high level, which is fine but it’s like spending years becoming so good at pitching a ball you can hit a batsman right in the face 95% of the time. It’s a skill, sure, but unless you change your technique you won’t make the pro team

Here’s an example of skin retouching using dodge and burn;

Rather than use the standard tools, there is a better, more controlled and less destructive way to dodge and burn by using Curves, and we’re going to use that method in this second part of the tutorial.

• Open your chosen image and start a new Curves Adjustment layer and pull the middle of the RGB curve up as demonstrated below.

• Name the layer ‘Dodge’, click on the white mask tab and press Ctrl+I (Cmd+I on a Mac) to invert it, turning it black.

• Start a second Curves Adjustment Layer and pull the middle of the RGB curve down as demonstrated below.

• Name the layer ‘Burn’, click on the white mask tab and press Ctrl+I (Cmd+I on a Mac) to invert it, turning it black.

Alongside each Curve below I’ve added blocked in red how each layer should look in the Layers palette when you’re finished, named and with a black mask tab.

I’ll reopen the image I began in part one to demonstrate.

Select a soft Brush set to around 1-4% flow, with your foreground colour set to white.

On the black masks you’re going to paint with white, showing the effect beneath gradually.

Click on the Dodge layer’s black mask and paint an area lighter, or click the Burn layer’s black mask to paint an area darker.

Remember the dark area at the side of the mouth from the first part of the tutorial? Simply paint it out with the Dodge layer;

With your Flow set to 1% you won’t see a huge change with every mouse click, it’s a gradual, controlled build-up. Gently stroke your brush across all the problem dark and light patches, switching between Dodge and Burn until you have a beautiful, uniform skin texture.

If you’re having trouble seeing what needs dodging or burning, open a Black & White Adjustment Layer and pull the Reds down far enough to add contrast;

See them now?

The rest is just time, a keen eye and practice. Here’s the original side by side with what we can achieve with heal, dodge and burn;

It’s subtle, it takes a lot longer than quick-fix blurring, but remember the bus stop analogy from part one. Good retouching is invisible, cut corners and every waiting traveller, driver and pedestrian on the high street will find out about it.

Professional results take time, but it’s worth it. Web-sized images only tell a small part of the story, but in print, you need to be perfect.

If you have any ideas for future tutorials, please comment below and let us know, I’ll be happy to explain the techniques behind any popular suggestions.

Disastrous Dust

Dust is your digital camera’s worst enemy. You should always take care that dust or sand doesn’t find it’s way into your lens – it can quickly ruin equipment, and also cause damage to internal parts of your camera. Always be careful when changing lenses, and ensure that you swap them in a clean environment (wherever possible!)

Getting Rid of Dust

Even after taking all the precautions in the world, a certain amount of dust is bound to get into your lens and camera from time to time. If it’s causing major problems, try giving your camera a clean:

• Disconnect the battery or power source from your camera
• Clean the camera gently with soft dry brush and cloth (or a specialist cleaning kit)
• Take out removable parts (like battery, memory cards, filters, and your lens) and blow out any dust or dirt with something such as this. Don’t touch or wipe any internal components with your hand!

Shocks are Shocking

Although all manner of gadgets are starting to incorporate shock absorbing tech, digital cameras very rarely do. Not only does knocking or dropping your camera damage the external body, it can also dislodge and move internal components that are far more costly to repair!

Avoiding Bumps and Collisions

• Always wear the neck strap of the camera. This way, even if it slips from your hand, it won’t fall crashing to the ground. Obvious, yes, but it’s an easy rule to ignore from time to time. You can guarantee that will be the one time you lose your grip!
• Camera bags come really cheap, but they provide a wealth of protection. It will not only provide protection from dust and liquid, but also save your camera from accidental shocks and jerks.

Not Made to Get Wet

Even a very small amount of water or any liquid is enough to damage your camera to a significant degree! Electrical circuitry and liquid don’t mix well, so don’t leave your camera lying around on the restaurant table while you’re enjoying a glass of wine…

If you do spill something on your camera, don’t panic. Just disconnect all the power sources, batteries and memory cards and leave the camera to dry. After few hours (or days, if you want to be really cautious), clean it with a soft dry cloth and re-assemble all the parts

Nettuts+ recently posted a tutorial on how to recover from water damage in your laptop, and much of this advice also applies to your camera.

Patience is a Virtue

Often, we’re most likely to damage our camera when we are in a hurry. Changing lenses without taking proper precautions, leaving a battery compartment open, not bothering to fasten a strap properly…

Slow down, take a breath, and think carefully about you handle your camera – especially if it cost you a few thousand dollars!

Do you have any other disaster stories or cautionary tales for handling your camera? Let us know in the comments!

By Rishabh Agarwal

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Rishabh Agarwal is an Engineering student from India. In addition to that, he’s also a passionate Photographer and a Web Designer. He writes about technology on his blog, TechyLabs, and Photography on ShutterSkills. Follow him on Twitter: @rish404.

Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on professional retouching. Ever wondered how commercial and fashion photographs have that beautifully flawless look?

Final Image

This two part tutorial will work towards creating this professionally retouched result:

It takes a while to master, but here are a few things to consider;

• Keep as much texture as possible, this means keeping your brushes small and avoid any tutorial that tells you to blur huge sections of skin!

• Develop an eye for what is and is not a blemish. Beauty spots should in most cases be left well alone, keep the character of the model as well as the texture.

• Know when to be subtle, know when to stop. It’s disturbingly common to find beginner retouchers who absolutely will not stop until their 40 year old subject looks like Megan Fox.

• If you’re hoping to retouch photos professionally for other photographers, respect their work. This means not making changes for the sake of it, always remember that the model was chosen for a reason, as were the clothes, backgrounds, lighting, only make major changes on request. Be invisible.

With those points in mind, here is part one, and the easiest in the series; healing with minimal evidence

And here’s the starting image I’m using for demonstration;

Always start with a high resolution image. Politely ask a photographer if you need starting images, large JPEGS are fine for now (if they’re less than 1Mb in size they’re probably too small). Photography forums are a great place to find portfolio work when you’re starting out, try not to use the same photographs as a thousand other people on the web. Develop an entirely individual portfolio

When you’re retouching professionally, remember that your client might be using their images for large print, imagine every eyelash out of place or stray hair on a bus shelter poster. It may not be noticeable in a web-sized image, but just imagine dozens of people idling at that bus stop every hour. Your perfect work might go unnoticed, but any flaws will certainly be picked up on!

One of the fundamental parts of the retouching process is the healing stage, and we’re going to look into that with this first tutorial. Open your image in Photoshop, and drag your Background Layer to the New Layer icon to create a copy of your image. This new layer will be our working copy, saving the original so we can always pull parts of it back if we need to.

Here I’ve decided to retain these beauty marks, but it’s always up to you to decide which to keep or remove, or even move slightly to improve composition;

Select your clone stamp (C) and zoom in to 100%. Use the Lighten blend mode to remove darker blemishes and Darken blend mode to remove lighter distractions. This way your clone tool will ignore the ‘good’ texture and only alter the problem pixels. Keep your brush as small as the blemish and use a hard brush (around 90%) to avoid blurry edges, Alt-click to select a local sample of good texture of a similar tone and carefully paint out any major blotches.

Zoom to 200% and deal with any smaller imperfections, including stray eyebrow hairs;

Once you’ve imperceptibly removed all major distractions and stray hairs you’ll start to notice the next problem to tackle; shadows and highlights that betray wrinkles and deep pores, skin depressions and bumps, and even tonal variations caused by digital compression.

This is where we’ll start off in the next PSDFAN professional retouching tutorial, using Dodge and Burn to achieve flawless, magazine cover results. And absolutely no blur filters!

In the meantime, keep practicing, I want you to come back for Part Two as clone stamp ninjas Pride yourself on every seamlessly perfect removal and every pixel rescued from the fate of large-brush slap-dash cloning. Remember the bus stop and make sure Mr. Eagle-Eyed waiting traveller never even knows you were there…

Still, I wanted to use Poser in the way the name implies, for posing figures. I needed a face and neck for a series titled: “The Faces of Denial.” In the early planning stages of the project, I obtained a white mask, but I wasn’t satisfied with the look of the mask, nor was I confident that it would work with textures I had in mind, so I turned to 3D and Poser was the perfect starting point.

Upon working with Poser, I looked at the Face Sculpting tools and experimented with adjusting the features using the Ethnicity controls, but I quickly realized that the default face gave me the overall blank look I was after. Using the cameras, I zoomed in on the default male figure, then using the Lipsync Morphs, I adjusted the mouth position so it resembled the Venetian mask above. Once I had that, I was ready for the next step, which was to export the image into 3D Studio Max.

To do that, I returned to the Pose tab, then selected File>Export>3D Studio. In the Export Frames dialog, I selected a single frame for export and clicked on OK. This brought up the Heirarchy Selection dialog box, which allows you to select which parts of the body that you want to export. In this case, I wanted the head and neck so I deselected the other parts of the body, then exported the head and neck.

Next, I opened 3D Studio Max (version 5), imported the 3DS file and began to edit the face. The first thing I wanted to do was to remove portions of the mesh so only the face remained, similar to the Venetian mask. To accomplish this task, I created a couple of different box objects and used a Boolean operation to delete parts of the head.

The figure below shows the edited mesh. Note that there were portions of the mouth and eyes still remaining, but those were easy enough to retouch in Photoshop, so I left them alone for the time being.

The next step was to light the face and to make it appear to be as realistic as possible. For the material, I used a default gray color with no texture. Next, I created several white spotlights, all in slightly different positions, but with four of the spotlight targets focused on the same location on the right hand side of the face and one spotlight on the left, to control the amount of shadow detail. With all lights, I initially used an intensity of only 20% . The lower setting allowed me to see what effect the lights had on the mask surface. From there, I could move them around as necessary, change the size of the hotspot and falloff and experiment with the intensity. Looking at the lights from right to left, I set the intensity to 80, 80, 80, 20 and 40, respectively.

By Nathan Segal.

Collection of the most creative and interesting cell phone concepts designed by talented people from all over the globe.

Weather Cell Phone Concept

Beautiful cell phone concept design by Seunghan Song accurately detects and illustrates present weather conditions. [link]

Mobile Script Cell Phone Concept

Designed by Aleksander Mukomelov, this cell phone comes with a large touchscreen, that is located inside the phone in the collapsed state. [link]

Projector Cell Phone Concept

Cool extra slim concept cell phone equipped with rotating screen with built-in projector; an ideal tool for field presentations. [link]

Alarm Clock Cell Phone Concept

Sony Ericsson WakeUpPhone looks and functions like an alarm clock that will wake you up in the morning. [link]

Pen Cell Phone Concept

Target-shaped areas on top and bottom are earpiece and receiver. [link]

Edge Cell Phone Concept

Designed by Chris Owens, the transparent touchscreen keypad is edge lit by internal LED’s. [link]

Grass Cell Phone Concept

Designed to last only for the length of its functional life cycle, this green phone falls apart for easy recycling after two years are up. [link]

Mechanical Cell Phone Concept

Cell phone designed by Mikhail Stawsky will charge its battery when you spin it around your finger. [link]

Flexible Cell Phone Concept

Beautiful wrist concept cell phone designed by Shirley A. Roberts. [link]

Ear Cell Phone Concept

Kambala is a cool mobile phone that transforms into an earpiece. [link]

Absolutely amazing shadow art produced by Kumi YAMASHITA.

These beautiful silhouettes are created by simple objects and lighting only. Definitely not a simple planning, though… Really fascinating and therapeutic.

The above work is Building Block, 1997 exhibited at Boise Art Museum in Idaho. The building blocks of various widths on the wall, lit from the right, casts a silhouette of a woman.

City View, 2003
Nanba Parks Tower, Osaka Japan
The numbers scattered on the wall, lit from the right, cast a silhouette of a woman.

Clouds, 2005
Stellar Place Sapporo JR Tower, Hokkaido Japan
The thin metal object on the wall, lit from above, casts the silhouette of a couple.

Feather, 2006
Akiru Municipal Medical Center, Tokyo Japan
The wooden object on the wall, lit from below, casts a silhouette of a figure.

Fragments, 2009
New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe
40 objects on the wall cast profiles of residents in New Mexico when lit.

Lovers, 1999
Two silhouettes are connected together when lit.

Profile, 1994
Microsoft Art Collection
The number and the alphabet blocks, lit from the left, cast a silhouette of a man’s profile.

Exclamation Point, 2003
The exclamation point casts a silhouette of a question mark.

Day 2

Day 3

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