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- iOS 7 UI Kit Photoshop Action Set
“You’ve probably seen many iOS 7 UI Kits. But this one is slightly different, as there is no psd file involved. All you need (apart from love) is this little 1.4 MB .atn file that creates entire default look iPhone mockups for your wireframes, …
- Photography Pricing and Influencing Factors
“Pricing is a topic that most photographers will cringe at the thought of. While it may not have the same appeal as the creative side of being a photographer, it is an inevitable and crucial part of running a photography business.
” - 9 Innovative Ways to Streamline Email Into Your Workday
“In his book Extreme Productivity, Harvard Business School lecturer Robert Pozen actually advises you to ignore 80% of your emails. If you’d rather spend time working on your actual area of speciality and interest than fight a Sisyphean battle with your inbox every day, check out the nine tips below and set your sights on inbox zero.
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- One Woman’s Mastectomy Becomes Her Inspiration to Create the Perfect Nipple
“In 2012 she started Pink Perfect, which makes readymade custom prosthetic nipples for breast cancer survivors.”
- Obamacare Will Be Billions Cheaper Than Expected
“The Congressional Budget Office says the coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act will cost $104 billion less than it previously believed”
- Uniting the gap between reading and viewing words: design by Liz Collini
“London-based artist Liz Collini believes that the written word holds many paradoxes, not only those of absence and presence. She specializes in printmaking and drawing where she expresses herself through the use of ambiguous words and phrases to create different forms of text. As she explains on her website: ‘There are gaps and overlaps between reading and viewing, text and image, the hand and the machine. I try to create breathing spaces in which we can pause and look back at language. Whole narratives can be compressed into a single word or familiar phrase. The drawings’ resemblance to plans and blueprints reflects the strange provisionality of language; the things about which we write are always elsewhere’.”
- The Daily Habits Of Highly Creative People [Infographic]
“Well, the answer is that there is no single answer. The folks at Info We Trust have developed an infographic to visualize the daily routines of 16 of history’s well-known artists and polymaths, from Milton to Angelou. The information for the i…
- How publishers-turned-platforms pay their amateur contributors
“Putting aside concerns that such tactics might dilute the brands of top-tier publishers, one wonders: How are these contributors getting paid, if at all? Here’s how the methods and payment structures of some of the bigger contributor networks stack up.”
- A Smarter Way to High Pass Sharpen in Photoshop
“High pass sharpening has been one of Photoshop’s most commonly used filters by professional photographers. But Michael Woloszynowicz noticed some problems with the traditional method—namely, an unnatural white outline and awkward lighting around the eyes, where colors contrast. Here’s his solution:
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- Born From A Tweet, Etsy’s New Entrepreneurship Program Could Be Coming To A City Near You
“ETSY CEO CHAD DICKERSON ANNOUNCED PLANS TO EXPAND CRAFT-SELLING CLASSES FOR LOW-INCOME PEOPLE INTO THREE MORE CITIES. THE GOAL IS TO HOST THE PILOT CLASSES IN 10 CITIES BY THE END OF THE YEAR AND TO CREATE AN OPEN-SOURCE CURRICULUM.”
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- If You Ask for ‘Likes’ on Facebook, You’re About to Get Clobbered
Facebook says it is on a mission to clean up spam from the News Feed. The goal, it says, is to only show the content that is most relevant to readers.
- Creating Style Guides
As your team grows and changes over time, your style guide will help you in several ways. First, creating your guide will take some time up front, but I’ve found that this pays off with faster build times for new sections and pages, because anyone joining an ongoing project can refer to the guide for the exact styles to use.
- Breaking up with Facebook: Where are brands and young users going?
“Eat24 is one of the many brands reevaluating its relationship with Facebook as the site continues to make changes to the algorithm that affects organic reach. According to a study by ad agency Ogilvy, as of 2012, Facebook limited the organic r…
- 4 reasons you should always pay designers and developers
“I have some friends who are graphic designers & developers. Over the last few years I’ve watched an interesting phenomenon develop.
People expect them to work for free.
Friends, family members, even some would be clients ask them to donate their time for free. Or they want to pay rock bottom prices because “I just don’t have much budget to work with.”
There are four reasons this needs to stop:”
- Why is good photography expensive?
“If you’ve ever worked with a good photographer, then you’ve learned that good photography is expensive.
Why is it?”
- Responsive Typography Demo
This website uses your computer camera to track your face and automatically adjust the size of the page’s text.
- How To Pose And Photograph a Huge Group Shot With Thousands Of People
“Photographing large groups and make the photos look good is always a hard task. Any group of over 7–10 people can look awkward and the photos are usually not very appealing. But what if the group is not of 7 people, but of 1,500–2,000 people. If any of us will get the task of shooting 2,000 people we’ll probably think it’s a prank. But for photographer Chaim Perl it is part of his daily routine. Check out the in-depth BTS video and images of how he creates these huge group shots.”