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- All The Main Photography Mistakes That Beginners And Pro Make
In order to help you out, let’s simply get the mistakes out of the way, or at least the most common ones. Obviously, we cannot go through all of them. However, we can easily help you by highlighting some mistakes that professionals and beginners make. Let’s start with the beginners! We’ll then move on to the professionals and offer some extra advice to help you on the long run.
- 16 great tools for creating mood boards
A good mood board can be a vital part of your design workflow. Here we gather together 16 excellent tools that’ll help you visually convey your design ideas.
- 8 Ways to build your business fast with $4 per day (the cost of a daily coffee)
Here are 8 ways I’ve brainstormed for using $4 daily to build your creative business.
- Photoshop Fonts/Type/Lettering Effects Tutorials Madness
Create Awesome Splashing Water Text Effect in Photoshop
Colorful Plexi-glass Text Effect using Photoshop
Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment
Create Colorful 3D Text Effect in Photoshop
Rescue Shadow Detail in Photography
Create a Silve… - Hand-Drawn Logotypes by Martin Schmetzer
Martin Schmetzer is a Stockholm, Sweden based artist and graphic designer focusing on hand-drawn typography and custom letterings. His graphics privide a high level of details. Every part of his work is designed with care and meticulous accurac…
- The Beginner’s Guide to Flat Design
Designer Luke Clum examines the trend for flat design and what you can learn from it.
- Ebooks or Paper Books: Your Best Arguments
With the advance of phones, tablets, and ereaders, ebooks have become a popular reading standard. Still, there’s something about the feel of an old-fashioned paper book. We asked you which one is better and why, and here are some of the best ar…
- That extra chair in your home office? Rent it out
Together we’ll be beta-testing a new start up called SpareChair, a website that lets you rent out space in your home – like Airbnb, but for workers. And just minutes after I empty the dustpan and take down the trash, 32-year-old Brooklyn residents Jerry Emeka and Nate Graves, respectively a producer/ comedian and a web developer, arrive.
Like Airbnb, SpareChair lets homeowners or renters like me set their own rental rates, and the site takes a cut.
- “Apple should lead the way between technology, culture and design”
Opinion: Apple’s latest launches show it has become reactive rather than innovative, but after leading the market for 30 years it could still have an important role to play, says Karim Rashid.
- Are client emails binding contracts?
Would emails and all other correspondence between client and designer not act as some sort of contract?
- Reasons for You to Switch to HTML5, and Examples that Further Advocate it
A virtuoso stretch of innovation, HTML5 is indeed a technology that has brought new blood to the genre of website development. Whether you want your website to boast shape-shifting functionalities or you wish it to flaunt an overwhelmingly beau…
- Playboy Redesigns Website to Make Articles Shareable to Your Mom (No Naked Pictures!)
This, however, is a new millennium. Take, for example, Playboy’s feminist friendly “Should You Catcall Her?” that went went viral this week, a fun and funny flowchart which informs readers there are really only two circumstances in which such b…
- I strongly disagree, but you decide: Gizmodo: Cheap Airplane Seats Shouldn’t Recline at All
Yesterday, we shared the amusing case of the cross-country trip that was diverted when two passengers got in a battle over a reclining seat. But the real villain here isn’t our travel-addled selves. It’s that we still let airplane seats recline…
- Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn
Those who think they’re unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman
- Leading tech investors warn of bubble risk ‘unprecedented since 1999′
Billy Gurley and Fred Wilson, who backed Uber and Twitter, say Silicon Valley investing in too many losing ventures
- Leading tech investors warn of bubble risk ‘unprecedented since 1999′
Billy Gurley and Fred Wilson, who backed Uber and Twitter, say Silicon Valley investing in too many losing ventures
- How Rejection Helps the Creative Process
Perhaps for some people, the pain of rejection is like the pain of training for a marathon – training the mind for endurance. Research shows you’ll need it. Truly creative ideas take a very long time to be accepted. The better the idea, the longer it might take. Even the work of Nobel Prize winners was commonly rejected by their peers for an extended period of time.
- What I wish I’d known about running a startup
I knew building a startup would be hard. I knew it would be slow. I knew we had to do lots of customer development and build something people want.
But there were things I didn’t know.
- “Overused” Typefaces: When Should You Say Goodbye To A Font?
But I’m not here to talk only about Helvetica (personally I have no real qualms with it), but to talk about the idea of fonts that some designers consider to be “overused.” Who gets to decide when a font has “jumped the shark,” so to speak? Does using a so-called overused font diminish others’ perceptions of your creative abilities? Or does it signal that you know what current clients need and are actively looking for?
- Some of the Best Designed Offices in the World
We’ve discussed before how much our working environments can have an outsized effect on our output. Luckily, Officelovin is collecting photos of their favorite offices in a variety of industries and locations. The beautiful photos provide plenty of inspiration for both home offices and company workplaces alike.
- 3 Online Contact Management Tips Even Introverts Should Try
Socialization requires effort, there’s no way around that. However, these tips will provide ways for you to remember and maintain your lines of communication with friends, family, and colleagues. Don’t let poor contact management result in broken relationships.
- With 200,000 users, Lightroom Mobile finds a foothold
People have put 100 million images into catalogs for the mobile version of Adobe’s photo-editing software. It only works on iOS devices now, but Android support should arrive this year.
by Stephen Shankland
@stshank September 14, 2014 8:55 AM PDT - Getty Images Sued for Its Deceptive Practices – Has Their Copyright Infringement Extortion Letters Finally Backfired?
The ubiquity of digital cameras has had a dramatic effect on professional photographer fees, yet stock companies like Getty Images have benefited greatly from the new paradigm, helped in part by a Draconian lawsuit strategy that some have categ…
- Working from home: 5 pro tips
With the right approach you can make home-working a success for you and your clients.
- From The Makers Of Paper, A Platform For An Internet You Can Touch
I suspect FiftyThree’s latest product, Mix, will be equally influential, if not even more important than Paper’s original launch. Because Mix teases an even larger, potentially more disruptive idea–an Internet that allows you to reach through a screen and manipulate multimedia at will. Lurking inside Mix is an Internet that you can touch.
- The Extraordinarily Useful WordPress Hacks You Probably Haven’t Used as Yet
Now, as “everyday” as WordPress may have become – for the fact that every second or third website you come across is powered by WordPress – there are always the frequent “how the heck did they do this!” moments when you are scrolling around the WordPress realm.
- 9 Brutal Startup Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business (and How to Avoid Them)
Going from startup to business success is a rocky road filled with land mines. Here are 9 startup mistakes you should avoid if you want to survive past the initial stages.
- Paper by 53 introduces Mix, a community for sharing digital sketches & creations (plus a Pencil giveaway!)
All of the additions from Mix come at the swipe of a finger in Paper. To access the Mix community, your own portfolio of shared content, and your favorites from others, simply swipe down on the journal view you’re already used to seeing in Paper. When you finish up in Mix, pinch out of whichever view you’re in like your existing sketch journals and swipe right back down to your own sketches.