Ten years ago it used to be true that when one needed to fixup an image or make a quick drawing live online, users were out of luck if they were on a smartphone, at the library’s computers or using a tablet. Those days have gone by. Just 3 years ago thePhotoFinishes looked at the wealth […]
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The world of design is full of double entendres. A sense of humor with more than a touch of empathy which allows a designer to draw out the core elements of a story with a dash of panache. It helps catch the mind behind the eye. But is this design sense teachable? The people at the mostly free Canva.com
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As a photographer and Web designer I constantly get asked to create photo grids of products, events, travel pictures,etc. And for the most part this is not a problem because each picture or thumbnail fits a common, agreed upon dimension – 320 x 240 pixels or whatever the client needs. For example: This list of
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Photo Finishing manipulations have been used from the earliest days of photography. No less a photographer than Matthew Brady in 1860 altered a portrait of Abraham Lincoln by adding Lincoln’s head to the body of political rival, Senator John C Calhoun of South Carolina: The Daily Show crew would be proud & applaud M. Brady By the late
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Digital Photography has become one of the most popular leisure activities. One can literally see its cornucopia like flow on social media sites like Facebook, Google+, Instagram and Pinterest. For example, Instagram alone gets over 5 million image uploads per day. Web images are key to story telling on diverse sites like NYTimes, Sports Illustrated,
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A recent trend has been the more frequent use of full page images in Web designs. One can see big images used in sliders like the Fox Sports design or Giorgio . Also see the big changing backgrounds images such as those used at Newsweek’s website. Big images give Web designers some real advantages using
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Big commanding full page slider as LibreOffice’s home landing page A new trend that is picking up steam is the use of full page backgound images and responsive full-page slides. As sliders become ever more accomplished and compression of images improve, fullpage mages abound – see Newsweek for some great examples. So instead of special event,
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The PhotoFinishes links to some of the best online color tools for photographers and designers. Thus we are constantly on the lookout for new and more innovative tools. Here are some of the latest: Pictaculous Pictaculous analyzes your uploaded image for its palette then goes to Adobe Kuler and Colourlovers to get 5 suggested palettes
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