There are three types of color sites that are of definite interest to photographers and graphic designers. Color Theory sites: Causes of Color takes a novel view of color theory in very memorable fashion. Color is made [additive theory], lost [subtractive color theory], and moved [color transformation]. Cause of Color explores many natural phenomena associated […]
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The following banner ad was produced using a freemium online tool, Bannersnack: Bannersnack is in the tradition of Canva and DesignCap, an online SaaS app that fills in the gap of producing online marketing and presentation material that the classic web design tools like HTML5, WordPress or Angular/Reactjs are hard pressed to produce quickly and
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For the past 5-6 years, my goto Photo Editor for a number of tasks has not been Adobe PhotoShop or Corel Paintshop Pro, but rather Photoscape – especially for quick batch color corrections and photo display tasks like creating collages or animated GIF. In effect, Photoscape became the Swiss Army Knife for rapid photo edits.
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Ever since Adobe reneged on providing support for my copy of Photoshop CS3, I have been looking for a replacement for Adobe Photoshop in my PhotoFinishing Kit. Online Pixlr.com has become the go-to tool for doing fast online photo fixes. But as a Web Designer and Developer, I need to do a lot of image refinements and
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Ye editor is on the look out for an Adobe Photoshop replacement. Recently a colleague recommended Affinity Pro citing the fact that the program runs on both Mac and Windows, has no subscription fee like Photoshop, and has a “ton of photo editing features”. A promise to take a look was made a few weeks
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Autodesk already leads the parade with one of the best online bitmap photo editors in Pixlr, so it is not a total surprise to see that they have now one of the easiest to use and free online vector graphics programs on the Web. It is called Vectr. And Vectr delivers very usable vector graphics
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Online DTP seems like a contradiction given that InDesign and the hoard of other DTP programs eat memory and screenspace at a killing clip. But this user has been on the look out for a good, easy to use Graphic Design Tool online and has been fairly happy with Canva and Pixlr for design layout and
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PhotoDonut Image Painting seemed just like one or two popular photo painting programs that are part of a photofinishers repertoire. Take a look at two favorite image painting programs used in many image refinement sessions on PixofToronto.com or Pixofcanada.com. Fotosketcher is free software which sets an awfully high standard for image painting: One can draw
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As you can see from the screenshot below, this reviewer was an early user of Flickr: What was not to like – free storage online of images grouped into categories and albums with annotations/captioning. In addition Flickr provided tools for sharing and rating colleagues photos and art work. Flickr proved popular among artists friends to
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We have just finished a review of Artlandia Symmetry Mill 2 which revealed that this program goes well beyond Website background generator usage. So this tutorial shows how Symmetry Mill 2 and Photoshop were used to create some Canada Day cards for the 150th birthday today. Card Creation Steps This artist believes that Fall is