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Vector Art Graphics

Daniel — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:20:37 +0000

Free vector art stock footage is one of the main ingredients every graphic designer needs: cool clip art vectors, backgrounds, brushes, vector design elements and people silhouettes. If you want to produce high quality vector or raster images, an extensive free vector stock collection and vector programs as Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Freehand or Flash are your ticket to the fast lane!

Experience extraordinary creative freedom thanks to vector art. Whether you are just starting out with digital illustration or having years of design experience, vector programs offer you the tools to be creative and the freedom to play with ideas.

Free vector stock footage greatly increases your productivity. For graphic designers creating graphics for print media, illustrators working on online content or vector artists producing creative multimedia graphics, free vectors are the beginning of many great artworks. In these hectic times, designers and illustrators always need to work more efficiently and faster to satisfy their clients. Building on free vector graphics, it becomes easy to enhance your productivity. With free vectors, you can take advantage of superior graphic design footage that makes it fast and easy to create your own graphics. On the web, you can find many amazing free vector downloads for all your design needs: graphic packs full of design elements, icons, symbols, illustration templates, seamless patterns, vector logos, grunge graphics, business cards and amazing people portraits and silhouettes. Free stock vectors, clip art and fonts have become key ingredients for young creatives.

Today’s graphic trendsetters have grown up with creative software and digital art references. Their bedroom has become a playroom to explore new graphic boundaries. By doing so, they have developed their design skills intuitively, taking advantage of the amazing technologic advances that have been made. Led by hardware giant Apple with their Mac computers and the Creative Suit packs by software pioneer Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign), the explosion of computer tools have helped to fuel the rise in digital art creation. With a laptop, scanner, printer, digital camera and Wacom pen tablet, anyone can start his own graphic design studio.

Vector art is a great technique for print, online and multimedia graphics. The vector art format has a close relationship with science and has a practical function. Vector images are more easily modified than bitmap images; they are a more memory efficient image representation and can be blown up to any size without loss of quality.

With powerful new tools, groundbreaking creative options and ways to distinguish you from other designers, vector programs define the future of illustration and graphic design. Today, the sky is the limit.

In 2006, vector art even conquered Hollywood, with the amazing animation movie, A Scanner Darkly – based on Phillip K. Dick’s novel, directed by Rick Linklater and starring Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr and Woody Harrelson. The vector art animation film took over 18 months to finish, with 45 animators working day and night to create the amazing vector effects. For the motion graphics and animation movie sector, using vector art has plenty of advantages as the files stay small in size, but can be increased infinitely, which makes the transition to the big screen very easy.

In the future, vector art and even more powerful software will give new possibilities to creative sectors. Vector art embraces the latest design trends, and gives illustrators, designers and art directors total control over their piece of art, an unmatched level of precision and the flexibility to produce anything from the size of stamps to billboards.

Free Stock Graphics by FreeVector.com

Summer Graphics by FreeVector.com

35+ Creative Ads That Makes You Look Twice

Michael — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:41:26 +0000

You might have seen plenty of advertisements on the road sides or when you have flipped over magazines. I hope that you might have just skipped most of them, but there are some cool creative advertisements which would make you look twice. To create Creative advertisements , the designer must be innovative enough to take away the attention of the audience. In this post , I have collected some of the best creative adverts which could make you think. These adverts are from various categories like technology , public services , travel , etc.

Get Them Off Your Dog (Frontline, Flea Spray)

Panasonic: Wide Angle

Your Contribution Can End Child Labour

Act Now to save the Planet

See Both sides of the story

Canon DiGi

RCA Music

Welt Kompakt

Orion Telescopes

Stranger Radio Station

Comcast : High-Speed Internet

Cemex – Fast Drying Concrete

Movistar Print Ad

AIDS Awareness – Ad campaign

Dealer Track – Tools for a competitive advantage

Find More Easily (Google)

Samsung Plasma TV Ads

Green Peace

Snickers

Nivea

Sony Widescreen TV Ads

Detal Creative Ad

WMF knives: Cutting board

Firefox

Sony Xacti Water proof camera

Panasonic: Intelligent Face Detector

Beware of the H1N1 flu

FujiFilm Nobody can resist in front of a Finepix

Symantec Antivirus

Samsung washing Machine

Canon Cyber Shot

Routine sucks (Terra Travel)

You can lose more than your patience

Driving Safe

Super Absorbent Kitchen Towels

Don’t Let Wood Get Old

Lays advertising 2009

If you know some good ones then do let me know via comments.

30+ creative Abstract Desktop Wallpaper designs

Michael — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:58:35 +0000

Abstract wallpapers represents the depiction of imagery in arts. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be an abstract. Artwork which takes liberties, altering the instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be digital abstracts.

30+ Breathtaking Abstract Wallpapers

I have chosen Abstract wallpapers in this collection because most of the abstract wallpapers are just imaginations which will inspire you and will definitely improve your creativity.

Hope you will definitely love this collection. This wallpapers in your Desktop will inspire you for sure. Add it to your desktop and be creative.

25+ Clown Images in Their Evil Persona

Dune — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:19:55 +0000

Celebrating Halloween is exciting, thrilling and most of the time, horrifying. Today, I will present you a different kind of Halloween post, scary images of a comical character that we used to see as funny and entertaining. Clowns are stereotyped by red-nose, peculiar costumes, white makeup, unusually large shoes and colored wigs. There are many types of clowns. There are happy clowns, sad clowns, funny clowns, clumsy clowns, clowns that perform tricks. I will show you some of the dark side of clowns. I hope these clown wallpapers scares you.

35+ incredible Digital Abstract Arts

Michael — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:30:32 +0000

Digital abstracts represents the depiction of imagery in arts. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be an abstract.
Artwork which takes liberties, altering the instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be digital abstracts.There is a wealth of potent, beautiful, digital art and fractal images on this collection, created by a vast array of inspired individuals.

35+ DIGITAL ABSTRACT ARTS

Here in this post , I have collected some 35+ best digital abstract arts created by various designers.

20+ HDR photoshop and photomatix tutorials

Michael — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:12:52 +0000

High Dynamic Range Imaging ( HDRI or just HDR ) is a technique which was developed to produce high dynamic range images from the photographs taken at different exposures of light. As you know, already I have published 70+ incredible HDR images collection in techieblogger. In this post I have collected some useful Photoshop and Photomatrix tutorials to create stunning HDR images with ease. This collection even contain few HDR creation tools as well.

20+ best Tutorials for creating HDR Images

With the help of Tone Mappnig techniques we can easily produce HDR images. In tone mapping , by combining images taken at different exposures to produce a sinlge HDR image. We can also produce HDR images in photoshop by merging Images. If applied properly then once can produce beautiful pictures with high dynamic range.

Let us see some of the HDR image creation tutorials available :

Photoshop tutorial: HDR using layer masks

As a new DSLR camera owner it didn’t take long before I stumbled upon the term HDR, short for High Dynamic Range. In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how easy it is to produce your own HDR images!

Exposure blending tutorial – HDR Image creation

A little background: HDR is a type of image manipulation. The goal is to blend multiple exposures of the same scene into a single image in order to get a result that has more dynamic range than your camera is capable of recording.

Learn how to create awesome HDRs

In this post, youâ€™ll learn the steps you need to take to create cool HDR images. Find out how to select a great scene, and how to properly take the images. Next, weâ€™ll go over what Programs and techniques you can use to assemble the HDR. Only got one RAW file, but you still want an HDR? No problem, weâ€™ll go over that too.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Tutorial – HDR

Photoshopâ€™s Merge to HDR (High Dynamic Range) automated feature has been improved for CS3, but it is still not able to merge exposures where subjects have moved between the separate exposures.

HDR Photograph Tool

The Merge to HDR command in Photoshop lets you combine several of the same scene with different exposures into a single HDR 32-bpc (bits-per-channel) image. First, you’ll need to have three images taken at different exposures. Run Photoshop and choose File > Automate > Merge to HDR.

The Definitive Guide to Realistic HDR

This tutorial will attempt to demonstrate how to make a realistic HDR, one that is virtually indistinguishable from a single exposure. The biggest goal is producing a tutorial that can stand as a standard by which anyone can learn to create a balanced HDR. Ultimately, the processing choices are yours. These are the building blocks.

Photoshop CS2 High Dynamic Range

The latest version of Photoshop, CS2, offers an intriguing new function for creating 32-bit High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. It offers the ability to combine multiple individual images with different exposures into a single 32-bit floating-point image with expanded dynamic range.

HDR Tutorial Using Photomatix and Photoshop

Thinsite.net has a neat tutorial on High Dynamic Range
(HDR) photography, from capturing HDR shots properly, merging the bracketted shots into a single HDR exposure using Photomatix and the post processing steps in Photoshop.

PhotoShop CS3 HDR photograph Tutorial

In this tutorial we will take a look at HDR photography. HDRI (High Dynamic Range Imaging) was originally used in 3D and is now in full force in photography. Basically it’s the process of taking multiple exposures and merging them together into a single 32 bit image. Let me explain: A camera is capable of capturing a limited amount of tones in a single photo.

How to create HDR images using Photomatix

HDR images are generated by taking multiple pictures of the same scene at different exposure settings and combining them digitally on a computer. Generally, the more pictures that are taken at different exposure settings the better the resulting HDR image will be.

Merging Photos to an HDR Image in Photoshop

This is an article about Photoshop HDR imaging. The following HDR workflow is explained in detail:

* Merging photos to an HDR image
* Processing the HDR image
* Tone Mapping

Simple Guide to HDR

HDR Tutorial

I’ve been noticing a large growing interest in the HDR techniques some of us use, but it’s hard to explain everything in a few words. I finally got some spare time and put this together for all that are interested. This is my usual work flow for creating an HDR image.

HDR: HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE PHOTOGRAPHY

High dynamic range (HDR) images enable photographers to record a greater range of tonal detail than a given camera could capture in a single photo. This opens up a whole new set of lighting possibilities which one might have previously avoided—for purely technical reasons.

How to Create Professional HDR Images

Photoshop CS2 has a little-known (it seems) built-in HDR assembler that, while lacking the “make my photo look like a bucket of saturated paints gone awry” tone-mapping features of Photomatix, is capable of creating extremely realistic or extremely surreal HDR images. I’ve been using Photoshop CS2 for most of my HDR images, and lots of people have been asking me what I do and how I do it. Wonder no more! It’s actually pretty easy. Let’s get started.

How to create HDR Photos – HDR/Photomatix tutorial

There has been a lot of buzz recently about HDR photography, but many people assume that it’s only limited to professional photographers. The reality is that just about anyone can take and process an HDR photo with most cameras and proper HDR software.

Merge to HDR in Photoshop CS2

This is not intended to be either a comprehensive how-to, or a complete technical treatise on the subject of HDR, or Adobe’s implementation in Photoshop CS2. Rather, and since I’ve been involved in the CS2 beta program and therefore have some experience with using the product – I thought that there would be photographers (especially landscape photographers) who would find an initial look at this exciting new capability to be of interest.

HDR Tutorial

HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is gobsmacking when you first see it done well – but the lack of simple tutorials meant it took me a long time to really understand how it was done. This is my attempt to help other people in my situation by creating my own HDR tutorial.

HDR image creation Photoshop tutorial

This is a basic, standard, step by step tutorial of how to make an HDR Image.(Note: this tutorial is based on building an HDR image from 7 different shots.)

HDR image creation Photoshop tutorial

PhotoMatrix HDR image tutorial

Hope you like this collection of tutorials. If you ever come across any HDR tutorials then let me know, I will include them to this list as well.