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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.

35+ Free online Image and Photo Editing Tools

Michael — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:51:44 +0000

In recent years , Websites which provides tools to edit photos in web browsers have come a long way. Instead of buying costly image editing software and installing them on your hard Drive , you can simply edit your images online without much trouble. With this online image editing tools , you can easily create all the special effects you want in your image. Even few websites provides templates for novice designers to create special effects in their photos.

Online Image Editor Features

The online Photo Editors allows users to upload images from their PC or they can also import images from photo sharing websites like Photobucket.com , flickr.com , Picasa.com , facebook.com , etc.

They provide image resizing tools which will help all webmasters to re-size images easily online. After editing images you can also upload images to the photo sharing websites or you can save in your hard drive. The following are some of the features they provide :

Fix your photos in just one click
Use advanced controls to fine-tune your results
Crop, resize, and rotate in real-time
Tons of special effects, from artsy to fun
Astoundingly fast, right in your browser
Awesome fonts and top-quality type tool
You can even create an animation (Animated GIF)
Works on Mac, Windows, and Linux
No download required, nothing to install

12 Free Online Image Editors

These Online image editors are either built on flash or HTML. These editors make use of simple AJAX techniques to prevent reloading of pages. And you don’t need latest version of flash to run this image editors.

Fotoflexer

FotoFlexer is a advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects which are previously available only to professionals using expensive software. FotoFlexer is based on Flash and you can upload image of any size. It Handles multiple layers with grace. It also Includes advanced features like curve tweaks and intelligent lassoing for free.

Flauntr

Flauntr is also a free Online image editing tool. With flauntr you can apply stunning one-click effects to your digital photos for free. Convert edited photos into posters, canvas prints, and greeting cards and also lots of one-click options to edit your digital photos instantly. However it doesn’t have layers support.

Online Image Editing tool : Photoshop

Photoshop is the latest iteration of Adobe which has got a huge boost with support for the large images coming out of today’s high-megapixel cameras. It is fully based on Flash and image upto 10MB size with maximum resolution of 6000×6000. Once can preview the editing features in real time. It also runs on Adobe’s latest and greatest Flash technology.

Phixr Online Photo Editor

Phixr is an HTML based image editor. It does not save your photos on its servers for very long, so you can edit sensitive images and nobody will see them. It also doesn’t provides layers support. The max resolution of image can be 1440×1080.

Phoenix Image Editor

From basic image retouching to complex effects, Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application. User can upload image of any size. It supports great layer masking, community support, and tutorials. Work from Phoenix can be sent to another editing tool in the Aviary Web suite.

Pixlr Photo Editing services

Pixlr feels a lot like a desktop application, complete with a workspace which you can rearrange and customize to your liking. It is a flash based online image editor without any upload limit for images.

Splashup

Splashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once. Splashup runs in all browsers, integrates seamlessly with top photo-sharing sites, and even has its own file format so you can save your work in progress. Layers, layer effects, filters and brushes all are available in this online editor.

Picnik : Photo editing made fun

Picnik is the default photo editor for Flickr, very slick interface. Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It’s fast, easy, and fun.

Picture2Life : Edit, Collage, Animate and Share

Picture2Life enables you to do what you really want with your pictures. Some of the things you can do include editing, creating collages or animating your pictures. Its super easy to use and best of all, its all free! Bring life to your pictures by adding special effects or adjustments (Brightness, Contrast, Rotate, Crop, Flip, Fade Edges, and soo much more!).

Pixenate

Pixenate is a HTML based Image editor , so no need for any flash plug-in.Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.The maximum size of image can be only 10MB and it does not supports layers support.

LunaPic Online Photo Editor

LunaPic is a free online image editor which is based on HTML.The maximum size of the image can be 4MB and It doesn’t have Layers feature. It can run on machines even without Flash installed. It has some really inventive special effects such as reflective water that ripples and fire effects.

Pixer.US

Pixer is a flash based online image editor. It has wide range of layers, filters and effects. With pixer.us you can edit your photos online using only your browser.

25+ Online Photo Modification Websites

So far i have listed sites which provide tools to edit your images. But now the following sites will create special effects in your photos. Everything will automated in this websites. You just need to upload your images , it will create all modifications automatically. You can use this sites to change, enhance and make funny photo editing without knowing program like Photoshop.

Fun Photo Box

The FunPhotoBox site has free online image editing tools which can help you to create funny pictures from your photos.FunPhotoBox is a free photo editing online service.You can create Cards , Animations , photo effects and magazine covers.

PhotoFunia

PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience. You upload any photo and just wait to see the magic. Their proprietary technology automatically identifies the face in the photo and let’s you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages. PhotoFunia is free and very easy to use. Just select an effect you like from over 100 different effects, upload your photo, and PhotoFunia will handle the rest for you.

PicArtia

Picartia is free online Photo editing tool. With this Photo Editing tool you can create mosiac effects in your photos. You can even use it in your blogs, websites or post it as an online gift to your friends on different occasions like school gatherings or birthdays.

BeFunky

With Befunky anyone can become an artist. BeFunky Photo Effects allow users to easily create photographically rich and artistic results from their digital images without the need for any technical knowledge. With just single click , you can create your desired effects easily. It has built in templates which allows users to preview.

LunaPix : Make Funny pictures & add photo frames

LoonaPix.com is a free photo editing online service. With LoonaPix image editing tool you can embed your face from the photo to the various templates, add photo frame or just trim it. In other words, you make your photo funny and unique. And, notice, it is easy and free!

Funny Photo

Funny Photo ! has several unique photo effects which will make you busy for sure. Their templates will make it easy to create any effect in your image with just a single click. They provide the following features :

Paste your Photo into New Reality
Switch the Head
Frame your Photo
Simple Frames

Dumpr – Photo Fun

Dumpr is a free online photo editor tool which provides few unique templates and effects. Each effect has its own customizations options. You will be prompted to upload a photo (or image) from your computer. Some effects offer several variations (ie, pick a museum to hang your photos in.) When done, click Continue and your image will be processed immediately.

PhotoVisi : Create a collage with frame

Photovisi consists of 18 photo templates. You can choose any one and create collages from Your photos as wallpapers and more.

Photo 505

Photo505 consists of hundreds of ready made photo effects. You can create your desired effect with just single click. They provide online preview feature to let you preview your images.

Hairmixer : Online virtual hair style makeover

Choose from hundreds of virtual hairstyles and get a new hairstyle and hair color with just simple clicks. No need to have any experience in image editing and all.

WriteOnIt

With this free online image editing tool you can easily create your photomontage, free cards, magazine cover and other funny jokes for you and your friends.

MagMyPic : Fake Magazine cover maker

MagMyPic is a free online magazine cover maker. Put you Photos on Magazine front pages with this image editing tool. It has 30 different magazines to choose from. You can select any of them and make an impressive, unique, custom fake magazine with ease – it’s simple!

Hollywood Hair Virtual Makeover

With this Hollywood virtual hair makeover you can change your hairstyle with any hottest Hollywood celebrities. You can also change you skin tone , lips color , eye color , etc with just a single click.

BigHugeLabs : Do fun stuffs with your photos

With BigHugeLabs you can create lots of special effects in your images with single clicks. You can create ad posters , magazine covers, Movie Poster, Hockneyizer , Pocket Album , etc.

FaceInHole

With FACEinHOLE.com you can easily create a new look for you and your friends. You just need to select a scenarioand and upload your photo. If needed adjust a photo to make it look good.

Online Personalized money maker

Create your own personalized money bill at the click of a mouse button.

MyHeritage Face Recognition Tool

MyHeritage.com is one of the world’s first services to apply advanced
face recognition technology to personal photos and family history; and it’s free! But you need to create an account to access edit your images.

Poladroid – The easiest and funiest polaroid maker

Create easily high resolution polaroids with the help of online poladroid maker tool.

FotoTrix – Online Image Generator and editor

Fototrix have over 2,500 templates for your digital photographs! Make it look like you had your photograph taken with a celebrity or add some goofy props to spice up your photos. Give yourself an award (upload your photo, add award props like Emmy and Oscar awards) or just add a silly hat to your photographs.

Fake Magazine Cover maker

you can personalize magazine covers online (no software applications to install, just use your web browser) by uploading digital photos you have on your computer. You can put your face on the cover of many well known magazines (from celebrity gossip zines to children’s learning magazines).

Jpj Fun : Make awesome pictures with ease

The EFFECT LIST section makes possible to imagin yourself on billbords, on newspapers, on “wanted” posters like it was in “wild wild west”, on 100 dollars bill, on the posters with famous celebrities and any any other awesome effects.

Blingee

Blingee is a HTML based image editing site. With blingee you can add glitters , graphics and comments to your images online.

Pizap : Free Online Photo Editor

Pizap is a fun free photo editor that lets people easily create wacky images with their digital pictures. PiZap was created as a tool primarily for social networking users who want to post their images to their favorite social networking sites.

Condenet : Create Your own WIRED cover

Create your own Wired magazine cover with this easy image editing tool. You can customize your headlines , borders and colors and also you can upload your favorite photo as well.

Fotocrib : Online Photo Editor

a web based photo editing service. fotocrib currently allows users to …

Create montages
Add 3D effects
Encrypt photos
Create rounded corners
Convert between jpeg, png, gif, pdf and postscript formats
Send photos to email recipients

PixiSnap : Create Photo Mosaics & Polaroid pictures

Pixisnap allows you to create your own pixisnap photos in 3 easy steps: choose a mosaic type, upload your photo and customize your mosaic art. Create photo mosaics and Polaroid pics in a snap with Pixisnap!
Turn your lifeless picture to awesome photo mosaics or cool Polaroid
and make them your desktop wallpaper or Myspace background.

Hetemeel : Dynamic Einstein picture

Hetemeel allows you to add custom text to Einstein’s image. You can change the text on the image to whatever you like. Change the text in the form below, then click on “preview image”. The text in the image will change accordingly. You can align the text with spaces and enters.

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.

70+ incredible HDR images with photoshop and photomatrix tutorials

Michael — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:48:12 +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. In comparison with normal digital imaging techniques HDR imaging techniques can produce a wider range of luminescence between dark and light. The main intention of HDR is to differentiate the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to deepest shadows.

10 best Tutorials for creating HDR Images

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

60+ Incredible HDR Photographs

With the rising popularity of digital cameras and easy-to-use desktop software, HDR images are becoming more popular. So I have collected 100+ smashing HDR images which will take your breath away.

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