Rashid Al-Yahyai's List: Graphics and Web Design

For today’s post, we have piled up dazzling slow shutter speed photos that will take your breath away. Using slow shutter speed photography can be a totally different phenomenon if you get it right. You can use it to inspire others, or to capture light painting, or may be some smooth water effects, or it can be anything else. So here it is an amazing collection of slow shutter speed photography for your inspiration. This is an introductory post on this style of photography, hope you’ll like this.

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photography inspiration graphics on 2009-12-14 and saved by 10 people

Whether making your own lens hood to create custom bokeh, breathing like a sniper to get a blur-free photo, or angling your body to look the best in pictures, we shared some great photography hacks this year.

Software and Photoshop tricks are great, but they're a poor substitution for doing things in-camera. Over the last year we shared a variety of hacks for taking better photos, looking better in photos, and ways to get professional results without spending your rent money on camera accessories.

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photography tips on 2009-12-13 and saved by 15 people

Smart webmasters do not work everything out from scratch; instead, we make good use of the free tools available online. There are tons of brilliant web tools available online – it’s a waste not to leverage these tools and save some working time (or, to have more time for beer). In this article, I’m going to share my must-have list of 30 web design tools, I hope you’ll find them useful. On the other hand, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the developers who had done some much and made our world better.

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webdesign design graphics online freeware on 2009-12-11 and saved by 27 people

Mark Coleran is a visual designer who has worked in a wide range of design disciplines from print graphics to motion design and visual effects. His work in motion graphics has included television show titles and branding through to his specialist area; the design, creation and animation of fantasy user interfaces for film. Over the years this work has seen him create interfaces for such films as The Bourne Ultimatum, Tomb Raider, Mission Impossible 3, The Island and Mr and Mrs Smith. Currently he is working with the Canadian software developer, Gridiron Software. He is creating the user experience and interface for a next generation creative workflow application; Flow.

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graphics Photoshop photography rashid-interest design blog on 2009-12-04

Sep 17th in Inspiration by Sonali Vora
An ambigram as defined by Wikipedia, "is a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation." To simply put, an ambigram is a typographical creation where the word reads the same when upside down, or flips to create a whole new word. Ambigrams are often very sophisticated and very imaginative typographical style of visual design.
So let's take a look at some delightful graphic logotypes that read the same when they are reversed or flipped upside-down.

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graphics design on 2009-11-24 and saved by 3 people

If you’ve browsed through any logo design galleries, you’ve probably noticed some that take a very creative approach. In this post we’ll feature 50 clever logos for your design inspiration.

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graphics design webdesign Photoshop on 2009-11-04 and saved by 9 people

Context Free is a full graphical environment for editing, rendering, and exploring CFDG design grammars.

Features:

Simultaneously available for Macintosh, Windows and Posix/Unix.
Progressive image update: watch it generate
Save generated images in PNG or SVG format.
Produce animations
Edit grammars and re-render easily.
Render very large images (as large as 100 Mega-pixels).
Can handle generated images with millions of shapes.
Carefully tuned graphics rendering
Many built-in examples
Automatic checking for updates (Mac only).
It's free, as in beer and as in speech.

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design webdesign graphics image photography rashid-interest freeware on 2009-10-29

his chapter will take an HTML page that has absolutely nothing wrong with it, and improve it. Parts of it will become shorter. Parts will become longer. All of it will become more semantic. It’ll be awesome.

Here is the page in question. Learn it. Live it. Love it. Open it in a new tab and don’t come back until you’ve hit “View Source” at least once.

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webdesign website writing rashid-interest on 2009-10-29 and saved by 24 people

collection of great templates for blogger

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blog templates rashid-interest webdesign on 2009-10-22 and saved by 26 people

Maps are often placed on a company website to help customers find their way there. For that, Google Maps is excellent. But wouldn’t it be nice to add your company logo, parking lots, train stations, etc. to the map, to help the customer even more? It is very simple, and in this article I am going to show you how.

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The following is a quick guide that will show you how to set up a simple embeddable wall on your site. This guide requires basic knowledge of HTML. More advanced topics are covered in the 'more detail' links for each section.

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web webdesign website rashid-interest video graphics on 2009-08-22 and saved by 8 people

Free Alternatives to Photoshop With All the Bells, Whistles, Filters, & Layers

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Photoshop photography graphics design software freeware on 2009-07-21 and saved by 77 people

There are tons of great, creative user interface options featured below, from modal windows to live search to hover effects. But they aren’t just for looks; each one also adds valuable functionality and improves the user experience of your site. And to help you try out each of these techniques, we’ve also included tutorials and plugins to get you on your way to creating your own dynamic user interface.

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graphics web design Photoshop on 2009-06-21 and saved by 22 people

website design simple using PS good also for PP template

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Photoshop web design presentation powerpoint on 2009-06-16 and saved by 37 people

Granted, hindsight is 20/20, but some awfully strange substances have been used for pharmaceutical purposes in the past -- and some might argue, continue to be used today. Here are some vintage advertisements touting items that we might balk at taking today.

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design brochures and ebooks via flash

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webdesign design internet website book flash on 2009-05-25 and saved by 38 people

his is a place for free public domain photos and desktop wallpapers. Large collection of High Resolution photos and wallpapers, Thousands of high quality public domain pictures, easy to search, All photos on Photos8.com are public domain. You may use these images for any purpose, including commercial.

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photography graph resources on 2009-05-18 and saved by 187 people

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webdesign website graphics on 2009-05-03 and saved by 7 people

easily create jquiry animations and more fro download

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java web internet resources download on 2009-04-29 and saved by 5 people

step by step to mix and match images

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Photoshop tutorial on 2009-04-26 and saved by 9 people