What Comes After Panoramic Photos?

Wind back the clock 15 years. Imagine yourself wiping the sweat off your brow after the close call that was the “Y2K Millenium Bug”… Phew, that was a close one wasn’t it?

You take a glance down at your phone, thankful to be alive and decide to give your folks a call to express how grateful you are for planes not falling out of the sky and computers not spontaneously combusting around us.

You finish the call, and decide to take selfie to celebrate the moment… wait? A what? What’s a selfie!!? Yup, that’s right, there really wasn’t such a thing as a “Selfie” back then. Sure people used to take pictures of themselves using cameras pointing the wrong way, but these weren’t globally known as selfies, they weren’t splattered in front of our vision every waking moment of every waking day. They were an occasional bad photo amongst an album, or a snap from a web cam as they increasingly became popular.

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Plan Your Dream Vacation With Minube & Trover

It's the middle of summer and many people are enjoying themselves somewhere far away from their offices as we speak. You might be wondering – why are we reviewing travel planning apps now?

Well, it's never too early to start preparing for your next year's vacation or planning an upcoming winter break. Maybe you're like me and you just love to look at beautiful photos of different places around the world and imagine you'll visit them soon.

As any experienced traveler can confirm, there are many travel apps in existence. Most of them are very similar in approach to travel planning and in features they offer. The originality of a travel app is usually found in the finest details, or in minor yet fantastic functions that make the app stand out from the rest. Minube and Trover are two such apps, and here we'll show you why.

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Wonderful Web Tools for Visual Storytelling

People love pretty pictures. If you want to create content for the Web, this is something you should keep in mind. Images are often described as being “worth a thousand words” and, when chosen appropriately, they usually make the written content more interesting, memorable and shareable.

Since the majority of popular blogging platforms emphasizes text as a primary means of expression and/or communication, I went looking for something else. I wanted to find a web app that puts images in the spotlight and lets them carry the story – and I found two. Cowbird and Jux are two completely different web apps that share a common goal: making visual storytelling easy and wonderful.

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Photoshop Resources

In today’s video we are going to be looking at some of the many websites you can go to for some Photoshop resources. Whether you’re an artist, web designer, or graphic designer, there are many sites and tools that are at your disposal and are free to use. However, even free to use programs have some kind of licensing agreement that may not allow for you to use it in a public based design. So be sure to read the websites terms and conditions to find out what you can or cannot do. To get you going on your way, the sites listed below are the websites mentioned in the video. If you have not watched the video, it’s okay. There is a description beside the links to help you get a better idea of what these sites are for.

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Photoshop Touch-Up Techniques

Using some basic Photoshop touch up techniques can make your photography pop out more or even fix some issues you cannot correct in the long run. Some of the tools you can use to change something minor in a big image that would normally be hard to do. In this video we will go over a theory of how these tools could work for you. Good luck, and enjoy.