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Manipulating images and photos has become common praxis these days and it is hard to know what is real and what is fake if professionals have created the manipulation. Just as example we can be sure that people in ads for perfume or on the front page of large magazines in reality never looked the way we see them. Polishing and improving what is not perfect over and over again seams just to be a human weakness and strength at the same time and our tool for doing it also keeps being improved. Photo manipulation can be used in many ways and an area that I find really fun and interesting is when people experiment with manipulating humans and the scene they are in and taking it a bit to the extreme. For this post I have simply browsed Flickr with the tag “manipulation” and found some really great and creative art created by talented photo manipulators simply experimenting with reality. What I like about looking at Flickr is obviously the endless amounts of images available and the high quality. Also another great thing is that many og the creaters explain what they did and provide links to textures and original photos. This is great for inspiration and learning the tricks others apply. By the way – another great place to look for stuff like this is the Flickr Group GhostWorks. Please let us all know if you know other places that contain art of this kind that is worth investigating.

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We all know it – “A picture is worth a thousand words“. This is certainly true in most cases but clever use of typography can also turn words into pictures and then interesting things start to happen. Some people experiment with the idea of turning typography into art and pictures and I believe the results can be very interesting and inspiring. In particular this type of art is commonly seen on posters, in logos, on walls (graffiti), etc. Sit back and enjoy the Experimental Typography I discovered on Flickr today. If you fall in love with some of the art featured here I would recommend that you credit it with a comment on Flickr – just follow the link by clicking on the pictures.

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Textures are essential building blocks for some types of design and having the right textures at hand may speed up the design process, inspire you and improve the final result. Images of decay can be used in many ways and it is only the creativity and imagination that sets the limits. They are obviously useful for grunge style designs but can also be used to give an authentic and realistic look to other types of creative work. This post showcase more than 20 great looking textures of decay for inspiration and use in your designs. Please check license before using even though all textures are located at stock.xchng.

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Flash is getting a lot of competition from technologies like jQuery making web sites interactive and dynamic just using javascript. Still with Flash designer can create effects that are impossible or just to complex to create without it. Flash loaders is an important focus area as they need to keep users around and interested while the sometimes large files are downloaded. In this post you find some great examples of Flash Loaders and hopefully some of these will inspire you. Drop a comment if you know some really cool loaders.

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Magical effects can be created with the right skill, some experience and a tool like photoshop or just very creative ideas used when taking a photograph. I find this type og material quite interesting and inspiring. For this post I have browsed through DeviantArt category Photography > Abstract & Surreal > Abstract and picked fresh “Deviations” added within the last week or so. This means there’s a good chance that you have not seen any of these before and may end up getting inspired – at least I hope you will. A great thanks to the creative people making their awesome creations available on-line. Make sure you visit the originals if you like what you see and the profiles of the authors on DeviantArt as there are much more material waiting for you there!

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Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest user links submitted on tripwire magazine. See more user submitted links here

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jQuery as a development platform is great and we see the result of this every day. It is almost hard to believe but every time I decide to look up a new jQuery Plugin to solve a task I find that the community is constantly providing new high quality solutions for free. The number of really bad contributions that I fell I waste my time on is very limited and this makes me come back for more. I guess most web developers fell this way right? Great thanks to everyone spending their precious time creating stuff we can all use. Below I have listed 10 great plugins I wasn’t aware of that I stumbles over today.

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Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest user links submitted on tripwire magazine. See more user submitted links here

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Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest user links submitted on tripwire magazine. See more user submitted links here

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Photoshop is simply brilliant for creating Stunning Effects from simple elements and for fixing Photos that got the right scene but isn’t ok fx. in the light or color balance. In the hands of someone who knows how to control Photoshop it is able to do some really cool tricks but it isn’t easy at all for beginners. I find large compilations of Tutorials for Photoshop a great resource for inspiration and learning and I hope this article will be a good help for everyone including people new to Photoshop trying to do some photo magic for the first time.

Introduction

This article focus on all the fancy thing you can do in Photoshop with photos or elements from photos. It is possible to apply effects to photos fx. making them look like comic drawings or like really old pictures – possibilities are almost endless. Also if you got the codac moment photo but for some reason it got too dark or too light Photoshop will be there to save you. Finally if you want to catch a scene with your camera but for some reason cant Photoshop may help you create the illution that you did it… Photo Manipulation is one of the really strong sides of Photoshop and it is almost possible to create any idea you can come up with. The materials used (photos, graphical elements et.) is of cause important but knowing the secret tricks of Photoshop is possibly even more important. The Tutorials in this article will not turn you into a pro-photohopper over night but you will certainly be on the way…

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