By Almagreta on November 30, 2010
Do you want to send a free Christmas Card? We listed for you best sites to send Xmas eCards to your friends and family. It’s up to you to send ready to go animated Christmas cards with audio effect or customize your Xmas greeting with faces of your family members or just drag and drop celebrity faces. You can also add a message and schedule send date, rate Xmas cards and leave a comment. There’s an option to send Christmas cards to your friends on Facebook or post on Twitter. Will you go paperless for this Christmas? Continue Reading →
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Christmas |
By Michael Garmahis on November 29, 2010
Next Day Flyers is giving away 250 full color business cards to the lucky Garmahis.com reader. If you haven’t updated your business cards for a while, then this giveaway is perfect for you. If you don’t use business cards, you can use your prize to print visitor cards and use them as a ticket, appointment reminder card, holiday gift tag, etc. Next Day Flyers offers custom printed products of all kinds including brochures, postcards, tickets, magnets, and more. Continue Reading →
Posted in Freebies | Tagged business cards, giveaway |
By Michael Garmahis on November 24, 2010
How to turn your glossy laptop screen into matte and what pitfalls you should avoid? Since you bought a laptop or IPad with a glossy screen, you discovered that though glossy screen looks gorgeous on the store shelf but it’s not very practical when you constantly use your device. Any light source gives you glossy screen a glare either indoors under bright office lights or outside of Starbucks with the sun shining directly on your laptop. This could be very annoying. You obviously can spare extra dollars and go for matter screen next but not all devices have this option. What you can do now to rectify the issue? Continue Reading →
Posted in Tips | Tagged iPad, laptop, screen |
By Almagreta on November 23, 2010
Joel Grimes is an advertising photographer who is well known for his photography look with maximum drama and tension. We started to work on Grimes look Photoshop tutorial as soon as one of Garmahis.com readers requested it (you can do it too by leaving comments or using contact form). On his blog Joel Grimes acknowledged that he usually spends hours in Photoshop trying to create world of his illusions. Continue Reading →
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged advertising, look, Photoshop |
By Michael Garmahis on November 22, 2010
Topaz InFocus is a new Photoshop plugin from Topaz Labs for restoring sharpness and clarity of blurred or shaken images. Now with Topaz InFocus you can rescue blurred photo which you would delete before without second guess because it was impossible to fix it. Unlike other sharpening tools (including Topaz Detail) InFocus uses specific deconvolution technology that can reverse image blur, i.e. unblur the out focus image. Continue Reading →
Posted in Software | Tagged focus, sharpen, Topaz |
By Michael Garmahis on November 17, 2010

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
is the best tool to help professional photographers in managing thousands of digital images and doing post production work. Unlike multipurpose Photoshop, Lightroom was created around photographer’s workflow and it’s made to be ultimately efficient and fast. Lightroom consists of modules which are in fact steps in photography workflow: Library – image collection review and organization, Develop – non-destructive RAW and JPEG file editing, Slideshow – tools and export features, Print – layout options and preferences, Web – automatic gallery creation and upload. Lightroom presets for image enhancement or creative effects can be applied to multiple photos in a bunch. The newest version, Lightroom 3 brings in multiple improvements and new features to make already good software even better. Continue Reading →
Posted in Software | Tagged Lightroom, Photography |
By Almagreta on November 16, 2010
High quality Photoshop brushes are must have if you work on creative design artworks. Best Photoshop brushes in this list include abstract, floral, smoke, clouds, grunge brushes. Though there are thousands of free Photoshop brushes available, it’s hard to find the brushes of high quality. Working on this collection we picked the most professional looking Photoshop brushes focusing on quality and variety. These Photoshop brushes will be a good starting point in your collection of Photoshop brushes. Continue Reading →
Posted in Freebies | Tagged brushes, Photoshop |