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While the most clients are honest and reliable there are some people who would like to get better result for less money. Often they like your work and its quality but they want to pay less because of greed, awkward wish to cut down expenses or just lack of money to pay fair.  If you don’t want to be a volunteer and make design work free of charge, set some principle and never forget about them. It’s bad when there is no understanding in the beginning.These phrases should alert you.  If you could, win the battle for your interest or refuse the project at all. Save time and health which will bring you more money. (more…)

This Adobe Photoshop guide include quick practical tips and advices both for novices and intermediate users who would like to know Photoshop better without spending much time on different tutorials. You will learn tips and tricks on different areas of photo editing with Photoshop: how to select any area, how to automate photo correction in Photoshop, how to speed up work in Photoshop using shortcuts, how to correct photo quickly and protect it using copyright sign, how to enhance portraits and add sunburn, how to make photo puzzle, quick photo collage, write text an any flat surface and fill it with photo. (more…)

Adobe finally revealed its free, long-anticipated online Photoshop app, despite many competitors already has seized the market. Currently in public beta, Photoshop Express doesn’t have even 10 percent of options and tools of desktop-based Adobe Photoshop such as layers, channels or filters. Photoshop Express isn’t feature rich even as Picnik but it has damned slick interface. Without doubt Photoshop Express will be rather popular, as its worldwide known name means much more for beginners than any critical reviews or competitor’s advantages. (more…)

Pictomio is a free photo browser using 3D effects and animations to manage your photo collection. With Pictomio you can experience innovative way of browsing photos through 3D image carousel and create amazing animated slideshows with advanced transitions. Despite the many players on this market developers are sure that Pictomio will find its admirers because of its innovation and usability. (more…)

Compfight is an easy to use Flickr search site based on AJAX-technology and Flickr API. With a useful minimalistic interface Compfight lets you search photos on Flickr by tags or by keyword in titles and descriptions. There is option to search photos under Creative Commons license as well. Now you don’t need to click 3 or 4 times to do an advanced search and constantly turn over the pages on Flickr. (more…)

Make3D is a simple online tool from Stanford University that automatically converts your single photo into a 3D model with very impressive results. Unlike Microsoft Photosynth which meshes many images together to create 3D models, Make3D use its algorithm to convert one photo into a quasi-3D image.

Make3D utilize a variety of visual signs that humans use for estimating the 3D aspects of a scene and creates a three-dimensional fly around model that includes depth and a range views. (more…)

You can make HDR photo from one single jpg shot made with your cheap compact camera! The better way to make HDR photo with a compact camera is to take at least 3 photos with different exposure: one underexposed using manual exposure correction (-2), one normally exposed and one overexposed (+2). But you can make pseudo HDR photo from one single jpeg in Photomatix. You even don’t need to make underexposed and overexposed versions of this single photo in Photoshop.

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