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Sometimes wind, vibration, or shaky hand, make taken photo blurry and there is no possibility to retake it. You can remove shake and blur from your photos and make them rather sharpen. Unshake cleans up pictures in all of these cases, usually making the resolution of a blurred picture much better than that of the original. Unshake can also remove dithering and rasters, and it can work through the lines found on magazine pictures. While there are both free and paid similar filters which produce alike results, the real point of Unshake is that it does it automatically. (more…)

Ruth Kedar is an artist and designer who designed Google’s Official Logo and Registered US Trademark which became later famous around the world. Since Google didn’t have money to pay a designer at first, the first version was created in 1998 by Sergey Brin using GIMP.

Born in Brazil, Ruth Kedar received in Israel a degree in Architecture and moved to USA to attend the Stanford University Masters Program in Design resulting in master thesis on Playing cards design. Ruth Kedar was introduced to Larry Page and Sergei Brin in 1999 at Stanford. She presented them with some preliminary design ideas which they liked and she was hired to design Google logo. (more…)

I made a custom Google search engine on graphic design blogs. This search tool uses handpicked blogs about graphic and web design. Using it you can find reliable and essential information on all topics related to graphic design: news, tips, Photoshop, Illustrator and other software tutorials, reviews, interviews. Now you will not lose your time watching fake, irrelevant or ad full pages. Get only info to the point!

1. You nearly crashed a car in front of you identifying unknown font on the billboard.
2. You feel bad if just downloaded free Photoshop brush has size less than 1000 px.
3. You are looking at weird picture on your girlfriend/boyfriend T-shirt instead of listening to her/him.
4. You are using hotkeys extremely fast but can’t touch-type a paragraph of text.
5. You had design nightmares when you worked too hard.
6. You believe that food is an interruption in a design routine. (more…)

My apologies to all readers and visitors of Graphic design for life! While I was too busy last days, hosting company blocked my account for ’suspicious background activity’ which was caused by Bad Behavior Wordpress plugin (Bad Behavior should protect your site from spambots). I have to delete it immediately and give advice to everybody not use Bad Behavior until it will become 100% safe or change principles of its work.

Though some people think that fax is in the past, it is not quite true. A lot of people and official organization use faxes as primary way of communication. When you use a fax not very often, there is no sense to buy fax machine or pay permanently for online services while you can use internet faxes for free. You can not only got free fax number and receive fax messages to it on email but you can send faxes as emails or using online forms as well. (more…)

Following this easy tutorial you can make your personalized wallpaper from any photo for your iPhone or iPod. Moreover, you can apply these principles by making wallpapers for any device or gadget, only using different image sizes. Though you can make iPhone wallpaper from any photo, choose portrait photos rather than landscape. For creating iPhone wallpaper you can use Photoshop or free image app XnView. (more…)