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Fake HDR Photoshop tutorial

This HDR Photoshop tutorial will show you how to make fake HDR in Photoshop using just single image. Basically, in the process you increase dynamic range of your photo, then your increase local contrast. While HDR photos are getting momentum, it could be a good

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Web design questionnaire: Top 10 questions to ask

Web design client questionnaire: why do you need it? First of all, to understand what your clients need and provide them with most competitive proposal. Second, you need to filter out price shoppers who unlikely will out the complete form. You can use this web

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Make mistakes, learn and advance

Is making mistakes always as bad as we used to think? Are people who don’t make them really so good? When I think about making mistakes I imagine two cooks: one is strictly following recipes ingredient by ingredient and latter experimenting. For sure the first

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Dave Hill look Photoshop tutorial

Dave Hill is a brilliant photographer who is famous for distinctive look of his photos. Dave Hill photo style is becoming as popular as HDR. Though many argue that Dave Hill photo effect is done only through expensive lighting at the shooting scene, there’re already

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Top 20 Project Management tools

Most of these useful project management tools are complex solution with integrated time management, collaboration, version tracking, code repositories, bug and issue tracking, etc. Both free and commercial project management apps are included. I intentionally focused not on famous tools such as Microsoft Project or

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How to make Firefox addon work with Firefox 3.5

So, you’d like to use Firefox 3.5 right after its release but some of your favorite addons are disabled because Firefox says they are not compatible (not updated by developers)? There’s very simple solution to this problem. Now most addons that aren’t yet officially Firefox

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Top 30 Adobe AIR apps for web designers

Here are top 30 handpicked Adobe AIR apps for designers and developers that can help you do everything from mockups and tracking your time to measuring pixels and cutting FLV video files. Besides popular Twitter applications, Adobe AIR has a lot of useful apps which

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Why NOT to use Lorem ipsum in design projects

Have your clients ever asked what Lorem ipsum means, in what language it’s written, why it has been used instead of some real and readable text? Lorem ipsum is more than common in graphic and web design. It used as a placeholder text to demonstrate

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Top 10 free website uptime monitoring services

It’s crucial for a website to experience minimal downtime (and for site owner to monitor uptime), otherwise visitors or customers won’t return again if the site is always offline and inaccessible. Sometimes it happens that websites are going down even if you have a very