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30 Inspirational Photography Sites

Michael — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:56:09 +0000

All photographers love to display there photo portfolios. We have searched the web for some of the nicest display of pictures. Below is a list of online portfolios of personal and professional portfolios.

Al-Homsi.net

Agnieszkaczarnocka.pl

MarkVelasquez.com

Erikalmas.com

RobertDannPhotography.co.uk

RobertVoltaire.com/htmlver

Chasejarvis.comhttp://www.jessicahilltout.com/

Jessicahilltout.com

JohnWrightPhoto.com/

20 Best Free Wordpress Themes

Michael — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:55:21 +0000

Here is a showcase of some of the best free wordpress themes around. It’s simply a showcase of lovely themes that are free, we never made them. There is a link above each image to find the download and live preview of the theme.

10 Useful Wordpress Plugins

Michael — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:23:46 +0000

Here is a small showcase of some of the most useful Wordpress Plugins that would be really useful in anyones next design. These plugins are mostly very easy to use and simple to use.

1. WPtouch iPhone Theme – Wptouch is a powerful little plugin that allows you to view your Wordpress site on an iPhone, iPod touch, Android or BlackBerry, as a unique, easy-to-view mobile design.
2. WP-PageNavi – WP-PageNavi is a easy-to-use numeral page navigation. It adds a more advanced paging navigation your WordPress blog.
3. Max Banner Ads – Allows you to easily add and rotate banners in your wordpress blog anywhere you like without editing any themes or touching any codes
4. MM Forms – This is a really easy plugin to use. It allows you to create advanced contact forms, in just seconds. Doesn’t require any coding.
5. Twitter For Wordpress – Twitter for WordPress is a simple plugin that displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
6. Social Bookmarks – The Social Bookmarks plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites.
7. WP-Gravatar – This plugin lets you use Gravatar, MyBlogLog, OpenAvatar, Wavatar, Identicon, monsterID or Favico.ico files with your comments.
8. Tweetmeme Button – TThe TweetMeme retweet button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
9. Lightbox 2 – Lightbox 2 is a very simple-to-use plugin that turn all your image hyper-links into a fancy javascript hover-layer gallery.
10. Statpress – The first real-time plugin dedicated to the management of statistics about blog visits. It collects information about visitors, spiders, search keywords, feeds, browsers etc.

Making A RSS Feed Icon In Adobe Photoshop

Michael — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:53:04 +0000

A RSS feed icon is an icon that in normally linked to a sites RSS feed. This article will show you how to make a typical RSS feed icon. This icon was made in Adone Photosohp CS3, however you will be able to follow this tutorial smoothly in early versions of Adobe Photoshop. Here is the result:

First make a new 48 X 48 document. Set the background colour to transparent. Zoom in.
Make a new layer. Using the Rounded Rectangle tool, create a rectangle that fills most of the canvas. Set the radius to 6 and use the colour #F27823.

On the rectangle layer go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options… Tick the stroke and Inner Glow options in the left-hand-side menu. Click the stroke option and set the size to 1px, and colour to #D2431C.
Now click the Inner Glow option and set the colour to #ED4714. Leave any other options as they are, click ok.
Your icon should now look like this:

Click (U), at the top select the custom shape tool. Select the copyright icon in the shape field.

Select the colour White, #FFFFFF. Make a new layer. Stretch the copyright shape onto your image like below:

Now go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.
Your icon should now look like this:

Double click on the copyright icon layer, in the layers planel:

Now select Rectangular Marquee Tool. (M) Delete any of the icon that shouldn’t be there. Also draw a circle with a brush under the 2 curved lines. Make it look like this:

Now go to Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options… check the Outer Glow, and click it. Choose the colour White, #FFFFFF. Set the opacity to 20%.

Make a new layer. Using the rectangle tool, using the colour White (#FFFFFF) set to opacity 25% draw a box over half the shape like below:

Now you’re finished, zoom out and view your finished product: