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35 Beautiful Music Album Covers

From Ashley Ringrose
August 3rd, 2008
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Album cover art is often considered to be one of the “extincted” fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores. That’s a ...

70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials

From Dirk Metzmacher
July 15th, 2008
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Beauty retouching is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. There are two simple reasons for that. First, Photoshop offers a variety of advanced tools to smooth out skin and hair, optimize body proportions and emphasize some beautiful details. And second, if ...

Let There Be Light: Light Paintings and Sculptures

From Vitaly Friedman
July 14th, 2008
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Although light is considered to be rather a practical than an artistic tool, it has some properties which designers can effectively explore in their works. Indeed, light can also be considered as a medium for more powerful and more vivid artistic expression. In fact, many artists and crews make use ...

Beautiful Black and White Photography

From Vitaly Friedman
June 9th, 2008
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If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand ...

Texture Gallery: Fire, Ashes

From The Smashing Editorial
May 27th, 2008
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These photos have been created by Smashing Magazine readeres in our Smashing Texture Contest. What can you do with them? You can use all textures for both private and commercial projects for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. However, you are not allowed to offer these files for download; please respect ...