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A few weeks ago we posted a showcase of beautiful HDR photography. True HDR photography involves taking multiple shots of the same subject with different exposures and combining them, but Photoshop allows you to mimic those effects with just one image. While you can always go through this process manually, there are also a number of Photoshop actions that can do the work for you very quickly. In this post we’ll highlight some of the best HDR Photoshop actions that will make it easy for you to create your own HDR images.
HDR Legendary Image Action by mrcharlesbrown $5
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Making a transition from employed designer to freelance designer can be intimidating for even the most talented of designers because there is so much more involved with being successful as a freelancer. As a freelancer you’ll be responsible for every aspect of your own business, and it’s those aspects aside from the actual design work that typically create the most significant challenges. While the transition is rarely easy, if you take a look at the mistakes that are commonly made by other new freelancers you can prepare yourself and avoid those potential pitfalls.
In this article we’ll take a look at 7 mistakes that many new freelancers make. The purpose is to help those of you who are in the process of moving into the world of freelancing, or considering it. By knowing these challenges ahead of time you’ll be better prepared to avoid them in your own business.
This mistake often happens even before making the move to full-time freelance work. If you are planning to try full-time freelancing there are a lot of uncertainties about how much money you will earn, especially during the first few months while you will likely need to work harder to find clients while establishing your business. In order to avoid financial problems and more stress than needed, ideally you will have at least enough money to cover a few months of your living expenses in case things start slowly.
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The process of connecting into API data via OAuth is tricky. Some of the more notable social networks which have adopted this technology include Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook. But Instagram is a very popular mobile app which has grown tremendously fast. Their recent API v1.0 release has some really neat features where you can pull popular photos, recent users, follower lists, and a whole bunch more.
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If you find yourself frequently exchanging emails with potential clients, you may be interested in sending them a PDF file that shows off your work. This free InDesign file will allow you to do just that. You can customize the file to include your own details and samples from your own portfolio, save it as an interactive PDF and email it to potential clients.
This InDesign file has been created by The NetMen Corp and it can be downloaded for free.
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Logos are obviously an important part of a company’s identity and branding efforts. Creative logos can help to convey something meaningful about the company and it’s products/services, or they can simply help to capture interest and to make the brand more memorable. In this post we’ll showcase more than 30 logos created by various designers. All of these logos are unique and creative in some way that makes them interesting and memorable.
Spade Dealer
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If done effectively, the design of an ecommerce website can help to improve the user’s experience, which will also improve the results for the company. While many ecommerce sites are lacking in terms of design quality, that is not the case with all of them. In this post we’ll showcase 25 websites that prove ecommerce websites can be attractive.
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Filament Group shares the best approach to responsive data tables. The problem: exploring a large data table on small screen devices means a bunch of horizontal and vertical scrolling. Solution involves marking columns as “essential” and “optional” with CSS classes and hiding the optional ones with media queries at smaller screen sizes
The rest is here:
A Responsive Design Approach for Complex, Multicolumn Data Tables
FireQuery is a Firefox extension integrated with Firebug jQuery expressions are intelligently presented in Firebug Console and DOM inspector
Go here to see the original:
FireQuery – A Firebug extension for jQuery development
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jQuery has dramatically changed the way we view frontend scripting. JavaScript was always a popular language even during the 1990s. But in the new millennium web developers have been smart and observed the programming trend titled abstraction. This is a technique where you save time building features upon others’ code libraries – jQuery being one of the most advanced.
In just the past 2 years web developers have released dozens of free jQuery plugins to the Internet. If you’ve kept up with the community there’s no doubt you’ve run into a few helpful scripts. But if you’re just getting started you’re likely still interested in these topics! Check out my gallery of jQuery plug-ins and be sure to leave your thoughts/questions in the post discussion area.
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Choosing the right color scheme is one of the most important decisions of the website design process, and it can also be one of the most challenging. Fortunately, there are a number of great tools available to help with color selection.
Some of the resources mentioned in this post will allow you to browse through a variety of color palettes or schemes, many will allow you to create and save your own color schemes, and some are interactive, allowing you to quickly create an effective color scheme.
Adobe’s Kuler includes a large library of user-submitted color schemes. You can view the color schemes online or download them to be used in Adobe Creative Suite products.
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