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Here’s a few interesting discoveries I tweeted about or came across in the past week.
If you’re an Irish based photographer, there is, what sounds like a lot of fun, a “shoot out” happening at No.3 Fade Street, every Monday night. Five photographers shoot it out with ten of their best photographs. (Via Bohoe)

A cool [...]

This image was made for a poster. It’s a mixture of pixels and vectors, and a young and old buddhist monk. The older monk, is of course H.H. The Dalai Lama. It loses quite a bit at this size, as it was created as an A3 sized poster and I was very pleased with how [...]

The Creative Group have a number of free ebooks on their site. Two that might be of interest for the creative crew out there are the “Books Smart”, with tips on how to put together a portfolio and “Creativity On A Dime”, with creativity boosters.
Creativity On A Dime
This guide features 20 cost-effective ways to [...]

Gordon Brown’s been going through the mill a bit recently and his undereye bags are getting bigger. Here’s a quick method of retouching any photograph in Photoshop to reduce or remove undereye bagginess. Now if I could just do this permanently to myself …

Open the portrait that you want to retouch. [...]

This guy is (accidentally) hilarious. Wow, took him 25 years to design it and I’m sure you’ll agree the time was worth it!

Tags: Business Cards, graphic design

A nice post from last year on Smashing Magazine with some beautiful examples of Black and White Photography. The link below shows a photograph by Nick Brandt.

 
The Fashion Photography Blog have written some excellent articles on Promoting Your Photography Business. Part One is here and Part Two is here.
 
Some very early pictures of the Beatles. [...]

I want to say a big thank you to Michele at Blacknight for my new graphics tablet. A Wacom Intuos 4L, which I absolutely love. The graphics tablet was a prize in a t-shirt competition that took place recently on the Blacknight blog and I was one of the lucky winners. I’ve been using Wacom [...]

Here’s a quick way and easy way to accurately straighten up your photos if they’re looking a bit lopsided. As with many techniques in Photoshop, there is more than one way to straighten a photo. This method uses the measure tool.
1. Open up the picture that needs to be straightened. Here’s one I [...]

Last week on Sitepoint I wrote a series on how to use how to use the Illustrator drawing tools. The series is written mainly for people who are new to Illustrator, but you may find it useful even if you’ve been using Illustrator for a while. Here’s what’s covered;
1. The Line Tools
2. The Shape Tools
3. [...]

So the election results have been coming in since yesteday afternoon and it seems like the Green Party have had their bottoms well and truly kicked. I almost feel sorry for them. If they hadn’t sold out and gone into governement two years ago they would probably have done really well. Also getting a good [...]