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Bitmap Data Manipulation in Flash ActionScript 3
Flash is vector graphics in nature. Flash originally started with the name FutureSplash and designed to handle vector data.
During its journey from FutureSplash to Macromedia Flash and now, Adobe Flash which has been significantly upgraded to handle bitmap data as well. People around the world are doing nice jobs with AS3 BitmapData and Filters.
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35 Amazing Apple iPad Wallpapers
iPad wallpapers are one of the first items to search for when you would like to personalize your own Apple iPad.
Along with your favorite applications, the iPad wallpapers give your iPad the the theme you like to see while you use your iPad instead of seeing the same default iPad wallpaper again and again.
Brilliant Examples of Photo Manipulation and Illustration Artworks of Lim Si Ping
Photo manipulation and illustration can create a great mixture in the artwork especially when there is a talented artist like Lim Si Ping behind it. Si Ping is one of the great digital artists that can mix among the digital photo editing, photo manipulation and illustrations to produce unique and creative digital art experience.
Unlike the other photo manipulation artists and illustrators, Si Ping is not limiting her talent in one style of artwork. She has a totally new experience with every new artwork project as you can easily notice in her artwork below.
25 Extraordinarily Examples of Toy Photography
Toy Photography is one of the photography techniques that can easily take you back to your younger years that are full of imagination and love to play all the time.
Toy Photography is a type of photography that concerns on kid’s toys photos toys of different styles and characters. Toy Photography varies from taking shots of comic hero toys, doll toys, etc.
35 Fresh and Creative Advertising Ideas
Advertising ideas websites and archives update us on a daily basis with new creative advertising campaigns and ideas that help attract the customers to see the companies’ messages that are delivered through these advertisements. The idea is the most important part in the advertising campaign because it should be unique, attractive and help improving the marketing strategy for the product.
While customers do not even notice the frequently repeated and boring advertising ideas and sometimes hate it, the creative ideas allow the customers to think and try to get the message behind the advertisement.
30 Truly Creative Anime Wallpapers
The Anime wallpapers are inspired by the Japanese culture, the Anime or Manga Arts has a lot of fans around the world that vary in age and culture when they are all admire the style of the Anime art. This style illustrates the Japanese culture in every detail. You can easily identify this in the colors, lines, shades, backgrounds and characters.
The Anime art is presented in different media such as TV, video, movies and online in both still images and animated cartoon formats. Anime wallpapers are widely known and used by many art lovers in their desktop, iPad and mobile devices. Continue Reading
30 Creative Examples of Typography
Using fonts and Typography are not just ways of written communication to be understood by people as it was originally created for but Typography is also concern with arranging the text in a creative way. This artistic arrangement can be used to deliver a message by focusing on specific words or create a shape out of the arrangement.
Typography can be created using different Language characters based on the shape of the characters and how it can help the final look and feel of the design. Some Typography design extends to using multiple Languages in the same design by creating harmony between the different characters in each Language even when the different Languages can have different directions and font nature such as the English and Arabic letters.
50 Breathtaking Examples of Wildlife Photography
Photographers are always searching for resources and places where they can take great shots and find ideas for new photographs. While the city can provide many Photography ideas, the wildlife reserves its place as the most inspiring environment where photographers can find a lot of topics for their Photography projects. The Wildlife Photography can include photo shots for forests, plants and animals.
Birds and animal Photography records a lot of the activities of this interesting world that is full of motion and amazing creatures. The wildlife Photography requires some different skills than the other types of Photography because of the nature of the photographed element.
Superb Collection of Free Calligraphy Fonts to Download
Calligraphy fonts are the type of computer-generated fonts that are inspired from the old text writing using its complexity, curves and style in general.
This type of typography is not limited to the Latin ancient characters style only, but also, it extends to get inspirations from other languages’ type characters such as the Arabic and Japanese font characters.
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Super Talented 3D Models and Characters
While the 3D modeling requires good talent in visualizing the character or the model in three dimensions, creating a character design concept and converting this concept to a 3D model requires more talent in creating the model and modeling it using any of the 3D applications.
3D modeling involves in many implementations such as the industrial modeling, the 3D cartoon modeling and the 3D animation. And there are many applications that can be used in character modeling such as Mudbox, Zbrush, 3Ds max and Maya. You can rely on specific applications to create the model or multiple applications.
Free Photoshop PSD Files and Resources
As a widely used application, Photoshop is an image editing tool that provides a design to be used by graphic designers, web designers and photographers which add do design tasks and photo editing.
One of the smart tips is not to start from scratch which others usually or normally do in making a design. Based on this, you can use Photoshop PSD templates instead of starting everything from nothing. For example, you can use PSD buttons or templates in your design instead of creating the same effect that others already did before.
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