Top 10 High Resolution Photos
Posted under: High resolution feature has nearly become a basic requirement for most of the gadgets available in the market, and you would be very well aware of the fact that there is increase in megapixels every time a new model comes out. We were quite surprised to learn what DSLR cameras are capable of capturing these days.
We have researched all over the internet to gather top 10 most creative and high resolution photos taken by experts around the world. Our efforts might not display the exact same picture size taken by its actual photographer; however the Right of ownership of all such photos published here will remain with the actual owner.
Some of the photos get so dangerously close that you may be able to just about everything in there.
Russian weather satellite Elektro-L No. 1 by NASA took this 121-megapixel single shot from the distance of 22,369 miles.
Kyle Porter took a striking view of Machu Pichu – The Lost City of the Incas, one of the seven wonders of the modern era with his camera. Shot was a 4 gigapixel view from just below the Guardhouse.
This shot was made up of 196 photos taken by Max Lyons using 6-megapixel digital camera with 40,784 x 26,800 pixels in size. The final digital photo contains about 1.09 billion pixels, which is bit more than 1 gigapixel.
With the half a gigapixel photo, Jason Buchheim has tried to capture striking view of a bait ball of Salema fish. He is also a director of Odyssey Expeditions, where he offers summer educational adventure voyages.
The Inaugural Address of Barrak Obama was captured by David Bergman in the year 2009 with 1.47 gigapixel panoramic.
The high resolution photo taken by Jeffrey Martin is 192,000 pixels wide and 96,000 pixels tall taken from the largest spherical panorama in the world totaling to 18.4 gigapixels.
This panoramic shot is of the world’s largest digital photo taken by Hong Kong Connection of about 0.15 Terapix.
This shot was taken from the 18th floor of Chinese Academy of Science building. It is located in the central area of Shanghai downtown from where you can see a lot of famous high-rises including: Jin Mao Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai Pearl Tower.
This photo was shot in Vancouver at the Olympic Games and as a master of high resolution photos; Eric Deis has captured a variety of panoramic views in his camera.
This high resolution image of 2.74 gigapixels, is one of many amazing Space Shuttle – Discovery photos taken by National Geographic.
Weren’t you amazed with massive resolution, photo quality and camera technology? What were the thoughts running around in your mind? Let us know in the comments section below.
Top 10 Free Icon Fonts for Web Design
Every now and then we try to publish some of the top free resources available all over the internet related to your web design requirements. We make sure that you are able to garner ample benefits from our publications.
Today we were able to gather top ten awe-inspiring free fonts along with icon sets that will tip you in creating out of the box design. We know that designers have to pay heaps for icon fonts; however you should be able to snatch all of these listed below without spending any moolah 
We are sure that they can help pep up the look and feel of your website. Here are the top 10 icon fonts available for free:
5 Tips for Graphic Designers to Sketch Wonderful Icons
Summary: An effective guide on the process of wonderful icon designing.
Icons help us in navigating and emphasizing on some of the key aspects of web content as they are more of general separators and indicators. Icons work similarly like road signage’s and you would know that very well if you have ever been on the road, driving.
Icons help you in guiding through web application or a website to locate necessary information and resources in a timely manner.
Web icons should be clear in first few seconds of scanning, and express the apparent meaning of the web content. They do not distract from general web content while making navigational process simpler outlining important features of the website.
Image Courtesy: Charles Chan
The main values of icons usefulness are general project draft, steady lightning, outlook, considering the market, symbol, etc. Here are some of the important design tips for creative icon designing.
- Consider clear symbol – Make it a point to portray the exact web icon for better presentation of web content.
- Widen your potential market – You should be able to display supple and precise images as icons in place of comprehensive clip arts. Icons published on the page should be identifiable and fit the exact business areas. Simple and recognizable icons should go well with your web projects.
- Use remarkable color blend – You should consider testing different colors and shades. Attention grabbing colors with the unusual images will fetch your visitor’s interest with the desire to click on those icons. Design and create outstanding icons. Keep in mind that flash colors are annoying for the plain interface.
- Always think about prospective clients – Think about using common images that are standard and easily acknowledged by website visitors from any part of the world. You web icons are considered universal regardless of traditions, religions, boundaries and groups.
- Follow a streamlined process – Work on a basic concept and draw a sketch with the help of effective colors and forms. Seek help of a neighbor or a friend in order to find out if you were successful in designing a great web icon concept by grasping their attention within initial 1 or 2 seconds.
You can add some wonderful icons to your website and instigate visitors by being creative and artistic, in our opinion.
5 Useful Business Tools for Graphic Designers
Graphic designers will find hundreds and thousands of useful design tutorials on how to work with different business related tools; however you will hardly get introduced to new and effective business constructing tools.
In this article, we have tried to introduce 5 useful business tools for graphic designers who want to freelance in the design industry.
Busy graphic designers get beleaguered quickly when there is no task manager available to keep track of different projects. Remember the Milk is an incredible online task manager, which means you can browse it from any part of the world. At times, you have so much to do that you tend to miss on important deadlines while working on numerous design projects.
2. EchoSign.com
Ever tried EchoSign.com to get contracts signed online? It is presumably the easiest and most convenient option available over the internet to get job contracts signed over the web. You wouldn’t need to print or sign a contract over and again every time a new project is started by you.
3. Skype.com
Skype is a great instant messaging service along with a feature of making free video calls to other subscribers. It’s an incredible voice over internet protocol app which can be used to make cheap international calls using your own professional number assigned by the company.
You should definitely consider using email marketing as it is the most effective way to engage web traffic. Mailchimp is one of the best email marketing options offering the tools you might require in creating a mailing list where you can send appealing newsletters and can also analyze traffic right after every newsletter campaign.
5. TextMate at MacroMates.com
Used by almost every Mac developer, TextMate is perhaps one of the best text editors available online these days. And keep in mind that if you work online, you should be aware of how to use a text editor.
We would love to hear from you about any of the business tools you might have used out of the ones mentioned here or any alternatives. Please feel free to leave your thoughts below in comment section.
Find & Design New Fonts Here
Typography is an awesome way of taking your designs to the next level. With our research, we have tried to find a pair of solution where you can search and create your own designer fonts for your next creative project.
Here are the resources you need:
If you’re looking to find new fonts, this is a great tool to use. It’s a great resource for designers chock full of amazing fonts – some for purchase and some great ones for free.
Not only can you search fonts by type or designer but they have a whole host of resources to help you learn how to use type well: a glossary, a blog, even a newsletter.
But if you really want to step it up to the next level, start creating your own fonts.
Brought to you by the people at Fontshop, with this program you don’ t have to depend on other people’s fonts, you can invent them yourself.
Fontstruct provides you with a grid and lets you create your own fonts with a series of geometric shapes – the options are almost infinite. Then download your font straight onto your computer!
It’s easy, creative and ups your design to the next level. Best of all – it’s free.
Awesome Graphic Design Illustrations from Chow Hon Lam
Chow Hon Lam is an experienced illustrator and, an awesome t-shirt designer from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Popularly known as Flying Mouse in the designer world, Chow just got done with his personal creative project “Flying Mouse 365”, of designing 1 illustration a day for straight 365 days.
Chow has had the chance of working with some of the major brand names today such as Lotus F1, AirAsia, Nike, KLUE, Martell VSOP, Dave Mathews band etc.. He hopes to put a smile on your face with his incredible graphic design skills with Adobe Illustrator. Here are some of his prominent illustrations published below:
Let us know your thoughts on Chow’s lovely graphic design illustrations in comment section below.
Top 10 Incredible Beer Label Designs
Have you ever wondered why alcoholic beverages and their bottles have some of the best best label designs? Not sure about you, however I have always wondered about why wine containers, beer or whisky bottles dig up the coolest designer labels.
In the collection gathered below, we have tried to focus on some of the top beer label designs. Hope you like them!
1. Minister
3. Work beer
4. Shepherd Neame
5. Sailor beer
6. Sigtuna Ace Of Spades
7. Kürzer Alt
8. Water Malt Hops Yeast
9. Spooks Ale
10. Northwestern Style Pale Ale
Top 10 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials – Part 2
We hope you enjoyed reading our first part take on List of Top 10 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials – Part 1 and continuing with the series, here we have another list you can use to learn icon designing using Adobe Photoshop. We hope you will enjoy the second part of top 10 design tutorials listed below:
- Windows XP Style Monitor Icon: This tutorial will help you in creating a simple monitor icon in the XP style.
- Design a Glossy Download Icon: This tutorial will teach you how to create an eye-catching glossy graphic of download icon.
- Apple iTunes Icon: Effectively design the iTunes icon with this tutorial that is found on all iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches.
- Draw Magnifying Glass: Learn how to design magnifying glass with this tutorial, which you can use as an icon or a button on your web-page.
- Vista Aero Thumbnail Icon: With this tutorial design a glossy border around Vista icons.
- World Icon Tutorial: This tutorial will help in creating world icon in Adobe Photoshop.
- Glossy RSS Icon: In this tutorial you are going to learn how to create a colorful RSS icon for your website.
- Glowing Orb with Dial: Trying out styles and layers to design a dial effect and cool glowing orb.
- Home Icon: Use this tutorial to learn how to design a home icon.
- How to Make a Folder Icon: Learn how to make a nice folder for your web-page or desktop.
This is a second part of Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials series and there are still 2 more parts remaining to follow. Stay tuned for some more icon design tutorials.
Top 10 Cartoon & Comic Fonts for Free
Getting bored of plain and simple fonts? Want to use some new cartoon and comic fonts? Are the traditional fonts too out-dated for you? Continue reading below to find out top 10 cartoon and comic fonts available for free for your commercial or non-commercial use (please do not forget to read font designers copyright manual before using these fonts, that’s if there is one available)
Comic fonts such as Comic Sans MS have been available for years and are quite popular among graphic designers, however in this tutorial we have tried to gather a list of unique top 10 cartoon and comic fonts that can be used in your artwork.
Here’s our list of the Top 10 Cartoon & Comic Fonts available for Free!
- Que FONTita!
- Burrito
- Oogie Boogie
- Pokemon
- Clink Clank
- Denne’s Aliens
- Fighting Spirit
- Armor Piercing
- Eyesis
- akaHoggle
Please feel free to share your creative artwork using these cartoon and comic fonts with us in the comments section below.
List of Top 10 Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials: Part 1
Well you know you can always count on world wide web for quality icon designs for free, however most of the icons and designs have limitations such as; not the size or color you want, copyright restrictions for commercial projects and transparency or format constraint.
Due to all the above-mentioned limitations, you should consider designing your own icons that will help you brush up photoshop skills and gain important knowledge. Trust us; making designs on your own will provide immense satisfaction.
You can learn icon designing using Adobe Photoshop with the help of top 10 design tutorials listed below:
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Icon: Learn how to make a slightly altered looking Adobe CS3 Icon swiftly.
- Angry Emoticon: Learn about special effects while converting an ordinary orb into a fantasy art piece.
- Create a Glossy Home Icon: Learn how to design your very own glossy home icon in Photoshop.
- Perfect Shine Button or Icon: Design a cool looking button or an icon to suit your need.
- Design a High-Gloss Graduation Hat Icon: Make a professional, shiny, clean graduation hat icon in Photoshop.
- Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon: Learn how to cover an object in a Jaguar style fur texture.
- Create A Mockingly Smiley: Simple way to create a glossy mockingly smiley in Photoshop.
- Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design: Wherever you wish to place a lock icon, this tutorial will show you how to create an attractive one for you to use!
- Create Icons tutorial: Create a glossy looking icons.
- Design a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon: Learn how you can design helcom icon from a photograph.
This is a first part of Icon Design Photoshop Tutorials series and there are still 3 more parts to be published. Stay tuned for some more icon design tutorials.
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