If you are already long time in this business, then you surely follow the trends and adapt to them, because your customers require you to be innovative, regarding, reliable, and above all to look perfect. Of course, it’s not a big secret, but for those who are just entering the field it can be of crucial importance in order to start already caught the right rhythm. We are on the brink of a new era of digital design, and is a mightily important to jump into the train at the right time, as soon as tomorrow because the competition will not wait.

We share with you the newest trends that will definitely shine in full splendor this year. Many trends can already be seen on the most innovative presentations, which is the best indicator that if you follow the best you will become one of them. Of course, not all trends exist in the market, but if your eyes wide open, we hope that you will not miss a single important thing in this year which has just started. (more…)

Is it from space? Is it a prop from the latest Star Wars movie? No, it’s the future of game controllers from the likes of Razer and Saitek!
In a bid to launch the most intuitive, interactive and futuristically-designed gameware, we take a gander at three of the most space-age designs from the companies that have turned their hi-tech vision into a gaming reality.

Gaming headset

A product of wonder from industrial and product designers at E3design, this gaming headset is modest in design yet state-of-the-art in capability. Using the latest transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) technology, the headset passes low-level electrical currents through very specific areas of the players head – not as scary as it sounds, we promise you!
The device has already been given the thumbs-up by WIRED magazine, The New York Times, NewScientist and Gizmondo, while fans posting on Reddit’s tDCS forum claim the Foc.us headwear improves their response times, in-game ability and mood.

Gaming glove

For the ultimate gaming experience, there’s no better hand-wear than the P5 gaming glove in collaboration with Inition. As well as offering a comfortable and ergonomic design, the glove aims to provide gamers who don’t spend a lot on their devices, a full 3D experience – but without the alarming price tag.. It is lightweight, fully adjustable (for small to large hands), and encourages intuitive play. Enjoying some downtime from your fast-paced gaming lifestyle? The P5 also doubles-up as a mouse. Joys.

Wireless gaming

In this weird and wonderful world of wireless, any in-game device that lets the user control their character without the need for wires, controllers and button-pushing always scores highly on the futuristic scale – and the Hydra from gaming powerhouse Razer is no exception.
As one of the first devices to hit the motion sensor PC controller scene, the Hydra uses magnetic motion sensors to allow the player to control the game using their hands only. You may look like you’re trying to use ‘the force’ while at your monitor, but who cares? You can swing your sword, wield your shield and throw a (virtual) punch with more accuracy than ever before!

It’s Christmas time of year so we are going to show you how to easily in few steps create beautiful Christmas tree to decorate your desktop.

This tutorial is very simple and straightforward, and you shouldn’t have any difficulties to create beautiful Christmas tree. All you need is to do is to start your Photoshop and we can begin.

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If you are short on cash and can’t quite afford the price tag of software such as Photoshop, fear not, as there are plenty of free editing programs available that will do just the job.

Here are our top three programs for budding photographers:

GIMP

Available for PC and Mac, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is often referred to as the free alternative to Photoshop. As an open-source application, it is run by a community of volunteer developers who maintain the product. With GIMP you can get professional level editing and retouching tools, making it the closest free app to Photoshop currently available. If you are used to Photoshop, it may take a while to adjust to the GIMP program.

Paint.NET

Using Microsoft Paint as its muse, this program was originally developed by college undergraduates mentored by Microsoft. The alumni of the program continue to maintain this free replacement for Microsoft Paint, which has surpassed the original program with advanced features and increased functionality. Although not maintained as well as other free editing programs, this is a good alternative to Photoshop.

PhotoScape

This program allows you to organise your most-used features, as well as customising the toolbar. Other than image editing, PhotoScape also lets you create:
– Slideshows
– Animated GIFs
– Capture screenshots
– Combined images
– Split images

PhotoScape is a great mix of basic and advanced tools and also converts RAW images to JPEG from DSLRs and other more advanced cameras.

Although this program is free, you will be treated to ads recommending other software. This won’t infiltrate your computer with adware but can be pretty annoying; however this is the price you pay for free software.

You might want to look at the standard of camera you have and consider updating to something with a few more bells and whistles. This will get your picture looking great without the need of too much editing. Clifton Cameras offer a great selection of digital SLR, compact system and digital cameras ranging from beginner to professional.

Depending on your photography skill levels and the quality of your camera, these free tools could be exactly what you’re looking for when editing. Nothing on the market fully compares to Photoshop, but these three free alternatives come pretty close with a large number of features.

Building an app is not only an expensive thing, but is also a very hard, and if you are a beginner in that field it can certainly be very stressful. You already know that there are many freelancers online who can build you a basic app for less than $10,000 (or that is something they say), but you can also go different road and create an app all by yourself with a help from apps specially designed for building a high-quality app without spending a fortune.

1. MainStreet Apps
MainStreet Apps gives small businesses a do-it-yourself, cloud platform to build apps by needs of their customers. Process is very easy and straightforward, so you don’t have to be some kind of a computer wizard. The minute you are finish your app, MainStreet Apps does the whole thing further from hosting your data in the cloud to reviewing your app and uploading it to the app store.

2. AppMakr
AppMakr is a totally free do-it-yourself application that can build robust, native apps for iOS and Android without any coding knowledge. There are no hidden costs and additional requests so you can build a dozen apps. Along basic things it contains push notifications, HTML 5 functionality, high-resolution picture galleries, live updates, and branding and design customizations. (more…)

If you want to take the photos with shallow depth of field you are going to need some nice lenses, or some very luxurious camera. But, if you are lacking those things do not despair because it is possible to digitally imitate shallow depth of field using our favorite piece of software called Adobe Photoshop. It will take only two minutes of your time, and your photo will be completely different.

First step: In the layer box simple right click the layer called background, and then choose to duplicate layer. After that just name the new layer as Blur.

Second step: Go to the Select Filter, then choose Blur and go for Iris Blur. You’ll get the Blur Gallery tool. When you select your effect just shift the ring in the middle to the part of your photo that you want to remain sharp. (more…)

In the wonderful world of web design, it pays to have the right tools in your kit to enable you get the job done as quickly and professionally as possible.

Aside from planning the layout and sketching navigation to give your users a clear, simple and flawless experience, you need to ensure all aspects of the site – from fonts to images – showcase your website to the best of your ability.
Check out these useful tools to give you a helping hand in web design:

Glyphs

As all web designers know, choosing the right font for your website’s audience is vital. If you’re a creative type and fancy creating your own typography, then Glyphs is for you. Allowing users to change shapes, spacing, kerning, weights and so much more, this nifty software lets you see letterforms in real-time. (more…)

If you don’t have time to transfer your photos from smartphone to computer for little bit of editing, but you want to get ingenious with your photos as fast as you can, then without a doubt apps are the best thing for you.

We choose 10 best photo editing apps that let you add filters, frames and effects in snap. Once you select your favorite one, simple download it to your smartphone and start using it for photo editing.

1. Snapseed

If you want to edit your photos quick, enjoyable and powerful then Snapseed designed by NikSoftware is the best thing for you. This company already has many awards for their software products, so they are not new thing on the block. First edition of this app was for iPad in 2011, but soon after that Snapseed launched an Android version. App has some cool tweaks that you can use on your photos, which include very popular vintage filters, adding attractive color, adding beautiful photo frames, or if you want to have some fun just go crazy with special effects. (more…)