Quick, feature rich and easy to use multi-platform image viewer XnView replaced on my PC sluggish, awkward and non free ACDSee a long time ago. Firstly I use XnView just for viewing and cataloguing images but soon I was amazed how much wonderful functions XnView
Adobe updater could be really annoying, though I find Adobe Creative Suite 3 as a masterpiece. Every time that you start Photoshop, Illustrator or Acrobat Adobe updater pops up and tries to download updates. It is also a big resource hog. So how can you
New version of open source image editing software GIMP 2.4 recently came out with new goodies and long-awaited improvements. Most valuable new features are scaling for all kinds of brushes, intuitive selection and crop tools, improved printing and color management, red eye removal, a new
Flickr users will be able soon to edit photos more extensively than just rotate and crop, using the Flash based online photo editor. The deal has been signed and Picnik tools will be integrated via an iframe within next few months. I should say that
Frankly speaking, a couple of times my graphic design ideas was stolen by unfair customers, even though I didn’t send them my works in good resolution or vector. You know, to repeat something is much easier and cheaper than to create from scratch. So now
Photoshop MSU Image Restoration is a great plugin for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 (probably also working in other versions) to erase unwanted objects such as accidental people in photo or in my case I wanted to remove ugly trolleybus wires which really corrupted photo of
What to do if you’d like to impress your mom or granddad making especially valuable for them old faded photo look vivid and colored as though it was taken yesterday? Probably I exaggerate a little, but the result will be worthy. Anyway, this tutorial helps
I made this list searching for blogs related to graphic design. All blogs in this list have interesting posts about graphic design though some of them are focused on ads, photography or web design. List is made in random order and the position of any
Every graphic designer should have good typing skills, in my opinion. Recently I discovered a great free app Stamina Typing Tutor which helps me now to improve touch typing, in particular, for writing for this blog. After the training course with Stamina, you will be
Once I faced the problem of transferring my WordPress blog to another hosting. Surely I didn’t want to have downtime, headache with making blog on the new host operating properly or in the worst case lose any data. As a result I gathered all available