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Best Smartphones for Photography in 2020 to capture your memorable moments
With every new smartphone generation, one aspect that is bound to get better is the camera. Smartphone cameras these days are pushing the boundaries of image processing and megapixel counts. With megapixel counts exceeding 100, it is easy to find a smartphone with image quality and processing that rival those of a DSLR camera. If you’re having a hard time selecting one, then here are some...
20 Award Winning Photos from Weather Photographer of the Year 2020 Contest
In addition to the judges' votes, more than 11,000 readers voted this image to the top and declared Alexey Trofimov Weather Photographer of the Year for 2020. The blue color in this photo is just spectacular, like nature's own wonderful turquoise gemstone. I've never been north of New England, so these Arctic views fascinate me. Captured forever is this moment in time when the leaf slowly froze...
7 Amazing Ways to Showcase Your Digital Artwork
Check out these seven fun ways to re-engage your art clients, from giving to revealing your workshop secrets.
Farmers’ weekly photography competition | Submit your Entries by 15 November 2020
Farmers Weekly’s 2020 Photography Competition is offering you £500 in cash prizes and a unique opportunity to see your pictures published. There are eight categories and the competition is open to amateur photographers only. We’ll publish a selection of the shots we like best, including the eight category winners, in the bumper Christmas issue of Farmers Weekly on 15 December,...
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2020 - Photography Contest | Entries by 20 Nov
For 13 years, the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition has put out a call for photographers to celebrate the landscape of the United Kingdom. This year, tens of thousands of entries celebrated the beauty of the British landscape, but only a select few won in the highly competitive photo contest. Photographer Chris Frost won the title of Adult Landscape Photographer of the Year and the...
The Best Party Ideas for Your Child
Memories and early friends are significant parts of your child's development into their teenage years. As a parent, it can be challenging to develop party ideas that your kids and all their friends will love. Below is a list of great party ideas for any kid’s birthday party to help you guys out.
How to Start a Business in the Field of Graphic Design
Starting a graphic design business on your own is a tough task. Take a look at the things you have to know and the steps you have to take.
DesignContest.com Review - Best Logo Design Contest website
A new and highly anticipated ‘speed and services’ 2.0 upgrade was released in September 2020. This has enhanced the user experience, provided a search-for-and-hire-direct option, and strengthened guarantees on client design delivery and satisfaction. DesignContest now fills professional needs in 35 design categories, including logo creation, packaging, website design, and so much...
First VR Short Animated Film by Nick Ladd
Animation: Escape, an animated short film, was shot within a span of four days using VR. VR is still in development, since most animators still use 2D animation to build a storyline and characters. What is so special about this animated short, Escape, is that the storyline and animations were all created within the VR environment. Nick Ladd used both the drawing software Quill and the VR animat...
Indian Village Lifestyle - Hyper Realistic Acrylic Paintings by Tamil Nadu Artist Ilayaraja
The acrylic paintings by Illayaraja offer pure insight into the village life of South Indians. S. Illayaraja is an upcoming artist from Bengaluru, India. He is quite popular for his portrayal of womenfolk in village life. The women in his paintings are always busy, either stringing flowers, cooking or waiting for someone to return home. He has five elder brothers and five elder sisters, and he ...
15 Colorful Fashion Photography Works by Famous Italian Photographer Lucia Giacani
Lucia Giacani is a fashion photographer from Milan, Italy. In her world, women symbolize beauty and fragility, which she portrays beautifully through her fashion photos. Vogue Magazine says of her, "Lucia Giacani is a woman who immortalizes women in every aspect. Feelings, ambitions, and normality are captured through the lens, behind which is a feminine eye that knows what to look for and...
Step By Step Drawing and Digital Painting Tutorials Using Procreate App By Flo
Check out these step-by-step drawing tutorials by the graphic designer Flo. The artist uses Procreate on an iPad tablet and Adobe Photoshop on a Wacom pen tablet for creating her designs. A hair bun from 3 minutes to a 6 minutes is an amazing transformation. We absolutely love the exhausting detailing in all her drawings to make them so real. It's very hard to differentiate between her photogra...
World Photography Day - Celebrating 181 years of photography
World Photography day is celebrated on August 19th every year to celebrate the passion of the photographers around the world. It was aimed to inspire photographers across the world to share a single photo with the world, with a plaintive purpose:' It's to share with the world, their world as how they see it'. Frenchmen Louis Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce invented the first Daguerreotype ...
10 Best Free Drawing and Painting Softwares for Beginners
Digital painting is a developing work of art where conventional artistic creation procedures, for example, watercolor, oils, impasto, and so on, are applied utilizing advanced instruments by methods for a PC, an illustrations tablet and pointer, and programming, etc. The artist utilizes painting techniques to make the digital painting straightforwardly on the PC. Computerized painting is the wa...
15 Modern-Day Fairy-Tale Princess Digital Portrait Paintings by FdaSuarez
Modern-day princess digital paintings are the most recent work of the cherished artist FdaSuarez. Her original name is Fernanda Suarez, but she is popularly known as FdaSuarez. She currently works as a freelance illustrator and concept artist in Santiago, Chile. Her digital artworks and digital paintings are popularly used in video games and board games. She completed her Bachelor of Arts at th...
Creative and Innovative Australian Product Design online exhibition till 16 Aug 2020
The objects featured in the exhibition are mostly from The Ian Wong Collection and were recently featured in 100 Objects - Australian Design in the Home, commissioned by the Robin Boyd Foundation at Robin Boyd’s Walsh Street House. The Tasmanian presentation will incorporate additionally sourced design objects from local design icons as well.
Shine a Light - Photography contest by Flickr | 23 July 2020
Photographing beautiful landscapes, creating personal portraits, documenting community protests or people observing social distancing—every photo shines a light on our world and shares it with others. Especially in times of uncertainty, photography is a useful medium for sharing our reality, however that may look right now.
Taiwan International Student Design Competition | 20 July 2020
Since 2010, the ''Taiwan International Student Design Competition'' has been held after the ''Taiwan International Design Competition–the Student Section''. It integrates the competitive edges of MOE art and design talent-fostering programs. By hosting international student design competitions, ''Taiwan International Design Competition-the Student Section'' additionally encourages art and...
New features and Enhancements of Adobe Photoshop June 2020 version
Let us take a look at the exciting features the latest Adobe Photoshop June 2020 version has to offer.
Australia Portrait Photography Contest Finalists Reveal Amazing Photos
The National Photographic Portrait Prize is organised annually at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia. The winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize will be awarded $50,000 in prizes: $30,000 in cash from the Portrait Gallery, as well as lighting equipment from Profoto and paper or film supplies from Ilford valued at $20,000. Apart from this, the Highly Commended winne...
Beautiful Bizarre Art Contest opens for entries up to 17 July 2020
The Annual International Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize celebrates entries from unique forms of contemporary art. The contest honors diversity and excellence in the representational visual arts in all static media, including Traditional Art media, Digital Art media and Photographic media, and all styles, from realism and hyperrealism to pop surrealism and lowbrow.