Family trips, holidays in distant lands, weekend trip to beaches? All good reasons to make our cameras go snapping’. And when we do get these pictures back on to our PC, here’s a unique way of making them into something totally cool!

You will now learn how to make a 3D ball out of photos of nature, family or pretty much anything that’s sitting lazy in a folder in your hard drive. The 3D ball can be placed on any background to create an amazing album cover. So here we go!

Earlier this month, Google that it purchased online photo editing tool Picnick. What does that mean for Picasa users? To soon to tell. It does mean that the big players are acknowledging the fact the photo editing is no longer in the hands of pro’s or in the hands of those who bother to pay for their own Photoshop. Actually, Adobe already acknowledged this fact when it released their own online photo editing tool, Photoshop.com, in September, 2008.

Photos can do a lot of talking. No wonder! Photo blogs are gaining popularity.

Its all about images, photos and blogs. If photography is your devotion then photo blog is your shrine.

Hang ten with these radical surfing posters! Worldwide, many indulge in the awesome past time of grabbing a long board and hitting those waves hard. For most, it is a hobby to distract from the hustle and bustle of their daily lives. However, quite a few are passionate about the ocean and being a surfer … whether the lure be the potentially lucrative prizes of contests or the pure nirvana of being out in the big blue with no more than a finished pieced of wood.

This is an easy technique that helps you to create a ripple effect in your image. This is possible using some simple tools on Photoshop.

Any object can be used for this effect, but an object with well defined edges would no doubt make your job much easier. In this example, we have selected a feather as the object around which we will create the ripple effect.

How much has changed in the world of graphic design in the past 40 years? Hard to tell. We have today technical abilities that people in the 70’s wouldn’t even dream of. Also, we experienced major changes in communications, where graphics have a decisive role. And last, our society, our values and perspectives have changed quite a bit. Sounds like we’re talking about an entirely different universe.

Join us as we take a trip around the world of design: Next stop, Turkey. The country that connects Europe and Asia with a strip of land along the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is one of extensive history and always has found its mark in the world of art history. In this day, the innovation and creativity can still be seen in some beautiful examples of Turkish made graphics and illustrations.

FaceBook Games can make even the strongest in the ways of the web run in fear. Yet for some reason your girlfriend mom and little brother can’t get enough of them. Fan art is the greatest expression of a player love for the games and in this case, all the more reason to scream in terror and run like hell.

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver that ended yesterday provided photographers with many moments of bliss. Snow is always fun to shoot, but combined with tight, colorful spandex and and extreme athletic abilities, the Vancouver games were a celebration of high speed photography.

We are in one of the most joyous times of year. Spring is slowly sneaking upon those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, and we get ready for the celebration of some fantastic holiday celebrations.

This year, March 1st is a colorful day as the Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and other natives of South Central Asia rejoice in the holy day of Holi, first mentioned in an ancient Sanskrit script. While the origins of Holi vary, the implementation of throwing beautiful, vibrant colors on one another stems from the always playful and mischievous Lord Krishna.