If you've been putting off creating a distinctive avatar for your blog, wait no more. This free online application will let you create one in a snap.

This is a great tool if you don't have a lot of graphics skills -- or even if you do. It's fun to play with the various features and the only restriction is that you can only manipulate .

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My early thoughts about this art world icon were sorely incomplete and inwardly deceptive, this figure had a very silent but exposive personality that caused everyone who met him to misinterpret him. Behind the blonde hair and nu vogue wardrobe lied a rather intriguing and accomplished visual artist - an artist that would chang

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Vic was kind enough to share with us a bait and switch advertising technique recently in his article "Bait and Switch on Steroids". This technique uses a fake video graphic with a compelling image to generate a significant click-thru rate to a target sales page. I decided to create a few example graphics that could be used with this techniq

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"A blend of technologies from the National Institute for Standards and Technology hopes to push the threshold of reading to seeing by incorporating images and simple animations."

Think of the many applications such technology could have for not

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Anyone who can point a mouse and type can create customized free photos and animated video clips with the Image Chef online graphics application. Just pick one of the many photos or animations that Image Chef has available and type in a short message or name. In seconds, you get a high-quality free image that's perfect for

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An easy way to jazz up your blog and to catch your reader's attention is to insert a couple of graphics. The old saying that "a picture is worth a thousand words" holds true in the world of blogging too.

What helped make the concept sing for me was to think of each individual blog as a magazine layout. Articles that use pictures to help

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Some people have some really ugly Entrecards. If you look through the category list you will see quite a few that are really boring. This is your default card when you haven’t uploaded an image yet.
Now, while I’m not a graphic designer by trade and I cannot draw to save my life, I seem to know my way around Photoshop fairly well. If yo

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Links to great PNG's, graphics, and Photoshop brushes from Design Fruit, selected by the sassy Anne of Ample Sanity: Life is short; make fun of it!

[Good grief! This 350 character requirement is a bit excessive, don't you think? It's way more than needed to give you a sense of the post. Just go read the post! Now I'm typing just to fi

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How can you use Photoshop to create all the artwork you need for a website? Now you can learn the inside techniques to use Photoshop for designing website and web graphics following this eight lesson tutorial series by a College Instructor, with classroom examples and exercises. Animations? You bet. Mock up a website? Sure... you'll lea

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Forget about JPGs, GIFs, and PNGs -- that is soooo '90's. Get ready for the next Graphic Format... Scaleable (and Programmable) Vector Graphics -- SVGs. That's right... you can program SVGs. VG’s feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects, template objects, extensibility and programming of t

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