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40 Wonderful Examples of Bokeh Photography

Arshad Cini — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:12:00 +0000

Bokeh is an originally Japanese word and it means haze or blur.But when it is applied to photography,the word bokeh is associated with the blur that is seen in the out of focus areas of a image.Shortly we can say,bokeh is a technique to add fuzzy areas within a photo.
In today’s post we have compiled wonderful examples of bokeh photography.When you see the below examples,you will understand the bokeh technique better.

Christmas Time Bokeh Time

Photo by Lincoln ~

Watch the Stars Go Out

Photo by Ed McGowan

Sensitive Space

Photo by Matt

A Cup of Bokeh

Photo by Cindy

Homeward Bound

Photo by Matt

Our way was lit by Moon and Cello

Photo by Matt

Warm Fuzzies

Photo by Steve Jurvetson

Streets

Photo by *December Sun

Trees of Light

Photo by Jeff Laitila

Apple

Photo by Hanan D.

Starry Night

Photo by Matt

Jake Watches The Mountain Goats

Photo by Abby

Aldis Hill Forest

Photo by Kirk

Cranberry Cove Barrens

Photo by David Elliott

Ball ball Net

Photo by Jordan

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Photo by ArTeTeTrA

Binge and Purge

Photo by amy b

Outside Sarang Church in Seoul

Photo by Marshall

Christmas Lights

Photo by Fabrizio Sciami

Opening the World of Bokeh

Photo by Prashanth Naik

Rainy Canal Street ( New Orleans )

Photo by Alfonso Pompo Bresciani

Passion of Italy

Photo by Faisal Al-Ali

Happy Holidays

Photo by Cherie S.

The Ace of Spades

Photo by ~aspidistra~

All the love for you my friends!

Photo by Ilko Allexandroff

Peacock Bokeh

Photo by Paula

Have a Happy Bokeh-licious Week

Photo by Monjori Islam

50 Special

Photo by Ilaria Luciani

Along Dark Winter Streets

Photo by dapalmerpeter

The Fallen Sons of Eve

Photo by roseonthegrey

Bokeh Bubbles

Photo by roseonthegrey

The Cup and Bokeh

Photo by VanillaBoom

I gotta feeling… bokeh

Photo by CasheeFoo

A Cup of Bokeh, please?

Photo by smanimagery

The Bokeh Lantern

Photo by Pmania

Extreme Bokeh

Photo by raoros

Domo Bokeh

Photo by CrazyKcee

The Bokeh Shooter

Photo by Adarsh Padegal

Bokeh

Photo by Rio Paliza

Flower Bokeh Magazine

Photo by Deven Hwang

Invoicera Giveaway: Trouble-Free Online Solution To Get Your Invoicing Done Quickly

Arshad Cini — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:49:25 +0000

DesignBeep.com in association with Invoicera has come up with an exciting giveaway this time. We are giving away 5 Invoicera Basic Plans for 3 months for free of cost to our readers. To win a plan you would have to participate in the contest as mentioned in the contest section of this post and you could be among one of the 5 lucky winners who could get free 3 months subscription of Invoicing Plan absolutely free.

We at Invoicera also love the fact that with the subscribers attained from a giveaway event, it allows us later to form a relationship with our subscriber base, and hopefully acquire many more customers for lifetime.

For those who don’t know about Invoicera, Invoicera is an online invoicing and time tracking application which reduces your time spent invoicing to minutes!

Why to choose Invoicera.com?

Invoicera is a trouble-free and extremely easy to use online invoicing and time tracking-service designed for freelancers and creative professionals in mind that’s well priced and offers a spontaneous user interface with a solid collection of multiple great features.

Invoicera with its exceptional features, outstanding sponsorship, great customer support system and cost efficiency will permit you to handle your online invoicing tasks professionally. You can save more time and manage your business in a smooth and proficient way with Invoicera and moreover, will also get paid faster from your clients as automatic late payment reminders will be sent to your client.

Additional Useful Features of Invoicera :

1. Multiple Languages and Currency Support: It helps in creating and sending invoices to your clients in their respective currency and language. Invoices in 11 languages can be created for your individual clients from all across the world. This will make your clients comfortable with meaningful and accurate invoices.
2. Time Tracking: Time tracking solution is amazing. It helps you to keep a track of time spent on each specific project and lets you keep a frequent check on every task performed. This ensures how your work is progressing regardless of time boundaries.

3. Expense Tracking: To keep a track of all your projects expenses effortlessly and accurately, Invoicera provides expense tracking .In invoice, the entire expenses of your specific project will be added to allow you to get paid in full. By importing your expenses in your Invoicera’s account, you will be able to know about your business profitability and whether it is up to date or not.

4. Customized Invoice Template: To make sure your business identity is reflected and represented through the invoices received by your clients, professionally multiple designed templates have been provided. For those who are not that much technically sound to customize their template, for those Invoicera has come up with a Template Customization Service, with which you can get your invoice/estimate template customized by their experts as per your requirements.

5. Magento Extension: With Invoicera’s magento extension, you can easily generate and send professional invoices to your customers with in real time as soon as they place an order on your store.

6. Invoicera with Google Apps: If you are a user of Google apps, then using Invoicera will create many benefits here. The application can easily be accessed through Google apps with single sign in process and further utilizing Invoicera with single Google sub-domain.

7. Invoice Scheduling: Scheduling of your invoice to be sent on specific date and time can be carved out. It would be sent automatically on the set date & time without any complexity. This will make your workload lighter.

8. Late Fees Payment: Invoicera gives you the option to charge late fees from the defaulters. It is just one click away and you can add late fee charges in the invoice and get paid in either percentage terms or in a fixed amount
9. Referral Program: With Invoicera’s Referral Program, you can earn 40% recurring commission for life time by simply getting your friends or your business contacts to sign up for the Invoicera’s paid subscription.

How you can win this GiveAway?

To win this giveaway you would need to tweet this story and just simply leave a comment below.

Contest will be valid till 12 Feb, 2012

Hurry, the deadline to enter is:Feb 12th, 2012 at 11:59 PM. Winners from all the valid and correct entries will be drawn and will be notified by email on 13th February 2012.

Note: This contest is only valid for New users and free users of Invoicera and existing paid users of Invoicera will not be eligible to win the prize of this contest.

A few simple things to remember:

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Please, do not submit entries from multiple email addresses – this is unfair to other visitors and when noted will cause all your entries to be voided.

We’ll be emailing you as well and you will have one week to claim your prize. If we don’t hear back from you, we’ll have to give the prize to someone else.

Here’s a limited period Giveaway that you will not like to miss.

50+ Fresh and Really High Quality Free PSD Files for Designers

Arshad Cini — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:32:31 +0000

PSD files have many advantages.Whether you integrate them into your designs to simplify the design process or learn how to get the final result.That’s why free PSD files are very popular in the last few years among designers.

Well,It’s been a few months since we shared a great collection of free PSD files for designers.Since then,many free psd files have been released and today we have another great free PSD collection for you.

Sliding Tags

Sticky Butterscotch UI Kit

Light UI Kit

Clean UI Kit

Creamy GUI

Cute Hire Me Sign

Dark Login / Register Form

Dark UI Kit (Part 1 of 2)

Dark UI kit (Part 2 of 2)

Detailed Download Buttons

Minion UI

Media Toolbar UI

Selection Widget

Shiny Amplifier Knobs

Slider UI

Sliding Twitter & Facebook Counter

Share Buttons

Dark UI – Updated

Mini Clouds Set

Cameras

Dereailed Ui – Mini Set

iOS 5 GUI PSD (iPhone 4S)

iPad GUI PSD Version 2 (Updated)

UI Buttons

Vector Info Buttons (PSD)

Glass Music Player – PSD

Simple Ribbon

Badges and Ribbons

Switch button – PSD

Sleek Ribbon – PSD

Dark Loader

Corner Ribbons

Tablet / Phone User Interface Pro Set V7

Mix n’ Match Download Button Set

Wooden Interface Elements PSD

Psd Web Ribbon Sale Label Vol 1

Retro Web Ribbons Vintage Psd Pack

Open Notebook Design

IllumiTouch UI Kit

UI Bundle

UI Leather Web Elements

Night Club Flyer PSD Template

PSD Stickers

Progress Bar

Subscribe Form

Image Slider

Social Balloon

Little Calendar Widget

Realistic cardboard box icon (PSD)

Address book icon (PSD)

Shopping cart icon (PSD)

Icons-Land.com – Land Of Icons To Stand Out Of The Crowd

Arshad Cini — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:03:31 +0000

Have you ever visited the blog ViperChill? If you have you probably know what makes this blog stand out of the crowd. Obviously there is solid content but the main thing that sets this blog apart from others is its icons. ViperChill uses the same pattern of icons – the same little white men throughout the blog. In fact even the colour of those men icons matches the colour theme of his blog – too cool!
ViperChill is one of the best blogs about blogging and earning money online with 90,000 visitors per month.
This is just one example how you can use icons to your advantage.
www.icons-land.com is a website that can help you get beautiful icons for your blog.
They define themselves as:
Icons-Land is an icon design studio that offers icons for you in two ways: Stock Icons and Custom Designed Icons. These icons could be used in software applications, mobile phone and handheld applications, websites, presentations, etc.
The professional method to use icons is to use icons of the same types. Anybody who has used different versions of Windows will know that all their different versions use different types of icons.
Once I had updated my operating system from Windows 98 to Windows XP. A friend of mine immediately identified that I was using the new version when I didn’t even tell him. He identified it from the new style of icons.
Using different styles of icons may make your design look incoherent and inconsistent.
Icons-Land understands this consumer problem and therefore they have manufactured many different forms of icons that you can use in your design. I mean they have designed the same theme of icons in different combinations. One combination contains one type of icons, second contains second type etc.
Below I have shown some example icons. Some details are also mentioned alongside the image.
Vista Style Points of Interest

The above screen-shot shows some Vista style icons that can be used to denote points of interests in maps.
If your work requires dealing with maps, then you may need this set. The icons will make the map look beautiful and interesting.

Vista Style Hardware and Devices

If you deal in electronics like video games, iPods, servers, cables etc. then the hardware and devices icon set is designed for you.

POI Vector Icons

POI here stands for Point of Interest. Yes these icons also will help you mark points of interest in maps but these are vector icons. This means you can re-size and re-scale these icons to suit your design, without worrying about any pixelization i.e. blurring of images.
There are many more icon sets available. Visit the website for more information.
Head over to Icons-Land.com If you’re in need of stock icons, vista icons, transport icons, sports icons, map icons, poi icons.

Awesome Visualizations of Google Images

Olivia — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:46:56 +0000

Last year was a great one for visualization projects. There were some truly breathtaking pieces of work, from websites to holographic images posted through WiFi connections. But the ones that really inspired me personally were those that used Google Images as a base point.
The reason for this is simple: Google Images is the single largest web database of picture around, and with such an overflow of information you can often lose perspective.
But these three projects managed to take the overload and target it into a stunning collection of projects that really managed to stick out.

Visual Dictionary

Created by Antonio Torralba, Hector J. Bernal, Rob Fergus and Yair Weiss, this huge project works as the visual representation of the English language.The project is an outstanding effort to teach the computers to “see” the images, recognize objects in them and understand them.
Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,464 nouns. By clicking on top of the map, you will see the word corresponding to that location, the average image and the first 12 images returned by the image search online tools.

Dreamlines

Leonardo Solaas didn’t just want to create a program that gathered a cluster of images for the viewer. What he wanted was to generate a non-linear, abstract visual experience for the user of his program, which is why he came up with Dreamlines. In his own words:
“The program generates a personal moving picture, unique, unpredictable, and forever gone when it is finished, just like dreams. But that dream is made out of pieces taken from the subconscious of the whole net, gathered by some words of the user and the obscure logic of searching algorithms.”
In other words, it creates a strange dreamscape that never shows the actual image, but instead a constantly shifting representation of it that is blurred before moving into the next. You start by typing in the chosen keywords and letting it do the rest.
The result is trippy, but and oddly relaxing. It tries to tap into the subconscious, and it manages to do so.

Googlehouse

If you are looking for something completely useless but a lot of fun, this project by Marika Dermineur and Stephane Degoutin is great. It basically allows you to pick “room” searches from a drop down menu at the top, and then collects images of those types of rooms from Google Images. From there, it uses them to build a perpetually building, expanding house using the images of rooms for walls.
While strange, it is a fascinating process to watch the whole floor plan become more extensive and complex, and to check out the many images in the collage itself.
I doubt anyone could look at these visualization projects and not be inspired. What are some of your Google-based programs that really get your creative juices flowing? Let us know in the comments!

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #60

Arshad Cini — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:54:33 +0000

There is no limit for inspiration and when it comes to webdesign this is much more unlimited. As usual we continue to showcase beautiful and interesting webdesigns that we came across during the week.Hope you like this week’s collection too.

Studio Airport

This Land is Hovland

Luhse Tea

De4macja

Chien Jaune Studio

Quazar Web design

Anagnorisis

I To Sie Ceni

Update Your Font Library:20 Fresh Fonts from 2012

Arshad Cini — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:32:32 +0000

Choosing the right fonts is a difficult task.Fonts must be in high quality and of course compatible with your design.Last year we shared many free font collections with you and it’s time to add fresh fonts into your font library.All the below fonts are from 2012.I’m sure you will find a right font for your future projects.

Kaushan Script

Night Train

Ropa Sans

Adele

Signika

Mob

Alegreya

Enriqueta

Perplex

Coffee Shop

Achille Nzoda

A Gothique Time

Optical Fiber

Wrktag

Jobbernole

New Era Casual

Neou

Die Hund

Vieira

Caro Hand