We bloggers love to add images to our posts as often as possible. The reason being is a common one -
a picture is worth a thousand words. I hope you remember
my last post, where I introduced to you some cool extensions including
Picnik, which happens to be a great extension to handle images on Firefox.
Talking about image hosting,
Flickr is one of the most widely used web-based imaging service. Now, you may upload a lot of images at your
Flickr account and get your blog posts to display them, wherever and whenever needed. I know this would have been been a dream, until this cool plugin was launched. Yes, I am talking about the
Flickr plugin for wordpress.
This Flickr plugin for WordPress allows you to display your
Flickr photosets as albums on your
WordPress blog. The template is pretty simple and intuitive and totally customizable to match the look and feel of your blog. If desired, you can also hook it up with Lightbox or similar display libraries like - Facebox, FancyZoom and Fancybox.
For the user interface, this plugin adds a new
Flickr icon to the WordPress editor allowing you to easily insert your Flickr photos into your blog posts with just a couple of clicks! You also have an option to either link inserted photos to your WordPress Flickr photo album or directly to your
Flickr.com photo page.
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Background images are one of the visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen for the website
Bloggers and webmasters know that every single visitor helps to build up traffic, right? If that is the case, you should make sure that Google is correctly indexing your images, and that people searching for related image terms will have a chance to visit your blog.
Here is a quick check that you can perform to find that out. Just head to Google, and click on the “Images” link on the top left corner. That will take you to the Image Search. Now you just need to type on the search bar “
site:yourdomain.com“. This quiery will filter only the results coming from your site.
If your images are getting indexed correctly by Google you should be able to see a whole bunch of them on the search results.
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If you use a lot of images in your blog, you’ll definitely want to have a Lightbox plugin to jazz up the previews and display of your images.
To give you an example of how this works, click on any of the thumbnails below and you’ll see the lightbox preview window, with the ability to browse all the images.
To do this effortlessly on your WordPress blog, you need to download the
Lightbox 2 plugin for WordPress, and upload the entire folder to your plugins directory.
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10 great hand picked images from our free stock photo gallery.
New Launching Soon pages have been added to the gallery
This tutorial will demonstrate how to take an image, in this case a woman’s face, and give the appearance that it is entirely composed of vector shapes. Along the way, we’ll use some fairly basic techniques, including clipping masks and displacement maps, to achieve a unique effect!
This is the image we’ll be creating:
Step 1
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Instead of riding snow, this boarder is flying through flames. In this tutorial we’ll create fire and smoke without using any photos. You’ll learn how to combine both to create a flaming, dynamic image that jumps right at you.
The Photo
First we need an image to work with. I chose an image of a snowboarder jumping from
Stock.xchang, it’s great because he’s quite isolated against a straight blue background which will make cutting him out much easier.
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In this tutorial I will show you how to repair some image noise from a low quality shot and I will show you an extremely quick and easy way to smooth out a person’s face. The woman in this shot is not a model and she has a lot of character so we don’t want to over do it with the smoothing. We will make it look real and natural.
The Image
You can get the image we’re using in this tutorial from Free Range Stock
here. The technique can be applied to a beauty shot as well, you would just have to adjust the settings on some of the steps to get a more extreme smoothing effect.
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Including 97 PNG icons with Ipods, keyboards, monitors, hard drives and more.
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To do this effortlessly on your WordPress blog, you need to download the Lightbox 2 plugin for WordPress, and upload the entire folder to your plugins directory.
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