Strange as it may seem: photographers, who should be highly creative persons with fine artistic taste tend to be bloody awful designers.

But don’t get me wrong here. I’m not expecting someone to be able to design me an outstanding corporate logo just because he is a great photographer.
But the massacre begins even at the level of watermarking their own photos!
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We all like having different resources at hand, be it graphic design, getting inspiration or just plain images to embed into articles. It would be so good if we didn’t have to be looking for resources in different websites until we find what we want, wouldn’t it?

Here’s where Freepik comes into our lives, giving us those much needed graphic resources whenever we want. Read more…
If you’re using Instagram, there are a few people who hate you. You can be a nice friendly person, and you friends are polite, that’s why they don’t comment your photos with an honest “Screw you, bastard!”

But what did you do?! Read more…
It has been some time since visual content demand has risen on the internet, and with that some new business models have appeared, one of them being microstock.

In the last years, quite a lot of microstock agencies have been created, an interesting option for contributors (photographers, graphic designers or illustrators to say some) and image buyers alike. Creative minds also look for a place to sell their work with a good commission and clients look for good quality works at low prices. Today we would like to take a look at Photaki, a microstock agency created by photographers and launched in May, 2009.
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There are only 7 basic notes in music. There are only three colors on a computer screen. So, digital photography should not be that difficult. But ok, forget it, we all know it is too good to be true. When all you have is a set of bricks, building a castle does not become easier.
Enough metaphors for now – let’s talk about postprocessing.
“Good artists copy, but great artists steal”
Pablo Picasso
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