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7 Deadly Sins of Professional Photographers to Watch Out For

There are millions of things which can spoil your photography. And there is no sense to enumerate all of them, because this list will be almost endless.

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So we decided to concentrate on several factors that can be minimized or even brought to nothing – they are also known as 7 deadly sins.

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Who are World’s Most Famous Photographers?

When it comes to naming the best, the most professional, the most famous photographers of the world, it always makes me shrug, because you just can’t name all of them, and you can’t make a “top 10” list of artists of any kind, because art is not about rating.

But still, there are some famous photographers, pronounced more frequently, and knowing them is a must if you don’t want to blush in a company of snobby slightly bearded guys in hipster glasses who might ask you “So you’re a photographer? And who’s your favourite?”

So here we go.

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Creative Infographics for Photographers About Photography

Infographics have been popular for several years and probably, they will be forever and ever. Infographics arrange information in a form of a big poster with eye-catchy and amusing illustrations.

About a year ago we published a post with a collection of 9 cool infographics for photographers. Each of them presented some useful tips and interesting facts on photography-related topics. Now we’re going to showcase you another portion of inspiration: 17 new infographics for photographers about photography are entirely at your services. It seems that during this year photography community penetrated the beauty and the usability of infographics. And now you can enjoy more infographics which cover a wider range of questions.

Evolution of Camera and Photography

Infographic for Photographers: Evolution of Camera and Photography

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10 Best Free Photoshop CS5 Plugins

Almost everybody likes to arrange photos in Photoshop. This process is so amazing that you can spend hours trying to find the right Photoshop brush or photo effects to apply. Photoshop plug-ins or filters were created to make the photo editing process easier and more breathtaking and now you can be convinced of it.

These free Photoshop plug-ins will help you easily apply the professional touch to your pictures and make them look as fashionable as never before.

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How to Create a Photo Portfolio – Tips for Beginners

If you’re going to create a photo portfolio you should understand that beautiful and creative shots are not the answer. There are some rules for online portfolios and you should follow them.

Here you’ll find some benefits of having an online photo portfolio (this part is for those photographers which feel unsure about such a necessity) and four suggestions on what to pay your attention to when creating a portfolio. So go ahead right now!

Benefits of having a photo portfolio

Benefits of Having an Online Photo Portfolio

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Free Christmas Photoshop Brushes on the Holiday Eve

Every day and even every hour Christmas time comes closer. So it’s time to start thinking about a New Year Tree, a snowman on the roof and Christmas presents. But a holiday is not a holiday without cute and memorable photo cards from/for close friends and relatives.

Probably it’s a good thing if you buy some greeting cards in a nearest shopping mall and write several words there. But just imagine the pleasure you can bring to someone else choosing personalized Christmas cards. You can either order them in some photo studio or open Photoshop and try to do your best to create perfect Christmas cards for your closest people.

If you decide to design Christmas cards (or maybe just photos) yourself you will require some specific Photoshop tools. And now we want to present you 20 free Christmas Photoshop brushes which are very easy to use and which will help you to decorate any image in a matter of couple of minutes.

You can download all the brush sets right now absolutely free and without any registrations. Just save the free Photoshop brush set on your computer and enjoy this magical pre-Christmas time.

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Tips on How to Get People to Smile while Photographing Posed Portraits

You say “Keep smiling!”, take a camera and see creepy masked faces through a photo lens. People try to force a smile but it doesn’t achieve good results. If you take a picture of your good friend you can say ‘Hey buddy! What’s up? ‘ and pinch him/her as a joke. But if you’re working with some unfamiliar person then you should think of some alternative.

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Free Vector Cliparts for Halloween Designs

Halloween is near enough and it draws nearer every day, every hour and every minute. So we want to ask you are you ready for the celebration? This post is the second article on Halloween-related topic. It includes 20 free vector cliparts which would be a good decoration for any postcards, emails, photos, websites, etc.

Last Friday we published the post with a collection of free Halloween Photoshop brushes which was the first one of Halloween-related freebie selections from PhotoGalleryCMS. And today we gladly offer you a new portion of free tools that, we hope, will be useful for you on this Halloween eve.

Black and White Clipart for Halloween

Black silhouettes are extremely popular design trends at all times. They are very versatile decoration elements for almost anything. So take a look at these black and white vector cliparts. All of them are absolutely free of charge, so you can download them right now.

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Free Halloween Photoshop Brush Sets

The Halloween night of 2011 is just around the corner. High and low, all start thinking about holiday costume parties, trick-or-treating, etc.. Usually on the eve of Halloween it happens that millions urgent matters prevent you from preparing gifts, sweets, greeting cards and pumpkins for the celebration. That’s why we want to help you to create Halloween post cards and decorate photos with Halloween symbols. Scary and funny Halloween Photoshop brushes will help you to strike your friends, relatives, clients and business partners with pictures of toothy pumpkins, bony skeletons, red blood splashes and vampire fangs.

So until the Halloween time comes let�s dive into the fantastic atmosphere of pre-holiday imaginary world. Lets decorate all around (your websites, portfolios, social media accounts and avatars) with the holiday attributes. So here you’ll find 20 free Halloween Photoshop brush sets which can make your Halloween more impressive, expressive and memorable.

It’s the first Halloween-related post with numerous frightening freebies that are so awesome they’ll scare the hell out of you all! We’re already working on arranging them for you. Within the next few days we’ll be glad to present you more freebies,

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