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History of Cameras: Illustrated Timeline

Photographic cameras’ roots go deep. Everything started with the camera obscura, and continued with Daguerreotypes, 35mm cameras, digital cameras and camera phones.

Now we offer you to learn more about the photo cameras ‘way’ through ages and generations of photographers.

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How to Hashtag Photography Tweets

Twitter has more then 100 million monthly active users and half of them log in every day. On Twitter you can easily find like-minders and friends, customers and business partners. For photographers it’s a great chance to build a close relationship with current and potential clients and to become more recognizable in photography sphere. All these things are quite well known for most of you. But not everybody is versed in Twitter hashtags. These bizarre words can be very irritative or, maybe you don’t even know that they exist. 🙂 So take a minute to know these scraps of words better and not only will you find them useful and effective, they’ll also become your best assistants for your whole life in Twitter!

Benefits from #hashtags

  • Twitter hashtags help users to spread information.
  • They arrange and categorize flows of information. It is kind of similar to the Google Search in Twitter
  • Hashtags increase your chances to hit the very target audience.
  • They increase your recognizability among experts in professional circles.
  • It is a great promotional tool which doesn’t require any complex knowledge and skills.

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10 Super Cool Gadgets and Gizmos for Geek Photographers

Hi there! In this post you can find 10 coolest and creative photography-related gadgets and gizmos which you probably have never seen and used. Surely it is not an exhaustive list of crazy devices for photographers but from our point of view these ones will be of a great use for professional and amateur photographers.

The technical world develops rapidly and probably some of these photography gadgets are well known for you, our advanced photo fans. But we hope that there are some things which are foreign to your experience and so you’ll try them on the tip from us.

The iPhone Telephoto Lens

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Painting with Light: Tutorials and Photos

Light painting photography is also known as light drawing or light graffiti. This photographic technique is wide spread among professional and amateur photographers thanks to its simplicity and beauty.

To take such photos will not took much time, so you can try it whenever you want. You just need to have

  • Camera;
  • Tripod;
  • Light source (LED light, flash light, candles, etc.);
  • Darkness.

There are a few video tutorials on how to take light painting photography. There you’ll find some basic tutorials and some advanced ones but still they are understandable and easy to apply.

Moreover, you can also look through the following related articles:

Light painting tutorial video

Light Painting Tutorial: Light Painting 101, The “On Camera” Light Source

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Nature Inspired Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials

Photoshop text effects can easily change the look of any typefaces (even if they seem to be dull and annoying). Using the same tools you can create different typos time after time. It is a good field to give a free rein to your fantasy and creativity.

Photoshop text effects are not too complex even for novices but they can enrich and verify every design. So take a look at a collection of 20 Photoshop text effects tutorials inspired by nature. Moreover, you can also look through the following related articles:

In case you created some adorable text effect and you are dying to share it with those who will evaluate your artwork, just leave a comment below with a link to your tutorial or resource included.

Create a Dream Design with 3D Typography

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Digital Photo Albums Software

Memories don’t have to fade away. And the best way to save your memories for years and to present them to your friends and relatives is a digital photo album. With these software you can in a matter of couple of hours arrange all your shots into different albums, burn these albums to CD or DVD or publish them online. It is a very quickly and convenient way to manage your digital photos for both amateur photo fans and professionals.

If you take a lot of digital photos or just like to be photographed then you’ll probably find something interesting in our today’s collection. All these digital photo albums software are very easy to instal and to use, so you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the nice photo management experience you get.

You may be also interested in the following related post:

20 Photos of Cities by Night.

Photo Magazines at Arm’s Length.

20 Free Flash XML Photo Galleries and Flash Components.

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Photoshop Cartoon Tutorials

Most of us like cartoons from the early childhood. They live in our memory for years and they always make us smile. So here we present you Photoshop cartoon tutorials which will be interesting for advanced Photoshop users and for beginners as well. In these enthralling tutorials you’ll find many interesting tips and tricks for cartoonizing your photos and for creating different cartoon characters from scratch.

We are sure that all Photoshop tutorials of this post will be of a great use for you. So take a minute to look through a collection of 20 Photoshop Cartoon Tutorials. Moreover, you can also have a look at the following related articles:

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Cartoon and Comic Kids Fonts

Mostly every web design resources offers free fonts to increase your creativity in photo editing. So that not to stand aside of these freebie trend our PhotogalleryCMS blog decided to share a collection of free cartoon and comic fonts inspired by kids. All of them will be of a great use for all professional and amateur photographers which like to take children photos. These little photo models want their shots to be bright and fancy, with all sorts of catchy slogans inside. And having a stock of these comic fonts you will always be able to please your child and to decorate photos however you want.

These kids fonts are absolutely free so you can start using them right now.

By the way there is a collection of Free floral Photoshop brushes on our blog. It also can help you to create a real photo masterpiece.

Garfield the cat

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Free Floral Photoshop Brushes

We are glad to offer a useful collection of free Photoshop brushes to all Photoshop fans. This showcase is focused on flowers, trees and leaves shapes. What’s more important, every brush set is absolutely free to use and you just need to download it and to install on your computer. The complete process will not take much time.

Using these Photoshop brushes you can save your time and efforts on completing different design tasks. And on the very edge of the summer these floral brushes will be of a great use for all professional and amateur photographers. These free floral brushes sets are very beautiful and will certainly look very good in any kind of graphic designs. Any of them can be a decoration of your personal photos as well as a striking element of website designs.

So take a minute to look through a collection of 20 free floral Photoshop brushes. By the way, you can also look through our round up of Retouching Photoshop Tutorials.

Floral rainbow

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Cool Infographics for Photographers

Photographers always perceive surroundings via visual pictures which assemble of millions of shapes, sounds and aromas from all around. Just because of it, infographics are the best way of perception of any information by all professional photographers and photo lovers.

And if you are the one of those lucky photo camera holders who can�t pass by a cognitive piece of information about photography then you are in the right place now. Here we have gathered 9 cool infographics for photographers which can blow your mind. There are some useful tips and interesting facts on photography-related topics. Have a good time with these infographics!

Take Photos in Low Light

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