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5 Quick Ways to Enhance Portrait Photos

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People nowadays snap a lot of portraits,
ranging from headshots to selfies, or even group photos. Considering how
popular portrait photography can be it is no surprise that most editors have
tools to enhance them – but PhotoWorks is particularly noteworthy.

Not only will PhotoWorks provide you with
numerous ways to enhance your portrait photos, but its tools are designed to be
extremely intuitive and user-friendly. With their help you’ll be able to
quickly touch up and improve your portraits as a professional would.

Automatically Balance the Color and Light

Many photos suffer from bad lighting that
makes them overexposed, underexposed or affects their colors. In PhotoWorks you
can fix that with a single click by using the auto enhancement module.

It is up to you whether you want to correct
the light or color balance, or both. Referring to the histogram will let you
check the tonal distribution and decide which option to use.

On top of that if you want you can fine
tune the adjustments further by using the manual settings to directly alter the
Exposure, Highlights, Shadows, Hue, Saturation, and more.

Remove Unwanted Glare

Glare is another common issue that can
affect your portraits and make the skin texture look greasy. Fortunately
learning how
to remove glare in PhotoWorks
is easy – and you’ll have several options
that you can use.

The easiest way to remove glare is with the
Remove Face Shine option in the Portrait Magic tool. It will get rid of the
glare on your portraits with a single click.

In some cases you can use other methods to
remove the glare however, such as adjusting the Highlights slider, using the
Adjustment Brush, or with the Clone Stamp. Each option is different, and
suffice to say you’ll be well-equipped to handle any type of glare you
encounter.

Fix Red-Eye Effects

If your camera flash was too close to the
subject, you’ll end up with portraits that have glowing red eyes – which is
what is known as the red-eye effect. That can be fixed quickly using
PhotoWorks’ specialized Red Eye Removal tool.

Once you select the tool you can use it to
paint over the red eyes in your portraits to fix them. For best results you
should adjust the size of the brush, and zoom in to the photo to make painting
over the affected area easier.

Whiten Yellow or Stained Teeth

Yellow or stained teeth can make your
subjects look older and make smiles look less attractive. However it is easy
enough to whiten teeth in your portraits using the specialized preset in
PhotoWorks’ Portrait Magic feature.

Not only will the whiten teeth preset help
you to make smiles look more radiant and give your subject a set of pearly
whites, but you’ll get to control how much you want to whiten the teeth using a
simple slider.

Conceal Skin Imperfections

Removing small skin imperfections can be
tricky, and over-editing can make your skin look unnatural. That being said if
you want a quick way to conceal skin imperfections such as acne, wrinkles,
scars, or even eye bags you can use the Healing Brush in PhotoWorks.

As a smart editing tool the healing brush
will automatically identify the best area to sample and let you conceal any
skin imperfections by simply painting over them. It works best on small
imperfections, and you can adjust the brush size to allow for a more precise
selection.

The feather and opacity options can help
soften the edges of the mask that is applied to make it blend in more
naturally.

Conclusion

Overall you should be starting to see how easy it will be to enhance your portrait photos and make them look their best using PhotoWorks. Most of the tools require just a single click or a few simple adjustments using convenient sliders to apply them to your photos.

To be perfectly honest the features described above are just a small selection of the full scope of PhotoWorks’ tools. As you explore its features, you’ll see that there isn’t much that it can’t do, and it will let you really come up with portraits that look like they’ve been snapped in a professional studio.

Featured image by Simon Wijers

This Ladybird-Bike is a Moving Children Library

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When closed, this bike looks like the random food-selling street carts you can see everywhere in China. However, when the ladybug opens its wings, something magical happens: it’s a tiny library!

Made of abandonned bikes and discarded metal car sheets, this “library-bike” can go anywhere to bring joy to kids by carrying children books. Just like a regular library, this bike also allows for kids to stay there and enjoy their book on the spot, thanks to a sitting space available.

This project was thought and built by LUO Studio, a design agency from Beijing in China.

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This Ladybird-Bike is a Moving Children Library

Post pobrano z: This Ladybird-Bike is a Moving Children Library

When closed, this bike looks like the random food-selling street carts you can see everywhere in China. However, when the ladybug opens its wings, something magical happens: it’s a tiny library!

Made of abandonned bikes and discarded metal car sheets, this “library-bike” can go anywhere to bring joy to kids by carrying children books. Just like a regular library, this bike also allows for kids to stay there and enjoy their book on the spot, thanks to a sitting space available.

This project was thought and built by LUO Studio, a design agency from Beijing in China.

Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

This Ladybird-Bike is a Moving Children Library

Post pobrano z: This Ladybird-Bike is a Moving Children Library

When closed, this bike looks like the random food-selling street carts you can see everywhere in China. However, when the ladybug opens its wings, something magical happens: it’s a tiny library!

Made of abandonned bikes and discarded metal car sheets, this “library-bike” can go anywhere to bring joy to kids by carrying children books. Just like a regular library, this bike also allows for kids to stay there and enjoy their book on the spot, thanks to a sitting space available.

This project was thought and built by LUO Studio, a design agency from Beijing in China.

Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

This Ladybird-Bike is a Moving Children Library

Post pobrano z: This Ladybird-Bike is a Moving Children Library

When closed, this bike looks like the random food-selling street carts you can see everywhere in China. However, when the ladybug opens its wings, something magical happens: it’s a tiny library!

Made of abandonned bikes and discarded metal car sheets, this “library-bike” can go anywhere to bring joy to kids by carrying children books. Just like a regular library, this bike also allows for kids to stay there and enjoy their book on the spot, thanks to a sitting space available.

This project was thought and built by LUO Studio, a design agency from Beijing in China.

Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

Use Motion To Create A Better User Experience Without Distracting Users

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Creating a website for a client who insists on using moving elements to make their website stand out means walking a fine line between creativity and distraction. There will always be clients who want obnoxious elements like background music, cursor trailers, and strange volume adjustment interfaces. However, some interactive elements have the potential to support user experience when implemented correctly.

Traditional advice tells designers to avoid moving elements, but moving elements can create the edge a website needs to be truly original. You don’t have to sacrifice originality to create a better user experience. Some of the top web design trends in 2019 incorporate movement into the page. For example, scroll-triggered animations, rotating animations, and using CSS to produce drop-shadows are effective at engaging users when done correctly.

Here’s how to incorporate moving elements on a webpage without distracting the user:

1. Fade the moving element into the background

Playing around with opacity is one way to make movement supportive rather than distracting. For example, Dutch Bros. Coffee uses a low-opacity mp4 file in the background for all of their locations. Each location’s page is styled in high contrast and features the address, hours of operation, and a link to a map. The content is clearly visible over the video playing in the background, and it makes you feel like you’re actually at the drive-thru window getting a coffee.

Fading a video into the background is just one way to subdue the possible distraction of a moving element. You can also make animated gifs and other animations low opacity. A video works for Dutch Bros. because the video conveys the experience you’d get at one of their locations. A video may not be the correct.

2. Automate your post sliders

If you’ve got a slider at the top of your page, automate the movement of that slider. For example, have each slide automatically move to the next after a couple of seconds, and rotate between no more than three pieces of content.

Make sure the content you feature in your slider is content you want visitors to focus on the most. A moving slider is distracting, but it works in your favor when you want visitors to pay attention to that content first.

3. Make use of state changes based on user interaction

Change the appearance of an element on mouseover. For example, if you’re asking for a donation, create a graphic that changes when a user hovers over that element. Make the change something that will make users smile.

A wonderful example of animation done correctly is Meteor Toys. When a user clicks on any of the three top menu options, the content zooms forward to meet the user. Clicking the other content on the page produces similar zoom animations that open content boxes right on the same page. This is called semantic animation.

4. Use parallax sparingly

There are an infinite number of website templates that use parallax, but when it’s not used intentionally, it doesn’t benefit the website. For instance, parallax scrolling looks cool, but if you’re just filling in a template, you’re not using the feature with intention.

Other sites like everylastdrop.co.uk use parallax to tell a story. In this case, the story is about how much water the average UK citizen uses each day, and leads the user to a short video at the end that describes how to save water. The presentation is unusual, but it’s definitely unique and engaging.

5. Remember to offer controls to users

When using movement to capture attention, remember to offer controls to users. Unless you’ve created a perfectly timed presentation, let users do their own scrolling and navigating. When users are on a website that isn’t a video presentation, they expect to stay in control.

Porchevolution.com is a great example of a site that has potential, but will lose users due to lack of controls. While the user can move this creative presentation along by clicking, they can’t adjust the volume. Since the soundtrack is half the presentation, some users will leave the site.

Keep refining your moving elements

When using moving elements on a page, continue to refine those elements based on user feedback. If you get emails or social media comments saying your animations are annoying or distracting, you may want to revamp them a bit.

At the end of the day, the coolest website in the world won’t be functional if it’s also distracting.

Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

Use Motion To Create A Better User Experience Without Distracting Users

Post pobrano z: Use Motion To Create A Better User Experience Without Distracting Users

Creating a website for a client who insists on using moving elements to make their website stand out means walking a fine line between creativity and distraction. There will always be clients who want obnoxious elements like background music, cursor trailers, and strange volume adjustment interfaces. However, some interactive elements have the potential to support user experience when implemented correctly.

Traditional advice tells designers to avoid moving elements, but moving elements can create the edge a website needs to be truly original. You don’t have to sacrifice originality to create a better user experience. Some of the top web design trends in 2019 incorporate movement into the page. For example, scroll-triggered animations, rotating animations, and using CSS to produce drop-shadows are effective at engaging users when done correctly.

Here’s how to incorporate moving elements on a webpage without distracting the user:

1. Fade the moving element into the background

Playing around with opacity is one way to make movement supportive rather than distracting. For example, Dutch Bros. Coffee uses a low-opacity mp4 file in the background for all of their locations. Each location’s page is styled in high contrast and features the address, hours of operation, and a link to a map. The content is clearly visible over the video playing in the background, and it makes you feel like you’re actually at the drive-thru window getting a coffee.

Fading a video into the background is just one way to subdue the possible distraction of a moving element. You can also make animated gifs and other animations low opacity. A video works for Dutch Bros. because the video conveys the experience you’d get at one of their locations. A video may not be the correct.

2. Automate your post sliders

If you’ve got a slider at the top of your page, automate the movement of that slider. For example, have each slide automatically move to the next after a couple of seconds, and rotate between no more than three pieces of content.

Make sure the content you feature in your slider is content you want visitors to focus on the most. A moving slider is distracting, but it works in your favor when you want visitors to pay attention to that content first.

3. Make use of state changes based on user interaction

Change the appearance of an element on mouseover. For example, if you’re asking for a donation, create a graphic that changes when a user hovers over that element. Make the change something that will make users smile.

A wonderful example of animation done correctly is Meteor Toys. When a user clicks on any of the three top menu options, the content zooms forward to meet the user. Clicking the other content on the page produces similar zoom animations that open content boxes right on the same page. This is called semantic animation.

4. Use parallax sparingly

There are an infinite number of website templates that use parallax, but when it’s not used intentionally, it doesn’t benefit the website. For instance, parallax scrolling looks cool, but if you’re just filling in a template, you’re not using the feature with intention.

Other sites like everylastdrop.co.uk use parallax to tell a story. In this case, the story is about how much water the average UK citizen uses each day, and leads the user to a short video at the end that describes how to save water. The presentation is unusual, but it’s definitely unique and engaging.

5. Remember to offer controls to users

When using movement to capture attention, remember to offer controls to users. Unless you’ve created a perfectly timed presentation, let users do their own scrolling and navigating. When users are on a website that isn’t a video presentation, they expect to stay in control.

Porchevolution.com is a great example of a site that has potential, but will lose users due to lack of controls. While the user can move this creative presentation along by clicking, they can’t adjust the volume. Since the soundtrack is half the presentation, some users will leave the site.

Keep refining your moving elements

When using moving elements on a page, continue to refine those elements based on user feedback. If you get emails or social media comments saying your animations are annoying or distracting, you may want to revamp them a bit.

At the end of the day, the coolest website in the world won’t be functional if it’s also distracting.

Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

Use Motion To Create A Better User Experience Without Distracting Users

Post pobrano z: Use Motion To Create A Better User Experience Without Distracting Users

Creating a website for a client who insists on using moving elements to make their website stand out means walking a fine line between creativity and distraction. There will always be clients who want obnoxious elements like background music, cursor trailers, and strange volume adjustment interfaces. However, some interactive elements have the potential to support user experience when implemented correctly.

Traditional advice tells designers to avoid moving elements, but moving elements can create the edge a website needs to be truly original. You don’t have to sacrifice originality to create a better user experience. Some of the top web design trends in 2019 incorporate movement into the page. For example, scroll-triggered animations, rotating animations, and using CSS to produce drop-shadows are effective at engaging users when done correctly.

Here’s how to incorporate moving elements on a webpage without distracting the user:

1. Fade the moving element into the background

Playing around with opacity is one way to make movement supportive rather than distracting. For example, Dutch Bros. Coffee uses a low-opacity mp4 file in the background for all of their locations. Each location’s page is styled in high contrast and features the address, hours of operation, and a link to a map. The content is clearly visible over the video playing in the background, and it makes you feel like you’re actually at the drive-thru window getting a coffee.

Fading a video into the background is just one way to subdue the possible distraction of a moving element. You can also make animated gifs and other animations low opacity. A video works for Dutch Bros. because the video conveys the experience you’d get at one of their locations. A video may not be the correct.

2. Automate your post sliders

If you’ve got a slider at the top of your page, automate the movement of that slider. For example, have each slide automatically move to the next after a couple of seconds, and rotate between no more than three pieces of content.

Make sure the content you feature in your slider is content you want visitors to focus on the most. A moving slider is distracting, but it works in your favor when you want visitors to pay attention to that content first.

3. Make use of state changes based on user interaction

Change the appearance of an element on mouseover. For example, if you’re asking for a donation, create a graphic that changes when a user hovers over that element. Make the change something that will make users smile.

A wonderful example of animation done correctly is Meteor Toys. When a user clicks on any of the three top menu options, the content zooms forward to meet the user. Clicking the other content on the page produces similar zoom animations that open content boxes right on the same page. This is called semantic animation.

4. Use parallax sparingly

There are an infinite number of website templates that use parallax, but when it’s not used intentionally, it doesn’t benefit the website. For instance, parallax scrolling looks cool, but if you’re just filling in a template, you’re not using the feature with intention.

Other sites like everylastdrop.co.uk use parallax to tell a story. In this case, the story is about how much water the average UK citizen uses each day, and leads the user to a short video at the end that describes how to save water. The presentation is unusual, but it’s definitely unique and engaging.

5. Remember to offer controls to users

When using movement to capture attention, remember to offer controls to users. Unless you’ve created a perfectly timed presentation, let users do their own scrolling and navigating. When users are on a website that isn’t a video presentation, they expect to stay in control.

Porchevolution.com is a great example of a site that has potential, but will lose users due to lack of controls. While the user can move this creative presentation along by clicking, they can’t adjust the volume. Since the soundtrack is half the presentation, some users will leave the site.

Keep refining your moving elements

When using moving elements on a page, continue to refine those elements based on user feedback. If you get emails or social media comments saying your animations are annoying or distracting, you may want to revamp them a bit.

At the end of the day, the coolest website in the world won’t be functional if it’s also distracting.

Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

Use Motion To Create A Better User Experience Without Distracting Users

Post pobrano z: Use Motion To Create A Better User Experience Without Distracting Users

Creating a website for a client who insists on using moving elements to make their website stand out means walking a fine line between creativity and distraction. There will always be clients who want obnoxious elements like background music, cursor trailers, and strange volume adjustment interfaces. However, some interactive elements have the potential to support user experience when implemented correctly.

Traditional advice tells designers to avoid moving elements, but moving elements can create the edge a website needs to be truly original. You don’t have to sacrifice originality to create a better user experience. Some of the top web design trends in 2019 incorporate movement into the page. For example, scroll-triggered animations, rotating animations, and using CSS to produce drop-shadows are effective at engaging users when done correctly.

Here’s how to incorporate moving elements on a webpage without distracting the user:

1. Fade the moving element into the background

Playing around with opacity is one way to make movement supportive rather than distracting. For example, Dutch Bros. Coffee uses a low-opacity mp4 file in the background for all of their locations. Each location’s page is styled in high contrast and features the address, hours of operation, and a link to a map. The content is clearly visible over the video playing in the background, and it makes you feel like you’re actually at the drive-thru window getting a coffee.

Fading a video into the background is just one way to subdue the possible distraction of a moving element. You can also make animated gifs and other animations low opacity. A video works for Dutch Bros. because the video conveys the experience you’d get at one of their locations. A video may not be the correct.

2. Automate your post sliders

If you’ve got a slider at the top of your page, automate the movement of that slider. For example, have each slide automatically move to the next after a couple of seconds, and rotate between no more than three pieces of content.

Make sure the content you feature in your slider is content you want visitors to focus on the most. A moving slider is distracting, but it works in your favor when you want visitors to pay attention to that content first.

3. Make use of state changes based on user interaction

Change the appearance of an element on mouseover. For example, if you’re asking for a donation, create a graphic that changes when a user hovers over that element. Make the change something that will make users smile.

A wonderful example of animation done correctly is Meteor Toys. When a user clicks on any of the three top menu options, the content zooms forward to meet the user. Clicking the other content on the page produces similar zoom animations that open content boxes right on the same page. This is called semantic animation.

4. Use parallax sparingly

There are an infinite number of website templates that use parallax, but when it’s not used intentionally, it doesn’t benefit the website. For instance, parallax scrolling looks cool, but if you’re just filling in a template, you’re not using the feature with intention.

Other sites like everylastdrop.co.uk use parallax to tell a story. In this case, the story is about how much water the average UK citizen uses each day, and leads the user to a short video at the end that describes how to save water. The presentation is unusual, but it’s definitely unique and engaging.

5. Remember to offer controls to users

When using movement to capture attention, remember to offer controls to users. Unless you’ve created a perfectly timed presentation, let users do their own scrolling and navigating. When users are on a website that isn’t a video presentation, they expect to stay in control.

Porchevolution.com is a great example of a site that has potential, but will lose users due to lack of controls. While the user can move this creative presentation along by clicking, they can’t adjust the volume. Since the soundtrack is half the presentation, some users will leave the site.

Keep refining your moving elements

When using moving elements on a page, continue to refine those elements based on user feedback. If you get emails or social media comments saying your animations are annoying or distracting, you may want to revamp them a bit.

At the end of the day, the coolest website in the world won’t be functional if it’s also distracting.

Thanks for being a subscriber, here is your FREE house vector icons set.

INTI’s Gigantic Mural Art Adds Some Poetry to the Streets

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There is no such thing as a too big wall for INIT. The Chilean street artist enjoys creating on very large surfaces, adding poetry to otherwise greyish and boring landscapes.

Using very contrasting styles and color schemes, INIT’s mural art sends a message accross in a very subtle way while enchanting the cities.

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