Tilt-shift photography is one of photography technique of showing the object like a miniature with a selective focus. The color is also showing the playful shade that all can be done with some others software’s help. Tilt-shift’s objects can be everything, like architecture, city, landscape, and many things. Trying to capture many situation and in different angle, it would be something different then. Something usual will become unusual and unique.

Having fun just by looking for these photographs? Now it is time for your turn to make your own tilt-shift photography.

Social Media is booming. Sites like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter play a huge role in today’s pop culture. Almost anybody who’s somebody has got themselves a Facebook and tweet at least a few times a day. So naturally, when anything becomes a huge hit, imitators follow. There are many site hosting companies attempting to leech of the success an influence of Facebook, but nearly all come across as cheap imitations. But one company is just now attempting to jump into the social media market, and they have the track record to make a splash.

Google is no stranger to the internet. As the world’s most widely used search engine, Google has its hands on nearly everything that has to do with the World Wide Web. It seems that almost anything they touch turns into gold. Gmail, Google Maps, Google Shopping, Images, Videos and much more, Google has as impressive a track record as anyone. And that is why there are such high expectations for its first venture in to the social media market.

Google Plus has been drawing rave reviews from almost everyone who’s gotten the chance to use it. It’s a social network much akin to other social networking giants like MySpace or Facebook; the user creates a page for them and via that page they can socialize with any other user on the network. It’s a common formula that has seen little improvement since its debut. But Plus offers a few innovations that have impressed many using its network.

Circles
The most notable addition to standard social network protocol, Circles let you group friends based into separate categories, such as friends, family, colleagues and more. Doing so separates what they can see on your page. You can post something and mark it as family only. Many blog hosts could for example post something for their readers, and keep private family messages separate. Circles eliminate the more common public/private system that is limited in scope.

Sparks
Another great addition is Sparks. Sparks automatically presents you with web content based on your selected interests. Each interest you select will have its own sparks page, which will provide you with the links to your content.

Hangouts and Huddles
Taking from the realms of Skype, hangouts let you video chat with your friends in an easy, efficient method. You can chat with one friend, or a whole room of them. Similarly, Huddles is a group messaging application that lets you message the people in your circles. Huddles also has a mobile app, so you can message on the go from your phone.

Android Compatible
Seeing as how Android is a Google invention, it was expected that they would work together seamlessly, and that they do. Obviously, you can check messages and more, but you can also take a picture on your Android-powered phone and upload it instantly to Google+, and it includes a twitter like stream of update from all of your friends.

Right now, Google Plus is invite only, but not exactly private. Anyone who has been invited to Google Plus can invite others, in other words, you don’t need an invite offer form Google itself, anyone will do. Eventually, anyone with a Google account will be in on the network, it’s only a matter of time.

Google Plus is an awesome social network, and many believe it will give Facebook a run for its money. Whether or not it does, Google Plus should find a user base from at least the hardcore Google fans out there. It’s simple and easy, yet deep and complex, just like every other Google innovation that users have fallen in love with.

1. When getting an idea, write it

Idea can come from everywhere and everything. You’ll never know what time, from who, where, and how you can get it because it comes unpredictable. So it will better if you keep a small notes or sketchbook everywhere you go to anticipate the idea.

Write it, so you can’t forget it. You can write some points that will remind you about your thought before.

2. When you write it, come explore it

For some reason, you must get a research time. More sources, more information, more correspondents, will make you rich of data. And depend on this truth objective data you will get easier when you try to develop it in the next step.

But remember to get information related to your target audience, with the right demographic, psychographic, geographic, etc.

3. When you explore it, see the potential

Everything comes by a cause and effect, so if there is an issue, there will be the solution even it is hidden in some outlook. Looking at this matter, you must think wisely. For easy, just search the strength, weakness, opportunity, threat of an object, and compare it with competitors.

For this step you’ll know what thing that already exist and thing that isn’t exist yet. You can do thing that isn’t used before but you can just do the same thing too but remember to make it advanced enough.

4. After seeing the potential, delivered it to visual

Your data are enough and you have know what you will do and for what. So now you must to do the next step and let your pen or pencil scratch on a paper. Draw everything you’ll need and improve it day by day. Never say enough if you’re still feel that your visual aren’t good enough.

5. After you have done with your visual, finished it

Make it perfect with your final touch, even it is a package, or cover or plastic. Make it perfect to be presented to audience (or maybe your client first). If you make it well so your final will look good but if you’re lazy to finish it maybe your final look aren’t good enough when comparing with your perfect finishing. Just take a little time to bring it like a diamond.

6. Remember you mustn’t get drop before finish

When you get desperate with your ordinary idea and feel there is someone that ever do the same with you, try to explore it a lot and make it advanced because there is nothing new under the sun. Things that you can do are make it advanced and see with the different viewpoint.

When you are lazy to write and develop it, it is just an idea. Some says, idea that never developed is just an idea, not an innovation. It looks like a dream, that never real and touchless. Your duty for becoming a designer is your innovation for the entire world. You can’t just think the idea and didn’t grow it to the real world. Let’s just say it is a baby, you must grow it to become a kid, teenage, and then adult.

7. Enjoy your journey

When you come to bored and don’t know you must do for a while, just look on your previous step and try to think in the same thought and get your mood better. Everything must be done with happiness so thing that we do is looking good too.

CLOSURE

If there is missing spot at something, we usually trying to add it and recognizing the object as the ordinary thing we saw. Although the shapes aren’t fully covered but we can recognize the shapes. There are websites using closure;

Three big categories in icblind make our eyes to separate the grids as three boxes automatically.

dbushell did the same. There is no grid line but once again it makes our eyes separate the grids as three boxes.

CONTINUITY

Our eyes are invited to follow something that guided us. It happened on web design either. Without any arguing we usually let ourselves become guided by the previous object or recognizing.

Websites using continuity law;

Mailchimp interact the gorilla to let the viewers see the right side to sign in.

getmefast interact the red shirt boy to let the viewers eyes come to the hook, the fish, and then home area.

SIMILARITY

We usually tend to group similar item together so viewer can also recognize easily with some tools or other things.

Websites below using similarity law;

lega-lega use the eye-catching icon on the right top. The orange icon really make an attention and since the icons has the same colors, it will be the same for its function, right?

youzee also use green neon color on black background to attract viewers, and I think it is successful. The unique icon, although it has a different item but it explain the same. It is about watching and a film.

PROXIMITY

Things that are close togetherness as seen as belonging together.

Websites using proximity laws;

fundolospaltos has few categories in the right above and viewers can switch it as you want. If you hover at that place, it will show a few more sub specifically.

nissanusa has six categories and it visualizes attracting with six icons around a circle. Although they are on a different colors but because they are all around each other closer, so it can seen as a whole composition.

FIGURE AND GROUND

Just like the name; figure and ground. It means that there are two different visuals that merged become one. Foreground and background are mixed up become a complex one and show a different interest.

Images above, what do you see? Two people in close distance, or vintage vase? Both of them are true, it depends on your first view; the black one or the white one area.

Websites using figure and ground law;

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Question : Are there possible to using some Gestalt laws in one appearance? The answer is, Yes, you could.

http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/index#/leaf-electric-car/tags/show/specsnbi

CLOSURE

If something is missing in an otherwise complete figure, we will tend to add it. It depends on our visual perception and experiences. We tend to figure the uncompleted interface with figures that we already knew and familiar enough.

Although the shapes aren’t fully covered but we can recognize those shapes, right? It looks like complete the uncompleted.

There is a another example according closure law;

Even image above doesn’t fully outlined, but we know that the icon of WWF was a panda.

CONTINUITY

It describes a path for directing the viewer’s attention when looking at some interface. It is based on once period for the viewer’s looking at then direct them into some directions until they see something significant. It is like when you reading something, step by step you through the flow.

It will make an eye direction, some perspective view and show viewer from the simplest thing to biggest thing or maybe some levels from front to back.

The leaf also lead us from the left side to the right one.

SIMILARITY

We usually tend to group similar item together so viewer can also recognize easily with some tools or other things.

PROXIMITY

Things that are close togetherness as seen as belonging together.

Although it is many different visuals or loop shapes, but because it placed close each other we can see it as a whole construction.

FIGURE AND GROUND

Just like the name; figure and ground. It means that there are two different visuals that merged become one. Foreground and background are mixed up become a complex one and show a different interest.

Images above, what do you see? Two people in close distance, or vintage vase? Both of them are true, it depends on your first view; the black one or the white one area.

This African logo uses two figures; a child and an older one. They are seeing each other but it is also visualize the African continent.

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Question : Are there possible to using some Gestalt laws in one appearance? The answer is, Yes, you could.

It is time for you to collect all ideas and all the possibility to develop a case and propose the solution. You don’t need to think far forward because everything always comes step by step.

Referencing, not copy cat

When something comes to you on your less potential, you will search on google engine and find many image and information that ever exist. But you are just to see the references and you don’t copying the idea.

Referencing is your time to find all solution and idea that ever known, not for your time to get a fix image. You should think that you can make better than things that ever exist and go away of your mind to just use the supplied image at google engine for your final artwork.

Don’t be lazy to sketches

Sketch is about visualizing what is on your mind and delivered it to a simple image. Sketch is something that will remind you for something that you might forget. And from this sketch you will upgrade your visual until you find the perfect image that present your goal.

Seeing objectively

When you decide to become a designer you must realize that design is for people or mass, not for individual consumption. So when you develop an idea and find the execution, you must see it objectively. You can’t decide what your likeness is and bring it to the client with reason that you like it, it is really unprofessional. You must seeing it in many direction, depend on background, culture, habit and many more so you can decide what’s visualization that sync and you will use it to touch the target audience.

Be nice with detail

Something simple is better because it doesn’t make audience confused. But the simplest thing that you must care is about your detail. Don’t be lazy or miss your best point of detail on your design. Sometimes details aren’t shown at other people, but sometimes a little miss on your detail can damage you and become your enemies.

Sync the visual idea with material

When you want to share a gift to someone, you want that gift shown perfect. And that happens on design, either. When you delivered it to the client, both of us want to be appreciated. The designer wants to be seen as perfect as they think and the client want to be appreciated with designer’s work. So the designer must think inside and outside, think about what will happen if clients see it and what will happen if clients touch it. And each other, design and material will work mutualism, so that one can support the other and otherwise. Just use all your senses.

Present it confidently

After through a hard phase to create a visual you will feel free and light because you have success the process. But truly, process isn’t finish here. There is the last thing that you can’t ignore, it is your presentation in front of the client. You must give a full effort for this time because when you present it weakly maybe your client can shoot you and distrust you well, but when you can present it with full of confidence I’m sure your client will happy to be presented and believe you because your words are trustful.

What are you scared for, you have already done all the phase when creating your visual, haven’t you? It’s all just fine, let’s appreciate your hard work and proud of yourself and your visual.

Here’s some tips to the right web design that will ensure you have good return on investment. I hope that you can understand them easily & apply them to your website.

Plan your tagline

If you have a reliable website host, you can ensure your website’s tagline will be visible any time of the day. Make sure to check out vps hosting to get a website that has a good percentage of up time. Your tagline speaks to visitors right away. Tell them what you do in one short sentence and include it in your header.

The header takes up a place called “above the fold.” This space is the first place visitors see when they land on your website and should pre-qualify them for your products and services.

Make navigation prominent

An added step, besides having a good tagline, is to include navigation that sells your products and services. If you have a blog or free stuff available, that’s great, but don’t make it the first item people notice. You want to make sales, not give away the farm. Make your services pages, testimonials, product pages go in order from left to right. Put the blog page last. This way you ensure sales if you put your best stuff first and often that’s not the free stuff.

Catch their attention

When a visitor lands on your page, you want to gain rapport with them right away. This takes some research into your target market. You have to know what they are looking for and what they are thinking. Then you ask a question you know they will answer with a yes. If you’re a hosting company, you can ask, “Are you looking for a program to help you write a book?” Of course, you did your homework and know they are looking for what your product, program or service offers, so they will answer, “yes.” This question and answer game moves their eyes down the page, right toward your call to action.

Keep your website uncluttered

If you have too much pulling at visitors, they will not pay attention to your text on the page. In addition, they won’t notice your call to action. Then they won’t buy your product. Plan your web page to be as simple as possible. You have to remember to take your visitor by the hand and lead them through the sale or through the navigation toward what you want them to do. Many website visitors just scan the page and if your page has too much stuff on it, they will feel frustrated and back out, never to return.

Make sure your links work

No one likes clicking on a link only to find the web page is no longer there. Your website visitors will not return to your website most of the time if they run into a page not found. Use a link-checking tool to ensure your links work.

Why are you using bokeh technique? Is it showing an incredible photo? The answer is, yes. Is it exposing the dream side? Yes, it is. Is it expressing the romantic situation? Yes, actually.

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What is the power of macro-photography? I guess the unique way is just transform the ordinary thing become extraordinary which has more power, more expression, more story. So are you interesting to show up some macro photographs?

When there is macro shoot, then there isn’t any usual subjects because the small thing will appears and shown as the big figure in macro photography. Just show the little thing to express the maximum power inside it.

These are some example of HDR photography:

I can’t say too much, all I want to say just one word. Amazing! It is great job. So I hope for now you can use your software efficiently and always curious about what can this software can do, how’s far I can explore one thing, anything, okay? Good luck everyone!