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In the life of a webmaster, there are many times where stock pictures come in handy. For those who don’t know, a stock photo is a photo that you can purchase (or get for free from specific sites), and use on your site, without fear of violating copyright laws. There are still rules that go along with the publishing of stock photos, but it’s better to have to follow a few simple rules than to pay hefty copyright fines when you get caught using unlicensed photos. If you’ve been looking for some stock photos, check out the resources below.

Stock.xchng

At sxc.hu you can browse through more than 350,000 stock photos, all of which are available for free. Not only are there more than 350K photos in the library, but more are added every day by more than 30,000 photographers. This gives you quite a bit of variety and choice when it comes to choosing a picture for your blog, website, advertisement, or whatever else you’re using it for. There is no monthly fee or anything, so the photos are truly free. Read the rest of this entry »

Do you use all the functions from your (left) Photoshop toolbar? Actually I must tell that I didn’t know all the functions before I wrote this article.

Below you will see a screenshot from an older version, but the icons are still the same. Note there are buttons with multiple functions, you recognize them by the small triangle in the lower right corner. Just move the mouse above the button and hold down the left mouse button to get access to the “hidden” tools.

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