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Easily Add Clouds To Any Picture In Photoshop

6:00AM Whitson Gordon | There’s nothing like a clear blue sky in real life, but it doesn’t create for the most interesting photos – Weblog MakeUseOf has a nice tutorial for easily creating clouds to spice up the skies. More »
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Dell’s Top 25 Laptop Lid Design Choices

10:30AM Angus Kidman | Earlier this week, we showed you a handful of designs from Dell’s laptop lid design competition. If that initial selection didn’t float your boat, we’ve got the top 25 choices as picked by the competition’s judges (and much better quality pictures to boot). More »
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The Windows 8 Concept Desktop

7:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Saad Baig’s desktop shows what a Windows desktop could look like if you made the Windows 7 Superbar really “super”, by adding desktop widgets directly into the taskbar, easily accessible even with maximised applications. More »
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Cool Designs For Your Laptop Lid

11:30AM Angus Kidman | Dell’s recent competition to design a custom notebook lid attracted more than 4,000 entries from across Australia. Here’s our selection of some of the best. More »
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Flixtime Creates Multimedia Slideshows With Ease

2:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you want to make a slideshow of photos and music but you don’t have the know-how or time to use an advanced video editor, Flixtime is a web-based solution that will have you cranking out slideshows in minutes. More »
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GigaPan Indexes Enormous Panoramic Photos

12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you like taking and sharing panoramic photos — or just enjoy checking out the impressive results others have gotten — GigaPan indexes high resolution, panoramic photos. More »
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Photo Magician Batch Converts Images With Drag-And-Drop Ease

12:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows: If you’re not about to manually convert that pile of images in front of you but you’ve found the batch converters you’ve tried to be lacking, free and portable Photo Magician offers both fine tweaking and drag-and-drop simplicity. More »
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How Do You Fix Bad Skin Tones In Photographs?

1:30PM Angus Kidman | One of the trickier tasks in tweaking digital photographs is dealing with human skin tones; go too far and everyone looks like they’ve been attacked by aliens. How do you deal with fixing pictures where people are a prominent feature? More »
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Photography Tips From Lewis Carroll

12:30PM Angus Kidman | Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland has bought him lasting literary fame (and a recent cinematic revival courtesy of Tim Burton), but Carroll was also a pioneer in photography. Here are some of his lessons that are still relevant today. More »
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Draw Abstract Wallpaper Using The Flame Drawing Tool

1:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you’re a huge fan of abstract wallpaper but you don’t have the software or the know-how to make one you’ll definitely want to try Flame, a web-based drawing tool that makes creating abstract doodles easy and fun. More »