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What Are The Best Adobe Photoshop Alternatives?
3Adobe isn’t the easiest company to displace from the top of the photo processing pile. In fact, you could say it’s nearly impossible. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of developers from having a go. So, what are your options in 2017? Turns out, you have a few.
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The Story Behind Tesla’s Car Designs (And Why They Look So Good)
Designer Franz von Holzhausen had an impressive resume before joining Tesla. But the combination of his frustration with the traditional auto industry and Elon Musk’s distinctive ideas about how to solve problems has taken his work to a new level. He’s followed an unlikely path to becoming the most influential car designer of his generation.
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How Australia Is Transforming The World Of Fireworks
Over a thousand years ago, Chinese alchemists created an early form of gunpowder. Made primarily of potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal, the ingredients were packed into bamboo shoots and thrown into the fire. The idea was that the subsequent explosion of noise and light would ward off evil spirits. A millennium later, we use this…
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Cheat Sheet: Every Major Icon In Photoshop’s Toolbar Explained
If you’re a casual Photoshop user, you probably know how to find the cropping tool and have a vague idea of what the lasso function does. But what about all those other mysterious looking icons? As it turns out, they all have something meaningful to contribute to the editing process and can vastly improve the…