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CAFEZIM: Instagram's Coffee Sticker Hack for Perfect Stories Want to make your Instagram coffee Stories more captivating? Meet CAFEZIM , the Instagram sticker that transforms your ordinary coffee photos into something extraordinary! Here's how you can use this simple trick to spice up your morning coffee Stories. Step-by-Step Guide to Using the CAFEZIM Sticker Open your Instagram app. Create a Story and snap a clip of your coffee cup. Tap on the Stickers icon. Search for 'CAFEZIM' . Resize the sticker and place it over the mouth of your mug. Share your story and impress your followers! Using the CAFEZIM sticker is a simple yet effective way to enhance your coffee photos and make them stand out. Try it out today and...

If you’re just getting your feet wet with Photoshop Plug-ins and Actions, here are a few resources to get you started. Below you’ll find links to some of the very best Actions and Plug-ins found on the interweb. Please enjoy and post a comment if you use any of the posted links. I’ve posted both ‘free’ and ‘paid’ Actions and Plug-ins for Photoshop. Now start getting creative!! Enjoy!! Free actions: Actions Central –  http://www.atncentral.com Adobe Photoshop Exchange –  http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?s=5&from=1&o=desc&cat=190&l=-1&event=productHome&exc=16 Action FX –  http://www.actionfx.com/pstools-photography.html Deviant Art –  http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=9&q=photoshop+actions Free plug-ins: OnOne –  http://www.ononesoftware.com/free/ (Free versions of some of their popular plug-ins) Auto FX –  http://www.autofx.com/freeplugins/dreamyphoto.asp?id=4 Paid plug-ins (Most of these companies offer tr...

Instructional posts are good, having instructional videos are better! Wait, I forgot to mention that these videos are FREE instructional photography videos! The good people at “Lastolite School of Photography” have made several video available online for those who want to learn about photography or refine what they already know about photography.  This appears to be a great resource if you’re into photography. If you have an internet connection, you can access some very good instructional videos at your finger tips and it’s free. If you don’t have online access, you even have the opportunity to download them to watch. The Lastolite School of Photography has made their videos available to you via their website , iTunes , and/or their YouTube channel . There are about 30 videos ranging from just 2 and up to 30 minutes long and yes the videos feature Lastolite softboxes, umbrellas, other lights and modifiers but the information and techniques are applicable re...

GIMP Image Manipulation Adobe Photoshop is undeniably the number one choice of professional photographers and image and design professionals when it comes to editing photos. It’s a given that Photoshop will be the program they’re using. But while Photoshop is the top choice of professionals, it comes at a hefty price tag which leads many non-professional photographers to ask if they really NEED to use it. While the answer to that question can really only be answered by each person individually, there is a serious alternative to Photoshop that should be concerned. GIMP, despite it’s funny sounding name (which stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program), is a powerful, full featured, open source photo editing program that can do a lot of what Photoshop can do. If you’re not familiar with Open Source software, it’s fantastic stuff. Basically it comes from very talented people who donate their time and skills to create software alternatives that are availabl...

The following is a list for FREE RAW Workflow Applications for you digital photographers out there. There are several types of applications for Windows, MAC and Linux. I hope you find some of the useful! UFRaw http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ O/S: Windows, Mac & Linux The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffin’s raw z conversionutility – DCRaw . UFRaw supports color management workflow based on Little CMS , allowing the user to apply ICC color profiles. For Nikon users UFRaw has the advantage that it can read the camera’s tone curves. Even if you don’t own a Nikon, you can still apply a Nikon curve to your images. Dcraw http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/ O/S: Windows, Mac & Linux Dcraw mission: Write and maintain an ANSI C program that decodes any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running a...

Photoshop CS5 has been released and I found a great source on CS5 through Live Webinars. Photoshop Insider did a weeklong series of free live webinars on the new features! The webinars have been archived and are available to watch ABSOLUTELY free! A lot of viewer questions were answered during the webinars and the team received great feedback. Photoshop CS5 Webinars . There was also a webinar with Dell, nvidia and Adobe is also archived and those can be viewed for free as well: Dell, nVidia and Adobe webinar .