Underwater Atomic Explosion Swamps Ship

A presumably abandoned ship near a US nuclear test is swamped by the resulting massive wave. The video is courtesy of Atom Central, a site filled with pictures, videos, and information about nuclear weapons.

26th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival

The 26th China Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival kicked off on 5th Jan, 2010and will last for about one month. The festival is divided into five major parts; namely ice and snow arts, ice and snow culture, ice and snow tourism, ice and snow sports and ice and snow business and trade. Over a hundred events will be held during the festival. The festival is cooperating with internationally renowned brands in order to create a Disneyland made entirely out of ice and snow. There will also be an Ice and Snow World that will be built into a Hollywood ice and snow paradise. Moreover, competitors from different countries and regions will be taking part in the snow and ice sculpting competition as well as winter swimming competitions, thus making the festival more internationalized.
































Photos by REUTERS and AP via telegraph

Shapes for Special Effect

Shapes in Photoshop (any version) can be used to create a cool effect. It's extremely easy to do. The step by step tutorial will help you do it.

You can create this with ease.

The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Skin Smoothing in a few steps in Photoshop CS

If you want the models you shoot to have a flawless skin, let me show you a little secret with Photoshop.

I have opened thsi free stock image in Photoshop. You can see very clearly how blemished her skin is.

All the blemishs have been removed thanks to photoshop. You don't have to be a master to try this tutorial. Even newbies can try it.

The tutorial is here.

Other Photoshop tutorials are here.

Gradient Map Effect in Photoshop CS

You can use Gradient Map in Photoshop CS 3 for a special effect.

You can take a free stock photo like this.

And apply a Gradient Map to it like this.

The tutorial is here.

Other photoshop tutorials are here.

Photo Stacking in Photoshop CS 3 and above

If you are using Photoshop CS 3 Extended and Above you can take a series of sequential shots with your camera and then blend them seamlessly into one.

I will use the five photos of the felt pen and let Photoshop seamlessly blend them into one.

The five photos have been blended into one.

The tutorial is here.

Other Photoshop tutorials are here.

Happy New Year to All the Readers

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb

New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland

The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850