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Photo manipulation also called photoshopping or—before the invention of Photoshop software—airbrushing is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception, through analog or digital means.

Though there are allegations against photo manipulations for its cruel uses, we cannot deny the fact that we do admire the effect. In digital editing, photographs are usually taken with a digital camera and input directly into a computer. Transparencies, negatives or printed photographs may also be digitized using a scanner, or images may be obtained from stock photography databases.

With the advancement of computers, graphics tablets, and digital cameras, the term image editing includes everything that can be done to a photo, whether in a darkroom or on a computer. Photo manipulation is often much more overt than delicate alterations to color balance or contrast and may involve overlaying a head onto a different body or changing a sign’s text, for example. Image editing software can be used to apply effects and warp an image until the desired result is achieved. The resulting image may have little or no resemblance to the photo from which it originated. Today, photo manipulation is widely accepted as an art-form.

Manipulation for photo restoration or enhancement like adjusting colors / contrast / white balance (i.e. gradational retouching, sharpness, removing elements or visible flaws on skin or materials is Technical retouching. Creative retouching, on the other hand, is used as an art form or for commercial use to create more sleek and interesting creative images for advertisements.

Creative retouching could be manipulation for fashion, beauty or advertising photography such as pack-shots. One of the most prominent disciplines in creative retouching is image-compositing. Here, the digital artist uses multiple photos to create a single composited image. Today, 3D elements are used more and more to add extra elements or even locations and backgrounds. This kind of image composition is widely used when conventional photography would be technically too difficult or impossible to shoot on location or in studio.

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If you are looking for a brand new theme with visually attractive and functionally creative features, your search definitely ends here. Here is an amazing WooCommece theme for e-commerce shopfront, a business brochure site, or a beautiful one pager.

Peddlar is a clean, spacious business theme that gives you plenty of room to showcase your brand, and styled shop module allowing for e-commerce functionality. Peddlar’s usage is projected to be immensely miscellaneous. Powered by the robust WooFramework, each and every homepage module can be ordered, or disabled. Mainly intended as a storefront theme, the homepage includes an area for showcasing your latest products, as well as support for the WooCommerce Brands extension to navigate by product brands.

A fully customizable homepage

Peddlar endows you with every latest module you might need to have on a store website. Each module comes packed with its own widget, which can be quite easily customized above the blog posts on your homepage. Keep changing the modules to keep your website fresh looking every once in a while.

Featured slider

Peddlar offers you an optional featured slider module for the homepage, as well as WooSlider support for the business landing page. It’s also simple to include a video in the homepage slider, along with a background image on each video slide. Powered by its own custom post type you can feature just about any text, images or videos you’d desire in this key piece of homepage real-estate.

Call to Action Bar

Peddlar’s homepage includes a call to action bar for helping your customers in the right direction making your page user friendly and instructive.

Catalog-Focused

Peddlar is primarily focused on helping your customers view your product catalog in a clean and open layout. There is plenty of open space to ensure your content and products are the main focus for your customer. You have to admit that websites that features clean content are rather more appealing.

“Business” Page Template

If you are looking for an alternate homepage use the “Business” page template as your homepage for an alternate homepage layout. It integrates with the special WooSlider, Features and Testimonials plug-in, as well as your blog posts and page content to display a unique and attractive alternate layout.

Integrates “Features by WooThemes”

This theme integrates flawlessly with the Features by WooThemes, which is a much needed plug-in. you can use the plug-in to display your company, product or service’s features on your homepage.

Integrates “Testimonials by WooThemes”

This theme integrates effortlessly with the Testimonials by WooThemes plug-in which you will definitely find of real help. You can use the plugin to display what your customers are saying about your business, right on your homepage.

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In addition to the widgetized homepage and the custom component widget, the theme has 1 widgetized sidebar and up to 4 footer widgetized areas, and as always comes with custom Woo Widgets (Ad Space, Blog Author, Video/Embed, Subscribe & Connect, Search and Flickr).

Styling Options

The theme comes with a variation of alternative styles which you can preview in the demo, and also has styling options for background color/image and setting link and button color. Keep it interesting and changing to avoid that monotonous look.

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You can change any text on your site to the font of your liking, and also use the awesome Google Fonts to go beyond those standard web-safe fonts.

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As a web designer you never can say that you know everything since new methods and technologies are invented every now and then. You have to keep updated with them to stay in the competition. The best way to keep informed of these is to attend Web design and development conferences and workshops that are conducted in different places. Your abilities as a web designer can hugely improve through these workshops and events. We are not saying that you must attend all of them which are not possible but some important ones that you feel you can make time for. Here are some of the upcoming events in May:

1. Artifact Conference 2013

“ARTIFACT is a two-day, single-track conference for DESIGNERS adapting to the challenge of designing for a MULTI-DEVICE world. See real world examples of responsive workflows, prototyping strategies, new tools, and deliverables and decide which ones will help YOU adapt.”
When: May 13-15, 2013
Where: Austin, Texas, USA

2. Future Of Web Design London 2013

“The 7th annual Future of Web Design proudly presents three days of cutting edge learning and inspiration. Join us for a day of in-depth workshops, followed by two action-packed conference days in the heart of London!”
When: May 13-15, 2013
Where: London, UK

3. The World Wide Web Conference 2013

“The World Wide Web Conference is a yearly international conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The conference brings together researchers, developers, users and commercial ventures—indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer.”
When: May 13-17, 2013
Where: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4. UX Lx: User Experience Lisbon 2013

“UXLx is the premier User Experience event in Europe. It’s 3 lovely days of workshops and talks and we do party every night. It’s an unforgettable experience.”
When: May 15-17, 2013
Where: Lisbon, Portugal

5. Google I/O 2013

“Learn the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs and meet the developers who are turning them into tomorrow’s startups. Keep you and your team driving innovation at Google I/O.”
When: May 15-17, 2013
Where: San Francisco, California, USA

6.Mobilism 2013

“Mobile is becoming increasingly important to web designers and developers because users expect a site to work on their phones. Simultaneously, the web is becoming increasingly important to the mobile world because it is the only way to deploy an application to any phone.”
When: May 15-17, 2013
Where: Amsterdam, Netherlands

7.jsDay 2013

“From case studies to project management, from new technologies to established ones, from development environments to best practices and mobile development, everything a javascript ninja should know will be covered during the jsDay 2013.”
When: May 15-16, 2013
Where: Verona, Italy

8. ExpressionEngine Conference 2013

“The stunning Bridgewater Hall will host a great mix of regular and new speakers, covering topics like add–on development, optimisation and performance, bootstrapping, and much more. ”
When: May 16-17, 2013
Where: Manchester, UK

9. TYPO Berlin 2013

“Design should make objects and graphics attractive, make people feel they would like to touch them, make people want to have them around. TYPO Touch is dedicated to the touching aspects of design.”

When: May 16-18, 2013
Where: Berlin, Germany

10. Stir Trek 2013

“Stir Trek is a one-day conference focused on teaching software developers, and others in the industry, the latest and greatest in technologies, techniques, and tools.”
When: May 17, 2013
Where: Columbus, Ohio, USA

11. Sud Web 2013

In olden times knights went in search of the Holy Grail: the perfect site. Due to the immensity and difficulty of this task, a handful of them decided to join their peers to share knowledge and experiences. This year, the magnificent Papal Palace will host a conference in the legendary Hall of Conclave.
When: May 17-18, 2013
Where: Avignon, France

12. An Event Apart San Diego 2013

“An Event Apart San Diego is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.”
When: May 20-22, 2013
Where: San Diego, California, USA

13. Internet Week New York 2013

“It is a week-long festival celebrating Internet business and culture and will attract more than 45,000 Internet professionals, working across all sectors, attending 250+ events produced by IWNY and 150+ citywide event partners.”
When: May 20-27, 2013
Where: New York, USA

14. WebVisions Portland 2013

“WebVisions explores the future of design, content creation, and user experience and business strategy in an event that inspires learning, collaboration and entrepreneurism.”
When: May 22-24, 2013
Where: Portland, Oregon, USA

15. Gluecon 2013

“Cloud, Mobile, APIs, Big Data — all of the converging, important trends in technology today share one thing in common: developers. Gluecon covers topics like NoSQL, API’s, Node.js, HTML5, Backend-as-a-Service, cloud management and security, cloud storage, Hadoop, DevOps, Mobile App development, cloud platforms, and many, many others.”
When: May 22-23, 2013
Where: Broomfield, Colorado, USA

16. Webshaped 2013

“Webshaped conference is a one-day event that’ll have two separate tracks, bringing together design and development. It’ll be the first big frontend conference in Finland. We aim to have visitors from all around northern Europe for a great day together. ”
When: May 23, 2013
Where: Helsinki, Finnland

17. Web Rebels 2013

“We are non-profit community driven conference for everyone who loves programming applications and services using web technology.”
When: May 23-24, 2013
Where: Oslo, Norway

18. CSSConf

“CSSConf is among the first of its kind: a conference dedicated to CSS and the developers and engineers who build the world’s most engaging user interfaces. Rather than focusing on design, this conference focuses on the latest technologies, cutting edge techniques, and tools.”
When: May 28th, 2013
Where: Amelia Island, Florida, USA

19. O’Reilly Fluent Conference 2013

“The O’Reilly Fluent Conference is the key event for web and mobile developers, software engineers, and others to gather and learn from each other – drawing a thousand of the best coders in the industry.”
When: May 28-30, 2013
Where: San Francisco, California, USA

20. Converge 2013

“The goal of the conference is to bring together the various aspects of our technology community, from user and customer experience all the way through to development and everything in between.”
When: May 31, 2013
Where: Edinburgh, UK.

All that has changed, thanks to HTML5. Today, web designers are partnering with HTML5 website builders to better serve their clients. As the first HTML5 website builder, imcreator.com, enables designers to provide a better solution for their clients and boost their revenue without compromising their creativity or giving up control over the project.

Web designers who have been using IM-Creator within the past year identified these five significant benefits HTML5 website builders provide to professional designers:

1. Free Design and Build Tools – The most significant is a drag and drop HTML5 editor that ensures maximum design creativity. Complementing the online editor are the latest technologies, such as jQuery that makes the final website design compatible with any age browser, PCs, Macs and mobile devices. The toolbox also includes flexible and editable objects, including contact forms, video players, slideshows and image galleries.

2. Free Design Templates – Web designers have the option of using a ready-made template, creating a new design from a blank template and tailoring it to meet their clients’ needs, or using the pre-designed templates as inspiration for their layout and design. Many HTML website design builders have very professional and sophisticated design templates that were created by professional designers and are available free of charge. The templates are typically categorized by industry or profession to minimize search time. Here are some examples of the pre-designed website templates available in the imcreator.com design catalog:

This ready-made design template can be used for a client with a restaurant, café or food-related business.

This design template is ready to modify for a real estate client.

This pre-designed template was created for businesses in the architectural industry.

3. Increases Income – Using an HTML5 website builder increases a designer’s income in three ways. Firstly, the design tools enable web designers to work faster so they can complete projects quicker and take on more clients. Secondly, programming and HTML coding is included free of charge as part of the website builder’s services, so designers save by not having to hire developers. Thirdly, web designers can save on hosting and domain costs by having the website builder host their clients’ websites, connect them to a domain and provide customized email services.

4. Better Serve Client Needs – Web designer clients have different requirements and needs, so a website builder gives them the versatility they need. In addition to their flexible tools and designs, site builders also allow designers to provide their clients with the option of updating or changing the content of their site themselves using the website builder’s integrated CMS interface.

5. Earn Income from Designs – Some site builders, IM-Creator among them, invite professional designers to submit their website designs for inclusion in their ready-made design template catalog. Each time their template is selected, they earn a commission.

While free site creators still provide everyday people with a no cost option to building a website, website builders have recognized the value professional designers can bring to their service. By working together, site builders and designers can offer clients a unique and enhanced website that looks great and functions properly at a more affordable price.

Authors Bio: Erez Zundy is a professional web designer that is using website builders to provide beautiful websites to his clients. During his 6 years in the website builders industry he gained a lot of knowledge and was able to help other people build a website for free Google+