As a designer, UX designing is my favorite part of application development. I love the UI of Windows Phone 7 and I always have an urge to experience the UX designing of a Windows Phone 7 app.

I prefer designing User Experience on paper with colored pencils and than using any app on the PC because I think it is the most natural way and one can get a lot of inspiration. Our fellow blogger, Umair Khan Jadoon, is an enthusiast Windows Phone 7 developer and we had a chance to  sit together and make something that can help designers to sketch up the User Experience of our favorite platform. We came up with these UX Sketch Templates that can help designers to sketch up the UX of Windows Phone 7. So here they are, download them and print them out for your daily Windows Phone 7 UX design needs.

Photo editing is fun. As a picture worth a 1000 words, even a minor touch up or tweak can change the appeal and impression of it. Professional photo editing is not that easy and not everyone can do it. However there are some really cool free and online photo editing tools that are very easy to use and one can do great with their photos without any experience of professional photo editing. Creativity is the only hurdle that is in between and above all you don’t need to install them on your PC/Mac. Just open them in a web browser and start doing great with your photos. Here is a list of expertly chosen 24 best free online photo editing tools:

It is a very easy & more effective tutorial to give water reflection to your images, with some realistic effects to create your image more attractive and appearing. You can apply this technique to any photo of u which one you want because it is easily applicable on any image rather it would have water in them or not.

You have to use simple filter and a displacement map to create the water ripple effect, and a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to give your water a little color.

Well I have picked this image for working on it throughout this tutorial:

The original image. [by shutterviewphotrography ]

And that is our final image after applying this technique

The final result.

Here is how to do it:

Those clear portraits with smooth skin of models that you inspire does not look like that in real life. Photoshop allows you to do extreme makeover of pictures to make them super enhanced with any doubt of looking fake. There is a lot you can do with your pictures but there is this one simple touchup that everyone should know to make their portraits glamorous and admiring.

This technique is great for glamour portraits. It is also good for reducing JPEG artifacts. It mimics a soft focus or diffusion lens filter, softening the photo, reducing harsh lines & wrinkles, and intensifying the colors. Here is how it works:

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