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Pantone has selected the color Blue Iris (PANTONE 18-3943) as the 2008 Color. The Blue Iris hue will represent a color direction in 2008, for fashion, cosmetics, and home products.
Pantone has selected the color Blue Iris (PANTONE 18-3943) as it's Color for 2008.

Blue Iris won! Is it because the color blue is ready to play an even more significant role in 2008, an election year?

The blue iris implies faith, hope, wisdom, courage, and so, we vote for BLUE!


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Hot color and background trends for 2008

Natural textures are always are in demand. Grunge old paper was a favorite in 2007, but other backgrounds such as wood and sand are pretty noticable.

Natural wood textures indeed were very popular in 2007. Artists know that the texture they use can make the difference between a good or a great final image. FeaturePics has a huge portfolio of "wood grain" photographs to choose from. These are some examples of patterns and colors you can use to create texture variations for complete texture sets.

Images of Chinese Culture

The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, were awarded to Beijing. Interest in this global event could spark a trend in:
- Reds and yellows, traditional Chinese colors.
- Chinese motifs that include the dragon, pine trees, tall jagged mountains and birds such as the crane.
- Floral motifs with peonies and chrysanthemums.
- Chinese calligraphy.

Images of Chinese Culture

Trendy brick patterns and backgrounds

Nice seamless brick backgrounds suitable for web pages and creative textures for all purposes. medieval and modern dark red, gray, and white brick wall fragments can be "tiled" into any sized surface. A lot of choices to make your presentation fit the era you are working on.

Copyright and Digital Images

The Picture Archive Council of America (PACA),a North American trade association representing the interests of the image licensing industry, has published a freely downloadable PowerPoint presentation on copyright in image licensing.

The presentation is of interest to anyone who uses or produces images. It includes some very interesting copyright infringement case examples.

Copyright and Digital Images

Metallic textures

Metallic textures

Metallic effects are, without a shadow of a doubt, extremely popular amongst web designers and game artists. The reasons behind this are simple - there are many places that these textures can be placed, and they can be used for many different themes. You can use metal textures as a background to depict toughness or something rusty with age, it's up to you. Brushed, discolored and oxidized, scratched rusty metal, different aged metallic textures, patina colors for stylish website design layouts - all of them are photography based, which is why they are so unique and eye catching.