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Now we can listen to free Bollywood Hindi songs at Google Music Search India, a new labs product from Google which lets you search and listen live music from the latest as well as old Bollywood Hindi music. Google launched a new music service, this time for India. Google Music India helps us find Hindi songs and play them in your browser. Google aggregates the results from 3 partner sites: in.com, Saavn and Saregama, to let Bollywood music lovers listen to thousands of full songs. You can easily browse by movie from the thumbnails or search for your selected lyrics. Click the arrow button to play free streaming music from Hindi bollywood films.

“Google Music Search (India) Labs licenses meta-data of thousands of songs owned or licensed by partners to make them searchable on Internet. Once you search and find the music you want, our partners stream the music directly from their websites to your computer,” .we can search song by movie name and by the title name of that song what we are searching for.

http://www.google.co.in/music

You can click here and listen your favorite’s songs

When thinking of creative home decorating, think of starting close to home. Use your own photos and artwork to add a personal touch to your home decor.

Your photos, displayed elegantly on giclee canvas, turn into works of art in your home or office. In giclee printing, the images are generated from high resolution digital photos or digital scans and printed with archival quality inks (stable, pigment-based inks are used). People say that photos reproduced on canvas resemble oil paintings. Canvas is a perfect medium for fine photography and the giclee process, with it’s ability to produce millions of colors and apply inks with incredible accuracy, provides a result that is simply spectacular in it’s high degree of fine detail.

Elegant as the pure photograph is on a canvas or a high quality print, some people prefer to enhance their photo with a bit of spot color. Or they turn a photo into a fine art masterpiece by using a digital oil painting, impasto or impressionist effect. You can enhance your photos, too, by making use of the entire color spectrum and making the colors more vivid, bold or bright. Andy Warhol type pop art panels can be made personal by using your own photos.

Creative alternatives to traditional photo display are limited only by your imagination.

Spot Color is used to bring out a special detail. Make the red roses “pop” in an otherwise black and white wedding portrait. Focus on the blue eyes in a close-up shot of a young child. Create drama in a landscape photo by highlighting the fall foliage.

Two styles of painting which are successfully reproduced in digital photo enhancement are Impasto and Impressionist.

Impasto refers to a style of painting like Vincent Van Gogh or Rembrandt. In Impasto, paint is applied thickly and leaves a textured look. The marks made by the brush or painting knife stay visible. (A painting knife is a springy metal spatula used in place of a brush.). Impasto painting has a 3 dimensional quality to it. It is sometimes said that impasto painting emphasizes the physical qualities of the paint and is applied with wild gestural bravura and dynamism.

Impressionist art is in the style of Monet, Degas, Manet and Renoir. The Impressionist style of painting emphasized loose imagery rather than finely delineated pictures. Impressionist style painting has strong emphasis on light and it’s changing reflective qualities at different times of day and on perception of movement. The artist captures an image as someone would see it if he were just to catch a glimpse of it in passing. Unusual visual angles are representative of this style. Colors are often vibrant and bright and applied with short brush stokes, creating an image with emphasis on color, movement, light, but without fine detail.

Adding an Oil Painting Effect digitally to a photo can enhance an already nice photo by adding a dimensionality of interest. Regular photos placed on canvas already have an oil painting look to them. The digitally created oil painting effect shows brush strokes.

Modern forms of Pop Art, including Warhol-inspired pop art panels, are another forum for personal expression. People turn a great photo of their pet or their child into a fun piece of colorful pop art. Pop Art is a more modern way to display a portrait than a traditional formal photograph.

More and more, people are moving toward enhancing their photos through digital art. It is creative and personal.

Especially in today’s economic times, to personalize their home decor, many people prefer to use photography they have taken or artwork they have created. Today, people are looking for ways to decorate their homes in a stylish yet economical way. It is fun and easy to personalize your home decor using your own photos.
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Art photography is more than just snapping a photo, blowing it up and putting in on your wall as art. Although you can create some fantastic photos that you can display as art, learning a few tricks to enhance the pictures can make all the difference.

Take a simple picture of a tomato, for example. You can find many designer rooms complete with pictures of food items that look great. But if you look closely, you can notice that it is not just a simple picture of a red tomato that is hanging on the wall integrated into the decorating scheme. There is a certain element of artistic merit in the photograph.

The photo in the stylized room that you love looking at is not just a photograph of a simple tomato that someone shot at random. A lot of thought and artistic value went into that picture. Do you see the droplets of moisture on the bright red skin of the tomato? Those droplets make the tomato seem juicy. You can almost taste the cool, flavorful tomato just by looking at the picture.

And the tomato in the picture is not just dead-centre either. It is probably a picture of part of a tomato-maybe just the top part or a quarter of it. The tomato has become the subject of the picture that has a certain shape, leaving some of the picture up to your imagination. The space around the tomato also makes up empty space which makes you focus on the subject (the tomato).

Pay attention to the colors in the photograph as well. Isn’t that tomato a bright, bright red? Is it set against a contrasting background to make it show up its redness and juiciness even more? Is the background plain, or does it have a pattern that contrasts against the tomato’s one-tone red color? All of these artistic elements can be used to enhance the photo.

Another approach to your tomato picture might be to take a group photo of several tomatoes together. Again, you can place them against a contrasting background to show them off, or against a white background to help you focus more on the tomatoes themselves.

You could also place the tomato or tomatoes in an attractive dish that might add to the artistic effect of the photograph. The dish would become another element of your photo design.

Although the above is talking about a simple picture of a tomato that can be used as photographic art, the same ideas can be applied to any still life photograph you may choose to use as art. Use the object to take advantage of its best feature (in the above case, the juiciness of the tomato and its bright red color) and use color enhancement techniques for contrasting elements. Position the objects to use the positive and negative space as part of the artwork.
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Well there is really only one way to truly discover art painting techniques. You guessed it, practice them! Where do I start, you may be asking. Well if you are beginning, you should start by “copying” other artists work. I am not saying to take credit for others work, just learn from those that are trying to teach.

I have created several step by step lessons in which you will be taken from a blank canvas to a beautiful masterpiece that you alone created! You will be absolutely amazed at yourself and at how easy and fun painting is to learn!

Wet on Wet. This is an oil painting technique. The artist applies moist paint on top of moist paint because oil paint stays wet. You must lean blending techniques in order to avoid making a muddy mess on the canvas.

Layering. If you are using acrylic paint then you will likely apply a layer and allow it to dry – this takes about 2 minutes! Now apply highlights or more color on top of preceding layers

Texture. If you are painting with oil, the paint usually goes on thick and what you see is what you get. The finished painting is full of brushstrokes, knife strokes and highs and lows in the paint itself. You can add texture medium to acrylic paint to create the same affect as well

As you learn to paint, you will find that several different techniques form the foundation of your art – the brush you use, the colors you choose, how you apply the paint, and so on. You form your own unique painting techniques. You may learn from others but your work will be uniquely your own and you will refer back to the techniques that you have found that worked for you.
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There is only 1- way to learn how to paint – get some paint and start painting.

The problem is that a beginner will always be disappointed with the results from their first painting attempt. They will be equally disappointed by their second painting… and the third painting.

And, by the time they have finished painting number 10 many amateur artists GIVE UP. This is a shame and a sad waste of time. There is an easy way to learn to paint successfully…

The mistake most beginners make is that they have an idea of what they want to paint. It could be that they want to paint wildlife paintings… A Fox, A Deer, A Badger or A Squirrel. Imagine the disappointment when your fluffy tailed squirrel ends up looking like a pig with the tail of a donkey.

“If you want to learn to paint any subject… First you must learn to paint”

Ignore the temptation of figurative painting. Resist landscape painting. Avoid portrait painting. Learn to enjoy finding out what the paint does… it can be great fun. Remember, it isn’t you doing the painting but the paint allowing you to mold a picture using a brush or palette knife…

“All an artist does is to guide the paint to the places where the picture needs it”

All you need to do to become a great artist is discover the secrets of placing color exactly where you want it. Take the genius artist Vincent Van Gogh’s lead…

He never thought about what he was doing when he painted his masterpiece Sunflower paintings… because he knew exactly what the paint was going to do with each brush stroke and brush mark. The paint gave him a perfect result every time.

It is like riding a horse. Understand what the horse wants and what the horse does and he’ll take you wherever you want to go.

“Learn what the paint does and how it likes to be handled and you will create great artwork”
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Want to find some great face painting designs? There are tons of ways of doing this. One thing that I like to do is to look at YouTube videos.

Another thing is to keep up with what little kids like. For instance, for little boys, superheroes are big! Little girls get really excited about the latest movies. Think “Little Mermaid”.

A great thing about painting faces is your audience is so incredibly happy with whatever result they get! Four year olds are just really happy to be running around with Christmas trees or cupcakes on their little cheeks. They’re not too concerned if you’re the next Leonardo Da Vinci. So, I guess what I’m telling you is to relax and have fun.

Whatever’s seasonal is a great place to draw inspiration for designs for painting faces. Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, all have their motifs-christmas trees, turkeys, or hearts. And, really this is all you’ll need for a birthday party.

You’ll need more than one design, though. Although toddlers are a very forgiving audience, they don’t all want to be wearing the same thing either. Ask your clients what they want on their little faces. They’ll tell you. If you can’t draw that particular thing, then suggest something else. Your little clients will probably go right along with you.

Whatever face painting designs you go with make sure you’ve got the right materials for this. Face painting is really simple to do. All you need are paints, a couple of small brushes, and a sponge or two. Please make sure the paints are real FDA approved face paints. Nothing else is really safe, especially not for children.

One thing you want to make sure you do is use your imagination and creativity with your face painting designs. Face painting is a lot of fun, but if you’re doing the same things over and over again, it can get old. Keep coming up with new face painting designs and this won’t happen to you.
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