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Prince’s new Photobook was released last month, and we finally got our hands on a copy. The book features some great shots from Prince’s 21 nights in London in 2007. Shots were taken by Randee St. Nicholas who shadowed Prince for most of his London stint. Sadly, whilst the photography is quite good, there are lots of blank pages that just have a few lines of Prince’s poetry. Not sure if this is to give the impression that the book has more pages that it should have, but it was quite disappointing thumbing through so many black pages through the book. The quality of the shots are a little hit and miss. Whilst the live shots and staged shots are great, there are some really random shots (for example: hotel rooms in the Dorchester) and to be honest these feel like filler shots and have not much to do with the 21 Nights in London Tour.

VERDICT: 85% - Still a great book for any Prince fan.

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Andrew G Hobbs is one of the hottest photographers around right now, his portfolio is awesome, and looks like a HTML site, until you click something and it reveals itself as a totally awesome Flash site. Well worth checking it out for the radical photography and lovely flash website.

Andrew G Hobbs

MichaelO wow’s us with this mix of great photography and amazing 3D and photoshop work, we’re so impressed with this artwork today.

Luxa always offer great photoshop tutorials and we’re not left disappointed with this tutorial. Learn how to make that club flyer effect around body parts easily and quickly. Luxa’s article follows: Here’s a great effect that will bring some energy to your subject. We’ll be wrapping this singer’s arm with a glowing beam of light, adding sparkles, and adjusting the colors to make it all seem magical.

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Eva Padberg has an amazing online portfolio. We can’t even begin to imagine the Flash Actionscripting that went in to this layout, but it’s really fun to play with and very intuitive. Nice work.