Winner Tiltshift Competion
08.10.2010, 11:52Winner Tiltshift Competion
Last week we posted a tutorial on creating the tiltshift effect with Photoshop. The effect became quite popular lately through various commercials and youtube videos showing real life scenes which look like a miniature model. It looks amazing and is fairly easy to achieve when you know how it works. So we asked you to try it yourself and send us your results.
30 fresh logo ideas
07.10.2010, 8:0630 creative logo designs
nspiration is extremely important for the development of an artist. Sources of inspiration, such as this collection of 30 creative logo designs, play a relevant role in triggering new and fresh ideas in a designer’s mind. They also showcase what other creatives came up with and thus help to avoid accidental duplication.
30+ awesome texture collections for flyer design
05.10.2010, 8:49collections for flyer design
Textures are a really versatile tool. They can quite easily be set as background image to form the basis of a flyer, business card or other print products. Especially in the “dirty” grunge style textures play an important role. Yet, glitter and glam styles can also be achieved with trendy Bokeh-textures.
Facebook Photos is now officially great! | weekly comment
01.10.2010, 15:47Facebook Photos is now officially great!
Today Facebook officially announced a significant improvement of its photo handling. With more than 15 billion (!!!) pictures online Facebook already is the largest photo sharing platform by far. It dwarves other services like flickr by far and continues to grow at an almost obscene rate of millions a week.
Tutorial & Competition: Tiltshift with Photoshop
30.09.2010, 11:13Tutorial & Competition
Like our last tutorial the tiltshift technique originally comes from analogue photography. Today we reproduce it digitally with Photoshop to give a photo of a real situation the appearance of a tiny model railway scene.
70 great brush sets for photoshop
27.09.2010, 9:50boost your image editing
Adobe Photoshop can be extended in many ways. Plugins, styles, action, gradients, shapes, textures, patterns, structures, scripts and panels offer a wide choice to boost your image editing.
E-books didn’t kill print quite yet. | weekly comment
24.09.2010, 10:29E-books didn’t kill print quite yet
In July Amazon announced that e-books outsold hardcover books by a ratio of almost two to one. Techblogs around the world took this as a hint that the printed book is losing it all and peaks in sales are nothing more than the death throws of a dying giant.
40 lovely text effects for Photoshop
23.09.2010, 9:00High quality text effects
High quality text effects are a rare breed. Photoshop also isn’t the perfect tool for first-class lettering. This collection is intended to show you that nevertheless there are some really helpful and usable resources on this topic available on the internet. A current trend are 3D letters, often created in conjunction with software such as Cinema 4D.
Best of Photoshop tutorials
20.09.2010, 8:10A good mix of short exercises
Photoshop tutorials help learning new techniques by doing. Quite often the precise goal of the tutorial isn’t what counts. Usually it also doesn’t directly apply to your project. What really pays off are the insights and skills you gain in using the software’s tools and functions while going through the steps.
How annoying letters save our written culture
08.10.2010, 15:20CAPTCHA’s and reCAPTCHA’s
Just recently I stumbled upon an interesting article about CAPTCHA’s and reCAPTCHA’s, which made me read a bit more about this whole thing. Nowadays they are an almost omnipresent part of our online experience, especially when you tend to interact through comments or have an account on Facebook.