Archive for December, 2009

Toaster looks and acts like a printer Here's a neat kitchen gadget — a toaster that "prints out" toast. It allows you to feed multiple slices at once from the feeder at top, and spits out finished products from the bottom. It's a concept by Othmar Muehlebach, and it won second place at a design contest in Switzerland last month. Artist's main page via Designboom via Toaster looks and acts like a printer Boing Boing.

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design March 26, 2009 Photoshop, Tutorial All of these tutorials cover the process of designing a modern and highend web page within Adobe Photoshop, as with any great web design it is initially designed with a graphic editor, beginning with a blank canvas building up towards the complete page. Below you will find 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design. Download or Buy Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended » via 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes * By Daved Brosche * November 10th, 2008 * Graphics by Daved Brosche Having a good collection of Photoshop brushes is essential for any designer. There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop brushes on the Web these days. The problem with Photoshop brushes isn’t in finding brushes, but in finding quality brushes. Below you’ll find a collection of quality brushes that every designer should find handy. These 50 Photoshop brush sets are ones I find myself using over and over in a variety of projects. This collection is the result of years’ worth of downloads, trials and experiments. I hope this list helps you find some new Photoshop brushes that improve your collection. via 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes - Smashing Magazine.

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40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections October 23, 2009 Graphic Design, Photoshop There are hundreds and thousands of Photoshop brushes available to download for free. Were do you start looking? How do you find that particular brush that you need to complete your latest design project? And most importantly, were are all the the high quality or even hi-res brushes? In this design resource round-up we have compiled a list of the best Photoshop directory resource sites and also compiled a list of the best PS brush collections. If you can’t find the brush that you need here, give up, because it can’t be found (or, I may have missed it). via 40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects August 28, 2009 Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop, Tutorial The list of cool digital photography techniques and tutorials is endless, you can even find 10 completley different methods to achieve the same effect. Which is the best? It really depends on the photographer and there level of expertise. In this post we have listed our own personal favorites photography techniques with tips tutorials to help you recreate the effect. You will find tecniques for the currently in vogue HDR, Tilt-Shifting and Lomography to the less common and diverse Sabatier and Escher effects. Which ever effect you use, your images are going to look cool and unique. via 25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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30 Artistic and Creative Photoshop Poster Tutorials November 13, 2009 Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial Although posters as a concept have been used for many centuries, in traditional art years, poster design is a relatively new. It has only been in the last 100 years that poster design has been elevated and recognized as an art-form, and has gained the kind of popularity that no other design category can rival. Below we have rounded-up the our favorite Photoshop Poster Design Tutorials, ranging from, movie posters, adverts and events in a variety of styles. via 30 Artistic and Creative Photoshop Poster Tutorials : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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20 Beautiful HDR Photographs of the Marvels and Mysteries of Iceland August 3, 2009 Inspiration, Photography The only place in the world were you can witness such marvels and mysteries of nature as a huge iceberg and endless glaciers, towering volcanoes and powerful geysers, raging rivers, magnificent waterfalls, jagged fjyords and experience the barren Highlands. Yes, Iceland is a photographers dream. Iceland is the home of Ásmundur E. Þorkelsson, a painter and photographer who lives on the small south coast island of Vestmannaeyjar (the Westmen Isles). His images may look unreal to “orthodox” photographers, but that’s exactly what he wants, the avoidance of kitsch. All the images below are his, and they speak for themselves. “From an early age I enjoyed paging through books about art and admired the paintings of many painters, ranging from the renaissance masters to contemporaries as well as the few painters working in my home town of Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Nowadays I find inspiration for my photography in the works of painters like Edvard Munch, Odd Nerdrum, Lucian Freud and J.M.V. Turner, as well as in many of the classic and contemporary photographers.“ Ásmundur E. Þorkelsson via 20 Beautiful HDR Photographs of the Marvels and Mysteries of Iceland : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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Unveiling Photoshop Masks * By Thomas Giannattasio * December 17th, 2009 Design is a fluid and shifting process in which layers are constantly modified and tweaked. As complexity builds, so does the need for preserving data in a flexible way. Learning non-destructive editing techniques helps you produce documents that bend along with your creativity. Photoshop Masks are the cornerstone of this process. Not only do they preserve important pixel data, but they allow for the creation of flexible interface elements as well. In this article, we’ll explore the technical aspects and creative advantages of incorporating masks into your workflow. Photoshop offers five methods of masking: Pixel Masks, Vector Masks, Quick Masks, Clipping Masks and Clipping Paths, all of which define pixel opacities without affecting the original data. Each of them has its own pros and cons, and knowing which method to use is extremely important for creating clean, flexible and properly masked layers. via Unveiling Photoshop Masks - Smashing Magazine.

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Stargate Studios Shows Off Greenscreen Effects by Scott Beale on December 17, 2009 Stargate Studios shows off some of their amazing greenscreen visual effects in their demo reel, some of which you wouldn’t expect to be scenes that were artificially created. via Stargate Studios Shows Off Greenscreen Effects.

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