Design Photoshop Programming Web Design
In an article on the web-design advent calendar, 24 Ways, Meagan Fisher advocates setting aside Photoshop and building design comps directly in our preferred flavour of HTML.
That’s how I always work anyway. Only once have I ever built a design in Photoshop before writing the code and that was for the front page of this website — it took ages and felt totally un-natural and counter-intuitive to me. I did it because I understood that that’s how all designers work. I wanted to try it out to see if it made the process any easier for me, it didn’t, at all.
Even so, I think Meagan has overlooked a quite important point: not all web-designers are writers of code.
Desktop Wallpaper DWotW Graphics Imaging Photoshop
Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: I love this image. It was created by “h16” and is posted on deviantART. The monochrome to vivid-colour transition between the two girls is extremely well done and the hand-painted effect is simply gorgeous. I can’t decide if the girl on the right is holding a “fantasy” lover, or the ghost of a dead friend or relative perhaps? One of the comments on the deviantArt site suggested that this image represents good meeting evil — but I’m not convinced — there seems to be me to be too much passion between the two girls for this to be a meeting of such polar opposites.
Either way, it’s a gorgeous piece of art and makes a fantastic desktop wallpaper.
You can download the full-size wallpaper from the deviantART website. You should also check out the rest of h16’s work.
Graphics Imaging Photography Photoshop Software
This is absolutely mind-blowing. I can’t wait to get my grubby little mitts on whatever version of Photoshop this amazing algorithm makes it into. [via]
Art Design Graphics Imaging Photoshop
A super-simple shadow technique for looking down on objects and one for creating shadows from upright objects. [via]
Desktop Wallpaper DWotW Imaging Photography Photoshop
Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: Sorry folks for the continuing absence of a weekly installment in this series. I hope I can make it up to you with this beauty — yet another image that I’ve acquired somewhere with no record of the image title or artist. I call it The Girls. Be warned though, your productivity might be considerably reduced if this makes it on to your desktop!
You can download the full-size version here (1,680 × 1,050 pixels) and without watermark (470KB zip archive).
Desktop Wallpaper DWotW Graphics Imaging Photoshop
Desktop Wallpaper of the Week: This dynamic image is derived from an original I downloaded at gamewallpapers.com. I had been experimenting with Photoshop to learn how to selectively grayscale an image - which is something I’d been wanting to suss out for some time - and this is the result. I’m pleased with it, but what do you think?
You can download the full-size version here (1,280 × 1,024 pixels).
I’m a bit of a sucker for the often surreal results of infrared photography. Unfortunately I don’t have a spare camera body that I am prepared to sacrifice to an IR conversion, nor would I take enough pictures in infrared to justify a dedicated IR body. So I was delighted when, quite by chance, I came across a free Photoshop action that converts regular images into passable IR-alike ones.
And so my day has been spent post-processing regular photographs with the IR Photoshop action to see what kind of images it works best with.The image of Mount Everest above is particularly stunning - for me, it was the best of the bunch. Anyway, take a look at my IR set on Flickr to see just how good this action is.
Apache Linux Lists MySQL Photoshop Programming Unix Web Design Web Server WordPress
As a programmer/web-designer I dip into a diverse range of programming languages and frameworks. I often find that I get locked into a specific coding grammar/syntax and that it is then difficult to switch to a new one. This is when I find the following cheat sheets invaluable (and indeed comforting).
Aperture Apple D80 Macintosh Nikon Photography Photoshop
On June 21st 2008 my sister, Rachael, married her husband, Darren — and I was given the great honour of photographing their wedding. Today, following months of getting to grips with Apple’s Aperture 2 and Adobe’s Photoshop CS3, I am delighted to present a selection of my favourite photographs from that day.
All photos were taken with my Nikon D80 DSLR camera. The lenses used were the Nikon 50mm f/1.8 D and the Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-S DX. I also used the Nikon Speedlight SB-600 flash unit both on-camera and as a remote slave. I shot exclusively in RAW and post-processed all photos with Aperture on my Apple Power Mac G5. A handful of photos were further processed in Photoshop for various effects. Click any photograph to view an enlargement.
We begin with the obligatory portrait of Rachael taken once the hairdresser had finished doing her thing. Doesn’t she look gorgeous?
Continue Reading…
We have always had an infatuation with the air above us and the space around our planet. With Photoshop we can create new images or enhance existing photos to include the sky and space as a backdrop. There is virtually no limit to what can be done with some Photoshop skills and a bit of creativity.
