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Photoshop | Unknown Image Sharpen Technique
There are times when you want to sharpen your images just a little bit in order to really bring out those details in for example the eyes, lips or hair to make the image extra crisp. Usually we use the "Sharpen" filter tool to achieve this. Sometimes over and over again in order to really get that p ...
Photoshop | Smooth Skin and Focus Sharpening
Looking at those magazine photos always makes me wonder how they actually get ALL of those model's skin look so smooth and silky clean. Of course it's some magic applied to those photos before they are added as photos in a magazine. But how do they do it? Is it makeup, is it some filter they are usi ...
Sketch and Share with Friends
Sketching is fun. It's a great way to showcase your creativity or if not, a cool way to practice or even have your ideas come alive through images that you feel will bring out what you have in mind. Great that there are a lot of new tools one can use online to showcase such talent. Found this new ...
Gliding Through the Streets in a Nissan
Check out this new concept car from Nissan, the Land Glider EV. This street glider gives the driver a flying sensation with all four tires on the ground. Its a tiny compact car that rides like a plane and is able to fir into less than half a parking spot.
The wheels and fenders of the Nissan Glid ...
Bold Anti-Smoking ads
Gone are the days of the sexy Marlboro Man, who made smoking appealing, manly and part of the cowboy way. Tobacco advertising is one of the most highly regulated forms of marketing today. Canada is one of the leading anti-smoking advertisers in the world, compared to some of the middle eastern coun ...
How To | Make your Blog Search Engine Friendly
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a truly hard and sometimes complicated endeavour to achieve good results in. There is a lot more to it than just adding a few meta tags in your index page to get a high ranking on for example Google search engine. It gets even trickier when you have your own blog ...
Want to Generate Color Schemes from Your Photos?
Here is a cool application that can extract color schemes from an existing photo. Color Suckr. is a good tool for web designers and for those who want an easy way to get the colors from a favorite photograph or website. FireFox add on is already available. Check it out. Real helpful and really h ...
How To: Make An Extreme Pumpkin Carving
Halloween is a big deal in the States, and it’s hard to believe it’s that time of year again! My son Henry and I love to carve pumpkins each year, put candles in them, and light them at night throughout the month of October. It is one of our favorite Halloween traditions.
We normally carve the st ...
Stupid Designs | Far from Perfect
No matter how you see it we all look at the world through the same eyes, hopefully. Talking design is always fun and there are lots of areas still not processed and these are the areas where things quickly can develop into something awkward and weird. Is there really something called "Perfect Design ...
2010 Snowboard designs
For all of us who can't wait for the snow to cover the mountain tops with enough of the powdery stuff so we can GET OUT THERE and ride the slopes........ this post will hopefully get your mind focused on boarding {again}. I've previewed the Burton Endeavor and Salomon and hand picked my favorite des ...
Design Board | The Evil Side Effects of Spec Work
There is a riot going on. It's about amateur designers diluting the pool of advanced professional work. It's a great controversy really. Some designers think that spec work is a great way for amateur designers to get a foot in. A way for them to learn the trade and to develop the skills they need in ...
NYC meets Istanbul, a Typography story in 60 seconds
Love this Turkish edition ad for the New York Times, Turkish Edition, featured by Designflux an online mag, focusing on motion graphic design. The designers at Imago used actual pages from the first issue of Turkish Edition to create the 'newspaper' texture effect to portray well known landmarks o ...
Everything you know about Web Design is WRONG!
Have you been working as a freelancer or otherwise in the web design industry for several years? Have you learned the trade by looking at what everyone else does? Well, as Dan Willis says in this quite controversial speech at the 2009 SXSWi event -"Everything you know about web design is wrong!". Wh ...
Great | Stop | Motion | Story
I love this video. If you have not seen The PEN Story, check it out below. I assure that you will have a new appreciation of stop motion. If you are unfamiliar with stop motion, its the photo-graphic method in which this amazing video was made. It is a great technique for storytelling with an artist ...
This One Photograph Is Making History
Have you ever seen a Redwood tree? As my cousin would say, “Redwood trees are bloody big!”
Redwood trees are known as the tallest trees on Earth. If they can avoid being cut down, they can live for up to 2,500 years. If you aren’t sure if you’ve seen one of these trees, then you probably haven ...