Although I don’t read Japanese, I know how to use Google Translator well enough to tell you about this awesome photo effect at Wanokoto Labs. There are plenty of tutorials out there about how to create an “old photo” effect in Photoshop, but this site does it for you in one step.
The effect basically [...]
IrfanView is a light-weight, but powerful Windows tool for viewing and editing pictures. Version 4.20 is out, and it has a slightly new design, a bunch of bug fixes, and some new features.
At its heart, IrfanView is an image viewer with some editing functions thrown in for good measure. Nobody will mistake it for [...]
Seriously guys, we love you. Okay, fine, maybe not in the way your mom loves you, or your dog loves you, or your significant other loves you. But we definitely love you in that totally uncomfortable, care-free, “Hey, let us buy you a Red Bull and Pop Rocks next time we’re at the convenience store” [...]
Barack Obama’s design team has garnered a lot of praise for their work on his campaign materials, including the official website. Heck, there have been entire articles devoted to praising their choice of typefaces. One of the cooler elements the Obama team has cooked up for their website is a slideshow-like animated list for front [...]
The buttonless iPhone, and the sleek styling of other apple products, has taken the Wall Street Journal to musing, “What’s Steve’s Beef about buttons.”
According to the article, Jobs’ blood-lust for buttons goes back further than you might imagine. “Mr. Jobs was adamant that the keyboard for the original Macintosh not include “up,” “down,” “right” and [...]
Now that we’ve harangued you to upgrade your Web site, take advantage of business blogs, read your Web stats/, incorporate search engine tips and use Web 2.0 themes, it’s time to choose a Web design firm to make all of the above happen for your small business. Google “web design” and spend the rest of [...]
One of the only things that keeps some people
using a Mac, or even buying Macs for their business, is the whole "Macs are better for graphics/multimedia"
mantra. I’ll leave that debate for the Digg Holy Wars, but it is definitely interesting to see someone ditch OS X for
Linux in an art/design class. Linux is not typically [...]
Okay, I admit it:
I’m a design snob. Sure, I’m no world-class designer myself, you don’t have to be a chef to tell when something tastes
nasty, you don’t need to be a design whiz to know that most of the desktop backgrounds at almost every big
free-wallpapers site out there suck. Don’t lose hope just yet, though: [...]
Before you ask: no, the headline is not a typo - Qtpfsgui is an app for the Linux users in the crowd that brings the oh-so hyper-realistic High Dynamic Range look to images without the need for a larger app like GIMP. However, Qtpfsgui isn’t an image editor, per se - it only provides the [...]
Among the many updates in Photoshop CS2 are the new tools users have for selecting multiple layers. These new abilites are really handy, but I’ve been hearing rumors of hair-pulling from some users who aren’t aware of what’s changed, especially in the upgraded layers palette. For today’s Imaging Tip, I’d like to point you towards [...]