graphic design
iPodify yourself
MacMerc has a very good tutorial on how to make your cards looking like iPod ads. It’s old, but takes you through every step with lots of Photoshop tips. It also has a list with the colors on the iPods. That is, the colors they used to have. Now, with the iPod mini gone, they [...]
Photoshopped transparent photos
Remember the transparent screens that everybody wrote about some time ago? The Photoshopped transparent photos group takes it one step further. Use some Photoshop magic and obects appear transparent even if they’re not. Here’s one example: (Picture by simplethingsuask)
FCP animation
FCP guru Ken Stone shows how to do simple animations in Final Cut Pro.
Amazing circles through the roof
Did you read how to make Amazing circles? The Amazing circles group on Flickr today passed 100 members. And almost 500 circles. These are some of my own favourites: Now, I won’t write anything about this until member number 1 000…
Better powerpoint
Bill Gates should read up on my friend Eirik’s latest post (and here). One conclusion: Bullet points are bad. Except maybe in this fantastic Powerpoint slide. LOL.
Worst Powerpoint ever
Yes, I have commented on this before. But it just needs it’s own post. So here goes: Bill Gates managed to present THE worst Powerpoint ever made. Photo by Niall Kennedy. It’s so bad that I wonder if there are any designers at Microsoft at all? Can’t be. It’s so bad that good sites write [...]
Make your next presentation naked
Garr Reynolds wants you to make your next presentation naked.
20 free quality fonts
There’s a couple of really nice ones.
Create a futuristic background in After Effects
Dean Velez shows how. He has lots of other tutorials on CreativeCow as well.
Microsoft doesn’t like orange RSS icon
Microsoft doesn’t want to use the “normal” orange RSS icon. Check out their suggestions for a new icon for their web feeds. I don’t think they look any nice…
How to create Amazing circles
Kamome has made an excellent technique for making amazing circles. This is a more detailed description: Make a square selection 1. Open an image in Photoshop (screenshots are from Photoshop CS2 on Mac). Higher resolution and size will give better results. I have used a picture I took myself some time ago. If you want [...]
Fantastic circles
Have a look at some fantastic circles. Made by yours truly and uploaded to Flickr. The whole set is here. UPDATE: See how to do this yourself!
I [heart] undo
I [heart] undo Originally uploaded to Flickr jkottke. Jason Kottke has posted this photo from the AIGA Design Conference. It reminds of a friend of mine who had been working 16 hours a day on a big project, sitting in front of her Mac editing in Photoshop. She came back to her apartment, and had [...]
Fonts from movie posters
On the subject of fonts, Linotype also has a cool page where they show which fonts were used for different movie posters. Return of the jedi was Times Roman, Rocky was Franklin Gothic and Titanic was Trajan. Nice to know when you’re making posters for your latest iMovie piece of art…
How to make your own comics – in Comic life
I just bought a copy of Comic Life from Plasq. It’s an application that lets you take pictures from iPhoto (or Finder), drag them into Comic Life, and make your own comics with speech bubbles and sound effects: Zap! Pow! Kaboom!! It’s so fun. Highly recommended! When your new comic is finished, put it on [...]
