By almagreta on July 16, 2010
Big and popular sites build on Drupal are here for your inspiration. It includes Drupal sites for government, corporations, celebrities, organizations, universities. Drupal is a powerful and flexible open source content management system (CMS). Drupal is used as a back-end system for at least 1% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to larger corporate and political sites. Do you know any website on Drupal that should be added to this list? Continue Reading →
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged Drupal, showcase, webdesign
By Michael Garmahis on July 12, 2010
Color in the movies plays as an important role as in photography or design. It’s used as an additional powerful way to emphasize the idea of the director, reflect the mood of the scene or give that special accent. It’s not unusual that movie effects inspire most stunning artworks in photography and design, it also happens other way round. Movies with stunning use of color, texture and imagery are here for your inspiration. Do you have a favorite movie with beautiful colors not mentioned here? Please speak out in the comments. Continue Reading →
Posted in Inspiration | Tagged color, movie
By Michael Garmahis on July 9, 2010
Google News redesign fails as spectacular as its attempt to borrow a background image feature from Bing. Google News support forums are filled with furious users crying for rollback to the old design or suggesting alternatives. Almost 90% of redesign feedback for testing beta version was negative. So why Google decided to go live with it? Some already say that the Google News redesign is a repeat of The Coca-Cola Company’s New Coke disaster in 1985. The irony is that Google claims that Google news redesign makes it more adequate to users’ interests. Continue Reading →
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Google, Google News, redesign
By Michael Garmahis on June 30, 2010
This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to create cinematic look from ordinary digital camera photos. You’ll learn how to apply movie color effect in Photoshop in 6 easy steps. Besides movie colors, you will also learn how to recreate movie lighting with Lighting effects filter. It’s important to choose suitable source image to follow this tutorial. It shouldn’t be very colorful or bright. Neutral or pale colors would work better and make your job easier. This is a guest post by Almagreta. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guest post guidelines. Continue Reading →
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged color, movie, Photoshop
By Michael Garmahis on June 29, 2010
This HDR Photoshop tutorial covers improvements and new features related to HDR photo processing in Photoshop CS5. Improved HDR workflow in Photoshop CS 5 is called HDR Pro. HDR pro provides extended controls over the HDR merging process, improved image processing and tone mapping adjustments. The styling of HDR output presets varies from photorealistic to hyper-realistic high contrast HDR images. HDR Pro also improves source files alignment and adds automatic deghosting feature. With Photoshop CS5 you can finally create the look of an HDR-processed image from a single photo with the new HDR Toning feature. This is the second tutorial (check out Content aware Photoshop CS5 tutorial) in the series of tutorials focused on Photoshop CS5 new features. Continue Reading →
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged CS5, HDR, Photoshop
By Michael Garmahis on June 23, 2010
Content aware fill is a new feature which first appeared in Photoshop CS5. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use content aware fill to remove large objects from photos using Edit-Fill command and how to use Spot healing brush in content aware mode to fix scratches, blemishes and other small imperfections in your photos. Content aware fill will save you a lot time; in several minutes using Photoshop CS5 you can get better results with Content aware fill than spending hours of work using old tools. This is the first tutorial in the series of tutorials (check out also HDR Photoshop CS5 tutorial) focused on Photoshop CS5 new features. Continue Reading →
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged CS5, Photoshop
By Michael Garmahis on June 22, 2010
Gimp Tutorials in this review includes handpicked selection of creative Gimp tutorials for intermediate and advanced users. Gimp is a free multiplatform image editing tool, using Gimp you can achieve pretty much everything what can be done in pricey Photoshop. These Gimp tutorials will help you to learn text, Gimp photo editing, advanced photo manipulations such as changing colors, background, remove objects, proper black and white conversion in Gimp. You’ll also learn by following these Gimp tutorials how to design poster, website, wallpaper, logo and icons with Gimp. Continue Reading →
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged Gimp