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50 Useful and Free Seamless Pattern Sets
Dec 14 2011 Employing seamless patterns are an extraordinary way to give your design some additional depth and personality. Either by delicately highlighting important areas or for producing a background that will elevate your layout design to top notch status.Free Design Stuff&Tutorials
Learn how to choose between PNG-24 and PNG-8 when working with textured artwork in Photoshop, plus a handy technique to keep file size at a minimum.
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Here’s a new fun font I just finished – Embossed Label and Text based on my previous post with the images. Those ones had only basic alphabet and numbers so I also made some extra characters. More stuff to spell :). When working on the Old Typewriter Font , I was left with some letter outlines that I thought would also make a cool font – so after a few adjustments, here’s a sort of splattered typewriter outlines font. I don’t think I ever spent so much time on a post image as this one. :) I just had to make use of the 16mm film countdown leader.
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Outfit your studio and personal gear with these cool Pantone themed accessories from Pantone Universe, a design-led collection for the home, the workplace and the road. Pinterest.com is a popular new social media site for visuals. Members “pin” images they like from websites or blogs to their public bulletin board to create a series of visual collections or galleries.Deliver small images to small devices Adaptive Images detects your visitor's screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page's embeded HTML images. No mark-up changes needed. It is intended for use with Responsive Designs and to be combined with Fluid Image techniques.
Adaptive Images in HTML
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If you haven't seen these sites yet, I would recommend checking them out. Pikicentral is allowing you to create your own white labelled version of these sites ... for nothing! That's right, Pikicentral gives you the ability to create the functionality of both these sites simply by signing up. What rings your bell for you? Maybe it's the political scene - you and your friends have a strong view, or maybe its cute little pooches that take you're fancy? Well here's your chance to get your own versions of Pikipimp and Comeeko and totally customise them to suit the interest of you and your friends!
Piki Central - Imagine having your own Image generation sites
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Kuler member spotlight "Kuler encourages me to try new combinations because I can manipulate colors quickly, before I commit them to the final scrapbooking piece." Download the Kuler desktop
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Last week we featured some cool vintage type examples that we found on Etsy so this week, I thought it would be a good idea to gather up some just as cool free vintage fonts similar to the ones shown in the post. These free vintage and retro style fonts are great resources to keep on hand for those old school design projects. Download these fonts and don’t forget to organize them into a vintage font category so you can easily bust them out when needed.
10 Free Vintage Fonts
Graphics Atlas: Welcome
Graphics Atlas is a new online resource that brings sophisticated print identification and characteristic exploration tools to archivists, curators, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, and the general public. Start Now → Let IPI guide you through individual prints in a virtual study collection that contains processes ranging from the woodcut to the modern digital print. Start Now →My name is Jamie Wieck and I decided to write #The50 Things Every Creative Should Know ( #the50 ) when I realised I was not the first, nor the last student to fear the leap between art college and the creative industry. Inspired by my own, and my friend’s (sometimes rocky) experiences within the creative industry, #the50 addresses the most common concerns held by graduating creatives and aims to bridge the gap between art college and the professional world.
The 50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know - Jamie Wieck - Design, Illustration & Creative Thinking
Putting together a great color palette for your design work can be one of the most challenging aspects of any project. And many times, color palettes are built from some source of inspiration. So why not be inspired by some of history’s greatest master artists? Colour Lovers has a lot of great tools including the ability to create color palettes auto-magically from pics you find around the web. It’s a great way to find inspiration when building your palette. Of course, computer algorithms are not perfect; they miss key accent colors frequently and make questionable decisions on extracting the dominant tones.
35 Inspiring Color Palettes from Master Painters | Art Varsity
There are two kinds of computer graphics - raster (composed of pixels) and vector (composed of paths). Raster images are more commonly called bitmap images. A bitmap image uses a grid of individual pixels where each pixel can be a different color or shade. Bitmaps are composed of pixels.
Raster and Vector Graphics
I have been on sabbatical from this blog because I am trying to track down a problem. I have an image that I want to take a portion of (an interior, randomly shaped clip mask) and fit that clipping to another shape, and I need to automate it. I am trying to take a portion of an image from Photoshop and bring it to fit a UV map in LW. I am able to get an alpha cutout of the image easily, making the UV map in Lightwave is simple as you can get, the UV map comes into Photoshop or Illustrator (or any other program) simply enough, and it is simple to produce an alpha mask of it. The crux is that there is no relation between the shape of the image alpha map and the UV map, and neither one is consistently shaped from object to object or image to image. The LW objects to be mapped are all one 1/2 of a 2-sided shell (that is, topologically similar to a half sphere).
Unsolvable? Fitting a raster image to a vector shape or raster alpha. « Flash for the Masses
Raster Images versus Vector Images
Raster Images versus Vector Images All electronic art images are divided into one of two core types, raster images (also know as 'bitmaps') and vector images. In a nutshell raster images are composed of connected dots and vectors are images composed of connected lines. By Jay Busselle, Director of Business Development, Digital Art Solutions These two formats are quite different from one another, yet they contrast and complement one another when used appropriately for the desired final output method. Raster images are created through the process of scanning source artwork or "painting" with a photo editing or paint program such as Corel PhotoPAINT or Adobe PhotoShop.Graphic Design (Raster)
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