New Software Makes Digital Models From Photos Like Magic Digital image editing used to be a supremely complicated job that only highly-trained professionals could do well. Photoshop let just about anyone dabble in image editing, and a new program called 3-Sweep could do the same for 3D image manipulation. The program was created by a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University. 3-Sweep makes it possible for even the novice user to extract single objects from photographs and turn them into easily-manipulated 3D models. In the video demonstration, 3-Sweep’s mind-blowing abilities are demonstrated on simple and complex objects in photographs. With a few exceptions, the program easily outlines the object, fills in the background, texturizes and adds volume to the object. The possibilities for this technology are sort of delightfully intriguing.
42 Free Online Magazines for Designers | Graphics Art and design magazines are designers close companion. Not only it feeds us with latest trends and news in the design industry, it’s also a good source of inspiration, particularly useful for those who hit the design block frequently. Just in case you weren’t aware, there’s a huge pool of free magazines on the net related to the design field; we meant those softcopy magazines you can either browse online or download (.PDF, .SWF) for offline viewing. Eye Magazine A very artistic and well-curated magazine, Eye has everything that a professional designer or a design student looks forward in a graphic design journal. Additionally, Eye Magazine informs you about the ongoing and upcoming events like design summits, workshops, exhibitions and talk sessions related to the graphic design and visual culture taking place all over the world. Frequency: Quarterly Idea Magazine One of the design elements Idea Magazine greatly focuses on is the typography design. Slanted Frequency: Biannually Web Designer
12 Essential Tools to Build Your Online Portfolio As a creative professional, you need a repository of your work that you can show other people. This is called a portfolio. Since we now live in the internet age where anyone can access anything anytime, it is imperative that you have an online portfolio. Dribbble Dribble is a portfolio networking platform where designers share “shots,” small screenshots of the designs and applications they are working on. The Dribble interface is pleasant and simple. Dribble also features a “Find Designers” section, where prospective employers can search for designers by skill and location. Dribbble is a growing platform with a lot of promise – the gamification of just getting your shots posted (having to be recruited by an existing member) is intriguing and also useful to maintain the quality of the Dribbble community. Coroflot Coroflot says they are the largest, most established, most diverse pool of professional creative portfolios in the world. Behance Carbonmade ViewBook Additional Resources LogoPond
Inkscape. Draw Freely. Imagenes Vintage: In English & Spanish: Free Vintage Images Remove Image Backgrounds Free & Fast - Background Burner - Bonanza Top 8 Free Font Sites for Print Designers (Chart & Review List) Some would say that finding the best fonts for your print media project is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but it’s actually more like trying to find a needle in a stack of other needles. Just when you think you’ve conquered this herculean task and discovered the one font that seems to perfectly encapsulate your vision, you’ll find that the font is outside your budget range, unsuitable for print, or not safe for commercial use. To help out, we’ve written reviews of the best free font sites for designers. If there were a travel guide to the world of high-quality, low-cost, and easy-to-use typography for print, each of the websites on this list would be marked as a must-see destination. DaFont.com One of the largest and best font sites on the web, Dafont has a wide selection of modern, decorative and pop culture-inspired fonts. UrbanFonts.com AbstractFonts.com Having difficulty keeping track of all the fonts you’ve acquired from free font sites like DaFont? FontSquirrel.com Conclusion
Make Hyperbolic Tilings of Images The loaded image will be cropped to the centered hyperbolic polygon. Repeated hyperbolic reflections of the centered polygon make up the tiling. The option generate large generates a tiling that is larger than the image shown on the screen. Larger tilings take longer time to generate, mostly since the edge of the tiling gets finer. If change first tile is clicked, the rendering of the first tile will cycle through "no distortion", "Klein distortion", and "polynomial distortion". The hyperbolic tiling The tiling is made of regular hyperbolic polygons with sides. is the number of polygons meeting at each corner. When a so-called Poincaré disc is used to model hyperbolic geometry, the entire universe is inside a circle . For information about the math and the construction of a tiling, and an interactive example with draggable points (but no image), see Non-Euclidean Geometry - Interactive Hyperbolic Tiling in the Poincaré disc. Polynomial distortion Pick a point inside the Euclidean polygon.
38 Typography Tools for Designers (Better Than Adobe Suite) A Swiss Army knife allows you to do a lot of different things at once (like remove a screw or open a wine bottle), but sometimes what you really need is a strong pair of scissors—a tool that only does one thing, but does it much more simply and elegantly. It’s the same way when working with typography in print design. The Adobe suite is powerful and multifaceted, but when you need to create a new font from scratch or identify the name of a particular typeface, it pays to have a few more specific tools in your toolbox. We’ve rounded up some of the best typography tools online for print designers. Typography Generators for Creating And Modifying Text 1. Browser-BasedCost: Free FontStruct is a free typography creation kit with a simple editor that makes it easy for you to quickly and easily craft your own fonts. 2. Browser-BasedCost: $9.95 Design your own fonts based on your personal handwriting with this easy-to-use typography generator. 3. 4. Downloadable Application (iPad)Cost: $4.99 5. 6.
Kuadro What's New For release updates follow us on Twitter and on Facebook Version 0.9.5 ! Back In Business After a long Hiatus, development on Kuadro has started back up! Send your feedback to support@kruelgames.com for more features Oh Snap! Import from Clipboard Add from Web has been replaced with the ability to take any image saved to your clipboard. Auto Save Now Kuadro can auto save your reference boards, never lose work again Works on Latest Macs Updated Kuadro to work on OSX High Sierra Reset Layout This tray right click menu brings all of your images back to the first monitor Files from Anywhere Bug fixed where images from network drives and drive that were different than the ref file weren't saved Sorting PreservedOrder of the images is now respected when you save Shift Resizing Holding down Shift while resizing your Image will now also zoom it properly Open Last Saved Kuadro will automatically remember the last ref file you had open and open it Get Kuadro For Windows Get Kuadro For Mac
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