Photoshop tutorials

Tutorial madness. It’s crazy! Out they go. Etc.
1. Digital Star Effect. Just because it is pretty.
2. Grunge layout. Nothing really earth-shattering, but a good reminder of some stuff I knew and then forgot. (story of my life)
3. Photo with a border.
4. Text burnt into a wooden panel.
5. Creating creases and folds.
6. “pop art”
7. the “wicked […]

Illustration tutorials

Here’s a few tutorials for reference.
1. Some amazing tutorials on the woodcut style. This one is especially useful.
2. Varying line-widths in Illustrator.
3. Drawing a tree-lined road in Photoshop

now for something completely different

Mutado’s showreel made me laugh. Fantastic.

the one with lots of links for reference

web design ideas
1. this is so very sweet. the illustrations are great.
2. simplebits is a pretty fantastic one-man company. interesting use of ampersand in text. (note: look at stylesheet and figure out how.) predominant colours dark blue/navy, green, light green. serif font in navigation looks classy.
3. the churches in america must have lots of cash. […]

unfold me i am small

i have had this song in my head for a few days and now i have found it on the internet. a happy ending.
it’s all tied up in the last few shots of six feet under, with claire driving into the expanse, and away from the last five years with the fishers. it made me […]

freaky good luck - 2007 looks rosy

the people from the job i didn’t get (and was a little disappointed by) in October just rang and offered me the job. the person that they hired decided to move on.
it’s a position working at one of the very left community tv stations as their archives assistant and managing their work for the dole […]

Accessibility testing

I completed a website recently which included an accessibility statement link in the footer of each page. The accessibility statement basically outlined how I had made the site, why, and encouraged people who had difficulties accessing information for whatever reason to let me know. The client asked that the link be removed.
“What is the point […]

Colour management link

When you spend your hard-earned money on a Pantone book, make sure you ask for the Color Bridge (Figure 1). This version, formerly known as Solid to Process, has the Pantone solid color right next to the CMYK process version (or as close to it as CMYK can get).
You will also see RGB and HTML […]

Some more links for reference

1. creating a page curl by Veerle. (that rhymes)
2. switching layouts with css - defining different layouts for different users, which could be handy given the stats on the expected adoption rate of mobile phone users accessing the web by 2010, set out in
3. this article . Another argument for building a site with standards.
4. […]

home is where the boxes are

thanks mark for the offer to move. i just noticed it now. it takes a brave soul to offer to cart other people’s crap about.
the move went well. we had two blokes, daryl and darren, help us. they worked like mad things. daryl told me that hot weather makes him work faster. i was imagining the […]