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6 Photoshop Extreme Makeovers On Video

March 14th, 2008 by mao
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Beauty is a Photoshop product. Now days you can’t see a photograph, without wonder if it has been “photoshoped” or not. Some end results are really plausible other not that much.

Here are 6 before and after extreme makeover videos using Photoshop.

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Thinking Outside the Design Box

March 6th, 2008 by mao
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“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” –H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

Think out of the box! It’s a buzzword we continuously hear, but not always meditate on its the practical meaning.

What does that really means?

Thinking inside the box means take for granted the status quo

status quo: The existing state of things; leaving things as they are without modification or alteration. “Things” can be anything from visitation arrangements to property rights. www.brandeslaw.com/Legal_dictionary/legal.htm

For example, the opening quote of this article. At that time (1927) silent film was the way the world watched cinema. It may sound ridiculous now how somebody could say something like that. But we could have just about the same reaction in 1990 if someone told us that in the future we would buy merchandise on virtual place named after a South American rain forest using an international computer network.

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30 Free Vidro Icon Png and Vector pack in six colors

February 27th, 2008 by mao
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This pack has 30 free vector and png icons in six colors. “Vidro” stands for glass in Portuguese. The set goes from the RSS icon to the Fast Forward one. Since they come in png and PDF scalable vectors, you can use them for printing as well as for the web. You can use them freely as long as you give me the credit.

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Red Flowers: Free HQ PSD and Vector Pack

February 20th, 2008 by mao
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20 Red flowers cuted from flickr under the creative commons license for you to use on your artworks.

The pack consist on transparent .psd isolated objects, and color vector traced files in .eps and .svg of each them a .txt with the attributions and a .jpg with the preview.

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How to create a “Fake Vector” image in Photoshop (part II of II)

February 15th, 2008 by mao
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Hi! I’m here for the second part of the studies about how to make a photo become a fake vector using Photoshop.

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How To Improve Direction in Your Designs

February 13th, 2008 by mao
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Direction is an often forgotten but never unnoticed principle of design. It is created using some or all of the elements of design—shape, scale, line, value, texture, color and space. Direction can be defined as the movement of the eye throughout a piece. It is an important principle because it guides the viewer through a design; from the first thing they notice on down, across or up to the last object, which should ultimately lead them back into the design so as to keep their eye on the piece.

So how do you position elements to guide your viewer? Take a look at the way the following designs implement the principle of direction.

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Freebie: Wordpress Rainbow Feather Theme

February 12th, 2008 by mao
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The V3 is finally out - one of the most beautiful wordpress themes on the free realm. Maybe you have seen it already, its name is Rainbow Feather. If not, this is a great chance to.

As the name suggests, Rainbow Feather delivers an impressive clean cut layout, with rainbow colors, in a single fluid column with a color palette resembling the rainbow in subtle gradients.

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How to create a “Fake Vector” image in Photoshop (part I of II)

February 11th, 2008 by mao
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Hi guys! I’m really happy to be here as a guest blogger, I have no words to thank Mao. Well, my name is Estefany and I’m here to give you some tips about working with “fake vectors” on Photoshop. First I’ll be showing you the basics of the main tool we use to work with vectors on Photoshop – Pen Tool - and later we’ll make a photo become a fake vector.

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Five CSS-Coding Steps from a Professional

February 8th, 2008 by mao
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Last week I had the opportunity to interview Chris Coyier from css-tricks.com and he gave us his approach on css-coding. In that interview he describes how his coding process can be resumed in five steps which I wanted to review again for you in this post.

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Design Inspiration: 3rd Edge Portfolio

February 7th, 2008 by mao
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3rd Edge is a comunication firm locate in USA since 1996. They aproach in design is quite clean and clever and you can tell that just to enter to they online portfolio.

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