Graphic Design Blog: August 2005 Archives

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Tinic Uro

[David Seah - Better Living Through New Media] Making the rounds on various Flash sites is this link to Tinic Uro’s Blog. He’s the principal engineer for Flash Player 8, and he’s writing about all kinds of interesting tidbits about the challenges of developing various features of the new player, provides historical context for the reason why certain features didn’t make it into old players, and so on.

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Mapwing

[Ned Batchelder: Blog] ShotCode is yet another scannable URL technology.It's kind of like TinyURL crossed with barcodes,aimed at people with cell phone cameras.It seems like a great idea: the site has an animation of a guy looking at a concert poster, andhe buys tickets just by aiming his cell camera at the ShotCode on the poster.Unfortunately, I don't think it will fly, mainly because it requires the cell phone user todownload ShotCode software into their phone. The whole idea of the thing is to enable peopleto do impulse Internet purchases with their phone.

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Posted at 05:54 PM

August 31, 2005

Tinic Uro

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Posted at 05:57 PM

Mapwing

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Posted at 05:54 PM

Upload Flickr images by e-mail

[TipMonkies] This is new to me since I’m not a big Flickr user, but did you know you can upload photos by e-mail? This is a great feature which works perfectly if you have a camera phone and don’t want to bother buying a digital camera.

Posted at 05:45 PM

Gemma Ward and Prada Graphics

[Maxigumee Land] I was checking out some graphics LiveJournals with user icons and stuff like that and I kind of felt inspired. I used images from men.style.com and Aussie Doll Gallery to make these desktops and icons.

Posted at 05:39 PM

The Photoshop Blog

[awesomeblogs.com] Learn the basics, photo retouching, mask layers,Photoshop CS tips, Freelancing tips (How to become a sucessful Photoshop Freelancer) etc.. I myself have been following this Tutorials for around 7 months, it is really good, if you have the extra cash to spend, you should get the video tutorials.

Posted at 05:34 PM

August 30, 2005

GIMP2 Video Demos

[Around The Palouse] Jakub 'jimmac' Steiner as some kickass MPEG4 videos/screencasts showing GIMP 2.0 fuctionality and tutorials. These are silent but deadly - deadly coll...

Posted at 07:45 AM

Web Badges

[ isnaini dot com | web design | graphic design] collections of 80Ã—15 px and 88Ã—31 web badges / buttons in .png and XCF for gimp Tags: web, badges, buttons, png, xcf, gimp

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Posted at 07:44 AM

Sorenson Squeeze Beta

[Tim Madden - Web Designer - Brisbane Australia] Jens Loeffler has a post linking to the Sorenson Squeeze beta release that supports the encoding of the new ON2 VPN6 video codec in flash player 8. I am not sure of the future for Sorenson as it seems Macromedia is releasing an encoder with Flash itself?

Posted at 07:43 AM

Building brilliant buttons...

[Blog.DanYork.com] In browsing the web over time, I had noticed that people had all sorts of various buttons in the sidebar of their weblogs and I wondered who was taking the time to create all these. I figured there was a site or open source tool, but just hadn't bothered to find it...

Posted at 07:42 AM

Google Talk themes!

[TipMonkies] Browse to the Google Talk installation directory (C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk), and rename the application to something else (it doesn’t matter what) and place the new googletalk.exe which you just downloaded, into this folder. Start it up, and you’ll see the new themed version!

Posted at 07:40 AM

August 26, 2005

And soon i’ll be”¦

[Karmakars.com] Am sure there are many ways of getting attention not sure i was doing this to get any buttttttt just after work I sat here at my desk and felt a would...

Posted at 09:25 PM

The guilty pleasures of Drivey

[Generator.x: Software and generative strategies in art and design] Put simply, Drivey is a Windows executable that puts you behind the wheel of an anonymous fast car, zooming down a monochromatic 3D road environment complete with street lights and overpasses. It’s completely computationally generated, and very smoothly at that.

Posted at 09:24 PM

Free Wallpaper

[Blog Introduction] Original, 3D, ray-traced images for your desktop wallpaper. All images by the site maintainer and licensed freely to the general public.

Posted at 09:23 PM

Design Resources

[Rohdesign Weblog] Lately I've stumbled onto some excellent design-related blogs and podcasts, which have been challenging me professionally, and I like that. First is...

Posted at 09:22 PM

Adobe set to release Phothoshop CS3

[awesomeblogs.com] better photoshop experience is at hand…maybe combining Macromedia Fireworks/Flash with Photoshop?

Posted at 09:20 PM

August 19, 2005

Digital signatures in Adobe Acrobat

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] Unlike conventional signatures, however, a digital signature also stores information about the person signing the document. Signatures help prevent unwanted changes to a PDF document, which is reason enough why you should be interested in the digital signature capabilities of Acrobat 7.

Posted at 01:51 PM

Free Graph Paper PDFs

[Axodys] The biggest hangup I ran into was acquiring more graph paper when I ran out. It was more expensive than regular paper and sometimes hard to find.

Posted at 01:50 PM

OSX

[rc6.org | Webnews on steroids. Fair and balanced.] OSX Submitted by remco on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 07:34. A pretty nifty version of OSX. Posted in Flash | remco's blog...

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Posted at 01:47 PM

Curve Ball

[Freaked Out] Curve Ball Try to do a curve ball, try to hit it back. PR | Show Me ·...

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Posted at 01:40 PM

Camilla Queen

[The Community At Large] Camilla Queen danger @ 12:02 pm A particularly nasty flash animated ditty on Camilla, as in Charles and Camilla. Offensive.

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Posted at 01:38 PM

August 18, 2005

Mapping UI: Flash vs. Ajax

[informatory] John Dowdell at Macromedia has hit out at Ajax compared to Flash for something like a mapping UI (Flash example here): I'm slow on this -- Paul Neave posted it Friday -- but it's a great example of how a... [Read more]

Posted at 05:45 PM

Some amazing experiments in digital art

[Blogaholics] I live and work in Paris, France, and I am doing computer graphics as a hobby. My day job doesn't involve graphics at all.

Posted at 05:42 PM

JPEGs and Resolution

[Internet Corner :: Main Page] JPEGs and Resolution by internetcorner on August 14, 2005 08:58PM (BST) An interesting discussion developed in the About Graphics...

Posted at 05:40 PM

Unofficial Photoshop blog

[Franto.com Flash blog] For fans of Photoshop: Unofficial Photoshop blog. Enjoy. Tags: Flash, Graphics, Photoshop, web...

Posted at 05:40 PM

Spanned Stripes

[Slightly Remarkable] Reportedly the best thing to use is Illustrator — and for those of you who have Illustrator, this should be a snap —

Posted at 05:38 PM

Wondrous Rhythm

[LeliaThomas.Com] (Prints, mouse pads, mugs, magnets, and more?) Tags: lelia, leliathomas...

Posted at 05:36 PM

August 08, 2005

d.a.f.y.d

[bienvenue chez dafyd - blog] Must be the graffiti artist in me, but here it is, my name from flickr: Neat? It should re-generate (a bit like the Borg) if you hit refresh!

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Posted at 01:44 PM

Windows Vista fonts

[Joey Day : Avocation] Microsoft has announced the official name of the Longhorn code-name project: Windows Vista.

Posted at 01:43 PM

The doctor is in

[Drawn! The Illustration Blog] (Jorge) Alderete. The doc is one prolific hombre, tackling not only illustration, but design, comics, and typography as well.

Posted at 01:41 PM

ID: Quick switch to text tool

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] To quickly switch to the text tool in Adobe InDesign when you are working with the Select or Direct Select tools (the arrow tools), simply double click the text box. As an added bonus, the curser will appear wherever you double clicked in the text box.

Posted at 01:38 PM

Sunday

[Body Love] It's hard to describe. People will ask me how I pose and such technical things, and truly I do not know .

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Posted at 01:36 PM

Today's Pimp.

[Wayland McFrancis, esq. (kasdan)] (: We'll be posting all manner of graphics there. It's incredibly new, so there's not much in it yet, but rest assured we'll fill it up in time.

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Posted at 01:32 PM

Awesome metal texture

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Posted at 01:27 PM

August 07, 2005

This post brought to you by the letters Q and M

[Dynagirl 5.0] 1:34 PM A design critique of the (Latin) alphabet. 0 Comments | Archived in Typography Tuesday 2 August 2005...

Posted at 10:39 AM

Typeface Licensing, For Those Who Think Music Licensing is Easy.

[MNteractive] Khoi Vinh over at Subtraction.com (Try Before You Buy Fonts. ) reminded me that despite half a decade passing, we’re still using the same typefaces online and designers haven’t solved the problem of how to promote new typefaces easily. With the days of grunging-up a typeface and selling it for $185 long gone, I fear we’ve lost our opportunity for typographic innovation on the web (I say this admiring subtraction.com.)

Posted at 10:37 AM

The Posters of MST3K

[Drawn! The Illustration Blog] They sure don’t make movie posters like that anymore. Today the posters are just too “Photoshoped”

Posted at 10:31 AM

First Look at an Impressive QuarkXPress 7.0

[Breaking Windows 2.0 - Rants & Raves by Ken Edwards & Matt Paprocki] Will XPress 7.0 be the upgrade that puts Quark back on top? Gene Gable spent two days at Quark's Denver headquarters to find out and emerged with this exclusive report.Source: Creative Pro

Posted at 10:28 AM

ID: Quicker PDF exporting

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] If you’re always in a rush, you can bypass the PDF Export Options dialog box in Adobe InDesign by holding down the Shift key when choosing a setting from File>PDF Export Presets, just name the file. This is perfect when you have a lot of InDesign files to export with the same settings.

Posted at 10:25 AM

Form.sphere

[omglolwtf] Make sure you read the short tutorial. http://www.metaphorical.net/form/sphere...

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Posted at 10:20 AM

Flash 8’s Backwards Security Model

[from __future__ import *] it opens up a browser window pointing somewhere on macromedia.com with a Flash application to manage Flash's preferences. This page doesn't immediately appear to know what you were doing, and doesn't make it at all obvious how to enable a paritcular local movie to talk on the internet.

Posted at 10:18 AM

August 06, 2005

Solve InDesign type trouble

[Breaking Windows 2.0 - Rants & Raves by Ken Edwards & Matt Paprocki] Thanks to its elegantly designed text controls, Adobe InDesign (CS and CS2) offers endless possibilities for perfecting your type. But not all of its features are obvious.Source: MacCentral

Posted at 10:30 AM

QX: More Quark Xpress 7 reading

[CreativeGuy - Graphic Design Software Tips, Tricks and Commentary] From all I’ve read, Quark XPress 7 promises to be the first version of XPress that doesn’t lose marketshare to Adobe InDesign since Adobe released it years ago. It also sounds like it’ll be quite an upgrade, unlike every version of Quark since version 3 - which were all buggy and feature poor (at least, features that print designers actually want).

Posted at 10:29 AM

Playing with Fonts

[ChorusLineA1QMS-VisualArts] Black, Grey, and White for a change. I was scribbling around and finally found a font that was suitable for what was intended.

Posted at 10:27 AM

Blambot Newsletter

[Designmeme] Nate releases a new professional comic font and a new free comic font every month. He also does some lettering work for Dark Horse Comics, writes interactive horror fiction at VisitDeadEnds.com and still manages to find the time to publish his weekly Atland webcomic!

Posted at 10:24 AM

ImageReady Layers to Flash

[The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog - photoshop.weblogsinc.com _] Did you know you can also export individual layers in an ImageReady file as separate SWFs so that you can import each into Flash layers for further editing. To do that, choose File>Export>Layers as Files, and in the Export Layers as Files dialog box, set Format to SWF and click the Set button to open another dialog where you can set options for how the SWFs will be saved.

Posted at 10:18 AM

Hiding files inside images - it works!

[Webby's World] Ever had a file you wanted to share? Maybe an MP3? But were worried you’d be sued? Or perhaps you wanted to provide captions with images, without...

Posted at 10:16 AM

Graphics using JavaScript!

[Arjun's Home] Ever thought about Graphics programming using JavaScript? Check this out : http://www.west.co.tt/matt/js/redbug/red (works only in IE) Excellent...

Posted at 10:14 AM

August 04, 2005

Frutiger

[ Warpspire: The Rambling Years] Frutiger 0 comments Posted 1 week, 5 days ago in Fonts This post starts my font of the week, in which every week I will post a font...

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Posted at 10:04 AM

Sign In at Walt Disney World

[The Disney Blog] Also features a great shopping service for merchandise from Disneyland and Walt Disney World. They can get you that merchandise you saw last time you were in the park, something you think you saw, or even just a pair of mouse ears!" href="http://www.laughingplacestore.com">Disney Shopping at The LaughingPlace Store

Posted at 10:00 AM

X-Rite Pulse ColorElite System Wins PIA/GATF Intertech Technology Award

[PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information] Press Release: Grandville, MI - August 1, 2005 -X-Rite (NASDAQ: XRIT) today announced that its Pulse™ ColorElite System has received the 2005 PIA/GATF Intertech Technology Award, one of the most coveted awards in the graphic arts industry. The Pulse ColorElite System was selected by a panel of independent judges from a record 52 nominations.

Posted at 09:59 AM

GIMP Tutorial - Arwen Icon

[Holy Shmoly!] Here’s a very detailed tutorial showing how to create a beautiful avator icon from a photo in the GIMP. Lurvely! Lots more icon stuff in the noldo...

Posted at 09:58 AM

Some more of me

[Body Love] It's a digital picture of me, from late 2004, but I manipulated it with Gimp. It now looks like a sketch or an x-ray, which I think looks very cool.

Posted at 09:56 AM

Yahoo! Developer Network

[daily flash indonesia] I just join this network and look like now Yahoo! have a new shopping API. I have download Yahoo! SDK and it's have flash sampe on it. So I guess building Yahoo! shop using Flash or Central would be kewl... ;)

Posted at 09:54 AM

Xeenat

[Blog Introduction] Blog Introduction: A place for writers to introduce themselves to the community. Bringing readers and blogs together.

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Posted at 09:53 AM

August 02, 2005

Vista Fontage

[Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff] A while back I blogged the rather lovely new fonts that Microsoft had commissioned for the then Longhorn.

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Posted at 10:20 AM

Suitcase

[MyProgs] Macromedia Flash is an application for developing rich content, user interfaces, and web applications.

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Posted at 10:17 AM

Windows Vista Fonts

[jake jarvis dot com] Six new ClearType fonts used in Windows Vista are available for download. I’ll definitely be using these good-looking fonts in one of my next design projects.

Posted at 10:15 AM

QuarkXPress 7.0 From the Inside

[Quark VS InDesign] CreativePro.com’s Gene Gable spent two days at Quark’s Denver headquarters to find out and emerged with a cautiously optimistic exclusive report that delves deeper into what Quark has let out of the bag so far—and hints at a few things they haven’t.

Posted at 10:14 AM

Hue Rotation Using the Gimp

[Holy Shmoly!] This tutorial explains how to change the palette of an image, and goes over scripting it too! Oooer! Scheme? ugh!

Posted at 10:11 AM

Why Do You Stay Up So Late?

[Giavasan] Ecco cosa succede combinando poesia ed effetti visuali in Flash...

Posted at 10:09 AM

Nice Flash work

[Franto.com Flash blog] Nice flash work: Info page for book Leven Thumps and Gateway ti Foo. Enjoy. Tags: Flash, Flash, graphics, web

Posted at 10:06 AM

August 01, 2005

What am I doing here?

[Around The Palouse] By that I mean a place to store information and links that I need to refer to in the future. I hope this blog evolves into other uses but I’m satisfied so far.

Posted at 10:20 AM

Ajax-style PDF part 1: fading highlight setup

[mg.to - Michael Geary to Earth (and vice versa)] With our narrator in a Flash movie and the links being PDF buttons, is there a way to connect the two? We can write some JavaScript code in the PDF to fade a highlight on and off for a link, but how do we trigger that code at the right time as the movie plays?

Posted at 10:19 AM

Firefox and Acrobat

[Peter's Blog | Redefining the impossible] Life went on except when I booted firefox all my bookmarks had gone. No idea why this could be, maybe my cache was on the second hard disk so it decided to reset everything.

Posted at 10:16 AM

Portable RCA RS2052: Transfer Mp3s without computer

[Mp3 Player Guide] The unique 'intro' function allows listeners to sample music from the first 10 seconds of each track on all five CDs. Capable of playing CD-R and CD-RW discs, as well as mp3 and Windows Media Audio files, the bookshelf system also features an SD memory card slot for music playback and a digital AM/FM tuner with 32 preset stations.

Posted at 10:15 AM

Raster and Vector Made Simple

[Internet Corner :: Main Page] Vector and raster are the two main graphics types in desktop publishing. If you don't understand how they work, you also will not understand the difference between Illustrator and Photoshop, or the difference between a vector graphics application and a raster graphics application at large.

Posted at 10:13 AM