Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Drop Gallery is a good idea

I haven't played with this yet but it sounds good.

 
 

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How would you like to have the ability to drag and drop images into a folder and know their next stop is your online gallery? It sounds appealing, doesn't it?

This is what you get with DropGallery. So far, it's only available for Windows, but they promise applications will be coming soon for Mac as well as the iPhone and Android.

If the convenience of an application such as DropBox is any indication, DropGallery will be a valuable tool for many photographers.

You can use up to 2GB of the service for free.  If you like the service, you can upgrade to 50GB for $4.99 a month.  The service plans also offer backup service.

This service can be used for many professional and amateur applications.  Set the galleries to either public or private, which will give photographers the option of collaborating with other photographers, art directors and editors.

This is a new application with promise.  Before long, I'm sure this technology will be integrated into other applications such as Flickr, Photoshelter or Smugmug.

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

An Amazing 3D Light Show From Russia

 
 

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, baker, painter

 
 

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Eugene Von Bruenchenhein was born in Wisconsin on July 31, 1910. He lived in a small house in Milwaukee with his wife Marie, and he worked in a bakery. Between 1954 and 1963 he used his fingers, combs, quills and bakery tools to create hundreds of explosively colorful semi-abstract landscapes that evoke primordial soup biology, Lovecraftian horror, scifi weirdness and hellish alien beauty ('Full-Screen View' and its zoomable interface increase the pleasure dramatically). The 12 galleries of paintings at his memorial site are all available for free hi-res download, you can hear him talking about drugs, brain chemistry and visions at the 'Listen' link, and there's currently an exhibit honoring the centennial of his birth at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.

 
 

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010

15 Must-See Photoshop Photo Effect Tutorials

 
 

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via ArtBistro by Christina Macres | ArtBistro on 8/25/10



Looking to create the perfect image on Photoshop, spice up your graphic design portfolio, learn new photo manipulation tools or just have some fun?

We've selected 15 fresh new Photoshop photo effect tutorials. From vintage lomo effects to creating your very own iTunes style illustrations — it's all here!

Quick Lomo Effect:








Next: No. 2: Classic Photo Effect →


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Next: No. 3: Longer Version: Lomo Effect →


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Next: No. 4: Holga Effect →


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Next: No. 5: Vintage Prints from Modern Photos →






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Next: No. 6: Make It Rain →


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Next: No. 7: Advanced Black & White →


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Advanced Black & White








Next: No. 8: Using the Puppet Warp Tool →


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Using the Puppet Warp Tool








Next: No. 9: Retouching: Fashion Photography →


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Retouching: Fashion Photography








Next: No. 10: Adding a Quick Layer Mask →


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Next: No. 11: Comic Book Effect →


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Next: No. 12: iTunes Style Illustration →


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Next: No. 13: Realistic Water Reflections →


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Next: No. 14: Andy Warhol Effect →


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Next: No. 15: Creating a Panoramic Image →


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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Make Your Own Cuneiform Clay Tablet Magazine!

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

Dress 'em how you like.

 
 

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At the 1938 Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris. each of fifteen artists were given a dressmaker's mannequin as their canvas and encouraged to transform the figure in any way they desired.
The artists included (in order of appearance in this video) Salvador Dalí, Óscar Dominguez, Marcel Duchamp, Léo Malet, André Masson, Joan Miró, Wolfgang Paalen, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Jean, Max Ernst, Espinoza, Maurice Henry, Sonia Mossé, and Man Ray. Here are some stills.

 
 

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Free and Low Cost Design in the Cloud

 
 

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There are so many great tools out there online these days that a person could power their entire business using nothing but free and low cost web apps.

One area that has seen tremendous advancement is the area of online applications geared towards helping people do all things related to graphic design. For some, the days of buying software suites that cost more than the most robust desktop computer may be coming to an end.

Below is a list of some of the most popular online offerings that address design, illustration and editing, including crowdsourcing of custom design.

Graphic Design

  • Aviary – Suite of online graphic design tools for image editing, color and effects editing, illustration and even audio editing
  • Pixlr – Extremely popular free online photo editor
  • Picknik – Pretty straightforward image editor
  • Inkscape –An Open Source vector graphics editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator
  • Photoshop.com – Edit, store and share online
  • Jaycut – online video editing set of tools that also allows you to install video editing on your site for user generated campaigns
  • Splashup – Full featured image editor, plays nice with photo sites
  • flauntR – Lots of tools from the FotoDesk folks


Color Design

  • COLOURlovers – duh, that's why you're here!
  • kuler – Color Design and Schemes from Adobe


Web site design

  • Weebly – drag and drop web site and blog design
  • Webs – Lots of templates and ecommerce options (how did that get that URL?)
  • Yola – Another easy to use site builder
  • Createplace – Focus on building portfolios
  • Sitekreator – Very robust tool that includes hosting
  • WebNode – HTML and css editor robust enough to design and maintain entire web sites


Presentation Design

  • Slideroll – Nice simple way to create slideshows
  • Prezi – This is a very cool way to share and animate a presentation. It's more like a unique platform than tool
  • Sliderocket – Powerful way to build and share online presentation


Crowdsourced Design

  • Elegant.ly – Focus in on pitching your start-up to a group of designers
  • Crowdspring – Logo and web design and now copywriting
  • 99Designs – Contest driven crowdsourced design

 
 

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