Archive for the ‘Creative’ Category

Editable Fisheye Lens Effect in Photoshop

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

The fisheye lens effect, used judiciously, has great creative uses. Although your best bet is to use an SLR camera with a real fisheye lens, you can achieve a similar effect in Photoshop without such a lens.

Although creating a fisheye lens effect in Photoshop might seem very easy, using the built-in filters such as Spherize, the advantage of the technique I am sharing is that the original image remains fully editable and distortion-free, and any future edits do not require repeating the distortion effects. (more…)

Smashing Book

Friday, August 14th, 2009

I’m a long-time subscriber to Smashing Magazine’s super cool design blog RSS feed. It is probably the king of “top lists” when it comes to design hints, resources, and practices. And the quality is superb. You can tell that they really have an eye for design, and not just a bunch of geeks who decided to run a design blog.

Partly out of gratitude for their great resource, and partly because I think it looks like a great book, I recently ordered their Smashing Book.

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Musical Chairs for Board Members (With Photoshop)

Friday, March 27th, 2009

For a magazine project I am working on now, I had to update a photograph of our board members, to reflect changes that have occurred since the original photograph was taken.

The original photo was shot in 2007, I believe. Even then, not all of the then-current board members were available at the time of the photo shoot. I arranged for one of my coworkers, Kenton Rogers, to take one photo without the missing members, who were added later when they were able to come and sit for a photo.

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Calibration Wallpaper

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Back in 2001, I created this wallpaper image to test monitor color and scan-line accuracy. Although more useful with CRT monitors, I suppose it may have some value to those who are trying to diagnose any kind of display problem.

You can download the wallpaper by clicking here:

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SonBeam Channel Logo

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

On January 1, 2009, 3ABN is launching a new 24-hour channel for children called the SonBeam Channel. Initially it will be available only to those with the MOIPTV and MOPCWeb systems. One of the tasks assigned to my department was creating a logo for this channel.

Goals of the design included making it unique, appealing to kids, cheery, bright, fun, and easy to animate. We also strove for simplicity and contemporary colors and shapes.

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