Thursday, October 7, 2010

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Thursday, September 16, 2010

"How To"s

#1 : How to make 'sigs'

- Who am I : a forum user
- What is it : a digital signature

(image from www.planetrenders.com)

- What for : used in forums / websites as an identity

1st Task : Preparing the image (rendering)
2nd Task : Creating the flow (smudging, etc)
3rd Task : Adding additional effects (tweak colors, add text, etc)

Outcome : upload the sig to be used
Showcase : Best of sigs

#2 : How to make an interesting Scanography

- Who am I : a bored designer
- What is it : an interesting self-portrait

(image from www.faceyourpockets.com)

- What for : some inspiration for bored designers

1st Task : Gather your everyday items (or things that represent you), a scanner
2nd Task : Arrange your items and scan (eyes should be closed)
3rd Task : Edit your photos for other effects (lomo, underwater, etc)

Outcome : An interesting self-portrait that speaks for itself
Showcase : Uses (namecard, message, etc)

#3 : How to meditate
- Who am I : just a regular person
- What is it : meditation
- What for : peace and happiness in life

1st Task : find a quiet place and sit down comfortably
2nd Task : practice breathing meditation
3rd Task : single-pointed focus

Outcome : benefits from a calm and peaceful mind (happy even in difficult circumstances)
Showcase : quotes of wisdom from meditators

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Beautiful HTML Websites

#1 : http://www.evaneckard.com/

#2: http://www.jek2k.com/wp/

#3: http://www.obuweb.com

#4: http://fall.tnvacation.com/

Illustrator Tutorials

Illustrator tutorial #1

Illustrator tutorial #2

Illustrator tutorial #3

Illustrator tutorial #4

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop Tutorial #1

Photoshop Tutorial #2

Photoshop Tutorial #3

Photoshop Tutorial #4

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Re-V-ive-D

so we're back for another semester on blogging i mean... multimedia design.

coming up : Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials + interesting website references.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Flash Animation

it may be abit annoying if you open this blog and the flash starts to play on its own, so i re-move-ed it to: here

Friday, May 7, 2010

wallpaper

1366x768

1280x960

Wallpaper design inspired by Fireflies by Owl City. Just listening to the song and felt like exploring typography. not that i would call this typography... its just exploration i guess. haha. Quite satisfied with the outcome, but do let me know what u think =D

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

PWO_finals

banner

poster

thanks Eng Khuang for all the guidance :)

Sunday, April 25, 2010

PWO concert

update 3

update 2

updated

an incomplete poster

banner

Thursday, April 22, 2010

AE_1

trying out After Effects, very cool. Haven't got the files i want yet, this is part of it. not sure why but the animation stopped looping..something to do with the host

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

il_1

traced one of the scenes from Samurai X... not as epic as I'd imagined though. wanted to try some gradient map in PS but didnt turn out great so this is all for now

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

tablet_5

finished painting the moutains

Monday, April 19, 2010

Photoshop_2

yay my first 'ada standard' punya sig. sorry Nat Geo for using the photo without permission... its just too good..

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Tablet_5

painting some mountains

Sunday, April 11, 2010

css_1

since i'm not able to put a 'link' tag in the post html, i cant show (visually) what i done with css, so here's the sheet instead XD

anyway it looks like this

body

{

font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size: 0.8en;

color: #999;

}

p {

line-height: 1.5em;

}

h1

{

font-size: 2em;

text-align: center;

color: #ffc;

background-color: #900;

margin: 1em;

margin-bottom: 0.5em;

padding: 0.25em;

font-style: normal;

text-align: center;

letter-spacing: 0.1em;

border-bottom-style: solid;

border-bottom-width: 0.5em;

border-bottom-color: #c00;

}

/* by the way, this is a comment */

h2

{

color: white;

background-color: #700;

font-size: 1.5em;

text-align: center;

margin: 0em;

padding: 0.1em;

padding-left: 1em;

border-style: dotted;

border-width: 3px;

border-left-width: 10px;

border-right-width: 10px;

border-color: red;

}

h3

{

color: #905;

font-size: 1.25em;

}

a

{

text-decoration: overline;

}

strong

{

font-style: italic;

text-transform: uppercase;

}

em

{

font-size: 0.5em;

}

li {

color:#900;

font-style: italic;

}

table {

background-color: #ccc;

}

input {

color: #c00;

}

textarea {

color: #c00;

}

some hdr 2

some hdr s. gonna try increase the range of exposure (and use a tripod) next time

html_1

This is my first h1 header! Or second, actually..

and just to see what the paragraph tag does here ...

So why learn html?

To show off
Need to be ahead
Actually, I ...
1. want to have things easier
2. don't want to waste time
3. for my parents to have peace of mind
I care

Now, for some fun !

Table of random events

Monday	Tuesday	Saturday
Breakfast	Dinner	Brunch

yes, I had breakfast on Monday, Dinner on Tuesday and Brunch on Saturday!

Form of random entries

Looks like cake, tastes like cake, but there is no cake...

Thursday, April 8, 2010

whoo

yes, yay

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Tablet_4

4th practice. bottom right is the reference. smoke is just a brush i added in PS, from http://www.brushking.eu/337/real-smoke-photoshop-brushes.html

again my face is extended at the sides. really need to watch out for that next time.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Tablet_3.3

some practice again. took a photo i liked out of my library and started painting. observing some tutorials from http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/33-digital-painting-tutorials/

my faces tend to be abit more extended to the sides... i intend to correct that right away. its apparent in this one as well... gonna do some changing tomorrow before i continue painting.