Posts from ‘World Wide Web’
How to Make Depth of Field Typography
DOF Typography
DOF Typography, what the hell is that exactly? Well I needed one day to make the text from a header page someway different, sadly color, position, angle and all other stuff didn’t quite get the main idea of different. Then I thought to make it look like the letters were put there by hand and look like they were hanging, some sort of smooth 3D effect.
Well the idea is not new I’m sure of that, but the solution to do it in Photoshop is quite easy peasy and no super cool plugins or 1000 layers are necessary (feel free to search for other solutions over the net, but this is how I did it so stick around to see my version).
The Desired Effect – Magnified
So, the desired effect in the end should look like the one in the example above, you can see that some letters are in front of the others and the light casted drops a shadow just enough to make them look like they are hanging there without a pin (some sort of a 3D effect)
Motivat de Tudor in articolul lui de aici sa spun mai multe despre #blogtrip am zis bun hai sa spun ce am invatat eu din primul meu blogtrip si ultimul care se face 
Ei bine totul a inceput in dimineata lui 12 Iunie cand trebuia sa ma intalnesc cu Luana sa ajungem si noi la timp ca doar suntem oameni seriosi. Ajunsi la Hotel Pantex cu 10 minute intarziere am constatat cu stupoare ca nu eram ultimii oameni veniti, dar printre primii. Dupa ce ne-a explicat Bobby ca o sa ii asteptam si pe ceilalti, care s-au anuntat, am schimbat o vorba doua cu cateva persoane. Una peste alta intr-un final am inceput workshopul.
Cine ce si de ce, ultimul blogtrip
Au vorbit Bobby, Dorin, Tudor, Bogdan si Adrian. Primul a fost Bobby care a vorbit despre Blogtrip, ce inseamna el si cum ar trebuii noi cei care participam la asa ceva sa incercam sa furam din experienta celor din jurul nostru. Am zis experienta, si zic experienta pentru ca din ce am vazut eu noi incercam sa cautam raspunsul la intrebarea “Ca sa fac asta … ce trebuie sa fac mai exact?” scurtatura catre marea lovitura, calea usoara catre obiectivul nostru. Este aproape imposibil sa ne raspunda cineva la intrebarea de mai sus. Tot ce pot oamenii din jurul nostru sa faca este sa ne arate o cale sa ne ajute cu un sfat si sa ne impartaseasca experienta lor, iar noi mai departe pentru ca suntem fiintele superioare pe acest pamant (desi incep sa ma indoiesc de asta) prin personalitatile noastre diferite si prin natura noastra diferita de la individ la individ trebuie sa aranjam toate piesele pe care le avem in forma cea mai corecta pentru noi…
Dimineata am fost la BlogTrip Brasov unde am mai invatat cate ceva din experienta prezentatorilor si nu numai. Am cunoscut pentru prima oara face 2 face cateva persoane cu care am mai schimbat o vorba doua despre blog, trip, comunitati si despre cel mai frumos oras din Romania, Brasov si am participat la primul meu workshop sustinut de Bobby Voicu care a anuntat ca este ultimul pe care il face in formatul acesta (il inteleg perfect avand in vedere interesul aratat cu o seara inainte si concluzia de dupa)
Imediat dupa am fost la #NationalTweetmeet de unde tot ce pot spune este ca am plecat cu un gust foarte amar si cu aceiasi concluzie pe care am mai avut-o… Una peste alta aparatul meu foto a circulat din mana in mana la un moment dat si mai jos sunt rezultatele pentru cine vrea sa le vada.
Zynga
The Facebook games that millions love (and hate) - asa suna un articol pe CNN pe care l-am citit si eu acum cateva minute dupa ceva timp. Este practic un raport publicat de Zynga legat de activitatea utilizatorilor sai pe jocurile care ruleaza in Facebook.
Ca oricare dintre voi am si eu cativa prieteni care joaca treburile alea cu inversunare, dar sincer sa fiu nu mi-am imaginat niciodata ca situatia sta cu totul altfel decat credeam eu. Facebook are 400 de milioane de utilizatori si este platforma care a facilitat cresterea impresionanta a utilizatorilor de FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FishVille, Vamipres si Cafe World (mai sunt si altele), acestea fiind cele mai importante jocuri pe care le ofera Zynga pentru utilizatorii sai.
Raportul ne spune ca in medie mai mult de 65 de milioane de oameni din lumea intreaga joaca unul din prostiile alea de mai sus, adica de trei ori populatia Romaniei, sau mai mult decat populatia Frantei.
The world’s largest stock imagery company, Getty Images, released a mashup (I just stumbled upon it) that leans on the company’s vast stock image and audio assets. It is a flash application called Moodstream that draws on Getty’s photo, video, and audio collections to create what the company calls a
Powerful brainstorming tool designed to take you in inspiring, unexpected directions.
Moodstream streams music and images along with video clips to create a sort of audio-visual mix. There are manny other applications for desktop or mobile that are trying to impose the same effect, like StereoMood or Sourcetone, I for example use on my iPod touch RjDj, but none of them have incorporated a visual element (yet).
Moodstream is able to adjusts its output based on settings users input via some sliders that should describe their state of mind. Happy to Sad, Humorous to Serious, etc. Also the type of transitions between image assets can be controlled by the user, the amount of color vs. black and white imagery, and the type of music.
Everybody wants to be an artist and for some there are special tools that are in the same time very easy to use and very powerful when creating some form of digital art. On of these tools is Flame.
Flame is a painting program, it belongs to my ‘I am Artist’ experimental project. I think with tools which inspires you, everybody can be an artist. You can try it here, change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings. When you change background from black to white, palette changes from additive to substactive and the feeling of the painting is very different. It’s not easy to explain all brush parameters, so I leave this for your experimentation.
Flame Painter Main Screen
Build by Peter Blaškovič Flame is a Processing application that can make a simple mouse movement look like a 1000 brush strokes on a canvas. Basically your brush is transformed into a multiple particle elastic one that can fill your strokes like you would do it with lots of small brushes put together. The only and the most important difference here is that you can control the intensity, color, opacity and size of each of the brushes.
Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov to brighten up the routine work made a really nice application called MousePath. It was a simple Java based tool that records your mouse movements and records all your paths drawing a line as it’s goes along running in the background.
Posting it at Flickr, the tool very quickly made some noise and everyone was trying to see what was too discover in the chaotic movements of their mouse. Some of us even called it ART
Now the tool has evolved from the little Java application to
IOGraph — is an application that turns mouse movements into a modern art. The idea is that you just run it and do your usual day stuff at the computer. Go back to IOGraph after a while and grab a nice picture of what you’ve done!
The tool works quite easy: Open, Press Start, Do your thing, Save the image…
Ever wanted to add a bottom shadow effect to some elements, shapes or images in Photoshop in just a few easy steps? Well actually is quite easy to do something like this and you don’t have to be an expert.
The main design advantage that bottom shadow effects have is that it will give you the impression of deepness to your content and elements.
Here is the desired effect
Step 1 – Open your image / document
Open your document or image in Photoshop and create a new Layer right after your main Layer. In this layer we will add the bottom shadow effect and because the new layer is positioned right after our main one it will display in the back without overlapping the main layer…
Inspired by others ideas and code and also by the need to insert a Top Link like button on my own website I managed to write a script that not only works on all major browsers but it’s also neat and animated
The expected outcome
The general idea was to try and add a link on the right side of the page that will appear and stick there after a certain percentage of the page is scrolled down and when clicked will smoothly scroll the page back to the top. Also it’s mandatory that this should work on all major browsers (including IE).
Here is an example how this should look like (example working already on this page, just scroll down to see it)
The button and the placement problems
In order to add the button to the page we just need to add this code to our page just after the <body> tag:
<a href="#header-top"> <div id="back-top" style="display: block;"></div> </a>
The DIV tag will be used to show our top link using a background-image (but you can use a text just as well) and the anchor will be used to link us to the top of the page (in this case by the most outer div tag with the #header-top id) .
I tried (lately) to separate my blog articles from funny, cool, dev, tech bla bla (meme related) videos and images and post them all on my Tumblr Profile but this one is a must see. I just stumbled upon it and this video is about A coder girl … I really can’t describe how funny and cool this one is so I will let you all to watch it and see it for your selves.
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