Last week I introduced Frankenspoon, a downloadable flat pack toy inspired by the likes of the Readymech characters by Fwis. In this post I’ll be going back through the stages of his creation, starting with an idea floating around in my brain, to a rough pencil sketch, to drawing up in Adobe Illustrator and finally bringing to life in three dimensions!
I was never a fan of Photoshop brushes until I discovered a simple feature in the brushes palette which allows the rotation of a Photoshop brush before use. This is another post that will be old news for those who already know about the feature, but it could make your day if you don’t!
I have just completed a personal website project producing a Social Networking site to allow for learner drivers to sign up on the site, create a personal user profile, update their personal blog and communicate with other users through commenting, friend systems and private messaging.
To begin the project I set out testing out a variety of Open Source content management systems to find the best solution, and before I knew it, I'd looked into a huge range of potential systems and thought it would be great to summarise my findings on the best contenders…
For those who already know about Automate Batch, this article may not be of much interest, but to those who don't, reading on could possibly be the best moment of your life (or at least this week!).
By firstly using the power of pen and paper a character design is created, which is then scanned into the computer to use as a base for tracing with Adobe Illustrator. The final outcome is a colourful cartoon character in vector format!
This simple effect in Photoshop effectively increases the luminosity range of an ordinary photograph, giving a wide spectrum of tones and contrast. The effect was originally discovered whilst I was trying to replicate the style of HDR photography in Adobe Photoshop. Whilst the outcome doesn’t quite compare to HDR, the resulting effect is still pretty cool!