I have not posted here for a good while. I think it is because I am think I am in need of some inspiration, I stumbled upon this video which I think is great inspiration to photographers.
A Walkthru with Kathleen Connally from squigglebooth on Vimeo.
Just like when you get your car worked on and you ask the mechanic to explain the invoice, you should also provide some explanation as to what each individual item means.Today I received an email asking what it all meant and it dawned on me that itis not that the client doesn’t trust you, they just simply want to know what they are paying for.
Urbex is a great way to work with low lighting and great for capturing textures colors and all kinds of shapes and shadows, plus it is fun as hell. Here is a photo set from some of my first Urban exploration trips.
Pixels are great, actually photoshop would not exist if it wasn’t for pixel based images. Your camera for instance takes 8 mega pixel images with its CCD sensor, and when saved that picture is made of 8 million building block elements each having a certain color intensity mode. When viewed at 100% on a monitor every line (even if the picture is taken incorrectly) looks perfectly smooth and straight, when viewed up close the picture soon becomes distorted and you can see each individual element creating it. read more
I’m sure everyone has heard about twitter and all of the amazing ways to use it. Who knew such a simple micro blogging platform can have a million ways of being used, and that is what design is all about. Taking an original purpose and expanding it and crafting it for every possible use as a way to get a message across.
Every once in a while I find tutorials online that I bookmark as learn this later, as I find a different or faster method of accomplishing things. This week I will focus on four tutorials that I find very useful.
Consider this scenario:
Chris from creative fruit designs gets contacted by a new clothing store for a redesign of their logo that for the purpose of this scenario we will call “New Threads”. Chris who never really got any large clients like that gets excited about this job, furthermore New Threads informs Chris that this is a competition and whoever designs the best logo gets picked to redesign the logo. Chris designs something great and then gets rejected. Nine months later Chris is walking by a new clothing sore in the mall called New Threads and notices that their logo looks familiar and is in fact the same exact logo he designed for them. Now a nasty lawsuit has to ensue which leaves Chris with no more money and no clients who want to deal with him anymore.
When you meet with a client for the first time, you might talk price and project specifics, and perhaps even a time frame for when the work is to be done. You go home or to your office, draft up a contract and receive the down payment. Now the clock is ticking, the creativity has to start flowing and you must start somewhere. This article is a general layout for one effective work flow habit that I follow as well as several tips from other people I have talked to. So whether you are a writer, designer, or developer, read on.
This video tutorial is the first in my series on the tips techniques and theory applied behind tonal editing in photoshop. This first video covers a very well proven technique of converting color photo’s to black and white. Its a 10 minute quick video so go ahead and open up photoshop and follow along.
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Hello, my name is Richard Eichele. I am a Freelance Web Designer and Photographer . I code in XHTML and CSS as well as Javascript and some Flash. On my page you will find Photoshop, Web coding and Design tutorials that I hope you will find useful.
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