As I was reading through my copy of Nylon Japan for December 2011, I noticed the “attention circles” they used to highlight small details in some of the photos. I don’t know what they’re really called so you can just laugh at my made-up terminology if you want to — I was actually tempted …
I was flipping through my Oct. 2011 Harper’s Bazaar Australia and tucked away in the Beauty News section on pg. 152 was a single photo from backstage of the Chanel haute couture runway A/W 11-12. What caught my eye was the lace mask the model was wearing. With a little googling I learned that Karl [...]
Hi guys, I just made a fresh batch of post photo layouts. There are 6 layouts in 2 sizes (600px + 900px) and 2 styles: one with concave rounded corners and another with beveled corners. At the center of each layout is a heart, which can be a hidden layer if you prefer not to [...]
I’ve spent the last few hours watching video tutorials at Method and Craft. I found myself gasping with amazement at the depth of the resources these leading professionals have generously shared for both Photoshop and Illustrator. Method and Craft is all original content, with dozens of first-rate videos that made me say, “oh my gawd, [...]
I’ve made quite a few animated GIFs here at Pugly Pixel and I’ve received numerous requests for a tutorial. Animated GIFs are simple to make — all you need is a sequence of images to stitch together using an image editor like Adobe Photoshop (I’m using CS3). When the browser loads the animated image, it [...]
(quiz time! mouse over image to toggle answers) I really love my 27-inch iMac and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else. But sometimes, when I’m working on one side of the screen in Photoshop, I have to mouse over to the other side of the screen just to find the tiny toolbox so that [...]
(Blog Photo Layouts Part 9: #1) Have you noticed that more and more style blogs are moving towards a super-blog format called the blogazine? I’m sure you already know about Oh Joy!, Oh Happy Day, Poppytalk, and of course, A Beautiful Mess, just to name a few. Blogazines usually have editors, multiple contributors, regular features, [...]
