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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s a short and easy tutorial showing you how to create photo albums on your beloved iPhone using iPhoto and iTunes. If you’re like me, you have all your photos in one ginormous folder, the Camera Roll. In an effort to become more organized in 2012, I’m going to create albums. This will make it [...]
(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, [...]
While I was playing around in Photoshop, I got the idea to make a brush to mimic the tinsel I bought from Daiso last month. Since tinsel is made of shiny rectangles, I thought it would be pretty simple. So I made a brush with a rectangle shape as a base and tweaked away. I’ll [...]
My photo-editing process is very simple. I’m not a photographer so I feel a bit funny sharing what I do. All the same, I have figured out a few things. I’ve noticed patterns in my photo-editing and these steps generally amount to: lightening, darkening, and a third method which is a composite of the first [...]
