I used to fritter away 5 or 10 minute blocks of time. I considered mere minutes insignificant and 5 minutes too little to do anything meaningful and would rarely begin a task if I had less than 5 minutes to accomplish it. The great benefit of a busy schedule is that I’ve become keenly aware of how valuable small morsels of time can be and how much potential there is in 5 minutes and how this little block of time can expand to be just enough! This month has been a whirlwind of work and appointments and despite my busy schedule, life’s very good. Here are a few of my favorite iPhone shots this week.
Have a great weekend!
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The best-laid plans can go astray. I started this post a couple of days ago thinking that it would be a fun and easy exercise in creating a collage using CSS layering properties. In my naive fantasy, it was going to be very simple. My concept was two-fold. First, all of the elements in the collage would be layered with CSS: the drop shadow, webfonts for the text, a layer for the pink dot, and Veronika’s photo. Second, I wanted the entire collage to stick to the bottom/right corner of the screen no matter what size you expanded it to. You can check out a mock-up I made in Photoshop here. To make a long story short, the sticky bottom/right corner CSS was a sticky nightmare! So, in the interest of saving time and my sanity, I’m going to postpone the CSS version of the exercise and instead show you how I created the collage in good ol’ Photoshop using techniques we’ve already covered. ♥ Click here to view the PSD Layers.
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sephora nail polish: pot of gold, read my palm, and on stage
Links Loved: digital textile printing, modern moodboards, paper mache hand hooks, perfect round shades, a crisp red jacket, clever DIYs, new blogs, and other fun stuff. :)
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One of the things I love about fashion magazines are the product collages — I admire how designers find fun, clever ways to combine a lot of different product images into a single coherent image. It could be based on a color theme, a current style (lace, anyone?), or purses, or shoes — anything at all. In fact, at one time I was so caught up in collages that I started a blog where the two posts I created were collages (I had big plans for it, but I got really lazy). My collages were of things I really liked. Though I don’t have time for 10 Pretty Things these days, I still use my collaging experience to prepare simpler images for Pugly Pixel…
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Eleonore Bridge’s
photos used with permission. Thanks, Eleonore!
This post is the first of a new series called Label Me which aims to catalog the ways we can add simple captions to our images. I’m going to start the series by showing how to use rectangles as labels with contrasting fonts for captions.
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