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New HDR gallery website soon
2007-06-03 15:05:00
As you have read on this post , you know that I'm playing with my new toy :) I made some new hdr photos and I decided to release a new website, a HDR gallery with all my best shots. I hope this new site will be ready for the next week :) Here already some of my new HDR photos: Some photos from my village in Belgium, just at the end of my street : What do you think?
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Photo Light Blur Overlays, Vectors and more for free!
2007-05-31 13:34:00
Issara Willenskomer provides freelance Art/Creative Direction for motion graphics, photography, fashion illustrations, interactive solutions, print, apparel, general styling, and various requisite tasty shizzle. He also directs music and dance videos. This designer has also worked on projects for such clients like MTV, Microsoft, HBO, Motorola, ESPN, Target, Fanta, Baskin Robbins, and more. At his website, www.designbum.net , you'll find beautifully constructed web pages rich with work. You will find a download section where he posts documents that anyone can download and use as their own. Here what you can download: - 100 Photo Light Overlay s (75 MB) - Tasty Layered Photoshop Documents (86 MB) - Vector Design Resources (51 MB) - Project Source Files (26 MB) More than 230 MB zipped! :) ( via Emob.fr )
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My new toy: Canon EOS 400D camera
2007-05-30 15:39:00
One of my projects is to make a HDR gallery on this website or maybe on a new domain. I was using a very small camera until now and it was impossible to make good HDR photos with it, so I decided to make a good purchase: the canon EOS 400D camera! :) This camera isn't very expensive (only about $900-$1000 in Europe) for all the technology you get in your hands! For more details about this great camera, look at this page . Here my first HDR photo made in my garden yesterday, and for a first shot, I think it's not so bad! What do you think? :)
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Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials
2007-05-30 14:07:00
Need inspiration to make your own logo? You don't know how to make it? Here E Logo Design 's list of best logo design tutorials on the internet... :)
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Photoshop Top Secret revealed soon!
2007-05-28 00:40:00
What is Photosho p Top Secret ? "Over one year in the making and one of kind, Mark Monciardini and Melanie Stimmell create 'Photoshop Top Secret', a training DVD-ROM full of video tutorials on creating cutting edge graphics and digital painting techniques. The key to creating the graphics will remain 'top Secret' until it's release. The Photoshop Top Secret DVD-ROM's will be comprised of 3 or more DVD's and a full color reference book. The disks will contain hours of instructional videos and additional project files for you to experiment with on your own." Some of the training videos will be in CS3. This does NOT mean you need CS3 to follow the tutorials. Mark Monciardini has created all the steps during the videos while keeping 4 versions of Photoshop in mind: 7.0, CS, CS2 and CS3! The secrets should be revealed on July 24th 2007 ! :) Until this date, enjoy these great screencasts on the blog of Mark Monciardi: - Secret word image in...
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Speed Painting of Jessica Alba by Mediamaster
2007-05-25 13:27:00
Very well done speed painting by Mediamaster Enjoy :)
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This is not a photograph!
2007-05-24 13:49:00
I already wrote some posts about photoshop speed painting art on this website but here, believe it or not, this is not a digital painting !! This is not a photograph, but a digital painting recreating a photo of a model named Tica. Artist Dru Blair has a detailed explanation of how it was done, including larger images of the process. See the details! This painting was completed in February 2005. It was a Portrait Class project that Dru Blair decided to finish in his spare time after the workshop. Dru said: "It probably took a total of around 65-75 hours to complete" ! Ian, Dru and Darryl pose in front of the Tica original painting during the April 05 Workshop. Dru Blair's Biography "Dru Blair was born in Newbern, NC., September 7. Growing up in Columbia, SC, his ambitions originally were directed toward a career in medicine. However, during his undergraduate studies at Furman University in Greenville, SC, he discover...
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CSS Star Rating System
2007-05-23 17:45:00
If you are not familiar with a Star Rating System , it's simply a method of voting using (usually) 5 stars in a row, which will change colour as you hover over them indicating the level at which to rate something. You can use this kind of rating system with your articles, links... and people will be able to vote if they like them... This star rating system is entirely CSS based and tested on multiple browsers. No javascript used here! :) Read more...
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Vecteezy: Free Vectors
2007-05-20 00:35:00
If you liked Brusheezy then you will like Vecteezy ! Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector s available for download by some of the best designers around the world. The goal of Vecteezy is to be a the best resource for Free Vectors available for download on the internet!

Join the conversation!
2007-05-18 14:38:00
coComment is now installed here on this website! But what is it? coComment makes your online conversation a lot more fun, with a simple but useful set of services like conversation tracking and sharing, RSS feeds and alerts for conversations, and a variety of community oriented services. coComment keeps a copy of all comments you make on the web (on blog sites, flickr , digg, full list of compatible platforms is here). If privacy is a concern, you can of course hide your comments from other users if you want. coComment displays all the conversations you're tracking in one convenient place - it works just like an email inbox. Once you're tracking those conversations, coComment will show you whenever someone's added a comment, so you can effectively follow the whole conversation. If you're a blogger, coComment allows you to display the comments you make on other sites back on your own blog. With one simple line of script, you can show...
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Adding Images to Links with Common File Extensions
2007-05-18 00:56:00
New CSS feature: Code used in this video: <style> a[href $='.pdf'] { padding-left: 20px; background: transparent url(pdf.jpg) no-repeat center } </style> <a href="foo.pdf">Test</a> ; And don't forget this: $ = at the end ^ = at the beginning * = anywhere
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Avoiding Firefox?s link border
2007-05-17 14:17:00
As you already have noticed, Firefox adds a dotted border around a link when you click on it and this is very annoying when we have links on images. The CSS outline properties is used to draw a line around an element, outside the border edge. You can specify the style, color, and width of the outline. But the most important here is that the css outine properties enables us to avoid this line around links if we want :) Here the solution to remove this dotted border using CSS: a:active, a:focus { outline: 0 } For more information about the css outline properties: www.w3schools.com/...
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Online Photo Editors
2007-05-17 01:09:00
. Did I forget one ? ;)
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JACK BAUER - Speed Painting
2007-05-16 22:33:00
Once again, a new photoshop speed painting by Nico Di Mattia :) I always like to watch this kind of art! And you?
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Contact Forms Showcase
2007-05-15 18:53:00
Often we neglect the design of contact forms, so here is the contact forms showcase that will give you some inspiration ;) . Thanks for your comments! digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/Contact _Form s _Sho wcase';
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Ibiz - Free Template ports for Forest Blog
2007-05-15 00:30:00
I would like to present a promising website, ibiz.be/webdesign, providing ports of popular open source templates for both Forest Blog and Forest Site. Forest Blog is a versatile ASP based blogging application (provided free under a linkware license) that supports both MSSQL and MySQL databases to provide users with power and flexibility. Coded with standards compliance and accessibility in mind Forest Blog is both XHTML 1.0 and CSS compliant and features excellent accessibility. So I'm glad to see that my latest free design DkBlog is already ported to this blog application! :) You will find there also a directory with some interesting resources and links! Now this new website needs his own domain name ;)
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Web 2.0 distracts good design
2007-05-14 15:36:00
"Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. He warned that the rush to make webpages more dynamic often meant users were badly served. He said sites peppered with personalisation tools were in danger of resembling the "glossy but useless" sites at the height of the dotcom boom. Research into website use shows that sites were better off getting the basics right, said Mr Nielsen. Describing Web 2.0 as the "latest fashion", Mr Nielsen said many sites paying attention to it were neglecting some of the principles of good design and usability established over the last decade." Read more...
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Interview with Philippe Lemesle
2007-05-13 20:24:00
Philippe Lemesle is a fresh new member of sNews community. His goals through Nomasis, are to offer to local companies near Paris, tools to speed up their web marketing. David: Hello Philippe Philippe: Hi David. David: Philippe, how and when did you discover sNews? Philippe: Well well well? let me first say when : it might help me then to answer how. I am a marketing consultant and late January I had a customer who asked me why its company?s website created in 2005 has no visitors. He wanted a website to generate traffic, convert more visitors to leads, turn more leads into customers and he was thinking an attractive design would be a kinda honeypot, except that its company wasn?t selling web design but equipments for airports. And that was the key point: its website wasn?t SEF ready. No spiders were crawling the pages so there were no visitors. A few years ago I had a web agency and experienced websites using CMS. So I digged the web for fresh technologies, installed some o...
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CSS Pseudo Elements
2007-05-11 02:08:00
CSS pseudo-elements are used to add special effects to some selectors and are automatically recognized by CSS-supporting browsers. Pseudo-elements refer to sub-parts of elements, such as the first letter of a paragraph. The syntax of pseudo-elements is: selector:pseudo-element {property: value} The :first-line Pseudo-element The "first-line" pseudo-element is used to add special styles to the first line of the text in a selector: p:first-line { font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold } In the example above the browser displays the first line in bold with capital letters, formatted according to the "first-line" pseudo element. Where the browser breaks the line depends on the size of the browser window. A first-line pseudo-element may be used in any block-level element (such as P, H1, etc.). The :first-letter Pseudo-element The "first-letter" pseudo-element is used to add special style to the first letter of the text in a selector, to create ...
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Submit your links!
2007-05-09 01:30:00
As the traffic is growing on this website, I thought that it would be a great idea to have a new section with interesting links/resources. I wanted to make possibility for you to add new interesting websites and links to articles and also to give rating to those websites and links just as you can over at digg.com With the time I will improve the design of this new section and will add the latest links on the home page of the site. Please submit only links related to webdisign, css, photoshop, tutorials,... Also don't hesitate to suggest other categories. You will find this new section here... Thanks for your comments.
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Selecting Hair and Fine Detail in Photoshop
2007-05-08 12:18:00
Here the ultimate tutorial for selecting fine images, delicate objects, wispy hair, and removing the background to replace it with a totally different image. This is the absolute best, anywhere when you have questions about Selec ting hair and fine details in Photoshop Read more...
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How to install sNews
2007-05-08 01:14:00
sNews is the cms that I'm using to manage this website. Here a video made by David Frosdick explaining how to install it!

Red Color Meaning
2007-05-05 01:36:00
Today I would like to begin a series about color meaning. As I'm using red on this website, here some thoughts about it: Color is a magical element that gives feeling and emotion to art, design, and advertising. By understanding color meaning, (or the psychology of color) you can choose the right color to support and emphasize your design. Red can symbolize many things, from blood to love. Basically red symbolizes strong emotions. For example, red can symbolize Energy, strength, passion, eroticism, cheerfulness, courage, element of fire, career goals, fast action, lust, desire, vibrancy, driving forces, risk, fame, love, survival, war, revolution, danger, aggression, strength, power, determination, emotional intensity, sex, provoking, dynamic, stimulating, courage, bravery, good-tasting, force, leadership, drama, excitement, speed, heat, warmth, violence, attention, generosity and romance. The meaning of colors varies depending on one's culture, race, gender, and even age...
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SPIDER-MAN Speed Painting
2007-05-03 14:50:00
Once again, a new speed painting in photoshop by Nico Di Mattia who now has his own website! This drawing was made with a Digital Tablet, captured from the monitor in real-time and it was accelerated 3000 x. The music is from the soundtrack of Spider man by Danny Elfman.
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Art Showcase from Global Designers
2007-05-03 08:46:00
Independent venture showcasing outstanding international creativity and culture. With blazing passion for design, it is the latest platform for Designer's Territory to inspire, express and share with fellow art enthusiast profiling diversified design. Download more than 600+ pages of Inspiration for free ! :)
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CSS Float Theory
2007-05-02 22:10:00
If you have learned CSS, you know that it is not so easy at the beginning to understand very well the concept of floats. Yesterday, SmashingMagazine has released a great article about this concept and you should read it :) Click here to read the article...
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Photoshop Tutorial: Advanced Shadow Techniques
2007-05-02 14:44:00
The flower for this tutorial was photographed (using a Fuji FinePix) on a cold winters morning in Victoria whilst the sand (shot on Kodachrome film) hails from the Great Indian Desert in Rajasthan. Often we use the shadow settings from the blending options of the layers. It's easy for simple objects but sometimes not sufficient. With this tutorial you will learn the fine art of isolating and preserving delicate and complex shadows for transplantation to exotic new backgrounds.
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Need Inspiration?
2007-05-01 18:45:00
Sometimes we need inspiration, so I decided to make this list of some great css galleries :) ... This list isn't exhaustive, so if you know an other great css gallery, post the link in comments, thanks :)
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Need Inspiration?
2007-05-01 18:45:00
Sometimes we need inspiration, so I decided to make this list of some great css galleries :)   This list isn't exhaustive, so if you know an other great css gallery, post the link in comments, thanks :)
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Jennifer Lopez Speed Painting
2007-05-01 03:27:00
A new speed painting from youtube, made by Stephen Gladue in photoshop:
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