Another piece of work created in Photoshop (CS3 for those that are interested in versions) using various layer styles and brushes to create a grungy looking art piece. The look of this image was inspired by the Apple iPod commercial which featured Eminem. Of course, the final look is quite drastically different, but the inspiration [...]

As part of my pursuit for a multimedia production degree at California State University, Northridge, one course I had to undertake was Adobe Flash, learning the basics to create animations and simple actionscript. Above is my final project for the class, an animation about a gumball waiting for his chance to be let free from [...]

I am in my final weeks of my Spring semester over at CSUN (Cal. State University Northridge for those unfamiliar with acronyms), so that means time to get busy with a good amount of school work. For me, a multimedia production major, this means at least some works of creativity, which even though tedious, is [...]

This is random, but thought it was neat. I just learned about Wordle, a site which creates visual representations of how frequent you use words in a given document. To be more specific, here’s how they describe it on their site: Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The [...]

Okay, so the name is tacky. “Portrait Paint” is perhaps the worst name I could think of, but it’s simple and describes the reason why I did this project. Once again, I have another school assignment to do some sort of image manipulation on, well, an image. The picture above is what I came up [...]

At school, I’m taking a Photoshop class and typically, lectures go a tad too slow for me. Instead of leaving the class, I just take the assignment we have and see what steps I can take to make make it even better. The result? The image above Keep reading below to see the steps I [...]

I’m quite certain that at some point in our computing lives (or for some, still do) used Microsoft’s internet browser, Internet Explorer. At the time, it was something really great as it just allowed us to access the web easily. However, I must say, that in today’s day and age…I don’t like the browser at [...]

So recently, I’ve been starting to play around with Photoshop and did a simple composition of the image you see above. I know it’s simple, but just thought I’d share it out there for other’s enjoyment.

HTML5 is one of those things I’m excited for, especially for the new <video> tag being developed for the new standard. What is it? Well, physically, it’s what I have above. What you see may vary from browser to browser, but if you’re using Apple Safari 4, Firefox 3.5+, or Google Chrome, you’ll see what [...]

Screen resolution comparison diagram When designing a website, we should take into consideration the screen resolution we expect our target audience to have. For people that may want to serve a larger audience, designing to a 1024 pixel by 786 pixel may be a safe bet, but on the other hand, maybe if you’re designing [...]