Typography for Headlines | Smiley Cat Web Design
From the category archives:
Design
Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop
The National Atlas provides “reference and outline maps of the United States that you can print or use online. The reference maps display general reference features such as boundaries, cities, capitals, major highways, rivers and lakes, and terrain. Outline maps showing county boundaries, State boundaries, capitals, or other basic features are also available.” The maps [...]
Both Draftsman and GuideMaster from AV Bros. look to be very useful for users of Photoshop when the need to create horizontal and/or vertical grids arises, which is damn near every project. Draftsman creates selections within your document, while GuideMaster places guides. I just downloaded the demo versions of each to tinker with them and [...]
While I don’t have much time to actively participate in the Designers in House List, to which I subscribe, I enjoy reading many of the threads. One recent thread from a while back, titled “Your favourite web design book” served as a reminder that I should update my list of Web and design-related book recommendations. [...]
Photoshop Color Replacement Tool – Veerle’s blog
Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs – Damn, now this is cool! Just need a sheet or two of graph paper? Print it yourself instead of spending cash on a bundle of it at the office store.
SitePoint Blogs – Adobe CS2 and the Case of the Disappearing Thumbnails! – I had actually noticed the lack of PSD, EPS, AI and PDF thumbnails as well, but hadn’t bothered to dig into it. Glad to see a proposed solution. Hopefully Adobe will fix this in a future release.
MagicTracer is a tool that automatically converts a raster image to a vector file. It shows promise, though there isn’t any obvious indication as to what platform it runs on… Thanks to Cameron Moll for throwing this out there in his feed.
Vitaly Friedman | Blog: 20 Best License-Free Official Fonts – found via snook.
The Design Encyclopedia
Linotype has released the beta of FontExplorer X. The app holds a lot of promise, and has a the Web and design communities drooling in anticipation. Could it be a replacement for both Fontbook and Suitcase? I sure as hell hope so. Check out the comparison chart to see for yourself (bring your own grain [...]
Subtraction: The Funniest Grid You Ever Saw – “Believe it or not, underlying every page of TheOnion.com are sixteen columns of 42 pixels each, separated by fifteen gutters (the empty white space between) of 10 pixels each, plus an additional, outsized column for the left-hand navigation. It’s an almost absurd number, I know, but it [...]
oe magazine – photofakery – “Identifying falsified images can be straightforward if you know a few tricks.”
The Evolution of the Photoshop Splash Screens
design in-flight is back, having shifted from a PDF publication to a Web site chock full of tasty design goodness.
Arrangement de couleurs is “a series of close-up photographs of shutters and doors, hoping that they would provide colour inspiration for an up-and-coming design project.”
Yet another great idea from And all that Malarkey
As pointed out on xBlog, (which linked to the Molly Holzschlag’s blog) a recent study conducted by the University of Glamorgan, has found that ” there is no doubt about the strength of men and women’s preference for sites produced by people of their own sex”. While key parts of the study seem pretty [...]
Enhance your photos by using the High Pass Filter – This looks amazing.
“AllTheLogos.com is an online database of logotypes and logo design. This includes more than 70,000 companies and organizations brands logos, team sports logos, countries flags and insignia as well as signs, general usage logos and more.”