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Working with large bitmap images can clog your hard disk and slow performance to a crawl. Here are some tips for staying lean.
Katz, Wendy. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Adobe Photoshop
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Drawing Hilbert Curves with SVG
Hilbert curves are a type of space-filling curve that can be constructed with the SVG polyline element, using a basic design and then aggregating.
Opera (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Image Editing>SVG
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When your photo can't be changed, surround it with cool color.
Before and After (2008). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Color
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Forty Beautiful Grunge Photoshop Tutorials
In this collection, we present to you 40 excellent, high-quality grunge Photoshop tutorials. So fire up Photoshop and get ready to get your hands… dirty!
Gube, Jacob. Smashing (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Adobe Photoshop
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Crop images contextually for faster downloads and higher impact. By cropping maximally and resizing you can convey meaning without slowing down your web pages.
Website Optimization (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Image Editing
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Graphic Thoughts: My Top 10 Photoshop Moves, Part 1
Almost every time I speak to an audience about graphics or Photoshop, I’m asked if I went to school to learn what I know about the application. The truth is that while I spent more than 3 years in an Advertising Art degree program, I ultimately switched gears and got a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in marketing (Mom and Dad were thrilled with this news!), and that was in the early ’90s—pretty much in the infant stages of Photoshop.
Gray, Lawrence. Event DV (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Adobe Photoshop
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Graphic Thoughts: Creating Great Backgrounds in A Snap
Recently, I had the chance to go with my in-laws to City Museum in St. Louis. What an amazing place to get lost in by crawling through inventively designed tunnels that go underground to many stories below the city streets. The most impressive thing to me was how the place was constructed—they used everyday items, such as metal storage bins, bottles, and gears (plus what looked like a million other items) to create elaborate mazes of artwork.
Gray, Lawrence. Event DV (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Adobe Photoshop
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Perspective—it’s one of the first things you learn about in any art class. The basic idea is that it’s the way your eye actually sees something, represented on a flat surface such as paper or a monitor. A simple example is drawing a group of objects: You represent an object in the distance by making it smaller, while making objects close to the viewer larger—make sense? In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create perspective shadows in Adobe Photoshop CS3. The result is dynamic, but the technique is a breeze!
Gray, Lawrence. Event DV (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Technical Illustration
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Digital Photo Retouching
Today we take a look deeper into the hidden art of digital retouching where skies can always be blue and imperfections simply disappear. Whether you like it or hate it, think it’s necessary or not, retouching is here to stay.
Inspired Magazine (2009). Articles>Graphic Design>Photography>Image Editing
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Photo Compositing with The GIMP: Part 1
A glimpse on compositing, where we’ll use an existing image or photograph and later add in our 2-dimensional element seamlessly with the said picture in GIMP.
Martinez, Reynante. Packt (2007). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Open Source
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Photo Compositing with The GIMP: Part 2
Photographed scenes aren’t actually as clean-looking as they are and as compared to common CGish images. Just to break this cleanliness apart, let’s add in a simple cloud noise to our heart. If that still doesn’t work for you, you could go ahead and paint over some details like cracks, dirt, etc. This is to simulate the wear and tear effect that is always present everywhere we look at.
Martinez, Reynante. Packt (2009). Design>Graphic Design>Image Editing>Open Source
