I gots me some new Photoshop filter/rendering tools via the FilterForge beta. Its HDMI lighting engine is spectacular.
I based the water part of this painting on a couple of Vladimir Golovin’s textures, which I modified through FilterForge. The planets and stars were created using my own process.
If you want the image for desktop wallpaper, choose [...]
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Iconic acrobats
Published May 30th, 2006 in Humor, Photoshop/Illustrator, Visual/Technical Communication and theIcons. 0 CommentsHow people icons amuse themselves while waiting for visual communicators to use them:
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I’ve been wondering…
You’ll often hear people say, “it’s not like rocket science or anything.”
I wonder… what do rocket scientists say?
I’ll bet that they say “It’s not like talking to girls or anything.”
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Eye tracking studies are all the rage today, in part because of the increasing sophistication of the technology involved. A few years ago, eye tracking was cumbersome and annoying. Subjects had to insert clear contact lenses, with wires spiraling out of them, and struggle to interact with documentation “normally” while the test was taking place. [...]
Late summer 1985, and I’ve been told to get to bed. I’m just beginning the seventh grade, and Mom and Dad are enforcing the bedtime rules. Lying in bed, I struggle to fall asleep, even though the room isn’t quite dark yet. I can hear the sounds of a late summer night though my open [...]
It has been thirty years since California established itself as an authentic wine region. The “Judgment of Paris,” as the event was nicknamed, occurred when a French wine merchant organized a blind wine tasting that included the most prestigious oenophiles in the world. When the results of the experts’ ratings were revealed, they [...]
