Fun with Photoshop

So this is probably not the MOST graphic design-related post I could have made, but I just wanted to pass along this awesome Photoshop creation that my friend found. Prepare to amazed/creeped out.

http://pixeloo.blogspot.com/2008/03/homer-simpson-untooned.html

(The linking is not working, again. Sorry!)

Postscript: If you go to the main page, you can see a side-by-side comparison as well as some of the images the artist used to make this.

NY Times graphics director

I came across this Q & A with the graphics director from the Times and thought it highlighted a lot of interesting things about graphic design, especially with infographics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/business/media/
25asktheeditors.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

the link thing didn't work when I tried it the first time, so unfortunately, you'll have to copy and paste...

The eyedropper tool

So I figured out the vexing question about the eyedropper tool and using it in Photoshop and Illustrator to choose colors from a place other than those programs.

To do this, choose the eyedropper tool in either application. Then move your cursor over your work area. Click the mouse button and hold it down. Then drag your cursor over the color you wish to choose from elsewhere (web browser, desktop background, etc.) Then let go of the mouse button when you are over the color you wish to choose.

This works in both Illustrator and Photoshop, but sadly not in InDesign.


And on a side note (shameless plug), that place I work at, STS, has a program called Ask A Trainer on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights from 7-9 in the Open Book Cafe (1st floor, College Library). The purpose of the service is to answer software questions students may have. So if you have a question about some of the software we are using for the 411 projects you can check the STS Web site to see if a trainer familiar with that software is working, and then come in and get help. If the person there does not know the answer: we take your email, ask the rest of our staff the question, and guarantee an answer within a couple of days. I'm working tonight and I'm usually bored.

Photoshop Question

I am using a photo in my logo that has a white background. Even after I crop it in photoshop and it looks like it should just be white around the edges with no border, when I put it into Illustrator it has a faint gray line around it. Any ideas why this is there or how to get rid of it?

MIA---not the band this time

I was MIA today for class and I was wondering if someone would be so kind as to tell me what I missed. I was also curious as to what the future of our websites are in terms of future projects--are they going to be incorporated into the final package, etc.? If someone knows this and has time, please enlighten me! Thank you!

web site design

while brainstorming ways to improve my home page (and as i watch the results from today's primaries) i jumped online to check out clinton and obama's web sites:



i really like the intro page to obama's site, and am debating doing something similar to ease people into a site that has a lot of information. what's nice is that it's easy to skip if people aren't interested in "joining the movement". so, i'm wondering, is an intro page annoying? or can it helpful in cases where the home page tends to get cluttered? maybe i'm way off and this is simply a PR push that has nothing to do with usability? any thoughts? thanks!

what's on a home page?

I'm having trouble deciding what I want my home page to contain, content-wise. There are about three subpages that would normally have content that I feel could also act as logical stuff to throw on the home page, but I'm worried that if I do that then it would take away from the subpages since I would only have 5 of them. Basically, I don't know if I want the home page to have some biographical info about myself, a few random photos that would change automatically, contact info, or anything from the subpages.

I would love to do something with flash, like make a quick montage of photos or images and text or something like that, that would only show up on the homepage, so i could leave the info to the subpages, but I obviously don't know how to do this yet.

Did anyone else have this problem?