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  • How to do a Letterpress Effect, the Easy Way

    Fantikerz 6:24 pm on September 5, 2009 | 10 comments Permalink | Reply

    LetterpressMany peo­ple are adopt­ing a new design trend where the let­ters are seem­ingly pressed into the back­ground, bet­ter known as a let­ter­press effect. In this short tuto­r­ial, I’ll show you a quick, easy, and non-destructive way to achieve this effect. I’ll be using Pho­to­shop here, but you may be able to adapt the tech­niques for use in any other image manip­u­la­tor once you under­stand the two things that are required for a let­ter­press effect.

    There are a few ways of doing this, but this way is by far my favourite because it’s so easy to mod­ify the effect later on if needed.

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    • Skybenji 1:14 am on September 6, 2009 Permalink

      Cool but I don’t have pho­to­shop :(

    • MilkGotter 6:25 am on September 6, 2009 Permalink

      Nice. It could prob­a­bly be eas­ily re-created in Gimp.

    • Martyj 9:36 am on September 6, 2009 Permalink

      Inter­est­ing. I need to try it some time.

    • HardK0re 2:17 pm on September 8, 2009 Permalink

      I most def­i­nitely sparked this blog post.

    • Skybenji 7:41 am on September 11, 2009 Permalink

      I can’t seem to do it on Paint.NET ;(

    • Papeh 7:20 pm on September 11, 2009 Permalink

      I was try­ing to fig­ure out exactly how to pre­form this tech­nique ear­lier today. Great article (=

    • Rahul 5:42 pm on September 12, 2009 Permalink

      Nice and cool effect. Looks bet­ter even when its in dark background.

    • Skybenji 7:22 am on October 29, 2009 Permalink

      Update! :D

    • Hassan 11:36 am on December 31, 2009 Permalink

      UPDATE!!! XD

    • feinraf 1:56 pm on January 8, 2010 Permalink

      update please?

  • 10 Unique Album Covers

    Fantikerz 12:40 am on September 3, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply

    iTunes Album ArtThe art on the cover of an album reflects the style of the artist and what their music sounds like. I don’t know if it’s coin­ci­dence, but I find that a lot of really great songs are accom­pa­nied by some equally great album art. Per­haps that’s because I’m totally anal about my album art (I can’t stand hav­ing place­holder cov­ers in my library). Any­way, I just thought I’d share a few that always seem to pop out when­ever I’m scrub­bing through my library. Who knows, some of these might give you some ideas for a cre­ative project.

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    • MilkGotter 2:13 pm on September 3, 2009 Permalink

      Very nice. Although, most of my songs (the mere 5GB) don’t have album cov­ers. Never got around to actu­ally mak­ing an iTunes account, and the ones that I have cov­ers on, was a “pack­age” with the song download.

    • Skybenji 10:50 pm on September 3, 2009 Permalink

      The 7th one looks like some kind of game.

    • Cutter631 8:42 pm on September 4, 2009 Permalink

      I actu­ally just went through my music col­lec­tion and got every sin­gle album cover this last week milk. Its quit reward­ing to scroll through.

    • Logdotzip 11:56 pm on September 16, 2009 Permalink

      Your taste in music is fabulous

    • MilkGotter 8:35 pm on September 20, 2009 Permalink

      Well you see @Cutter631 — I, with more than no free time, am com­ment­ing on a blog at 12:33am while study­ing for a test as my hands do the typ­ing… I don’t really have a lot of free time to col­lect a few hun­dred album cov­ers. And see­ing as your time is wasted with the 19GB music got deleted when the new iTunes 9 came — I prob­a­bly won’t be doing it in the future.

    • MilkGotter 1:30 pm on March 7, 2010 Permalink

      I just got them all, over the past few months. And it is quite reward­ing. That just con­tra­dicted the last state­ment on the com­ment I posted above, and I’m proud I did get all of them.

  • Fantikerz 1:52 pm on August 24, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply

    Did more paint­ing today and my black ear­buds are cov­ered in white primer.

     

  • 10 Shows You Should Have Seen

    Fantikerz 11:40 am on August 23, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply

    Kings CastPrime time tele­vi­sion is a cruel place. If a show scores below two mil­lion views con­sis­tently, you can expect it to be cut by the exec­u­tives. Some­times that hap­pens to truly great shows that just hap­pen to be com­pet­ing with other already pop­u­lar pro­grams like Amer­i­can Idol or even the Super­bowl. Nonethe­less, while every­one else is watch­ing Simon Cow­ell in his ill-fitting shirts, there are still those one mil­lion loyal view­ers wait­ing to see what hap­pens in their favourite (albeit unpop­u­lar) series.

    Today, I’ll be shar­ing some of those shows that had great poten­tial, but a bad time slot. With all the garbage on TV these days, it might be good to shed some light on some shows that were unique, well pro­duced, or ahead of their time.

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    • MilkGotter 12:39 pm on August 23, 2009 Permalink

      I hate that Kings (#1) was can­celled. I agree with you to hope on that another cable com­pany takes it on. In the mean time, I rec­om­mend that you just watch the episodes on http://hulu.com/kings

    • Lizzy 3:56 pm on August 23, 2009 Permalink

      I love kings! Thanks for telling me about it!

    • Skybenji 8:17 pm on August 23, 2009 Permalink

      I watch Last Comic Stand­ing on Star World. Hehe.

    • MilkGotter 9:54 am on August 25, 2009 Permalink

      @Lizzy (Fant told me about Kings on Hulu) I felt bad for not giv­ing him credit ;)

    • Cutter631 10:05 pm on September 4, 2009 Permalink

      You for­got Fam­ily Guy

    • Lizzy 3:19 am on September 5, 2009 Permalink

      No Milk­Got­ter, Ryan told me about it when it was still on the air. I wish it was still on. :(

  • Redirect WordPress Posts from an Old Domain

    Fantikerz 9:13 am on August 21, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply

    Simple Code

    Recently I had a prob­lem when I moved my blog from blog.fantikerz.com to fantikerz.com. I had far too many links on other sites that still looked like http://blog.fantikerz.com/?p=261, and wouldn’t redi­rect to the new blog’s loca­tion. I wouldn’t even know where to start if I had to change all of those.

    Instead, I threw together a sim­ple redi­rec­tion script that I thought I’d just share in case any­one needed it. It’s noth­ing fancy at all, and stu­pid easy to set up. There are many ways of doing this, and in my opin­ion, this is the easiest.

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  • Fantikerz 11:49 pm on August 14, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply

    Saw Funny Peo­ple today. Not really what I was expect­ing — long, and unfunny. Found it very unin­ter­est­ing. 2/5 #moviereview

     

  • 10 Beautiful Kinetic Typography Videos

    Fantikerz 4:12 am on August 12, 2009 | 2 comments Permalink | Reply

    If you flash your piece out on the lanes...

    I’ve always loved typog­ra­phy used as the focal point in motion graphic videos. I’ve even tried my hand at mak­ing them. Need­less to say, I wasn’t suc­cess­ful due to the lack of patience on my part. How­ever, that made me fur­ther appre­ci­ate the time and effort that these peo­ple have put into mak­ing these videos.

    Sure, they’re cool, but take into account that each move­ment of text is scripted and per­haps you will under­stand the almost artis­tic beauty of these videos.

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    • MilkGotter 7:27 am on August 12, 2009 Permalink

      Haha those are nice. Must’ve taken a while for the cre­ators to put a visual onto it.

  • Fantikerz 9:48 am on August 11, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply

    Been up for 24 hours now. Unre­lated: why do the small dogs have to be the loudest?

     

  • 9 Videos That will Amuse You

    Fantikerz 8:12 pm on August 9, 2009 | 3 comments Permalink | Reply

    Videos

    Every­one wants to relax once and a while and become entranced by the stu­pid humor that YouTube so gra­ciously har­bors. Once in a while, I come across an amus­ing video that should be much more pop­u­lar than it cur­rently is. In this post, I’ll share some of those videos with less than 300,000 views (at the time of post­ing) that will surely make you laugh or smile. No guar­an­tees though.

    Just a warn­ing: these videos may be stu­pidly funny, so your self-pride may be at risk. It also might be a good idea to watch these when you’re alone, as some may be dis­taste­ful for the workplace.

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    • Skybenji 11:27 pm on August 9, 2009 Permalink

      Lol, police fail, I won­der what coun­try is that…

    • MilkGotter 7:00 am on August 10, 2009 Permalink

      That’s just epic. The “Cat Flush­ing the Toi­let” song is stuck in my head.

    • Feinraf 4:32 am on August 21, 2009 Permalink

      I loved #3 #4 #5 #6 #7. :P

  • Fantikerz 5:24 pm on August 5, 2009 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply

    Just pre­orderd the Smash­ing Mag­a­zine book. Should be really handy when it arrives. http://bit.ly/EWiXv

     

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