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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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