Updates from September, 2009

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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
  

  Many 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 Beautiful Kinetic Typography Videos

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

  

  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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  Version 13

  Fantikerz 4:24 pm on August 4, 2009 | 6 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  Woop, new site design. How excit­ing. The only rea­son why I’m writ­ing this is so that I can test the said design to the fullest extent. I might as well elab­o­rate on some things in the process. As you may know, this is based upon the won­der­ful Word­Press appli­ca­tion and a heav­ily mod­i­fied P2 theme. I was reluc­tant to move over to Word­Press, but I’m now way over that and am itch­ing to make some of my own plu­g­ins and other exten­sions like that.

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  Designing Cloudy

  Fantikerz 4:50 am on June 16, 2009 | 9 comments Permalink | Reply
  

  I chal­lenged myself to design a basic site in an hour or less while tak­ing a screen­shot every 10 sec­onds. At what ended up being 1 hour and 9 min­utes, I missed my mark -  but only by a lit­tle bit. Over­all, the end result is decent, but noth­ing spec­tac­u­lar. Given more time I would have prob­a­bly refined the header sec­tion a bit more and spiced up the wel­come area. Keep­ing in mind the time con­straints, the sim­plic­ity and bar­ren­ness can be over looked, in my opin­ion. Look for the full size image after the jump.

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