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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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  • Designing Cloudy

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

    2009-06-16_0516I 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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  • Yet ANOTHER Site Re-Design

    Fantikerz 6:53 am on March 30, 2008 | 0 comments Permalink | Reply

        I know, I’ve already com­pletely re-vamped the site this week, but I was really hat­ing thatHeader black and gray theme I had going on, so I came up with a new one. Some things still don’t fit (the nav­i­ga­tion but­tons and the links at the bot­tom of the page for exam­ple), but I’ll change those down the road… I’ll promise you this time that this design will last at least a week this time…

     
  • I Love Duals

    Fantikerz 7:09 pm on March 21, 2008 | 2 comments Permalink | Reply

    Yea, I love my dual mon­i­tors… If you have the abil­ity to hook up another mon­i­tor to your com­puter, I sug­gest you do… It was only recently that I got around to hook­ing another 15 inch LCD up to my lap­top, mak­ing 30 inches of avail­able screen real estate. This makes it really easy to multi task.. For instance, right now I’m writ­ing this on one screen, while watch­ing the movie Alive, on my other screen. Alive is a good movie btw…

    Hit the Con­tinue Read­ing link to see some screenshots…

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  • How to make an Animated Icon

    Fantikerz 5:45 pm on January 13, 2008 | 36 comments Permalink | Reply

    Author’s Note: Please be aware that this is a very old post and is no longer very accu­rate. YouTube has since dis­abled ani­mated .gifs and Entering in the Dimensions in Photoshopmost of these pro­grams and tech­niques are out of date. This is being left up because it may serve as use­ful to some. Enjoy.

    Hey, if you have any ques­tions, you should prob­a­bly ask them here. There’s a bet­ter chance that they’ll be read and answered. Same thing with com­ments. There is no writ­ten tuto­r­ial. How­ever, there is a video walk­through after the break.

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