Just messing about and stumbled on some old work, thought Id have a poke around it and ended up spending 2 hours changing it quite drastically using what I have learned in the 6 years since I started it!
I'm having an unbelievably hard time understanding and sorting the color profile and banding issues n the image. It looks fine on my Wide Gamut display in Photoshop, but gets into all kinds of trouble elsewhere. In the end the only way I could export it from Photoshop without banding was to.. take a screenshot... I kid you not. And I can't get the HUE/Sat right and the brightness of the top part should be dark black to dark grey, but on some displays It's just completely hidden in blackness. I'm thinking now about adding a calibration/brightness slider to my website, then I can set all the images to the same kinda of brightness and have users slide the slider to fit their monitor/viewing environment.
Take your pick, the chances of the saturation hue and brightness looking anywhere near like what I intend is highly unlikely. It looks nice here is all I can say! And I think my Display is pretty accurately setup
And the garish original.. I was young!
The above shows where your gamma lies, the columns show blur together at around 1.8 on a Mac
All of the above Squares just be just barely visible, and the background should be pure black. If the sun is out you will need to draw curtains for this. Currently I can't see the first square but the others are baaaaarely visible.
Gamma test stolen from www.Lagom.nl
And same with this:
You should see faint checkers on each square, I can't see the last one, but the others are visible.
I'm having an unbelievably hard time understanding and sorting the color profile and banding issues n the image. It looks fine on my Wide Gamut display in Photoshop, but gets into all kinds of trouble elsewhere. In the end the only way I could export it from Photoshop without banding was to.. take a screenshot... I kid you not. And I can't get the HUE/Sat right and the brightness of the top part should be dark black to dark grey, but on some displays It's just completely hidden in blackness. I'm thinking now about adding a calibration/brightness slider to my website, then I can set all the images to the same kinda of brightness and have users slide the slider to fit their monitor/viewing environment.
Take your pick, the chances of the saturation hue and brightness looking anywhere near like what I intend is highly unlikely. It looks nice here is all I can say! And I think my Display is pretty accurately setup
And the garish original.. I was young!
The above shows where your gamma lies, the columns show blur together at around 1.8 on a Mac
All of the above Squares just be just barely visible, and the background should be pure black. If the sun is out you will need to draw curtains for this. Currently I can't see the first square but the others are baaaaarely visible.
Gamma test stolen from www.Lagom.nl
And same with this:
You should see faint checkers on each square, I can't see the last one, but the others are visible.
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I bloody hate the influx of these things, especially the ones I have to squint at and guess the letters on just to download a 5k file
I've been real busy the past month or so with a Flash based Kiosk.
The design was done by someone else, provided as layered psd's. My job was to put them into Flash and make them.. well make them do stuff. To populate the design with data from XML files and make it interactive and work. All the usual stuff was involved, Parsing XML, Printing, Shopping Carts, Loading and playing Video and lots of dynamic loading of images and data.
Not much point in me showing it you as all my work was the interactive side of it...
well I guess I can link you to a fully working copy. As of writing It's not designed for use on the web so may be slow and or die if you go to fast for it (before It's finished loading)
www.helios.mine.nu/Kiosk/Local/
It's all copyright someone or other, and is the work of many separate people. And yes It's all in French!
Also I did not design how it works, some bits I had a bit of input on, but it has many faults/weird things about it, strange assumptions and general stupidity which I can't be held responsible for!
It normally has a woman speak on every page, via a alpha masked video overlay, I have removed this as it annoys the crap out of me.
Also of note, I had nothing to do with the code that applies paint/wallpapers to the Room Scene. That was someone else, I just had to communicate with that.
And if you click the Logo in the top left on the decorating/room scene page:
And type in 12345
You get to a admin type mode where you can freely and more conveniently decorate things.
The design was done by someone else, provided as layered psd's. My job was to put them into Flash and make them.. well make them do stuff. To populate the design with data from XML files and make it interactive and work. All the usual stuff was involved, Parsing XML, Printing, Shopping Carts, Loading and playing Video and lots of dynamic loading of images and data.
Not much point in me showing it you as all my work was the interactive side of it...
well I guess I can link you to a fully working copy. As of writing It's not designed for use on the web so may be slow and or die if you go to fast for it (before It's finished loading)
www.helios.mine.nu/Kiosk/Local/
It's all copyright someone or other, and is the work of many separate people. And yes It's all in French!
Also I did not design how it works, some bits I had a bit of input on, but it has many faults/weird things about it, strange assumptions and general stupidity which I can't be held responsible for!
It normally has a woman speak on every page, via a alpha masked video overlay, I have removed this as it annoys the crap out of me.
Also of note, I had nothing to do with the code that applies paint/wallpapers to the Room Scene. That was someone else, I just had to communicate with that.
And if you click the Logo in the top left on the decorating/room scene page:
And type in 12345
You get to a admin type mode where you can freely and more conveniently decorate things.
Just Spent the past couple of days learning about Adobe Air and Adobe Flex
I've shamelessly ripped someone's UI from their program, but It's all for a good cause... personal fitness!
AIR Lets you run Flash or HTML built stuff like a Desktop Application and runs the same on Mac and Windows and soon Linux
Flex lets you build complex applications with lots of UI with ease.
The only problem with this as always is the fact that Flash performs like shit on PPC based Macs, I can't speak for Intel macs as I don't have one, unless you count a mini, which is underpowered anyway.
Nice piece of design, even if it is useless, I guess It's a tech demo more than anything really
I just like the category chooser slidey dealy:
Link: www.adobe.com --- flashon
A sweeping statement I'm aware, but seriously, I see it countless times:
In what universe do reflections take up less space than the item being reflected, It's as bad as drawing cups in perspective with a flat bottom, as bad as drawing people with arms coming out there sides, exactly the sort of thing you can be forgiven for only if you pre school and have some flawed mental model of how the world works.
Use your eyes people! goto life drawing class or something!
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Also, relating to this art by the same guy (im not picking on you honest)
A great deal of art lately looks like this, and I\'m somewhat a fan of it in moderation, but It's almost always so flat looking. 2D designer listen up, get more spatially aware, things can exist in depth too you've spent too much time in photoshop on a computer screen.
Ill forgive them for the most part as It's particularly hard to integrate vector and stock photos together in 3D space
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Link: www.dynamikart.de
This is better, it has depth, though It's almost entirely the original photograph, you lazy bastard.
Oh that and the women looks retarded, seriously, am I the only person who thinks skinny women that look like this are retarded.
Steps to good design, step 1: Insert glamourous model that's underweight and takes self too seriously, step 2... there is no step 2!
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Nice engrish
Nice somehow has put up for download all/most the Channel 4 idents (Which I Love)
Link: idents.tv --- four-to-the-floor-the-possibly-complete-collection
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I've been trying to fix my RSS feed so when I make changes they get flagged as so, but It's not working... at least it doesn't appear to be working. It's driving me quite mad. I could do with a programming/rss/php parsing genius right about now.
Need to vectorize a logo.. look no further than... a website???
Link: vectormagic.stanford.edu
I just handed it this bitmap:
And it gave me this:
Not bad, it screwed up the little R, but I didn't want that anyway
:-)
Or just go here if It's a logo
:-)
Link: brandsoftheworld.com
