Archive for art & design
October 26, 2011 at 6:42 pm | Filed under art & design, photos
I got this question on Tumblr:
Oops, I forgot to ask this but do you sharpen your photos? If so, can you possibly come up with a tutorial? I wanna learn how to sharpen images without them looking too overly done. Thank you!
It is really super easy and I know a lot of people do it this way. I used to use the unsharp mask (I still do, when sharpening my eyes) but my problem with that filter is that it sharpens the background of the photo, too. I’d rather keep the bokeh, well, bokeh!
Read More: Quick and Easy: How I Sharpen Photos
August 9, 2011 at 5:52 pm | Filed under art & design
I was on Tin‘s blog today and thought “Wow, I really hate how this looks.” I can say that and not offend Tin, since I was the one who last tweaked her template anyway.
Bored, miserable, and trying to keep my mind off these Mrs. Fields gift baskets (the sugar cravings have been off the hook lately), I sent her an IM asking if I could change her blog’s look. Two hours later, I had this:
Clean, simple, yummy colors, and my current favorite font (Bebas Neue). I couldn’t get Cufon for Blogger/Blogspot to work, but I might give it another go one of these days (Google Font library and Kernest don’t have Bebas Neue). Eventually, I would like to come up with a logo of sorts for her blog, something that will constantly be there with every face change. I need one of those for this blog, too, actually. Perhaps mine could be a cat with an ampersand.
The perks of having a web designer (who needs to work on her portfolio) for a friend!
January 21, 2011 at 3:03 pm | Filed under admin, art & design
I made some changes to my blog.
NOTHING CRAZY, really. Just a fresh header, color scheme, and some minor tweaks to the sidebar. I’m still not done (I still have a few changes to make) but I decided to go ahead and launch it since my blog has been on maintenance mode for far too long now.
Fonts used are Bell MT, Men In Black Credits (header), and Nevis (post entry titles). My boyfriend HATES the deer antlers the letter R has but that’s because he hates animals and should be punished with twenty pet cats.
What do you think? Like it/hate it/don’t care about it?
Edit: Ugh, I hate the WP Sifr plugin that I’m using. It converts the text to Flash instead of an image. I might look into that and change it.
Edit x2: Switched to WP-Cufon!
January 18, 2010 at 10:20 am | Filed under art & design
Hello, hello, I’m glad you guys liked my previous tutorial. I have a couple more but I’ll do something really simple today. My friend, Alex, wanted to know how I did this particular photo:
It’s really really really surprisingly easy. Like, it only generally takes three steps. As usual, you will need Photoshop.
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January 15, 2010 at 8:12 pm | Filed under art & design
People have complimented the colors in my photos and some have asked that I share my “techniques”. If any of you have noticed, I have a way of processing them and that I generally have 3 or 4 “color schemes” (that are similar to each other, just some minor tweaking). At first, I was hesitant to share (I still kind of am) because I don’t want to see a buttload of photos with the same colors/processing as mine and because my adjustment layers are a hot mess (when I edit my photos, I just create new layer upon new layer and then save the PSD for future use). However, I am not a greedy person (lol) and I’m all for sharing stuff like this.
A couple of things: This works best for well-lit photographs. My adjustment layers, like I said, are messy, may sometimes be redundant, and are stuff I just came up with by experimenting (and reading alli reviews HUHLOLZ).
So today, I will show you how to do this:
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Hi, I'm Helga Weber and welcome to my personal site. I'm 25 and in the process of learning how to make adventurous life choices. I dislike old people but I love grandma clothes. My goal in life is to build a ball pit right next to my bed. Currently searching for the perfect house coat. My lover is the greatest. 