Retro Gaming
February 24, 2011
February 24, 2011
April 27, 2010
For my brother Axel’s birthday this year, I bought him a domain name and hosting, and I’ve been trying to figure out a good art direction for it since then. Today I struck upon the idea of putting together a sort of corkboard look and feel. I actually haven’t put any of that together yet, because I was working on the first piece of art that I wanted to pin to the corkboard background. It’s based off of a Kuniyoshi Utagawa piece I stumbled across on Wikimedia.
December 30, 2009
So I stumbled across a method in photoshop recently that in a few quick steps can make just about any image (provided it has enough detail and contrast) appear to be hand drawn. There are built-in filters that can approximate this effect, but I found this method produces better results and can be fine tuned a bit more. All you need to do is apply a Gaussian blur with a radius of at least 3 pixels (and up to 10 or so, I had good results at 4.5 on many historical images) to the image layer, then fade the filter effect (shift+ctrl+f) using the Darken or Darken Colors mode to dial back the blur. You can play with pixel radius of the blur and the opacity of the fade effect, as the best results seems to vary from picture to picture. I had great fun messing around with this on historical color images from Wikimedia Commons. Here’s couple examples of the historical variety, and one of my more successful modern ones.
December 29, 2009
Lifehacker featured a piece that I created during my old job at the National Geographic Green Guide. I re-purposed some flash used for creating Nat Geo maps to put together a visual guide to beef certifications. Check it out on Lifehacker and the original on the Green Guide.
November 5, 2009
August 4, 2009
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May 14, 2009
May 12, 2009
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