This tutorial is going to show you how to transfer a normal image into a statue. You can apply these techniques into any image you like including car, animal and so on. The techniques are not complicate and easy to learn. Very nice!
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How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop?
Have you ever wondered how you can make your ordinary pictures look more movie-like. This is a great tutorial that I found that did just that.
How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
The following tip on getting digital images to look like Lomo Images was submitted by DPS reader – Frank Lazaro. You can see his photography at his Flickr page and see some of his Lomo shots here NB: most of the shots in this post can be enlarged by clicking them. update: once you’ve read this tutorial and had an experiment with the technique head to our Forum to share some of your results.
Google’s Real Time Search
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Great banner ad for Ralph Lauren
Pixar Shows off Stereoscopic Footage
At Monday’s Pixar Animation Studios Case Study at the Content Theater, the company focused on stereoscopic production and presentation.
The packed event, sponsored by Sony and RealD’s 4K 3D projection system, offered glimpses of Pixar’s first experiments with 3D, included re-created scenes from “Toy Story” and “Ratatouille,” adding new 3D effects as well as extended sequences from Pixar’s upcoming stereoscopic release, “Up.”
Bob Whitehill, stereoscopic supervisor, and Josh Hollander, director of stereoscopic production, shared some of preparation for the May 29 release of “Up” and the Oct. 2 premiere of the stereoscopic versions of “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2.”
In re-creating the “Toy Story” films, Hollander said, Director John Lasseter worked with the stereoscopic team on creative and technical issues that arose when taking a show designed for 2D projection and adapting it to 3D.
Significant technical consideration arise from the need to render images for the left and right “eye” simultaneously because of the damage to the stereoscopic effect that could result from even extremely minute changes at the pixel level if the two perspectives are rendered separately.
Looking at the stereoscopic world from an artistic perspective, Whitehill noted that Pixar’s initial testing helped Pixar filmmakers define a stereoscopic aesthetic using concepts such as “point of interest” and its relation to the “point of conversion” and “depth budget” that became integral to the decisions made by co-directors Pete Doctor and Bob Peterson when creating “Up.”
Disney HP Experience – Interactive Microsite
This was a fun interactive site that lead the user through an experience, in which they were able to use a canon printer or camera to take them through a set of activities detailing the products capabilities. This was one of my very first flash development products that I did years back at a large interactive firm here in Chicago. I worked alongside an art director and the CD to develop this site and to ensure the animation would be approved by Disney. This site was developed in Flash MX and used AS2.0.
JonaDel678.com – Full Website
Here is one of my favorite sites in which I helped developed. This was actually for a close family friend’s wedding. I wanted the site to be developed to engulf the whole screen and have a very calm and clean look/feel. This site was developed in Flash 8 using AS2.0 and PHP. There was a message board built into this piece and a dynamic photo section.
Innovative Dermatology – Full Website
This was a site I developed a couple years back actually. Great group of people at this clinic, it started out with Dr. Thrash as the initial doctor then Dr. Krunic bought them out – either way they both new what they wanted to see in their site and saw the power and potential having a site would bring to their clinic. The site is still growing as the clinic continues to grow.
Google Gadget Development
This was a fun project to take on with a great group in a smaller interactive agency here in Chicago. The project consisted of developing multiple Google Gadgets that people would be able to download and place into their iGoogle as applications. I developed games, clocks, quizzes and many other fun elements.
Gatorade – Flash component for site
Here is another flash component I designed for Gatorade that would live on their site. Its simply a nutritional and facts data sheet for the Powder Pack product. Not sure if this is still currently on their site, I designed this piece over a year ago.
Five Reasons You Should Use Flash Video on Your Site
Flash Video is an accessible, fast-loading, pretty much globally supported video format. And, as the “official video format of YouTube,” Flash Video has emerged as the standard video format for the web. In this article, author Dave Karlins explains why you should use Flash Video on your site.
Before I explain why you should use Flash Video on your site, let me break that down just a bit. I’m going to explain why you should use Flash Video on your site. The “Flash Video” part will cover why this format is the best choice for sharing your videos online. And the “your site” part will explain why you can, and should, pop Flash Video files up on your own site, rather than sticking them up on YouTube.
Creating a Twitter Widget with Flash
With the help of ActionScript 3.0 and PHP, Kris Hadlock, author of Ajax for Web Application Developers, shows how easily you can add your tweets to your website.
Twitter usage is growing at a phenomenal rate—in just one year, Twitter grew by 1,382%. In January 2009, it received 4.5 million unique U.S. visitors. Recently I wrote an article called “Creating a Twitter Widget with Ajax,” which explained how to bridge the gap between a local website and remote RSS feed using PHP and Ajax. This article addresses the same concept, but we’ll be using Flash ActionScript 3.0 and PHP to create a handy Twitter widget for displaying your latest tweets on the Web.
It’s not a requirement, but we’ll assume that you’re already familiar with ActionScript 3.0 and PHP. If you need to get up to speed on ActionScript 3.0, check out my book The ActionScript 3.0 Migration Guide: Making the Move from ActionScript 2.0.
Flash CS5 Physics
Long are the days where a designer could simple explore flash and learn it. The current times and ActionScript 3 require some programming skills. Fortunately Flash CS5 includes a simple way to associate gravity behavior to objects making certain animations easier.
Flash CS5 introduces a whole bunch of new features in order to keep up to date with the current necessities in the development of RIAs and other software for Mobile hardware such as the iPhone.
The video after the jump will show some of Flash CS5 gaming capabilities and, starting at 3min50sec, an introduction to Flash CS5 physics.
Dark Grunge Photo Effect
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn a neat grungy photo effect using a variety of Photoshop filters and image adjustments.
Jason Uzarraga 