These are my links for November 30th through December 6th:
8 Ideas, Techniques & Tricks for your Web Design Toolkit - PSDTUTS - As important as information and interface design are, it's the satisfied feeling of designing something that just plain looks awesome that keeps us going during those times when the creative well is dry, when you've stared at a blank canvas for hours, when you've saved a hundred attempt.psd's, and when you're fed up of design. It's because you know that when you have that finished, polished, veritable work of art up on your screen, and you've switched Photoshop into full screen mode and you're looking at it from different angles around the room, and you're basking in the glory of your perfectly positioned pixels, you just know that this is the greatest profession in the world!
Singapore Digital Media Festival Recap - One year ago, I was scouting for ideas to develop a new conference format to replace the iX Conference event I had been helping to organise for several years. iX is a thought-leadership conference focused on Web 2.0 trends and technologies, modeled on the successful O'Reilly conferences. The annual iX Conference is organised by Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF), and up to 2007 my role had been as chair or co-chair of the organising committee.
December meeting at Motion Elements - Welcome to December meeting, Carlsson Chee
Synopsis > Carlsson will give the warmest welcome to the new users. Followed by the best tips and tricks from Adobe CS4 official launch.
Welcome to MotionElements, Mark Sun
Synopsis > Mark will give a brief introduction to MotionElements.com and
some of our activities promoting Artists in Asia.
Adobe Creative for Mobile, Stefan Wessels
Synopsis > Stefan will give an overview of creative things you can do for your phone using Adobe technologies and some free apps!
RAW Overview, Samuel Chia
1. What is a digital Raw file?
2. Data capture from camera’s image sensor
3. Exposure and linear capture
4. Raw vs Jpeg
5. Raw limitations
6. Adobe Camera Raw - why we use it
9:00 > Demonstrations of Image Processing Workflow in Camera Raw, by Samuel Chia (founder of The Cacao Print Studio)
Coverage for basic control tabs
- basic
- tone curve
- detail
- HSL/grayscale
These are my links for November 18th through November 20th:
Smashing Magazine - Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information for designers and Web developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development: clearly, precisely and regularly. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. That’s what makes us different. We smash you with the information that makes your life easier. Really.
Massive Black - Massive Black is based in the South of Market area of San Francisco, where the team has learned to laugh, play, love, and live together. With our satellite studios in Shanghai and Bangkok, Massive Black is ideally located in areas known for art, culture, and enterprise.
Tan Jiong Hao's blog - Tan Jiong Hao
Student, Freelance Designer, Member of Creative Crew,SG ,Adobe Photoshop user ,Adobe Flash user ,Netbeans user ,Themer(THeming plus programming SE themes)
Vector Magic | Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion Online - Vector Magic's flagship service is the online auto tracer available on this website. It converts bitmap (aka raster) images into vector images through an easy-to-use web interface - just upload your image and it will guide you through the process.
These are my links for October 16th through November 11th:
About | Weta Digital - Our team of digital artists are world-leaders in all areas of visual effects production, including animation, motion capture, crowd generation, modelling, compositing, and film scanning and recording.
At Weta Digital, creativity reigns supreme. Our crew works in a relaxed atmosphere that belies their ferocious work ethic and professionalism. It’s the creative skills and commitment of our crew that keep our New Zealand-based company at the forefront of digital filmmaking, in Hollywood and around the world.
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences :: - Since its inception in 1996, the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences has relied on the leadership and direction of its board of directors. These men and women, all leaders of the interactive software industry, have volunteered their time and resources to help the Academy advance its mission of promoting awareness of the art and science of interactive games and entertainment. Each director has lent his or her talent and prestige to the common concerns of the interactive entertainment industry.
Visual Effects Society - The Visual Effects Society (VES) is the entertainment industry's only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games. Comprised of a diverse group of more than 1,600 members in 17 countries, the VES strives to enrich and educate its own members and members of the entertainment community at large through a multitude of domestic and international events, screenings and programs.
Red Giant Software: Trapcode Particular 1.5 - Many editing programs offer basic particle-generation features. But Trapcode Particular goes way, way beyond the basics, with real-time interactive previews, bouncing particles, 3D camera integration, particles that emit particles, custom shapes, air resistance, gravity and turbulence controls, depth of field, and more! As seen in Spider-Man 3!
Dan Ebberts's resource for AE scripting and expressions - This is where you will find new content on expressions. Basically, in the spirit of the Expressions Lab, this is a series of stand-alone topics designed to showcase a particular useful technique or concept. Here though, I've tried to include a more detailed analysis/explanation of the code than you will find in the Lab topics.
Photoshop actions: 124+ Free Photoshop Actions to Boost Your Designs - An action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files - menu commands, palette options, tool actions, and so on. You can create an action that changes the size of an image, applies a filter to the image for a particular effect, and then saves the file in the desired format. Nice, isn’t it !
These are my links for September 7th from 00:59 to 20:06:
VisualHub: The Universal Video Converter for Mac. - Converting a bunch of AVI files to a DVD shouldn't require a Computer Science degree.
Getting movies from your digital camera to your iPod shouldn't take hours.
Wading through a sea of video formats shouldn't pull you under.
iSquint 1.5.2 - MacUpdate - iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er. It's also really easy.
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