On Most Things Digitally Designed
This week is National Spinning and Weaving Week! Spin, spin, spin, peeps. Work has been keeping me busy, so all the joy I can give you right now is through linkage. Enjoy these from the huge, wide, wonderful internets!
◊ Threadless for tees.
◊ Of interest to music fans, and anyone who's read about Rosslyn (The Da Vinci Code, anyone?): Composer cracks Rosslyn's musical code
◊ An interview with Jonathan Ive, who without a doubt is one of the most influential designers around. Remember when the first new Macs came out, the ones that broke the beige mold? Mr. Ive was responsible for that.
◊ Blogworthy design blog #1: Jason Santa Maria, who also redesigned A List Apart.
◊ Blogworthy design blog #2: Re.Luct.
◊ Blogworthy design blog #3: Peloria Photoblog. Lots of macros that are a bit too consistent, but good all the same. Interesting: her images measure 550 x 400 pixels, but when I downloaded one and opened it up in Photoshop it was 1100 x 800 pixels, in effect giving it the definition of 150 pixels per inch (interpret this as sharpness and depth) as opposed to the 72 pixels per inch that is standard. I'll have to play around with that on my own.
◊ There is an article in one of the knitting magazines this month about using Photoshop to enhance images for the web. Worth taking a walk to the bookstore to look at. However, note that Photoshop should be the instrument of last resort; it is all in the composition, the lighting, the mood when you take that shot that Photoshop can only "enhance", not recreate.
◊ For those of you who don't have Photoshop: did you know you can still crop pictures using Microsoft Office? Open up an image in any graphics program that you have; select all and copy; paste into an Office program, say PowerPoint; resize and crop using the Picture tools; select all and copy; paste back into your graphics program; save as a .jpg file. You can also adjust brightness, contrast, and colors in PowerPoint, if you want. Pretty nifty, huh? (Don't forget, there's the little Office Assistant that can help you find the tools you need.)
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