October 29, 2008 aloa's blog

Inspiration: refocus DA: 360° Underwater Photographs

The "refocus design agency" went to the maldives islands and took some very nice photographs. The special thing: They made

Featured Tutorial

Reader Tutorial: How to create an awesome action picture in GIMP
Reader Tutorial: How to create an awesome action picture in GIMP
This tutorial is a remake from a Photoshop tutorial, that can be found at http://abduzeedo.com/how-create-radical-photo-sequence. It was written by Paulo Canabarro. This tutorial is intended for people that have a general idea of layer masks, as layer masks are a big part of this tutorial. Some things you will need before we get started: A few pictures, that were shot in the “burst” mode of your camera. (See step 1 for more info about this)

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #68 - Diego Rodríguez
Wallpaper of the Week #68 - Diego Rodríguez
The wallpaper of this week a beautiful and colorful image created by Diego L. Rodriguez, a young creative and digital artist based in Spain. Diego is developing digital arts since 2006 and he's titled in Audiovisual Production & Digital Photography. Nowadays he continues producing experimental & personal projects mixing Photography and Digital Art. Also he collaborates with some Art Collectives as slashThree & IntrinsicNature. For more information visit Diego's website at http://ParanoidMe.com/, it's definitely worth checking it out.

Book Suggestion

Book Suggestion - Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Gr
Book Suggestion - Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design
The book suggestion of this week is about colors, one of the most important skills for any designer. The book is called Color Design Workbook: A Real World Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design and it's not only a very useful book, it's a very well designed one.