September 18, 2008 Francisco's blog

Test your hue detection abilities

This is a neat little online quiz that tests your ability to differentiate subtle differences between gradations in color.

September 11, 2007

Web 2.0 Design Master's Degree

Well, that's not totally true, but Design Interviews has on their website a really nice and funny quiz that helps

Featured Tutorial

Hipster Text Effect in Photoshop CS6
Hipster Text Effect in Photoshop CS6
A few weeks ago we posted a tutorial showing how to create a hipster text effect using Pixelmator. Now we decided to show you the same effect using Photoshop CS6. As we had said, we will be doing that in Fireworks and CSS as well. So stay tuned. So in this tutorial we will show you how to create a simple text effect with a very trendy hipster look. We will use just basic filters and layer styles to achieve the effect. The whole process won't take you more than 30 minutes.

Try this Wallpaper

Wallpaper of the Week #158 by Matei Apostolescu
Wallpaper of the Week #158 by Matei Apostolescu
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Matei Apostolescu for the new Depthcore chapter called OBSOLETE. We posted about this new chapter, it's simply amazing. For more information visit http://www.depthcore.com/ Desktop Version

Book Suggestion

War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication
Book Suggestion: War Posters - Weapons of Mass Communication
The book suggestion of this week is for those out that love posters, I believe everyone. The book is calledWar Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication and as the name says it's all about war posters. It is divided by wars and you can get tons of inspiration from it.