http://www.estetica-design-forum.com Graphic Design Forum and Web Design Forum for Designers to Chat and Design as One. UK and Worldwide. en Mon, 12 May 2008 06:42:37 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/images/styles/gfx/misc/rss.jpg http://www.estetica-design-forum.com http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/off-topic/11288-podcasting-audacity.html Mon, 12 May 2008 05:57:16 GMT An old friend contacted me yesterday asking about podcasting. I decided to write a post about it and thought I'd share it with you guys. I had never really gone into podcasting before and it has been an interesting experience if you haven't you may want to try it.

Anyway heres the linky!
Podcasting with Audacity | Pryde Design

Hope it helps someone lol

Andrew ]]> Off Topic prydie http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/off-topic/11288-podcasting-audacity.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-web-design-help/11287-graphic-design-namecards.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:29:17 GMT Hi folks,


I'm now searching collection of design on business/name cards on Internet particularly the graphics. Too complicate or heavy graphics is NOT preferred. I'm going to print the cards on Inkjet printer.


Could you please shed me some light. TIA


B.R.
satimis ]]> Graphic Design and Web Design Help satimis http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-web-design-help/11287-graphic-design-namecards.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-tutorials/11286-advance-digital-painting-tutorials-rodny.html Mon, 12 May 2008 03:02:56 GMT Hi Guys!

I am Rodny and would like to share with you some advance digiatl painting tutorial I did using Photoshop and Painter in my site at
www.rodnymella.com

It's worth a read I promise you'll learn a thing or two tips and tricks in digital painting. Here's some preview images of the painting. Bookmark me as I am continuosly increasing bulk of my tutorials.

Tutorial: Making of Red Assassin


Making of Naughty Robot


Cheers!
Rodny Mella ]]> Graphic Design Tutorials gigsmella http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-tutorials/11286-advance-digital-painting-tutorials-rodny.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-web-design-help/11285-need-help-hidden-field-form-page.html Mon, 12 May 2008 02:50:25 GMT After the user clicks on the (submit) button I want my (Thank you) page to come up after. I've directed this in the hidden field but when I test in browser after clicking on submit it does not work.

below is a sample of the coding being used.

NEW to forms world :)

1.)input type="hidden" name='to1' value='personsemail@personsemail'/
2.)input type="hidden" name='back' value='thankyou.html'/
3.)input type="hidden" name='project' value='REZNICK' /
4.)input name="submit" type="submit" style="color: #ffffff; background-color: #ff0000" value="submit" /


Thanks for your help! ]]> Graphic Design and Web Design Help smydesigner http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-web-design-help/11285-need-help-hidden-field-form-page.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-web-design-critique/11284-artblog-rodny.html Mon, 12 May 2008 02:44:46 GMT Hi Guys!

Would love to hear your crits on my site and also contents. Any advice additional contents I can add related to graphics, 3D, tutorials. I have about 300 to 400 visits a day and would love to make good use of it by presenting more articles, I appreciate your input to it, Thanks!

Here's a screenshot of my site



Cheers!
Rodny ]]> gigsmella http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-web-design-critique/11284-artblog-rodny.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11282-how-create-vector-photoshop-brush.html Sun, 11 May 2008 17:51:01 GMT Define Brush Preset*, and name your brush as your wish. Below the thumbnail view of your brush, you can see its resolution. Image: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa26/kukuhumi/tutorial/vector%20ps%20brush/definebrush.jpg (http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa26/kukuhumi/tutorial/vector%20ps%20brush/?action=view¤t=definebrush.jpg) If you want to be sure that your Photoshop brush has already listed in the set picker, just find to the Photoshop brush option and click the little arrow shown below: Image: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa26/kukuhumi/tutorial/vector%20ps%20brush/openbrushpresetpicker.jpg (http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa26/kukuhumi/tutorial/vector%20ps%20brush/?action=view¤t=openbrushpresetpicker.jpg) VoilĂ*! there you go! you are now having a vector photoshop brush now and it is ready to use :D Image: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa26/kukuhumi/tutorial/vector%20ps%20brush/brushtray.jpg (http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa26/kukuhumi/tutorial/vector%20ps%20brush/?action=view¤t=brushtray.jpg) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=dX7NIH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=dX7NIH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=R5YSkH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=R5YSkH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=TbJBIH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=TbJBIH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=0mJAoH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=0mJAoH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=dcljPh (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=dcljPh) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=niDvyH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=niDvyH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=cwcpRh (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=cwcpRh) Read More at Graphic Identity Blog (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/graphicidentity/~3/288161238/how-to-create-vector-photoshop-brush.html)]]> Today I'm going to show you how to create vector photoshop brush. You have probably know, that you can define anykind of graphic image as photoshop brush. If you want to create a specific graphic object with your own creativity... Why don't you start it by creating a vector graphic using Adobe Illustrator? My photoshop brush set collections set are done primarilly by Illustrator. Why? It is simply because Illustrator has a lot better tools to draw a graphic object from scratch than Photoshop. This kind of graphic that is made in Illustrator, will be known as vector graphic. Lets begin the tutorial now!

Step 1 - Draw an image vector using Illustrator
Use black foreground and white background when you start. This is important to have sharp contrast when you are going to define your brush set in Photoshop.
Resize the vector graphic using Scale Tool (s) if you want to set the brush set in certain resolution.




Step 2 - Saving the file as EPS format
After you are finished editing your vector graphic in Illustrator, save the file as EPS format, then open it in Photoshop.
As you can see, by default there your EPS file will show no background because Photoshop only capture the black shiluette of your graphcis and the white background will be converted as transparent.




Step 3 - Defining Brush Preset
In the Photoshop menu, go to the menu Edit > Define Brush Preset, and name your brush as your wish. Below the thumbnail view of your brush, you can see its resolution.




If you want to be sure that your Photoshop brush has already listed in the set picker, just find to the Photoshop brush option and click the little arrow shown below:



VoilĂ*! there you go! you are now having a vector photoshop brush now and it is ready to use :D




Read More at Graphic Identity Blog ]]> Graphic Design Blog Graphic Design Blog http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11282-how-create-vector-photoshop-brush.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11283-web-design-review-animatric-com.html Sun, 11 May 2008 17:51:01 GMT (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=ov6jmH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=DHn26H (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=DHn26H) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=Nu7BwH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=Nu7BwH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=DbhQrH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=DbhQrH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=ZVR3nh (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=ZVR3nh) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=kD0llH (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=kD0llH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?i=wWqGuh (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/graphicidentity?a=wWqGuh) Read More at Graphic Identity Blog (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/graphicidentity/~3/288161239/web-design-review-animatriccom.html)]]> As I’ve started to get involved more into Blog Catalog Graphic Design Group, the members of this group has growing now and we have 198 members already. I always expecting something new in this group, as usual I came across to see some feedback and comments, and happy that I got a unique link-bait from Animatric.com. From the first time this group is dedicated to all designers or blog authors who always need resourceful websites, either from a group discussion, special events, or even a design blog promotion.

Animatric.com has invited all the group members to have cross reviewed blog, (especially if you have PR 2 blog). I think this is a wonderful idea, because by doing this you can have more people to give constructive criticism over your blog or website in detailed explanation. Getting another comment in a different point of views and hopefully you can have better designed website and good quality of content in the future.



Animatric.com is a resource website of WYSIWYG ADOBE Tutorials for After Effects, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere and Sound. Parviz is the founder of this cool website.

The website logo header is unique in design and concept. By adapting “A” typeface on crimson color background and the magician hat with the magic stick. This concept is able to drive viewer's attention to understand the idea of this website, that Animatric.com is a website with resourceful tricks and tips for every designer.

The layout is dominated in white, the main content is placed on the left and the two wide sidebars are on the right side. At the first glance, this layout looks clean and properly arranged. As you can see, there are white spaces everywhere to avoid the clutters. Nice and neat typo hierarchy. Featured of popular tutorial on the very left sidebar is another way to make easier to navigate the most visited page using thumbnail pictures of tutorials. It would be better, if these pictures have some kind of title tag for each link.

You can browse the graphic tutorials by category and they are the tutorials are:

• After effects
• Flash
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• Premiere
• Sound
• Articles

Another feature in Animatric and of course good news for you who runs a graphic design blog is Animatrick Web Directory. This directory will bring benefit to you, when you want to grow your traffic, reputation and page rank with a listing in our web directory. Free and featured listings are available. You can also submit your site for Weekly Competition. Recently, Animatric.com has been also inviting you to join banner exchange program.
Cool things ;)

However, I have another opinion for the Animatric.com. I found out that this website is build with layout tables instead of using CSS. It is also surprising me that the tutorials and articles are put on the main content using frames and scrolls. The reason I brought this into the review, is this website may have more advantages if the founder cold somehow redesign it or rebuild it using pure CSS mark up. There is a great old article from A List Apart: Where you can find the differences between table and semantic markup, at the implementation level.

I have to say that this website is way too wide for small screen user. I think rebalancing the two sidebars as, when the very left sidebar is built in 330px and the next one is just 250px, will somehow decrease the website’s width into something that is comfortable enough for the readers.

Another thing is the navigation menu on the top right of the layout. As the width of this website is almost 1200px, it took me a while to seek the “Home” link when I was landed on tutorials section. I was using small width screen, when I realized later on that by scrolling to the right I finally found the navigation links. These links are better seen if they are designed on tabs menu as I’ve seen poor contrast quality of the links typography with the dark background of the header.

Somehow these sorts of design review are meant for positive intentions ;)
I just wish Parvis best of luck with everything that has been done to the website so far and to promote Animatric.com.


Read More at Graphic Identity Blog ]]> Graphic Design Blog Graphic Design Blog http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11283-web-design-review-animatric-com.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/off-topic/11281-pc-bomb.html Sun, 11 May 2008 17:18:55 GMT Just StumbledUpon this... quality! I couldn't get a date unfortunately:

]]> Off Topic PR Design http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/off-topic/11281-pc-bomb.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/off-topic/11280-pc-bomb.html Sun, 11 May 2008 17:18:35 GMT Just StumbledUpon this... quality! I couldn't get a date unfortunately:
]]> Off Topic PR Design http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/off-topic/11280-pc-bomb.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11277-slow.html Sun, 11 May 2008 14:12:33 GMT Well damn! I thought coming here would be interesting, but it's turning out to be slow. I hope I haven't turned anyone off with anything I may have written. Anyway, take it easy peeps. 1

Read more at the Graphic Design Network ]]> Graphic Design Blog Graphic Design Network http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11277-slow.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11276-liquid-fire-sooo-cool.html Sun, 11 May 2008 13:40:26 GMT (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/espresso-online_blog?a=I9V8TH) Image: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/espresso-online_blog/~4/288053661 Read the full post at espresso-online>> (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/espresso-online_blog/~3/288053661/)]]>


Read the full post at espresso-online>> ]]> Graphic Design Blog Graphic Design Blog http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/graphic-design-blog/11276-liquid-fire-sooo-cool.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/fun-games/11275-hello-tech-suppor.html Sun, 11 May 2008 11:56:34 GMT Customer: “Hello, is this Tech support?” Me: “Absolutely, is there an issue I can help you with?” Customer: “Yeah I want you to take over my computer and tell me what’s wrong with it. It’s all crazy.” Me: (Thinking about how “all crazy” actually constitutes as a good description of a problem in most cases) “Okay ma’am well I assume you’ve had us remote control your machine again, so go ahead and open the program for me and I’ll try to connect. What’s the IP address?” Customer: “No, you can’t have my IP.” Me: “Well it’s impossible to help you without it. Don’t worry, I’m not going to do something to your machine.” Customer: “No, you don’t understand. My ISP or whatever stopped giving me internet so I need you to do it some other way.” Me: “Ma’am, without internet I can’t just .. beam into your computer.” Customer: “Man, those guys control EVERYTHING!!” *click* Customer: “Hello, is this Tech support?”

Me: “Absolutely, is there an issue I can help you with?”

Customer: “Yeah I want you to take over my computer and tell me what’s wrong with it. It’s all crazy.”

Me: (Thinking about how “all crazy” actually constitutes as a good description of a problem in most cases) “Okay ma’am well I assume you’ve had us remote control your machine again, so go ahead and open the program for me and I’ll try to connect. What’s the IP address?”

Customer: “No, you can’t have my IP.”

Me: “Well it’s impossible to help you without it. Don’t worry, I’m not going to do something to your machine.”

Customer: “No, you don’t understand. My ISP or whatever stopped giving me internet so I need you to do it some other way.”

Me: “Ma’am, without internet I can’t just .. beam into your computer.”

Customer: “Man, those guys control EVERYTHING!!”

*click* ]]> Fun and Games Liliya http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/fun-games/11275-hello-tech-suppor.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/fun-games/11274-dear-son.html Sun, 11 May 2008 11:25:24 GMT An old Arabian man who lives in central USA wants to dig around the earth so he can plant tomatoes. However, he is too old to do so, so he e-mails his son, who studies in Paris.

Dear Son,

Ah, I wanted to plant Tomatoes in my garden today, but I am too old and weak to dig around the ground. If only you were here, I would be certain you would help me.

Allah be with you,

Your father.

A few hours later, he gets an e-mail back:

Dear father,

Please do not dig around the ground in the garden. It's where I hid...The THING!".

Allah be with you,

Your dearest son.

Only 15 minutes after the man had recieved his e-mail, the cops, the FBI and the CIA came knocking at his door and started to dig around his garden. When they didn't find anything, they left disappointed.

One hour later, the father recieves another mail:

Dear father,

I would assume your garden has been dug around by now. It was my honor to help you.

Allah be with you,

Your dearest son. ]]> Fun and Games Liliya http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/fun-games/11274-dear-son.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/illustration-graphic-design/11273-wiretap-studios.html Sun, 11 May 2008 11:06:59 GMT

[ Wiretap Studios™ ] ///// Graphic Design + Illustration ///// ]]> Illustration Graphic Design Toon http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/illustration-graphic-design/11273-wiretap-studios.html http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/programming-forum/11272-js-horizontal-scroller.html Sun, 11 May 2008 10:49:16 GMT Hello,

I'm working on a project and I need to find a script that will allow me to scroll a div in my page horizontally when I hover two "left and right" buttons.
I know about "the horizontal way" site, it has a really good template I can use (and I will eventually if I don't find the exact thing I am looking for).
The problem is that by using "THW" template I will have a scrolling bar at the bottom of my browser window, and I don't want to. I want it to be nice and clean, so I searched a little and I found this script, which is exactly what I am looking for, but it's vertical...
Any suggestions? ]]> Programming Forum weremoose http://www.estetica-design-forum.com/programming-forum/11272-js-horizontal-scroller.html