Polaroid Effect with Photoshop

Referring to last night’s training, here some additional tips and instruction to create the Polaroid effect:

Polaroid Effect with Photoshop

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Use WIDE for photos in wide format e.g. 3000px width x 2000px height
Use PANEL for photos in panel format e.g. 2000px wide x 3000px height
(you can use images of ANY size and up to 599 dpi)

Choose the desired action with the right alignment and press PLAY in the action tab

After rendering you can optionally change/adjust all parameters in the Layer tab e.g. decreasing the opacity of the grain layer etc.

When you’re done choose the FINISHER action and press play. It will flatten the image, add a layer with streaks like they occur on real Polaroid prints and furthermore a bevel and a fill layer with the background color.

Sample Scrapbook or Grunge Design application from last night’s deYcademy Web Design Workshop

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Grunge and Scrapbook Design

The above was just a quick sample. Leave a link to show your creations.

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Grunge Chrome Fonts

Chrome and grunge fonts, what a funny mix. Have a look at the below images and see what messed up chrome fonts do to Yorgo.

Grunge Chrome 1

Grunge Chrome Fonts 1

Grunge Chrome Fonts 2

Grunge Chrome Fonts 2

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Developing a transparent WordPress Based Photo Blog, I got inspired to use some elements in a Grunge environment. It’s creative, it’s fun, it’s the Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress.

Grunge Background

The first step is to create a grunge background:

Grunge Background for WP

This background is 1680 x 1250 pixels big and has a weight of 130 kb only.

Transparent Header Footer and Content Backgrounds

Step 2: make your backgrounds transparent and set opacity to 70 %.

Fancy Fonts

Add some fancy fonts for h1 and h2 using the Fontburner plugin.

Fancy Fonts for h1 and h2

Background Opacity and Hover Function

It is not easy to read content on colored backgrounds, therefore we add a hover function to show white backgrounds on left content and sidebar.

Save load by Scrolling over the Background

No vertical tiling is needed, also on long blog posts when the content scrolls over the background. We fix the background attachment (background image).

Header Transparency and Site Title

To get the header effect I have loaded a transparent header png with no content and added a top margin to adjust the position of the content.

The blog title is painted on the background with position top left to allow display on any monitor irrespective of resolution and size.

Transparency Variations

Your creativity is the limit. You could create an overlay look by adding a black background with 80% opacity:

Transparent Overlay Hover

Try and enjoy!

Developing a transparent WordPress Based Photo Blog, I got inspired to use some elements in a Grunge environment. It’s creative, it’s fun, it’s the Semiomantics XO Theme for WordPress.

Grunge Background

The first step is to create a grunge background:

Grunge Background for WP

This background is 1680 x 1250 pixels big and has a weight of 130 kb only.

Transparent Header Footer and Content Backgrounds

Step 2: make your backgrounds transparent and set opacity to 70 %.

Fancy Fonts

Add some fancy fonts for h1 and h2 using the Fontburner plugin.

Background Opacity and Hover Function

It is not easy to read content on colored backgrounds, therefore we add a hover function to show white backgrounds on left content and sidebar.

Save load by Scrolling over the Background

No vertical tiling is needed, also on long blog posts when the content scrolls over the background. We fix the background attachment (background image).

Header Transparency and Site Title

To get the header effect I have loaded a transparent header png with no content and added a top margin to adjust the position of the content.

The blog title is painted on the background with position top left to allow display on any monitor irrespective of resolution and size.

Transparency Variations

Your creativity is the  limit. You could create an overlay look by adding a black background with 80% opacity:

Try and enjoy!

Miss Garden Route Images

We just received the fiirst images from the Miss Garden Route 2009 contest. Have a look, the new Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo is amongst them! And we shoot them up to Google Top 10 Images!

The first Images from Miss Garden route 2009 Contest

Miss Garden Route 2009 Images

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Let’s look forward for more later!

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Web Design Seminar by Ycademy

Saturday and Sunday September 26-27, 2009

1 pm – 9 pm GMT (London Time)

At Ycademy Online Seminar Conferencing

DAY 1

1.Web Design Basic Elements

2. Branding

3. Workshop: Your Brand Elements

4. Workshop: Implementation with Semiomantics XO

5. Information Architecture vs. Site Architecture

6. Workshop: Personal Project, Style and Web Design Elements

7. Workshop: Implementation

8. Extract Brand Elements

9. Workshop: Apply to NewsCast script.

END OF DAY 1

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51 Grunge Fonts

For the purpose of the Web design Workshop here are 51 Grunge Fonts you may want to download and install on your computer (Windows). These grunge fonts allow you to easily add grunge style text to your design.

If you have downloaded the Mega Font pack, most of these fonts are contained in there; you may just overwrite or skip the corresponding files when installing.

Download Grunge Fonts

Download from HERE. (Download size: 9.4 MB)

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How to install Fonts

1. Unzip the downloaded folder

2. Select all the contained .ttf files and copy them into the folder:

Windows/Fonts  on your main hard drive (usually on drive C).

Done

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Here you find some of the Grunge Brushes I am using with Photoshop: Download from HERE and load to Photoshop. The Download is 16.5MB.

I have used these brushes for the below graphic design:

How to Add Brushes to your Photoshop

1. Place the *.abr files into:

Program Files/Adobe/Adobe/Photoshop X/Presets/Brushes

where X is the number for your Photoshop version.

2. From the Brushes Palette in Photoshop, click the small arrow in the upper right corner of the palette, and choose load brushes. The brushes will be added to the current brushes.

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Grunge Brushes – for GIMP

In our earlier posts you find Grunge Backgrounds and Textures, here you get some brushes you can use to create grunge effects for your Grunge Design.

Gimp Grunge Brushes

Download my Gimp grunge Brushes from HERE and load them to your folder: Program Files/Gimp-2.0/share/gimp/2.0/brushes.

The below has been created with GIMP to demonstrate some effects of the brushes from this pack.

Grunge Design

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Free Grunge Backgrounds for Web Design Workshop

Grunge Designs look complex,however you can easily compose your own Grunge Design by using some of the free tools available online. For the purpose of our Web design Workshop we have collected some backgrounds, textures, fonts and brushes which you may download for free.

Grunge Backgrounds and Background Textures

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Download this pack from HERE before the Ycademy Seminar this coming week-end. These are all large images. The download is 90MB.

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Corvette 79 for Sale in USA

Gene Line Motors’ promo poster gets us a lot of feed-back today. Be it from Twitterers or from Google Search customers, people like the Grunge Design.

It started all with a sketch for a background:

Then Larrie (or was it Sandra?) glued his sale’s add on to the wall with the title:

Corvette 97 for Sale

Corvette 97 for Sale on Google

Next we found Corvette 97 for Sale on Google:

Finally what remains i:

Gene Line’s Advertising Board

Ask Gene for ad space if you want to reach Google Top 10 within in a few hours.

PS: Just to keep you posted, we are moving closer to the top of the Google Top 10:

Corvette 79 for sale in USA on Google

We even get an expandable entry after rank 5 .

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Corvette for Sale storms Google

I fear by tonight that vette will be gone …! Check it out HERE. Google cannot get enough of it and Larrie’s Phone is busy.

Click the pic  to see the most recent detail.

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Corvette 79 for Sale Grunge

Guess who put this up, Larrie or Sandra .

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Gene Line Grunge Background

A background which could be used for a grunge styled site… :0.

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Start your day with Grunge Designs:

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Grunge Textures Old Paper

An easy way to start your grunge design is to load an old paper background (texture). Here are 5 old paper backgrounds which can be used to start your chef d’oeuvre. We will use them in our Web design Workshop.

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The 16 MB Download is available from HERE.Please download before this week’s Ycademy Seminar.

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