Author: KC

  • Working on a Mr.Yoks Project.  I saw this tweet, which led to this link and I thought it was at first, a pairing of famous quotes and their Adobe Photoshop counterparts. For example: “There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having…

  •     I’m working on designing a product with some friends of mine. We might end up starting a company and actually producing it for the masses. So, I can’t really post much about the design process, lest I reveal all of our delicious details about the product. But, I can certainly say how humbling…

  • A Mr.Yoks Project. Today, I started on an animation (Not completely unlike this one that I did with cut paper). I mostly wanted to see if I had the patience for frame-by-frame animation. I also wanted to see a baby horse dance. I made this goofy looking background in Photoshop. I used a “tilt-shift” treatment…

  • FAQ: What is a style tile? My newest client is currently using a Template at Yahoo Web Hosting. It’s typographic limitations, stock-photo images and unimaginative swashes makes it look like it hasn’t had enough attention. The website is for a Collaborative Divorce service, so I want it to look friendly, warm and professional, a solace for…

  •   Realistic Wrinkled Paper In Photoshop. Ignore the corny details about how to make it look like notebook paper, and you’ve got a very simple tutorial about how to make a crinkled texture. Quick and easy! It’s amazing how many interesting affects can be achieved by using different layer modes.

  •   I spent my morning creating “art-rings.” I started out with the idea that I was going to make some circular stickers and I was browsing famous color palates to help with my color choices and then I just got carried away making these concentric circles of my favorite artist’s work.  Creating is like that…

  • This is a great tutorial. This is an easy effect to achieve and it’s really fun to look at. It’s really trendy right now, so soak up the fun before it’s overdone! I highly recommend you carefully select your photo and add little tweaks to this process. This is a good article about that.

  • As my last assignment in Web Design Bootcamp, we are to take a snapshot of Responsive Websites in the Summer of 2012. (What is Responsive? I love this article that answers that question.) This assignment put forth by Erik Fadiman is one of those tests where it seems the only solution is to call the…