June, 2008

Barack Obama’s Coldplay iPod + iTunes Commercial in Photoshop

Obama Preview This Photoshop tutorial will guide you through creating an effect in the vein of the most recent Coldplay iTunes commercial. The Coldplay commercial uses colorful backdrops, with various textures, smoke and lighting effects. For this tutorial, we’ll take a photo of Barack Obama, mask it, create a silhouet and create the colorful background. This tutorial includes a download to the PSD file so you can see how the layers are set up.

Design Videos Roundup #1

You know, sometimes I just don’t like to read. Sometimes I just like to sit and watch something rather than dig myself in text. This article hopes to fulfill that video thirst in you life in the matters of design. In our first installment, we’ll take you from lectures on mootools to moving text to time lapse art creation. Hope you enjoy, and if you have a video you know is good, please leave a comment.

Link & Meta Tags in HTML

The most important tag in the head of a web page is the title tag, but the link an meta tags can tell a lot of information about your content. These tag can tell important information to search engines, and provide a handful of usefulness to a visitor. HTML is not simply intended to hold content, it contains data to describe itself and reference more content. Text on the web is not just linear, its hypertext. It wants to quickly branch off like a textbook with chapters, pages, indexes and glossaries. The web is intended to be consumed in different ways by different people. The link and meta tags tell how a web page fits in the hierarchy of a website.