Movies In Color Optimo Type Foundry Reduce, Reuse, Diffuse: Make Your Own Flash Diffuser from an Old Film Container Harsh, unflattering flash got you down? Grab an old roll of film and make it all better. Follow Flickr user natuurplaat’s lead, and turn an old film canister into a flash diffuser! Keep reading and we’ll show you how to make your very own little piece of genius. Film Canister Flash Diffuser Thanks to reader Jeff Gamble for the tip! p.s. The Ingredient list Camera with a pop-up flashWhite film container — We got free used ones by sweet-talking the clerk at our local photo lab.RulerX-acto knife Step 1: Measure your flash Measure the width of your flash so you’ll know how wide to make the cut in your film container. Step 2: Cut the film container Using a sharp blade, carefully cut a notch in the side of the film container (take the lid off first). Step 3: Slide it on Slide the film container onto your flash, and put the lid on to hold it in place. Step 4: Go take pictures! Get out there and shoot! Take photos as you would normally. Before: Shiny & Pasty After: Lovely & Pleasant Want some more ideas?
The science behind fonts (and how they make you feel) I’ve noticed how seemingly small things like font and the spacing between letters can impact how I feel when reading online. The right font choice along with the absence of sidebars and popups makes everything feel easier and better to read. Websites like Medium, Signal vs. Noise, and Zen Habits are like yoga studios for content. Their presentation of content puts me at peace while reading, allowing me to fully focus on the stories without distraction. Just look at the difference between Medium and Cracked: Exhibit A) Medium.com Exhibit B) Cracked.com When you compare the two, it’s obvious which one makes you feel like crud. The Cracked layout is painful to look at. After experimenting with how we display content on the ooomf blog, I discovered there’s an element of science behind why we feel this way toward certain typefaces and layouts. How we read When we read, our eyes follow a natural pattern called a Scan Path. We break sentences up into scans (saccades) and pauses (fixations). 1. 2. 3.
4 Lessons to Learn from Charles and Ray Eames Posted on 27'12 Nov Posted on November 27, 2012 along with 15 JUST™ Creative Comments *This is a guest article contributed by Aniya Wells. Charles and Ray Eames were the design power couple of the 20th century. Their Eames Lounge chair for Herman Miller, shown below, is one of the most lusted-after furniture designs in the world, and is only the best known example of their vast output. Eames Lounge Chair For over 35 years, Charles and Ray lived as husband and wife, but also as partners in a design practice that put forth such remarkably varied fruits as the Eames Case Study House, the film Powers of Ten, and the exhibition Mathematica, still on view today at the Boston Museum of Science. Though slogan writing was not one of their advertised areas of expertise, Charles had a particular knack for the pithy, memorable quotation. Ray & Charles Eames 1. “Take your pleasures seriously.” 2. Perhaps the greatest secret to the success of the Eameses was that they refused to specialize. 3. 4.
Grilli Type | Independent Swiss Font Foundry Basics of Photography: Your Camera’s Manual Settings Maybe I misread this, or maybe I'm a pedant, but... "When you press the shutter button on your camera and take a picture, the aperture blades take a specific amount of time to close. This amount of time is known as your shutter speed" ...is not exactly correct. On my cameras (Nikons) the aperture closes at the same speed (really fast) no matter what your shutter speed—or if you're shooting "wide open" (at the largest aperture the lens supports) the aperture doesn't do anything at all when you trigger the shutter release. What changes when you adjust the shutter speed is (surprise) the shutter. On my camera, the shutter consists of two curtains, like a stage. Flagged
untitled laws Organization makes a system of many appear fewer. The home is usually the first battleground that comes to mind when facing the daily challenge of managing complexity. Stuff just seems to multiply. There are three consistent strategies for achieving simplicity in the living realm: 1) buy a bigger house, 2) put everything you don’t really need into storage, or 3) organize your existing assets in a systematic fashion. These typical solutions have mixed results. Concealing the magnitude of clutter, either through spreading it out or hiding it, is an unnuanced approach that is guaranteed to work by the first Law of reduce. However, in the long term an effective scheme for organization is necessary to achieve definitive success in taming complexity.
Commercial Type Street Dance Illustration Street Dance IllustrationReviewed by Denny Tang on Feb 2Rating: Preview of final results Stock images used in this tutorial These are the stock photos that were used in this Photoshop tutorial. Step 1 – Open the city skyline photo Start by opening the photo with the city skyline. Step 2 – Create a photocopy effect with the threshold tool Choose Image > Adjustments > Threshold and adjust the setting to get a clean Use the brush tool to erase the clouds so that the sky is all white. Finally, choose Image > Adjustments > Invert to invert the layer. Step 3 – Create a water reflection Press Ctrl+J or choose Layer > Duplicate to duplicate the layer. First, activate the transform tool by pressing Ctrl+T or choosing Edit > Free Transform. Select the rectangular marquee tool and create a selection from the top to the horizon of the city skyline. Press delete or choose Edit > Clear to clear the selected.