Creating a website in shabby chic style

shabby chic flower shop

Bloomia is an independent florist and a flower shop based in Dunbar – a stunningly beautiful little town sitting on the coast, a few miles up north from Edinburgh. A decorative shabby chic style and it’s sweet nostalgia ideally suits the shop and its surrounding of the Dunbar’s old town. The shabby chic style of

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Rebranding a Country

Alternative Polish Flag

I asked myself what’s the most characteristic thing about Polish people? Poland is such a diverse society that there is not an easy answer to that question. The word ‘undefined’ comes to mind. More than 5 mln Poles live abroad and Polish culture is highly influenced by others somehow remaining unique. Poles are creative in many fields

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Building a new website: where do I start?

mario smashing a 3d view of a website

Unless you are a web designer yourself, to build a website you will need to hire one or use an on-line companies that rent their server space with some web building software installed such as WiX. Before going for a second option I recommend you to read my blog entry about free website builders on-line.

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Free website builders – pros and cons

pitfalls

There are many on-line, automated website builders offering website packages at a very low cost. As they seem to be a no brainer choice for many small businesses and personal websites, there are things you must take under consideration before choosing this type of service. 1. Hidden costs The greatly reduced price should trigger the

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A font worth a tweet

bariol

As social media crawls into our digital lives more and more, new ideas to use its potential come up every day. Offering something in exchange for a ‘tweet’ or ‘like’ is a great way of hitting two birds with one stone – promoting your product or service and increasing your social media presence. It is also

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Editing RAW images with Capture One

capture-one

Capture One is a perfect tool for editing RAW images either directly from a camera hooked-up with a computer or from resources neatly organised in useful albums and stored on a hard drives. Its intuitive interface allows you to quickly apply all basic corrections such as white balance, exposition, clarity etc. with great accuracy. It

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Digital make-up

photor

Today’s photography often include elements of collage and something you could call digital painting. As the retouching tools are getting more advanced, photos look more natural and  it is not obvious whether we look at a real thing or at an artist impression. Photographs for adverts usually need a lot of retouching, either to make

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Quick fix

quickf

To remove the reflection of the camera’s flash I used very large, soft brush and with a pressure sensitive pen I gently painted over the glaring areas. Sometimes you need very little to make a difference and save the photo.

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3D artwork

To create the artwork for poker machines I used 3d application. Its lighting and texturing capabilities helped me create a shiny, casino-like style artwork. Its to emulate gold . First I to designed typography and some of the model outlines.  Adobe Illustrator then imported to 3ds Max when they went through the lighting and texturing process. After that I used

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May the Force be with us!

Me as a Luke Skywalker from the Starwars

Probably everyone of us was wondering how would it be if we were a different person. Soon we will be able to create 3D model of ourselves using a webcam or a mobile phone and then upload it into a game. It is possible that with a 3D printer we will be able to make

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Matt R is a graphic and web designer in South London. Read more