I often find myself looking for free images for use in a project. It can be hard to find quality stock photography for free. Today I came across a site though that has really made my day, MorgueFile. (Sound weird? They explain the name on the home page). Continue reading
Tag Archives: Graphics
SharePoint 2003 Image Reference Guides
To go with the SharePoint 2003 CSS Reference Chart I posted yesterday, here is a reference guide for images in SharePoint 2003. For popular images, it includes: Continue reading
Exposure from Alien Skin
Oh, this is just too cool…..
Use Exposure to recreate the look of a specific film stock. Control saturation, light temperature, dynamic range, softness, sharpness, and the addition of realistic grain in one place. Or save your signature look as a one click effect.
Check out the examples, very impressive stuff. All things you could do in Photoshop, but it would take more time to do it manually. Mac/Win $199 download.
New Photoshop Brushes – Sheep Skulls
These are just cool. In my line of corporate work I could never use them unless I am doing some side project for an alternative rock band, but they are still pretty wicked.
Grungy Skull Cracks Photoshop brush (I especially dig this one)
Photo Editing Step-by-Step
So I haven’t blogged much this week, I haven’t had any awe inspiring revelations to contribute. But I did do some photo retouching recently and I thought I would share, as it goes back more to my roots, and roots are good. I took two pictures and combined elements of one into another to achieve a satisfactory portrait for Christmas. Continue reading
Branding SharePoint Portal – don’t let the numbers scare you
Andy May posted some quick notes about asking your clients if they really want to customize the UI for portal, his points being the large number of elements in the style sheet and the large number of images. Continue reading
Photoshop to the rescue: fixing excessive contrast in your digital pics
Very Resourceful Web Resource Site
This site made me go “damn!” Check out the resource topics: Continue reading
“Acrylic” available for download
“Acrylic” (code name) is the professional design program that brings together the richness of pixel-based painting and the performance of editable vector graphics for a more fluid and flexible creative workflow. Create sophisticated designs and graphic elements for your on-screen, Web, and print projects. (MSFT’s Overview of Acrylic)
You can get more info about it here and dowload it here (good luck I am still trying). Continue reading
Tab Navigation using CSS only – Great for SharePoint
My buddy and design counterpart at work whipped up a tab navigation for a SharePoint client who needed navigation between web part pages. You can put this code into a content editor web part and have insta-nav on your web part pages. Here is a preview: Continue reading