No neat banner for this one. These are tutorials on how to make some awesome effects in photoshop. Making glass, ice, fire, paint, sky, planets, its all here.
“Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.”
So with the 2010 Vancouver games coming to an end, I am still with Steven Colbert and have to wonder… how do they have time for 2,010 games?
Anyway, after overcoming Olympic fever (of 101.2F and a horribly sore throat, thanks olympics), I noticed a lot of references to past games, which made me wonder what things looked like back then, besides black and white. Unfortunately, because of the tight grip NBC has on Olympic footage, it’s very hard to find video of past Olympic events or ceremonies. I would just LOVE to see the opening ceremonies, or at least pictures of them at all the past summer and winter games.
What I could find, however, are almost all the logos used for the games. Also, the logo for the upcoming 2012 London games, which I’ve only just now seen and have to say that it looks like something that would’ve been made in the 80’s, so I question who chose the design. But, it is really interesting to see some of the different decisions made for the logos throughout the years, and I don’t think I could really pick a favorite.
This site has a nice little article about the some of the logos and has some interesting thoughts about the most recent London logo as well.
I don’t think I need to say that I enjoy graphic design. These guys all show very different styles of graphic design but all produce equally beautiful work. From photo-realistic 3D modeling, to illustration, to that crazy collage scrapbook from scratch style (I don’t know what you call it, but I like it).
“Watching an artist turn a piece of paper and some graphite into a realistic, imaginative work of art is amazing enough – but somehow, seeing such illustrations come to life from pixels on a computer screen can seem even more magical. Whether producing imagery for video games or for their own pleasure, these 15 digital illustrators combine modern technology with raw talent to create jaw-dropping works of art.”
Check out the whole article with some pictures of their works right over here.
Having just recently made a few websites, I know that this is exactly what it is like.
*cue loud heaving sigh*
In my opinion anyway…
This is a beautiful image of a solar eclipse, specifically the solar corona. You know, that thing that everyone tells you not to look at during one of these solar events.
“This photograph of a total solar eclipse was taken by Miloslav Druckmüller and colleagues from Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, during an eclipse on July 22, 2009. They were located on Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
The sun was completely blocked by the moon (a period known as ‘totality’) for 5 minutes and 41 seconds. In that time, Druckmüller was able to take a series of images that were combined and processed to produce this final product. Features usually hidden from view can now be seen including lunar impact craters and the intricate detail of the magnetic field lines inside the corona.”
The Discovery Channel article is found here. And the photographer’s page, where details on the how the image was exposed as well as a high resolution image can be found here.