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Finally got broadband yesterday. Surfing in style now. Plus we've networked the computers. In our house before, we were sharing a dial-up connection between four people (only one person on at a time). So it's great having the computers networked so everyone can be on at the same time.
In other news, I found this design magazine called Before&After. It has some great ideas, tutorials and stuff. There are a few PDF articles you can download from their site and others you have to subscribe to read. One of the best things about it is, because it's subscriber only, there are no ads in it at all (which is kind of ironic, since a lot of it is about making ads).
And finally, Space Tree the Space Tree in Space is a brilliant series of flash animations by Ed Atlin. He's made quite a lot too (33 so far). I think it's hilarious, but maybe it's an acquired taste. I think you have to watch a few just to understand it properly. It's about Space Tree who is a 'Space Tree' and he's in space. What more could you want? I recommend watching episode 32 first, since it sort of gives a background to what's going on.
Resources
Tutorials
Digital Polariser
B&W Colour Overlay
Quick Tips: Auto Levels & Auto Contrast
Quick Tips: Graduated Filter
Quick Tips: Textured Text
Quick Tips: Loading Custom Shapes
Quick Tips: Creating Custom Shapes
Photoshop Custom Shapes
Custom Shapes: Guns
Custom Shapes: Heraldry
Custom Shapes: Graffiti
Custom Shapes: World Map
100k
Just a quick update to say thanks to my friends, watchers and random commenters on here for the support, encouragement and feedback on my work. Apparently people have looked at this humble page over 100,000 times now, so thanks to you lurkers too :)
It’s quite a milestone. I remember when I first signed up back in 2004, I was interested in photography but wasn’t particularly good. I still have a lot of my old work in my scraps if you're interested. But from the feedback and inspiration I found on here, I was able to quickly develop and hone my talent to become the 100,000-pageview-receiveing photographer you see (read) before you
GIMP video tutorials
If you’ve been keeping up with my site, you should know I’ve posted a couple of GIMP video tutorials recently. One was inspired by Tordo (https://www.deviantart.com/tordo)'s work Unexpectedly where I recreated the patterned sky effect in GIMP (then the next night I showed how to do the same thing in photoshop... it's on the same page).
Then the other night I recreated my most popular Youtube tutorial (+40k views on there :O) on getting vintage colours in Photoshop (in that post i also explain how and why it works).
So now you can get vintage colours in GIMP too. I remade it entirely in Ubuntu (no going back to windows for editing this time) and it’s av
NYC
I'm back from NYC. What an awesome place 8-)
Got 265 photos that I like. Put them on Flickr here: http://flickr.com/photos/lukeroberts/sets/72157604145621082/
But if you don't have half an hour to look through them, I've picked out my favourite 18 which you can see here: http://flickr.com/photos/lukeroberts/sets/72157604150662593/
Also, just put a new tutorial on my site, about applying a macro lens effect digitally with Photoshop.
Resources
My Tutorials
Digital Polariser
B&W Colour Overlay
Quick Tips: Auto Levels & Auto Contrast
Quick Tips: Graduated Filter
Quick Tips: Textured Text
Quick Tips: Loading Custom Shapes
Quick Tips: C
lukeroberts.us
I finally got around to making myself a proper website. I decided to go the blog/wordpress route for ease of updating and themeability. It’s been going for a few days now, and so far has been updated every day :O
http://lukeroberts.us – not really any reason for the .us extension. It was just available and looks kinda nice. Saves one keystroke too.
Not sure how long I could keep updating it every day, especially since I’m going to New York City next week 8-) Just going for a week for a bit of a holiday. Should be good – hopefully many photos will follow.
Oh I'm in London now, in case people haven't noticed.
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ooo. feature \o/
sorry for the belated thanks, man!
sorry for the belated thanks, man!