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Don’t Forget Your Image Meta Data

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

The web is a vast and wonderous sea of sites and at the end of the day you’ll never know where your images will wash up. One sure fire way to make sure you get credit for your images is to add the meta data to them. For example I collected from around the web all the best costumes that I could find and have been adding them to an album in my facebook. If you have the proper data in your images it will auto fill fields in facebook with your image information. Through the looking glass. Lets start. I first get my image – in...

Amazing WordPress Contact Form.

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

A client of mine wanted me to create a ‘membership’ sign up on their wordpress blog and I really didn’t want to have play contractor and out-source to a developer. My primary area’s of expertise is the visual appearance of a website. I’m a front-End developer not a programmer. But thankfully it was wordpress and there are literally 1000′s of plug-ins and widgets for use with these themes. Contact Form 7 Saves the Day! At first I wasn’t sure what I was dealing with but another designer I know highly...

Wonky Photoshop CS5 Linespaces

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

I’ve been having some really weird issues with Photoshop lately. I’ll be laying out some sample body copy and hit the enter key to start a new paragraph and the space between lines is HUGE. I check my leading and it’s at alright 12pt font 16pt leading. So the spacing should be fine. Well, I had the issue for a few days and it was really starting to tick me off. What was causing the line height to be all wonky. I tried to correct the issue pulling the line height waaaaaaay back to like 0.01pt which kinda made it...

Designer Style Free Icon Set

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There’s an artist over on DeviantArt that has totally nailed creating icons. His icons are masterpieces, they really are. Feel free to visit him and check out more of his work here: http://svengraph.deviantart.com/ Click To Download Icon...

Install Adobe CS on Several PCs

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

So you’ve just bought the latest version of Adobe CS5, perhaps its the designer suite and you’ve installed it on your desktop computer and you think. Hey I wish I could install this on my Laptop too. I could work on some image editing down at the coffee shop and look all suave and designer guy-ish and pick up chicks with my Photoshop skills. But how do I do that without getting the Activation problems from Adobe. I mean you bought the software you just want to use it on several of your machines. Its not like your handing...

Royalty of Retro Illustration

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

As you can see by the surroundings here I’m a devotee of a style and design that is nostalgic if not in an era of rebirth.The illustrative stylings of the 40′s and 50′s are simply beautiful to me.And over the years I’ve clung on to some artists that really have mastered the genre.This article is about paying homage to the artisans that I hold in great esteem. Warning Due to the nature of some of these artists favorite subject matter some of these may not be safe for work, you’ve been advised. Shane Glines Brian...

Stock Photo Freebie

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

The good folks over at istockphoto.com are giving away another stock photo for FREE.They’re a jolly good bunch of folks over there aren’t they. Check out this really cute pooch. Cute Pooch

Customize System Icons

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

How do I set a custom icon to a folder that is on or off my computer? Well that’s easy..with just a few steps. (this works on Windows 7, I’m not sure how it’ll work with older OS, and MAC’s can do this intuitively already) What you’ll need. An Icon to use with the folder, or an image to be turned into an icon. You’ll also need an image editor I’m using Photoshop CS5, and Axialis IconWorkshop6. But with a Google search you can find a plugin for Photoshop that lets you save “.ico” files....

Sunday Night Desktop Wallpaper

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

Anyone that truly knows me – knows that I change my background picture several times a day. My insatiable desire for more visual stimulation seems to demand it. So after visiting Chapters (here in Canada) today with my family, I saw a display with some retro packaging on it from Gary Taxali, and was instantly drawn to it. I bought myself a retro chalkboard from his collection for my desk. It’ll sit nicely on a small easel that I picked up from Ikea. From one of the photo’s I snapped of the display, I made this desktop...

Bowl-O-Rama FREE Vector Image

Posted by wilhelm on 2-02-12 in Blog | 0 comments

I had to do up a bowling poster for some event in my office so I thought I’d snag the bowling graphic and toss it up here for you folk to use.It’s Adobe illustrator CS5 – hmmm that might not be good.Okay I back-saved the file to Adobe illustrator 10 lol that should mean most of you can use it. Download...