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B A BA BA BAI OH SHOCK
It’s here.
It’s shiny.
It’s all wrapped in cellophane.
Well, it was. The cellophane is now randomly discarded, and sorta stuck in my teeth. And the DVD is in the drive. I swear, the installation bar goes SLOWER if you stare at it. It knows you’re watching, and gets all nervous. Like when you can’t do work when a teachers peering over your shoulder.
It’s BioShock II time. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Been a long time since I did a tutorial of any kind, so here’s one!
I’m going to teach you to make a kick-ass origami CD case (like that one).
You’ll need a compass, pencil, ruler, rubber, a CD, and a few sheets of A3 paper (you will f-muck it up a couple of times).
Anyways, find the PDF here and the resource files+PDF here. Only difference is the latter includes a vector of the drawing, a hexagonal template for any artwork you want to print off and stick, and the PDF too.
PirateZoom
So, for my school graphics GCSE project, I need to create graphic products to promote The Pirate Party/The Pirate Bay. I wanted to do something cutting edge, something different from the business card-letterhead fever that seems to grip the classroom. So I want to make a DeepZoom app! I got 44 images from people in school, and getting any more is going to be difficult. I used these 44 to make a DZ model, but it didn’t turn out too amazingly – which is where I want you to help me out.
I need pictures. Lots of them. Basically what I need is an image of you, you and some friends, your dog, your cat, whatever, holding up a picture of the Pirate Bay/Pirate Party logo, or holding up a piece of paper with “I’m a pirate!” or “I pirate X” on it. I don’t mind. Get creative.
So, help a brother out! I’ll end up putting the whole project on the web eventually for you to play around with – maybe you can try and find your picture! Email your images to lloyd.humph at gmail dot com. Keep them under 1mb! Ideally I need over 500 images, but if I can get more I can make a bigger PirateZoom!
Heres the demo one I did – it doesn’t work very well since you can see many of the images many times. http://www.lloydhumphreys.com/content/piratezoom/
Thanks!
So guess who got his Nikon D60? 
It’s grrrreat. Takes some wicked pictures. I got it with an 18-55mm DXII lens, and I plan on buying a 35/1.8 and a 55-200(since the 18-200 is prohibitively expensive).
Sample night shots, taken at looooooooooooooong exposures (15-30seconds).
Lloyd, you lazy rats ass! You didn’t teach us how to make our animations into GIFs for the web. Well yeah, sorry. I forgot. I’d been on granpa’s ol’ cough medicine. So here it is.
Got your animation? Good, because this tutorial is a bit useless without it.
Hit up the File menu, then go to Save for Web & Devices… or hit the stupidly complex shortcut, Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S. To be honest, I could probably click faster than it’d take me to position my fingers in the right place.
A little (or large, depends on your media size) window will pop up giving you a few options.
You wont need a lot of the options in the side panel, if you’re sticking to simple. I’ll explain the more complex things in a later tutorial, where I’ll explore more in depth animation.
File type: pick your poison
Looping options and frame stepper – step through your frames, and change the options of your animation repetition. Do you want it to play once, or repeat? Just bear in mind.. repetitive animations can be a royal pain in the backend if you abuse them on your website. They might look great to you, but do they distract from the actual function of the site? Keep it in mind.
The other stuff is a bit more complex, but like I said – that’s for another time.
Is incredibly simple. So here I go explaining it to you guys’n’gals!
Today I’m going to make a counter that counts down from 5, movie-style. You’re going to need to be familiar with layers, but if you’re not you’ll probably be able to follow anyway. If you can’t – that’s what comments are for, right?
Start by setting up your workspace. Head to Window > Animation and make sure it’s checked. Make sure your layers window is open too.
I made a 640x480px canvas with a dark grey background. Make a circle on it.
Continue reading ‘Animating in Photoshop’
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