Online Scrapbook

11Jun09

Just when I’m about to say goodbye to my not so busy work before, I’ve made a scrapbook for myself. I had this thought that I’m gonna be busy with my new work, hell ya I was right lol

This is just about it

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Moving on to another career

27May09

This week will be my last week working at “Lazymask”, so I’m saying goodbye to my colleague now. I’m grabbing a new career opportunity that I find really challenging. I would surely miss the fun environment and people that I’ve work with.

I’ve learned a lot working at Lazymask in more than 3 years. In a way I was molded to be a better blogger, seo professional and a creative person as well. I would still support Lazymask in whatever way I can and I’m proud to be once a part of it.

Cheers to me! To a new career and to a new environment!

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Tags: career, career opportunity, work, work environment, work life

2 terabyte hard disk drive from WD

02Apr09

Western Digital (WD) announce first ever 2TB hard disk drive

Graphic designers, photographers and video editors, in particular, are well known for their high capacity requirements as regards hard disk space. And there is no reason to suppose that these digital file storage requirements will get any less in the future.

Now that increasingly powerful personal computers allow creatives to work on increasingly larger files – for example multi-layered, high resolution Adobe Photoshop images – the tendency is for those files to get increasingly bigger. Moreover, as hard disks get larger and cheaper, designers can afford to save more copies and backups.

Into this scenario steps WD who have announced their latest product, the WD Caviar Green, a 2 terabyte hard drive. The 3.5 inch 2 TB capacity drive is a first and cements it as the world’s largest capacity hard drive. Previously it had been possible to buy disk enclosures with a 2TB capacity and higher, but this had to be made up by combining separate hard disks using RAID.

In addition to capacity, WD claim that the Caviar Green is environmentally friendly in a number of ways, including reduced power consumption and lower operating temperature. Also featured is IntelliSeek technology, which WD say works out the optimum seek speeds to lower the hard drive’s power consumption, noise and vibration.

The WD drives are designed for use in external hard drives via USB, FireWire and eSATA connections as well as desktop computers and RAID setups.

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Tags: electronic, gadget, media news, technology

The Green Screen Technique

23Feb09

The green screen effect is a type of chroma key. The idea is to create a pure green background which is then replaced with whatever background image you want. Also known as the Green or Blue Screen technique, it can help you create truly startling illusions.

Basically, in this technique a subject is shot in front of a green or blue screen. Video editing program then removes this color from the video clip, and fills in the empty space with the picture from another video clip, or a still picture.

Once you have shot the footage in front of the green screen, it’s time to composite it, via your editing program. How tight the compositing looks will depend on the quality and design of the program you use. For example, while Adobe After Effects has a somewhat more cumbersome graphical user interface than Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects has a matte choker function that can dramatically tame matte bleed. This helps to reduce or eliminate that green-screen halo effect that causes viewers so many flashbacks to those 1970s-era weathermen. And like most compositing programs, they both allow for the creation of large blocky “garbage masks” to block out background objects (such as lighting rigs) in a quick-and-dirty fashion before beginning the fine tuning.

The end result is that you can position the talent in front of a small green screen, record via a standard Mini DV camcorder on a stationary tripod and proceed to composite in all sorts of virtual sets, along with some amazingly slick camera moves created inside the compositing program. These include helicopter shots zooming into science fiction backgrounds and other impossible shots. A less complex backing may be more appropriate for some productions; obviously, experimentation is the key.

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Tags: blue screen, chroma key, chroma keying, green screen, green screen technique

Common Web Design Mistakes

09Feb09

You might think that just by having your website you can already increase your sales. People might just be visiting your website but not buying? Have you consider evaluating your website?

A website is your online identity, it represents your company. Generally, it promotes your products and services. In order to increase your sales you should make it user friendly, easy to navigate and attractive for your visitors or potential clients. Below are the common web design mistakes that you shouldn’t do.

Let’s look at some of the most common web design mistakes:

1.Sloppy Web Site Copy

2.Bad Color Coordination

3.Poor Navigation

4.Don’t Be Too Flashy

5.Avoid Using Frames

6.Bad Layout and Design

7.Meta Tags Missing

8.Untested Web Site

9. Poor Graphic/Image Quality

10. Spelling/Grammar Mistakes

These are just some of the many mistakes of web designers, you have something to add please do so. Ciao!

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Tags: web design, web design mistakes, web designers mistake, web designs

Inspiration Resources for Graphic Enthusiast

03Feb09

If you are one of those graphic enthusiast like me, these would be a great online place to hang out. You’ll be amazed and inspired by graphic artwork from a range of extremely talented graphic artists around the globe.

Here is my top 10 list:

1. Deviantart.com

2. Designflavr.com

3. Designiskinky.net

4. Gfxartist.com

5. Behance.net

6. Mediainspiration.com

7. Artzmania.com

8. Designyoutrust.com

9. Dfckr.com

10. Carbonmade.com

Enjoy!

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Tags: design community, graphic artist, graphic design community, graphic design network, graphic designer