20 years old today, but Photoshop didn’t have layers until 1994… how did anyone manage without them?
At the time its toolset was pretty limited and the application wasn’t capable of much. A second version, featuring paths followed later in the year, but it wasn’t until 1994 that version 3 with a new feature called [...]
Layers were Photoshop’s fourth birthday gift to all of us
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 12 February, 2010 to the technology subset
Now there’s a high definition image placebo
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 12 October, 2009 to the comment subset
Just as some people believe a pill that is in fact a placebo has been of benefit to them, others will believe not-so-great images are actually high definition (HD), if they are told beforehand that is what they are about to see:
Questionnaires revealed that the people who had been led to expect HD reported [...]
3D photo modelling gives old cities a new perspective
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 5 October, 2009 to the photography subset
Amazing, three dimensional images of cities have been created using thousands of photos posted to photo-sharing site Flickr.
Sameer Agarwal’s team was able to create a simulation of Rome using 150,000 images harvested from photo-sharing website Flickr, and build a virtual model within a day.
The Good Magazine infographics sets
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 2 June, 2009 to the comment subset
A collection of the awesome transparencies, or infographics, produced by Good Magazine for your viewing pleasure and edification.
An infographic probably speaks more like a million words
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 to the design and art subset
A collection of infographics, or visual presentations of data or information.
This would be my favourite… simple and to the point.
When typography becomes imagery
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 16 January, 2009 to the design and art subset
Type as Image: art as a result of combining words and images.
Type as Image is a collection of typographic experiments where the words are treated as images that speak about their own meaning.
Instructional Design: the “how to” graphics collection
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 15 January, 2009 to the design and art subset
How To Graphics: from parallel parking to holding a pencil correctly.
What unites most of the images is their simplicity. When it is necessary to show how to do something, the simpler the image, the better. Perhaps there are more than a few illustrations we could function without. How many of us really need to see [...]
The Hubble Space Telescope photo advent calendar
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 3 December, 2008 to the photography subset
On the subject of advent calendars, make sure you bookmark this Big Picture page where a new image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, will be posted daily until Christmas Day.
If HTTP error messages where images…
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 25 November, 2008 to the technology subset
These have been around for a while, but worth another look: HTTP error messages represented as comical illustrations.
They sure beat plain text error messages. :)
The eye in the sky and what Hubble saw
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 10 October, 2008 to the comment subset
Awesome image gallery made up of photos taken from the Hubble telescope… the universe is truly an amazing place.
