Being involved with computer graphics for 30 plus years now I am always on the lookout for ways to improve image optimization. And let me tell you, there certainly are some massive gains to be had with the WebP image format. All links in this post open in a new...
I like iconography, and simple clean designs. Here’s a look at the new PARIS 2024 Olympic Pictograms: Visit the Paris 2024 website to see the pictograms individually: Paris 2024 – Pictograms (EN) Also see the Official PDF explaining the pictograms history:...
While I have been enjoying the Chrome Extension “Screenshot Easy” which allows me to capture any area on the screen, it isn’t possible to capture the entire height of a webpage, only what is currently showing on your display. Here’s a Chrome...
The future is here, right now. If you weren’t aware of what AI is capable of regarding computational photography this clip will open up your mind to what’s possible, what’s happening, and what is coming. Interesting regardless of where you stand on...
Enjoy these free printable comic book pages. Download the PDF and print some or all of the pages inside. There are three different template pages. Let your imagination run wild! Download PDF ...
Ran across this freebie today and know how some of you can never get enough icons. Check out this nice collection put forth by Michael A. and download as CSS/FONT FILE or SVG. 420+ icons! Excerpt from the JAM icons site: Jam icons is a set of icons designed for web...
Whether you’re looking for one or more vector-based SVG icons for your project, Simple Icons at simpleicons.org does a fantastic job of presenting them to you with a no-nonsense and easy to use interface (single-click to download). These icons can be used on the...
Much of the time working with clients you’ll be given their logo artwork in vector format (AI or EPS), often times with additional information such as colour or font requirements. Lovely. However, the more projects you work on over time you’ll soon realize...
Earlier today I was tasked with finding and fixing broken images on a retailer’s website, where there were of course thousands of images to go through. Here’s what I did to see and fix all the broken images (and the links pointing to them)… In this...
For many years I would hit the “Prt Scr” key on my keyboard and then paste the screen capture into Photoshop or whatever to play with. Even with multiple monitors the “Prt Scr” key captures everything displayed on all your monitors in one giant...
In October of 2014 I blogged about Google releasing 700+ free categorized icons. Well they’ve just updated their collection with an additional 96 new icons that you can use personally or commercially without attribution whatsoever. Their license (CC-BY 4.0) does...
I was recently creating an action in Photoshop that would alter my original JPGs and then at determined steps throughout the altering process save a JPG to certain folders on my hard drive; kind of a “save large version JPG, alter further, save medium version,...
After not being able to get Adobe Bridge to be able to view SVG’s I went in search for an alternative. For Windows, it would look to be (I didn’t spend a long time searching) the number one solution is an extension that allows your Windows Explorer...
Mathematical precision is awesome. Guessing or going by eye is not. For the years I’ve used Illustrator I never knew this following tip. Of course there are ways to accomplish wavy lines, but Illustrator contains an awesome feature for creating wavy lines (or...
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