All through out your OS you have a myriad of windows, drop downs, widgets, menus, buttons and the list goes gone. This can result in your screen looking like a five year old ate all the play dough and then threw up on your screen.
One way to reduce the visual noise around these objects is to add drop shadows to them. This affect has been around for ages with Windows, Mac OS X and even on Linux. But this ‘effect’ hasn’t been as widely used in the web environment.
Here are some articles to help you with addding drop shadows to your website elements, focusing on drop down menus.
Using Shadows to Improve the Usability of Menus and Windows
How to Add Drop Shadows to Menus or Windows with CSS
When creating HTML websites and emails, it’s important to use proper HTML character symbols.
Here’s a link to Ackadia’s guide to HTML character symbols
Check out Creatives Unlimited for a cool take on locational data visualisation. I swear it reminds me of that Death Star Holograph scene from Star Wars.
Some inspirational resources for all things round:
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When making a flash game, it’s always nice to have believable physics. However, having to code your own physics engine is not always so nice. The good news is…you don’t have to. Below is a list of AS3 class libraries that make simulating physics relatively easy.
ActionScript Physics Engine
APE is written and maintained by Alec Cove, and can be used in Flash or Flex. I have actually had time to play around with this one, and can say that it is very easy to use. Visit the Site
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There are numerous ways to reduce colour noise in images, but this technique seems yield good results for such a simple process.
From this:
To this:
Find the tutorial here and here
If you’re after more powerful noise reduction results, its worth investing in a copy of Noise Ninja by Picture Code. It offers much better all round noise reduction solutions, instead of just colour noise reduction like the above techniques.
If you’re into some sharp as a knife photoshop work, floating island worlds of goodness, and just general FWA winning work then Oleg is your man.
Check out some of is dope photo retouching skills. This dude can make a grime stained Drill Rig look like honey glazed candy. "Mmmmm, drill rig…"
Check out his stuff at http://blog.theoleg.com/
