Dot Matric Printer Blog

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Dot Matric Printer Blog

This must be one of the most creative blog theme that ever in the blogging world. It features the dot matrix printer sheet looks. Check the blog out – Papel Continuo (non-english)








Adobe Photoshop CS2 Fire Technique Online Tutorial

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Photoshop Fire Technique

Creating the fire effect from an empty new template in Photoshop seems to be almost impossible, it require a very advance level of understanding of Photoshop and with years of experience. Greg – the webmaster for photoshoptechniques.com has found the solution. Creating the Fire effect shown at the image above is as simple as abc. Go to his website for a step by step fire technique tutorial on how to create the image above.





The Mad Poet

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The Mad Poet Hokusai Poet

“From the age of six I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was fifty I had published a universe of designs. but all I have done before the the age of seventy is not worth bothering with. At seventy five I’ll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At a hundred I shall be a marvelous artist. At a hundred and ten, everything I do – be it but a line or a dot – will be alive.”

– Hokusai (1760-1849)

Reference
- Hokusai and Japanese Art
- Hokusai





Adobe Photoshop CS2 Image Masking Online Tutorial

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Photoshop Image Masking tutorial

When it comes to presentation, inserting raster images of human and trees gives it an overall feeling of liveliness. The whole idea is to counter the mono tone feeling of line drawings, especially when it comes to presenting your work to someone who is not in the architecture line of field.

I have included a few of my collection in jpeg available for download at the end of this article. Each image shows a person on a white background and another one with a cut-out version. For those who are still relatively new to Photoshop or this is your first year as an architecture student, a step by step tutorial on how to insert the image into your presentation boards is available.

(1) Select (ctrl + a ) then copy (ctrl + c) the image and paste (ctrl + v) it into the presentation board from the source.
Photoshop Image Masking tutorial

(2) Select the magic wand tool (press W) then click on the black area, to select multiple area hold down the ctrl key and click on multiple areas.
Photoshop Image Masking tutorial

(3) Select all of the black colour areas then delete (press the delete key) or go to “edit” then select “clear” to delete the selected areas.
Photoshop Image Masking tutorial

(4) Deselect the area by pressing (ctrl + d) or go to “select” then “clear”.
Photoshop Image Masking tutorial

(5) In the layer toolbox, right click on the selected layer then choose “Blending Option”
Photoshop Image Masking tutoria

(6) In layer style dialog , under the styles category select “stroke”, then put the line thickness to 1. By default the colour is red, change the colour to suit your presentation boards.
Photoshop Image Masking tutorial

(7) Resize (ctrl + t) the image to scale, go to “edit” then “transform” and select “scale”
Photoshop Image Masking tutorial

Creating a “cut-out” or “floating image” of any of the image objects supplied below is a simple 7 step process. The step by step tutorial above gives an overview of the whole process using Photoshop. For cut-out version of trees browse to the previous post – Architecture Trees Sketches

Click here for a higher resolution version- Raster Image Female. Source of Image hot link from Architecture Blog
raster image female photoshop

Click here for a higher resolution version- Raster Image Male. Source of Image hot link from Architecture Blog
raster image male photoshop





Branding Dentist Creatively Business Card

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Branding Dentist Creatively Business Card

Branding Dentist Creatively Business Card

Branding Dentist Creatively Business Card

This must be the best dentist branded in the world. Design by Leo Burnett, Germany for a dentist named Kaia. What makes this branding unique is the ability of the client to capture the spirit of dentistry. Unlike most of the architecture firm around the world, professional firms like lawyers, engineers, accountants and dentist are usually dull and lack of design concept. By branding the dentist’s clinic creatively, going to one would be a fun experience.

Branding Dentist Creatively Business Card





Against Animal Cruelty

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Against Animal Cruelty

Against Animal Cruelty

This is by far the best ads against animal cruelty, most of the ads in this genre are not strong enough to sent out the intended message due to the fact that violent images are not allow in newspapers. These ads are a remarkable in term of creativity, hope that this will change the mindset of those who treat animals cruelly, including those who purchase make-up or health products that uses animals as white mice. Don’t treat others the way you don’t want to be treated.





Santiago Calatrava’s Turning Torso

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Santiago Calatrava’s Turning Torso

Undeniably Santiago Calatrava is one of the greatest architects to walk on this earth, a gift from god to mankind. One of his projects which is the Turning Torso caught my attention, the high rise building’s unique design consist of nice cubes twisting towards the waterfront and surrounding. Calatrava got his concept from a man’s body figure, which is explained thru his sketches above.

During my presentations, the lecturers would ask for the concept of my design, and like what they’ve always emphasize on, a concept should be something non-physical, you cannot touch nor feel it thru any physical contact. A concept should be an idea, for example concepts of my design can be axis, simplistic, cubic, deconstruction, and many more. The idea should be abstract and not take the form of an object and remodel it into your design.

Calatrava uses a man’s figure as his concept and if I were to do the same, I would have to repeat my design class for the rest of my student life. Design is all about ideas and it doesn’t matter if the end products take the shape of a man or an object, it is how well one can persuade their listeners to agree with them.

“There was a wish to get something exceptional,” Calatrava said after accepting a prize from local authorities. “I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.” – Santiago Calatrava





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Currently studying Architecture in Curtin University, Western Australia. loves web designing and photography, occasionally he blogs about his thoughts and opinions.

Every morning he refill himself with weird energy-inducing substances known as coffee and tea and then off saving the world, I mean studying and blogging of course.

The author is not a CAD expert nor a web genius. Just another guy spending too much time online (believe me, way too much). The tutorials featured here are meant for basic level understanding.