Archive for March, 2008

Smoothie of the month, March 2008

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

This month’s winner is a solid one. With 52.94% of the votes Rainerijewelers.com won the first Websqueeze Smoothie of the month competition. A deserved one. It looks good and works good.

Well done Rich!

Smoothie of the month, March 2008

Tutorial: Creating a frame (PS, CS3)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

How to create a nice frame around your images? Rounded edges, custom edges? You just want your portfolio-images to stand out a little, rather than being just square thumbnails. Here’s a little trick to create a sweet frame around your images.
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Tutorial: History brush tool (PS, CS3)

Monday, March 10th, 2008

History brush toolI got the question “What does the History brush tool do?”. I decided to do a tutorial on it, since it’s pretty simple to explain, and this is my first tutorial. In short: When you have a colour-photo which you want in black and white, sepia or want to use any other filter on the background and make 1 object stand out in colour. Here it goes.

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Designersblock? This might help…

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

This blog is also to get around a designers-block. You have that one project to be finished, you want your own website renewed, your client wants “something different” or you want inspiration to make a new template. The following sites might just get you passed that annoying block.

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My way of designing a new website

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Got lost in how to start a website, or do you just need a new way to kick off new projects? No clue of where to start? There are probably tons of ways to “git ‘r done”, but I’m always feeling comfortable with the following process. It might not be the fastest way, but it usually gets me where I want to be: a finished project.

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