Kristan Franco Graphic Designs and Web Resources

In case you are updating and synchronizing your iPod, iTouch, or iPad, can I suggest a "re-beautification" (if such term exists) of your standby menu with this sites I have used as resources for my wallpapers, and creative juice too.

You may want to visit these 4 Best Websites for iPod, iPhone, and iPad Wallpapers which offer quality wallpapers for your Apple products. Enjoy browsing!

Sample wallpaper from POOLGA.COM

If you are having problems in remembering the history, or you have trouble remembering what you did in the last couple of years? Then, good news! You can now create a photo timeline of worth-remembering events with just a click away

LIFE Timeline is an online timeline builder which helps users organize photos in a chronological order. Photos are either from your own Flickr account or you can just search it on the LIFE photos. LIFE Timeline builder is as easy as uploading bunch of photos. The only difference is, you can picture out the exact date the picture was taken and basing it from that chronological point, you can remember every important milestone.

Apologies for the delayed blog posts, I've been dealing with a slow computer in the past 2 weeks since my laptop crashed. So many wonderful ideas popping from my mind now, and this time, i'm going to share to you my own set of Bokeh shots which could be useful for Photoshop as textures.

In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field.

With only 2 years and running,Plurk today is now one of top social networking sites. Aside from it's interactive GUI, you can also reflect your personality and creativity through customizing your timeline and dashboard themes.

ZAP!!! I got to play with my drawing pen again and this time, human-alike cartoon squids buzzed my creative juice. Just in case you wanted some sketched elements in your Photoshop canvas, you might want to use these as BRUSHES! Yes, brushes! This is my second brush set made in Photoshop CS4.

Terms of use: The brushes can only be used for personal and non-commercial purposes. Since these brushes are for free, no redistributing is allowed. Please do refer to this original blog post in order to share it to others.

Infrared Photography refers to the area of photography in which photos are taken with film sensitive to infrared light.

When these filters are used together with infrared-sensitive film or sensors, very interesting "in-camera effects" can be obtained. false-color or black-and-white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance known as the "Wood Effect," an effect mainly caused by foliage (such as tree leaves and grass) strongly reflecting in the same way visible light is reflected from snow.

Recently, I've found myself shooting zombies by playing Left 4 Dead, and it's latest version, Left 4 Dead 2. After the release of Left 4 Dead 2, I started playing the game all over again.

Later on, I eventually enjoyed the 2 versions of Left 4 Dead. From a usual zombie game, it rocked a lot of gamers by featuring zombie bosses such as Boomer, a fat-spitting zombie, and a Smoker, infamous for its long tongue.

A good way to end this year, while starting 2010 the next morning is to make a huge promising change of template for my blog. Since I had a hard time reading the fonts with the former dark theme of this blog, I decided to change its template into a design which is much lighter to the eyes of the readers. Black background with gray fonts couldn't attract much.

3D-Package is a useful online 3D-box generator. This site offers a free generating program to help you create a design that would fit for a right a package.

If you got a massive collection of photos then you don't know what to do about them, then Shape Collage would definitely help you creating a collage that comes in certain shapes!

• Spacing between photos can be modified
• You can draw your own shape using a brush
• You can put a background in the collage

If you are a interested in 3D animation and rendering, then Xara 3D by Xara suits you. The program broadens its features to beginners and pros. In fact, it is very easy to use.

With certain combination of additional programs, particularly Adobe Photoshop, graphic designers sizzle up the textures and text effects of the 3d made by Xara 3D. The program showcases features for 3d logos, buttons, and text animation. Another good thing about this program, it is very light, the installation size is approximately 25 MB.

Here are some cool output from Xara 3D with the enhancement of Photoshop:

Basic animations:

In every software, there are always pros and cons, here are some overview for Xara 3D...

Pros:

Basic tools
User-friendly environment
Smooth output
Anti-aliased
Very smooth program
Low-cost

Con/s:

The main con of this software is that, you'll have to be exposed in other enhancing program such as Photoshop, Flash, and Illustrator because this software is limited only to its main features such as 3d, lightning, and animating. If you are a digital art practitioner, you'll eventually enhance the output through Photoshop, etc. YOU NEED CREATIVITY.

If you want to download Xara 3D, click here. For you to test out the software, they offer 15-day trial, and then you could go for the full version by purchasing it.

Get started now, and be creative!

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