Hong Kong Accelerate

(Editor’s note ︰ submission from readers, authentic scenery shot in Hong Kong, especially like the clips on the tram, the tram also known slow rate of emergence of this sense, quite fresh)

Hong Kong Accelerate from Spot On Idea on Vimeo.

The Ins and Outs of Timelapse Project has spent about three months to complete, to let people around the world to see more works of art in Hong Kong.

Some special way for people to have more understanding of Hong Kong, so we use a Time-Lapse, in fact, there are a lot of beautiful places in Hong Kong as long as we carefully observed to see.Every day in high buildings in the shuttle, there will always miss some Magic moment.I hope this work can bring you some memories.

Jimmy X – wonderful light graffiti education

This is a very creative light graffiti works, it seems less complicated through the screen, you can bring out the rich meaning and feeling, from flickr user Jimmy taken the following short and his teaching.

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Space Jam Illustrations for Fast Company Magazine

Space Jam Illustrations for Fast Company Magazine
by Andrea Manzati.

How to Create a Leaf Drop Tutorial

The tutorial shows you how to make a fairly simple yet effective water drop effect on a leaf texture! The tutorial teaches you advanced techniques as well as beginner-level tips. The tutorial is pretty easy to follow even though you are a beginner at photoshop.
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20+ Christmas Gifts for Photographers

In this generation, we prefer to tell our stories through the lens of a camera than through the complexities of the written word. It’s either that or we just forgot how to spell words properly. Then again, nothing explains the serenity of a blue sky or the grace of a galloping horse quite like having that moment locked in time – be it by a DSLR or a point and shoot.

That kind of explains why almost everyone knows a photographer, or is one nowadays. Much like the art of photography, the art of giving also needs sources of inspiration. Forget the thousand-dollar lenses or the hundred-dollar filters; try your luck with the following gift ideas for the avid photographer. And even if the receiver isn’t a fan of photography now, you could very well turn him or her into one, with these awesome gifts. Read more

Create a Lost Fantasy Micro World with Powerful Photo Manipulation Techniques in Photoshop

Today we will take a break from the ordinary stuff and go into a fantasy world. Learn how to build up your own micro society using many different pictures and some cool photo manipulation techniques.

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Detail

Step 1

Let’s start by creating a new document of dimensions around 1500x1300px. It’s always good to make your projects little bit bigger than they will be in the final release, this makes the overall detail better. Now in the Layers Palette add the first adjustment layer – Solid Color, and choose #7cb8cc for the color. Name it “background color”. Read more

Pendola Clock by Samuel Wilkinson & Joe Wentworth

Cupcake Auto-Generated Text is Really Sweet

Sometimes, I love the way people creating some really simple but really sweet web applications. Cupcake Ipsum is definitely one of them. It makes people love your project even more.

Cupcake Ipsum generates a random text based on different sweet treats. You can choose the number and the length of paragraphs, start the first paragraph with “Cupcake ipsum dolor sit amet” and if you still need to spice up your lorem ipsum – you can ”add some love” to the text. Here is what I got:

“Cupcake ipsum dolor. Sit amet brownie gummies applicake sugar plum faworki gummi bears. Cotton candy I love chocolate bar fruitcake fruitcake gingerbread I love muffin. I love I love I love croissant tiramisu jelly I love.”

Texture Packer now with SWF Support

Flash Sprite Sheet Export Sneak Video

At Flash on the Beach this year, we demoed a new feature coming to Flash Professional that allows you to export sprite sheets from your library MovieClips. This will be extemely useful for game developers and for anyone doing mobile development. Check out the sneak video that I created below. You will also have the ability to transform clips on the stage and export sprite sheets from there, but that part is not quite ready yet. Enjoy!