Posts by Luke
Alternative Ubuntu eee backgrounds
I installed Ubuntu eee last night on to my little Asus Eee PC 701. It’s a very well put together package and I really like the Netbook Remix interface. I’ve had a few little glitches so far, but over all it’s really impressive. The background wallpaper takes on a bit more significance than normal with [...]
Pirate wallpaper Photoshop template download
I’m about done with this Pirate wallpaper series, so I’m making the Photoshop PSD file available for anyone that would like to edit it and make their own version. If you do, I’d be interested in seeing what you come up with, so let me know in the comments.
Pirate Ubuntu Wallpaper
After numerous requests from Saschaaar, I’ve finally managed to get an Ubuntu version of my Pirate series of wallpapers done. I’m not really sure why you’d need to pirate Ubuntu since it’s free, but I still think it looks good. Version 1 Available sizes: 1920x1200px (widescreen) 1600x1200px 1280x1024px Version 2 Linear gradient background Available sizes: [...]
Design idea: simple colorful brush objects
A recent OXO Tower brochure had a clever design idea, but unless you live in the London area and have a particularly keen interest in the OXO Tower, it’s unlikely you’d have seen it. I thought this idea was too good to let slip away into obscurity, so here it is and here’s one way [...]
How to: make a skin for Launchy
Launchy, an application launcher for originally for Windows, is now available on Linux. Both are identical until you start downloading third-party skins. Many skins work on Windows but have strange graphical glitches and errors on Linux. It seems the Linux version is a bit more strict in the way it reads the layout of files. [...]
Photoshop Custom Shapes: Guns
Download Photoshop Custom Shapes: Guns Includes: Photoshop CSH file and vector SVG file for use in other programs (Inkscape, Illustrator, Flash, etc) Filesize: 253kb About Downloaded over 38,000 times on deviantart, this was the first set of Custom Shapes I made. There is quite a lot of detail in the guns, even though they are [...]
How to import Camera Raw presets into Lightroom
When I started using Lightroom, I thought it would be very handy to be able to import all my Camera Raw presets into the developing room. Afterall, I’ve spent the past couple of years developing them and they’re the same options as far as I could see. Wrong. I thought it would be a matter [...]
Lightroom
I started using Lightroom (or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, as it likes to be called) last month. It has been great for tagging and cataloging my photo archives and getting rid of some of the useless files – although now the Lightroom archives files themselves take up over 2gb! I was skeptical at first – I [...]
Stabalized Video Panoramas
These are a lot of fun to make. Quite easy when you have the right software, too. I got the idea from Vincent-B who also shows the basic idea in this video. He seems to use “Motion” in Final Cut Pro in OSX, while I used After Effects in Windows. There are other programs that [...]
Darkening the Sky and Super-Sharpening in Photoshop
In this tutorial I’ll show how I processed this image using the easiest way to darken the sky for dramatic effect and some super-sharpening to bring out more detail in the photo. The photo I started with was okay, but nothing particularly interesting. The exposure was good, but the real scene was more dramatic. I’ve [...]