Posted June 19th, 2009 by Luke | 700 views
Edit: Oops – there’s actually a much simpler way. Right click on the tab area > Customize > Enable thumbnails in tabs 
The Opera 10 beta has introduced a new tab feature that lets you resize tabs and expand them to show a full thumbnail. You can either click and drag it down, or middle click on it to expand the thumbnails.
While it’s an attractive feature and some people might find it useful, I’m not one of them. Since I use the middle mouse button click to open and close tabs, it actually gets in the way. I’ve been accidentally middle clicking a bit to low and opening the tab view quite often.
Follow these settings
Luckily, there’s an easy way to disable it. Just type “opera:config” into the address bar. Then type Tab into the search box. You should see “Use Thumbnails Inside Tabs” – untick this, click save, then restart Opera. Fixed.
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Posted May 31st, 2009 by Luke | 288 views
I love the layers of colour in this poster for 'Motoring in Germany'
If you’re looking for some inspiration, the Bostom Public Library has a fantastic Flickr account with lots of classic posters. They’re all licensed under Creative Commons and for available at a reasonable size (unlike many similar resources).
I really love the style of these old travel posters. The colours they’ve used and the hand-painted texture gives them a lot of character that is often difficult to reproduce digitally. The scans, with their subtle paper texture, creases and folds, only add to that. I particularly like the layers of colour in the poster for ‘Motoring in Germany‘.
As well as the travel posters, there are WWI and WWII propaganda posters, old manuscripts, postcards and photos. The whole account is a great resource for colour, texture and general design inspiration.
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Posted May 13th, 2009 by Luke | 586 views
If you’re anything like me, you can often communicate better visually with images, rather than text. When chatting on MSN with my trusty Wacom tablet, often half the conversation is in drawings, especially when the other person enjoys drawing as much as I do.
MSN Live Messenger drawn-conversation in progress
The problem with these drawn-conversations is that it can be difficult to keep a record of what has been drawn. Sometimes whole comics or detailed pictures are drawn with no way to save the images… unless you have Adobe Illustrator. Here’s how.
Next time you have a drawing in MSN that you want to save, open up Illustrator and simply drag and drop the drawing into the Illustrator workspace.
Drag and drop the drawing into Illustrator
The beauty of using Illustrator (rather than just taking a screen shot) is that it saves the drawing in full vector detail.
So whether it’s a comic that you’ve been able to get just the right expression on or just a funny picture you want to save, you’ll be able to retain all the detail and enlarge or refine the image further in Illustrator. Or even export it to Flash and animate it, or print it out and give it to the friend you were talking to (things seem funnier in print).
Right: Vector outlines in Illustrator. Left: A custom brush applied to the strokes.
Illustrator is the only program that seems to be able to capture the vector data properly. If you know of any other programs that work, let me know!
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Posted May 12th, 2009 by Luke | 294 views
My Project 365 is going well – haven’t missed a day so far.
January
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March
April
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Posted January 5th, 2009 by Luke | 1,550 views
I decided to participate in Project 365 this year. Only 5 days in and I can already see it’s going to be difficult to keep track of which number day it is in the year. You can see my Project 365 photos here.
I meant to get myself a calendar today but forgot, so I decided to make one myself, which shows on each day what day of the year it is.
Details
- There are two versions: one with a “notes” section on the right and one with the “scavenger hunt” items for Project 365.
- Each version has 3 pages in the PDF: Full colour, Black and Economy. This is to let you choose which you want to print depending on the capabilities of your printer.
- Made in InDesign in a surprisingly short amount of time.
- Formatted for A4 paper.
Download
Project 365 Calendar 2009 – Notes version (PDF ~38kb)
Project 365 Calendar 2009 – Scavenger hunt version (PDF ~53kb)
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