The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference 2010 will be held this year from 9th to 13th February at Long Beach, California. The TED Conference is an annual free-thinking and information sharing event aimed at gathering the world’s leading thinkers, movers and shakers together in one place and providing them, and us, with the opportunity to [read more...]

The ease of digital photography today means we gather lots of photos in our ever increasing photo collections. Finding new, interesting, and novel ways to present mages from photo collections really adds to their appeal. So, the ability to upload photographs to a web service which automatically produces a number of preset collage’s which you [read more...]

Project Progress So far Welcome to the fourth instalment, and probably penultimate episode, of this development project of a game using Flash and ActionScript 3 – to catch up read Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3. I have been reviewing the design plan so far – the welcome screen is in but [read more...]

Most people have access to a digital camera nowadays. But there are still limits to how artistic you can be with them. Built in special effects, such as sepia (the brownish vintage look), a feature typical in digital camera, are generally very limited for everyday use. But all this looks set to change with the [read more...]

Being able to create detailed graphics, on a budget, on your computer is not always easy; whilst many graphics programs are available and many are easy to use, they can often lack functionality or other essential capabilities. Some designers need to be able to create as freely on their computer screen as they could with [read more...]

When starting out on a new web site you may want to get things up and running quickly, or you may want to get your feet wet with a smaller project to help you get up to speed with things – in this article lets look at some of the options on offer. If building [read more...]

I have been thinking a lot about logo design recently, mostly for my cartoon panel sites at Monk And His I.T. Junk and Bev And Catey but also for my search engine research project Eggnchips. One of the corner stones of many branding exercises, aimed to establish a product or service by offering instant recognition, [read more...]

There are a number of standard shortcuts that can help speed things up when using Photoshop, I have jotted down some of the ones I find most useful. This list of Photoshop shortcuts is now available in the downloads section.