A great resource for free pixel based pattern tiles.

Source: Kollermedia.at

You’ve designed a new logo, identity, and business papers for a good client. It looks great. They are happy. Then a simple request derails everything:

“Can I get a copy of my new letterhead to use in Microsoft Word?”

That seemingly innocent question has driven more than one designer to distraction. While this week’s creative tip won’t win people over to designing in Microsoft Word full-time, we can help make this client request a little easier to accomplish.

Read more at: CreativeTechs

photo by Mark Frauenfelder

“The photography style tilt shift makes aerial photographs of real scenes look like miniature models. The effect is charming, but expensive, because you have to buy a tilt-shift lens. Here’s a nice little tutorial for faking the same effect using Photoshop. The results are very nice.”

Source: BoingBoing.com

I am working on a website design that has to look “Web 2.0″. To add a modern design element I used a diagonal pattern as part of the background.

Here is a tutorial on how to create this pattern in Photoshop: tutorialized.com

“Video does not scale up in size very well as it is relatively low resolution to begin with.

Imagine that you are editing together some footage from your last great adventure, shot with your DV camera. You find some perfect footage at iStock to compliment your shots. In this case, you want to download NTSC or PAL (depending on what you shot your material in).

If you find HD content that fits your story better, just crop and scale it down – it will still look great. However, downloading a Big Web version and scaling it up will create a scene in your project that will look well, wrong. It will be fuzzy with muted colours, and possibly distorted as well. Small and Big Web look great…on the Web.”

Source: iStockphoto tip of the week