136 lines of additional vanilla JS code, plus some more lines for new UI elements and I have added my 32nd brush to Harmony, the procedural painting tool: Say hello to Liquify (PS), IWarp (GIMP) or however it is called in other full blown […]
Category: Design
Simple and Boring
… is the title of a an article by Chris Coyer about managing complexity on websites and why simple & boring might get the job done where “fancy” might not. Head over to the article, it is well worth reading, and don’t forget to […]
I still can not draw …
… so I had to cheat. I imported a photo as backdrop image in Harmony Keymod (Site closed. Grab it from archive.org and clean up all the code added by archive org), then set the brush to “shaded”, the “offset-scale” to about 80 (I […]
I miss the time when icons were still pieces of art.
(right click on the image and open in a new tab to see it in its full glory)
Harmony Keymod – Update
I got a bit spare time and once again added a small bit of functionality to the script: Flood fill – or maybe better known as “bucket” tool to most people. The basic function is in, it fills enclosed areas with the selected foreground […]
Doodling with Harmony Keymod
I am definitely no artist but some people liked this image – I wonder why, no joke. The Original is about 4000*3000px and was created with “Harmony Keymod”, a heavy modified version of Mr.Doop’s Harmony, a procedural drawing tool, in less than 15 minutes. […]
“Any man who would letterspace lowercase would steal sheep.”
The headline is rumored to be a quote from the German Typographer Erik Spiekermann paraphrasing American Typographer Frederic W. Goudy‘s Any man who would letterspace blackletter would shag sheep. Dear web page designers! Whoever told you differently: letter-spacing: -1px or -2px is no good […]
Shortcut-S the ultimate keyboard for heavy duty Photoshop users?
Photoshop belongs to the almost every days tools I use and I admit that I am a keyboard junkie. Keyboard junkie and Photoshop in one sentence? Yeah – that’s hardcore! I bet that every heavy duty Photoshop user had a moment of “WTF?!!” occasionally […]
WebP Photoshop plugin
I was looking for some time for a plug-in that would allow me to open, edit and save WebP files directly with Photoshop instead of converting them afterwards. Sadly Adobe did not a**e up to provide one, but luckily someone else managed to write […]
Just another userCSS for this site
Outdated. The forum and blog software was changed in the meantime One of the first things I did after creating my account here was to write a userCSS for Opera <15. Bigger fonts (120dpi monitor, the standard font sizes used here are too tiny), […]
