Oikofugic Design

Reality

I used to write carefree and simple, without the consideration of readers,
Spontaneous, in the moment, but where was that, planning the moment gone,
And I would love to take you into a different understanding, If I could reason it myself.
Restricted licence, a conciousness decision, a lapse of understanding.#
Glimmpse, You twiddle your wedding ring, you survey your immediate surroundings,
and you know, you ought to be in bed.. Dreaming, another interesting subject.
A few years, and the measure is set!
My perspective precludes the idea of individuality, we see the herds, the cognitive reaction of biomass#

Who thought my thought, for it twAs not ME,

and then again we drift in a universe, we can watch the milky way rise and fall,
We can curse the co op er a tionzzz for buying the learned stuff
(stuff)
Or, big fat you know what
Nighty night

Add comment February 28th, 2010

Centering text on the canvas in photoshop

Photoshop tip

Centering text on the canvas in photoshop

It’s been bugging me for a while, getting used to what where familiar functions in corel photopaint.
For eg. Right click on text, a drop down box appears: Arrange – Align and distribute – to center of document.
Easy when you know.

But what about photoshop:
I found the answer here, also easy when you know, but alas I didn’t find it until I googled.

Select the text layer and the background layer in the Layers panel,
Click the text layer as shown below, and whilst holding ctrl select the background layer.
You will see a marquee around the entire canvas.

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and then pick the Align Center button on the Options bar.
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That’s It :0)

Add comment February 11th, 2010

Lightroom3 beta

from this as was photographed:
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to this with a little filter selenium tone

Just a filter, but looks good I think. Need to check out more tuts. More later

Add comment February 5th, 2010

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Well today I went to see this film, expectations high, although I must admit I still haven’t watched Titanic, so disregard any director faith input.
Friends love the film. Amazing.. Fantastic etc.

I did enjoy the 3d aspect, very nice, particularly the cognac ad that preceded the feature.
And all is going well into the first half hour, Character introductions, building the premise, allowing the mind to soar with wild and unimaginable expectations..
But what the hell.
The Matrix meets Dances with wolves, chuck in a little Brave heart spirit and we are done.
There are no twists, or unexpected eventualities, the plot proceeded into the full hour disregarding any humour that engaged you initially, You like a child, a baby… ‘I paraphrase’, but for FFS, Gaia, James Lovelock eat out your neural connections and root your arse to the ground and shimmy.

The idea was delightful, too many explosions for my taste, and the moral implications apparent and obvious.
I did, squinting eyes exit the cinematic arena feeling slightly sad that I could not live among the trees and connectivity of their planet, and couldn’t help but bring a smile to my face for the inhabitants of Pandora.

Add comment January 31st, 2010

Photoshop tutorial

Light Burst.
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The tutorial can be found here: photoshop essentials

Not too bad for a first attempt, and very nice to follow instructions.. Cheers

Note to self: Align text in photoshop: Control plus a then v…

Some more text tuts you might want to try.

Add comment January 26th, 2010

Photoshop tutorials

Hay, so I’m doing another tutorial, but this time I’m going to post my progress rather than hide it away on the old hard drive:

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So the night has drawn to an end, brew followed swiftly by bed.. Maybe I’ll get around to finishing this one.

20-plus more stages to go, I’ve done the easy bit. See ya soon.

Full tutorial here: PSDTUTS

1 comment January 14th, 2010

Bokeh

The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means “blur” or “haze”,
and anyway I haven’t been in town for a while and this beast needs updating.
So without further ado:

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You know what, I think it was in Veerle’s blog, but I can’t find it,
And in a basic attempt to upgrade my photoshop and illustrator skills I am doing the odd tutorial.

In photography the concept is easier, in that your prime subject is in sharp focus, while the background dissolves into a “haze.”

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