Demonstro

I felt like making a new wallpaper today, so i found a crappy image with Google image search and played with it a bit. Of course I had to do a take on the Opera logo again; my imagination runs on a really empty tank these days.

For those interrested, I removed the really nasty jpeg artifacts in Photoshop with Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise..., then scaled the image up really much (to 1600x1600px) and ran a Filter > Blur > Lens Blur and added some monochrome gaussian noise as well as some blur. I then swapped the red and blue channels and tweaked the colors some more to get the blue color a nice red one. Not happy with the texture, I overlayed the painted area with a wooden high-res texture. On top of that I added a slight bevel/emboss layer effect and another vague texture.

The Shadow is just a horizontally motion blurred oval shape repeated a couple of times with some different scaling to imitate the shadow getting fainter away from the cube. I burned the bottom edges of the cube and copied the whole thing, flipped it around vertically and masked it with a gradient and removed that part to make a nice reflection. For the background I simply made a radial gradient with a center below the block.

See the attached psd file if you would like to tweak or play with this. Have fun!
Wallpaper_Block_O.psd

This is really so easy compared to the awesomeness of the result, I thought I'd better make a tutorial of it. It's a good way to start getting to know the layer effects in Photoshop, because the result here opens for further play and experimentation. But 'nuff talk, let's get down and dirty!

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I have today a new banner on my blog. That is because I was asked to make some for the community by espenao himself. Head over to the mothership and get one yourself.

Of course, since I made the originals, I couldn't resist hack my own work to my own benefit. Hah!

The logo is actually based on the Opera logo's O shape. Try and lay them toghether, you'll see. With that shape I played a bit with lines cutting and slicing the O, until it all resembled something that could come out of the Transformers universe.

Hope you like!

After a long and painful wait on my behalf, the 'Internet Channel' on Nintendo Wii is out in its final version. It really is a great browser, and I'm extremely proud to have been a part of it.

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Well, it took me two days to finish a new concept. This time it's Zorro who's been used for inspiration. Enjoy!