Meet Spammy! a fairly straight forward spam filter for comments. I need to do some more work, but I wanted to go ahead and release it, because I don't know when I'll have more time to play with it. Check it out and let me know if anyone has any suggestions or problems.
One of the most requested functions that my customers seem to ask, is that they want to upload their own images to the website. Technically, it's not difficult, especially if your using a server technology like ColdFusion, php, etc, but from a design perspective, it's a big headache. When designing a website, you create "blocks" (for lack of a better term) that are either going to be used for text or images. You might use an image editing programing like Adobe® Photoshop® to scale and crop the images to make sure they load fast and fit into the block's dimensions. Unfortunately, most of our customers do not have these tools and wind up trying to upload an image that are to large and weren't really designed to fit within our designated "block".
We needed to create a function that would take our customers uploaded image and scale it into these blocks. Not knowing what the customer was going to upload, we had to create something that was dynamic enough to adapt to what ever size the final destination image was going to be and also to the source image the user uploads.
That's a fairly bold statement, but what the heck, I'm still a tad bit cocky after making my cool biker jacket graphic. As promised, I have another fun tutorial for you. As the title so boldly states, this one is going to walk you through the steps to make your very own realistic vector hair. Unfortunately, I'm not going to show you every frick'n step that was involved to make the cover graphic, but instead show you the steps taken to create the main parts of it. Hopefully, with this knowledge you should be able to create your own cool artwork with hair.
Yep, another stupid title, but to think that's the only thing you have to endure to get some awesome Adobe Illustrator brushes. In this set you'll find a scary set of thorny brushes to give any of your projects a dangerous edge! Once again, these were made using CS3, so give them a try and let me know what you think. Enjoy!
Yeah, I know... that's a pretty pathetic title, but you try coming up with something with the word "tentacle" in it! Well, I have some more goodies for you, some slippery, slimy, stringy, tentacle thingeys. I didn't know what else to call them, but they reminded me of tentacles, so here you go. They were designed in Adobe Illustrator CS3, so they should work from there on up. Enjoy!
