Archive for July, 2009

Learning Photoshop Keys, MWPS Style

Okay, so recently I decided that I will start posting on this blog more frequently as well as, increasing the quality of the content and that stuff. Today I was busy memorizing Photoshop keys. Mainly because, I’ve used photoshop for quite a while and never learned all of the basic tool keys. After googling “photoshop cheatsheet” I found out that the only acceptable one is both not a sheet and useless for this purpose. Thus, I started a quest and began designing a basic image to help me with this purpose.I decided that one that resembled the keyboard layout would be the easiest to follow and that originated it’s appearance. Took around 30mins to make. I am still planning some improvements and, I might transform it into a full cheatsheet. I don’t know yet. Here it is:

Photoshop Hotkey Map.

Photoshop Hotkey Map.

I already started using it and it actually made learning these easier. :) please comment if you like it and if you don’t still do so.

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The annual MWPS revamp.

Okay after 3 days of hard work (not so hard actually) I’ve made a very nice new face for Martian Wabbit Productions. This time I am no longer presenting myself as the design firm I’ve been over the past years instead, I’ve restructured what MWPS is. It will still act as a brand but, instead of representing the company, it will represent me and what will me and my company (Martian Wabbit Productions)  be. I love what the result ended up being. It is in it’s pure form a sketch. This is the first website I’ve placed this kind of effort into. The development process (was inspired by my friend Edward) was basically drawing as much as I could in a piece of paper then, I would scan it, change the brightness and contrast of the scanned paper. Clean the scan as much as possible and then optimize it for the web. It ended up being pretty neat and sketchy. I also made a nice brush set out of it (I will be uploading this one later on) which, allowed me to reuse my previous drawing.

The content is basically the same format as the old site but, it’s theme is different. I am no longer looking for a job but showing everyone who comes into the site who am I and what I do. The portfolio is the only page that I think is missing stuff so, I will be editing it later on. I will be adding information about the presented project and my other projects as well. The about page is probably the most unprofessional part of the page (which is what I am looking for with the general look of the new site). It features no about me info and, I actually slashed that through. I wrote contact me next to it so I could fix the identity issue ;) and developed a nice web form.  It’s powered with ajax and features real-time field value checking and Ajax submit, on the back-end I have a simple and very well structured php script. This script basically double checks the submitted information and emails it to me (It also features some anti-spam technology of mine :P ). I am only missing my custom-made matching wordpress theme (which I am already working on) so you should see a change in the blog if you come on later this week ;) .

That’s basically it. I also customized my 404 error pages :D . I also made this image to give you a tour.

MWPS 2009 Site Tour

MWPS 2009 Site Tour

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Firefox 3.5 Released

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Yes people it is true. I am not joking or anything. I wouldn’t joke with something like this… The new firefox is out and it is the  best firefox yet. Go check it out:http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

I am already loving it ;)

I would recommend checking this video out, as it gives you an insight of what’s new with this firefox build.

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