Need inspiration? Many of these satellite photos of Earth from space look more like designs. With beautiful color schemes and patterns that look planned, I only have to glance through these to get a burst of inspiration. Or a new desktop background.
I have a friend who is really into photography and uses a different program to process her photos. She adjusts the color/light to create this really beautiful, signature look to her photos. If you’re interested in adjusting your photos for your magazine, here are some tutorials for how to create a few different vintage effects on your photos.
This week, I thought I’d share one of my favorite sites ever: InterfaceLIFT. This site is a virtual art gallery of photographs and digitally-altered artwork, most of which can be downloaded to your desktop for free. I especially like how InterfaceLIFT lets the user choose your ideal resolution, and every photo is available for many different device resolutions, like Android phones and the iPad. Once you start looking through the photos on InterfaceLIFT, I bet you’ll be hooked on this site too. It definitely has inspired me to think creatively and effectively use mixed media to create something amazing.
Enjoy!
This weekend I was fornuate enough to spend time back home, in Massachusetts. Today, I spent the day shopping with my family in Boston! While driving home from Boston, I looked up and saw one of the most stunning sunsets overlooking the Boston skyline. Unfornuately, I left my camera at school so I was unable to take a picture. However, I believe this image illuminates how beautiful and inspiring something as simple as a sunset can be!
A website that never ceases to interest/inspire me is the public photo stream forum called momentile. This site invites each member to submit one photograph every day; a moment out of their life. Being a member of this site allows me to look through tons of amazing pictures, some that stand out because of the skill with which they were taken, others that capture attention simply through their subject matter. Momentiling also helps me look at my own life with a more sensitive eye, as I try to recognize and record some of my own special moments. Even though this website is more related to photography than graphics, I think that it is still relevant to this blog because some of the attributes that make for the best photos on the site (simplicity, depth, meaning, creativity) also make for the best graphic designs. Also, the increased sensitivity to the world around us that this site encourages makes for beautiful graphic inspiration. Anyway, I definitely think that everyone should consider joining momentile… it’s free! :]
These gorgeous images are actually not designs – they are shots of alcohol under a microscope.
Using the chemistry labs at Florida State University, the company Bevshots has produced stunning photos of alcohol magnified up to 1000x. The above pictures (dry martini, tequila, and champagne, respectively) are the result. I was shocked to find out that these were actual photographs and not designs; I use them as desktop and website backgrounds all the time. What really gets me, though, is that the vibrant coloring is actually a natural result of the citric acids and sugars in alcohol drying out. Apparently all that’s used to enhance the shots is natural light.
You can actually order these as posters or get them framed; the article I found, with a bunch of other types of alcohol, can be found here: http://www.amusingplanet.com/2010/06/alcohol-under-microscope.html.
(All photomicrographs Copyright 1995. Michael W. Davidson and Florida State University Research Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved)
GRA217 blog post, week #1
http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photography-tutorials/
This website has all kinds of tips and tricks on how to take and edit awesome pictures.
This is just something I stumbled upon a couple days ago. The photography is amazing!<a
http://www.flickr.com/photos/macomaco
Chuck Anderson of No Patterns has some phenomenal merges between photographs, manipulated color, light, and patterns. He can make the mundane into the awe-inspiring by manipulating the images, and giving them a whimsical undertone.
The site, Days with My Father , uses a bit tricky, but poetic design to emphasize the dream like images and story line, beautifully tragic.
- Professor harper
