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Today, my friend ask for a simple .gif animation. Purposely to show ” Loading in progress “. I’m sure that many of you knew, Adobe Photoshop now already have it’s own ” Animation ” panel which located in ” Windows “, Windows > Animation. The animation panel let user to create animated .gif layer by layer. Look at the sample above, which i use 26 frames to create the .gif animation.

Before you start to animate, you have to draw out the symbol first. Let me share with you how i draw by using Adobe Illustrator.

Illustrator part

Step-01-Create a ” doughnut ” shape
By subtracting with two round shape, big and small in the middle.

Step-02-Draw a Stroke
Draw a stroke with weight = 2pt ( This will become the space, it depends how width you want ).

Step-03-Align center the stroke with the shape
Please align center ( horizontal & vertical ) the stroke with the shape.

Step-04-Rotate and duplicate the stroke
Select the stroke, click on ” Rotate tool “, set angel = 10%, then press copy. Second stroke will be duplicated. Now, use your keyboard, press ctrl+C then ctrl+F then ctrl+D, you will see that, the stroke keep duplicated and rotate in angel = 10%. Continue hitting the “ctrl+C then ctrl+F then ctrl+D” keys, until it reach full circle.

Step-05-Outline Stroke
Now, select all the paths, go to Object -> Path -> Outline Stroke. All the paths will become objects ( no longer a path - you cannot adjust it’s weight already ). Pathfinder there, select “add to shape area”, which means “well”. Make sure now you only have two objects, one is the paths which already been converted and merge together already and the doughnut shape object.

Step-06-Trim it
Select both, pathfinder there, press on ” Subtract from shape area ” means trim. You will got the shape like image above. Right click on the object, select ” release compound path “, then select the released objects by following images above. Do select by skiping one and one. After that, delete.

Step-07-Copy to Photoshop, start animate
Congrats! You have succeed to create the shape. Now, copy the selected part one by one to Photoshop, let’s start to animate it. Look at the images above, copy by selecting two parts, which is opposite each.

Employee of the month! Of course, that person is not my company’s staff, he is from istockphoto.com. Non-stop i work when i was creating this design, it makes me fully concentrate and enjoy! Stylish design to capture the attention of the audience. Combining some illustrative elements to create something new and fresh.

cafepress.com - Wow! What a trend? Yeah, they creates many of ” Negarakuku ” Products, print up a cartoon face holding a mic, showing that the guy is singing ” Negarakuku ” song. For those who are “Negarakuku” fans, may go ahead to select your favorite items and make purchases.

CG Computers - Gurney Plaza, Penang, which is the place that the NEW iMac landed at.
11 Aug 2007 at 6:15pm. Now, you may wish to get how powerful the NEW iMac is, check out here!

Adobe CS3 Launching in Penang, Tue 17 July 2007, by CG Computers at Grand Ballroom, Eastern & Oriental Hotel Penang. Here’s the wallpapers of Adobe® Creative® Suite 3 family.

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DOUBLE UP! Sounds Great right? Yeah, Exabytes Network now offering a ” Double Up ” promotion which is applied on Dedicated Server purchased. Any dedicated servers at Exabytes are entitled to this promotion. More RAM, more fast, more speed.

The banner above, use Adobe Photoshop CS2 to create it. The ” DOUBLE UP! ” words, apply ” Drop Shadow ” , ” Inner Glow ” and ” Gradient Overlay ” effect to make it looks Stainless Steel feel. Check it out and try it now, show you how.

Click on the Gradient bar, it will pop out Gradient Editor, as image below SS.02. Preview showing the steel feel.

Create three point, two in white color and one in grey color about 10-20% will be enough.

Before

After

HeX-LiveCD Wallpaper

A red-devil tail, playing with it’s weapon. It standby there, once ” enemy ” come, will move out and FIGHT!

Two years plus i left Two Studio, now, i work at Exabytes Network, a Malaysia Top Hosting Company, as a in-house web and graphic designer. There, design is a must, but no limits for a person to learn, so, i learn CSS script there, how to market a product, how to create a really ” hit point ” advertisement, and more.

The message i want to pass here is, to my school mates, start to create your own market now, you may start to blog, let the world know your design, your skills. Internet is a powerful tools to publish nows a day. Trust me, a designer now, if just with a design skill only, others will hit you down easily one day, learn more, for yourself, for your future.

How to blog? You may use:

WordPress - www.wordpress.com
iLoveBlog - www.iloveblog.com
Blogspot - www.blogspot.com

One of the styles Hex liveCD label design. ” Monkevil “, concept by geeKool, which is mix a monkey with a evil together. The “Monkevil” drew by using Adobe Illustrator CS2, transfered to Adobe Photoshop CS2 and applied some texture + fire effect. Color of the background, toning from black to purple, with a layer of luminosity fire effect on top.