I hope you like it and sorry for my English (I’m working on it )
Thanks for watching.

P.S.
Here you can see our final result: Phone Boy
And this is the source file: Phone Boy Src

Here’s is a nice, plain and simple tutorial on how to add Layer Masks. I think is pretty cool and explains very well how layer masks works:

Thanks to Akkana Peck and Apress for this video.

Regards,
Coche

In the first place I wish you have happy new year, full of creative moments and I hope you can achieve your goals

Ok, so let’s start with our first tutorial of the year! How to add a nice and easy frame to your pictures.

Step 1:

Open a picture of yours, for the purpose of this tutorial a certificate of any course you have received is good.

Step 2:

To add the border is easy, just apply the border filter (Filters > Decor > Add Border…) and using the following settings:

I’ve used a large value for the X and Y size, because my certificate is pretty large size too. Also notice the border color can be any tint/shade of sienna/brown. After applying the filter, you will have something like this:

Step 3:

Add a new transparent layer and drag the “pine” pattern from the Patterns dialog.

Step 4:

Select the border layer and go to Filters > Map > Bump Map… and apply the following settings:

Notice we have selected the pine player as our bump map! Bump Map makes “bumps” in the active layer (e.g. our border layer), as if another layer (called the bump map, e.g. the pine layer) was pushing up from underneath.

After this step, hide the pine layer and keep the border layer selected.

Step 5:

Apply a subtle shadow using Filters > Light and Shadow > Drop Shadow… and using the following settings:

And there you have it! Remember to export your final work using File > Export…

I hope you like it! and see ya soon

God bless,
Coche

The last few days I’ve been revisiting some of my works with Adobe Flash, and I think Linux Babies (featuring: Tux, Firefox, Apache, MySQL, and Redhat) was one of the good ones!

Some years ago I liked a lot Flash, because it allowed me to create interactive stuff and short animations. I think that my enthusiasm for computer graphics, started with Flash for me, and although nowadays I don’t use it that much, it will always have a special place for me.

Best regards

Jose

Dedicated to my friend Juliux and her daughter Belencita

I think I will re-post some of the posts from my previous blog, so I start with this… Mudjungle!

I know it sounds funny, but I think it was a proper name for a web application that pursued to be like Moodle (well maybe not that good, jeje).

Ok, you have the crazy name, now what? The next step for me, is to design a header for the home page:

I think is a pretty fun header: a monkey using a chalk to write “Mudjungle” in a blackboard that has a touch of jungle.

I did it with GIMP, using a custom set of brushes for achieving the chalk feel and the leaves at the top of the blackboard.

See ya soon