Astir Beach Vouliagmeni
15 February, 2010 at 10:21 pm in Vouliagmeni / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
Astir Beach Vouliagmeni
More samples with Photoshop: how about some frames? Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni is a nice place and the images deserve privileged treatment.
Have a look at the below samples, which have been produced with Photoshop and Art Suite by AKVIS, a great plug-in which moves Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni into the right light.
Astir Beach Vouliagmeni Images
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Create a Favicon with Photoshop
15 February, 2010 at 4:30 pm in Vouliagmeni / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
Create a Favicon with Photoshop
While you are working on your image or brand, you may want to create your custom favicon which will display in your visitors browser tabs as a small image.
Here is how to create your favicon.
Create your Favicon
Before you start, you need to add a plug-in to your Photoshop to allow saving your image in .ico format.
1. Download the plug-in from here.
2. Unzip and extract the files.
3. Load the file ICOFormat.8bi into your Photoshop plug-ins folder. (This is typically in drive C under Programm Files – Adobe – Photoshop CS4 – Plug-ins)
4. Fire up your Photoshop and create a new image with size 64×64 pixels (the icon will be saved as 16×16 pixels but it’s easier to create on a bigger format).
When resizing the image from 64 pixels to 16 pixels, resample the image with ‘Bicubic Sharper’.
5. ‘Save as’ and select the .ico format.
6. Place the image as ‘favicon.ico’ into the root folder of your domain and add the link to the header script of your site.
Done.
Join our call tonight at YorgoTalk for further tips.
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Page Curl by Photoshop Ycademy
15 February, 2010 at 10:26 am in Vouliagmeni / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
Page Curl by Photoshop Ycademy
After two weeks of solid basic Photoshop trainings, we are ready to take things a step further by using more or less sophisticated plug-ins.
A typical sample is here below: we have been using two different page curl plug-ins: an old and a new one. They both do equally a great job.
Page Curl
The corresponding plug-ins are part of our Educational Media CD.
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Microsoft Office 2010 Seminar by Ycademy
14 February, 2010 at 4:54 pm in Vouliagmeni / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
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Microsoft Office 2010 Seminar by Ycademy
The announced February Seminar by Ycademy, which will deal with Microsoft Office 2007 will be extended to the brand new Microsoft Office 2010 Beta.
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta
Seminar participants should download and install the new Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta before joining the sessions. Please download the English 32-bit version from here. Follow the link at the bottom of the page and create an account using your Live Credentials (they should be the same as you use on MSN and for other Live Logins).
In spite the note by Microsoft, just add the new 2010 Beta to your existing installation. Your Start Menu will look about like this:
At the Seminar we will particularly focus on some of the Main Applications such as Word 2010, Power Point 2010, Publisher 2010 and Excel 2010 as well as on the collaborative tools and the new online potential of Office 2010.
More about the extended Ycademy Seminar Program during this weeks daily YORGOO calls.
Seminar Tickets are available at the YORGOO Shop.
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Font Design Image on Google Top 10
12 February, 2010 at 5:09 pm in Vouliagmeni / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
Font Design Image on Google Top 10
Google Top 10 Ranking for an image called Font Design. There is no text in the post.
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Font Design
12 February, 2010 at 4:49 pm in Vouliagmeni / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
Font Design Image
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Photoshop Ycademy
10 February, 2010 at 7:02 am in Vouliagmeni / Web Design / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
Photoshop Ycademy
When 10 days ago we started the Photoshop Ycademy for YORGOO and Ycademy members, the program outline looked like a huge task. Today we see, how much can be accomplished within little time by ordinary people making extraordinary efforts. Tonight’s training will be a clean up session to finish up with some basics and the implementation of more action scripts, namely to accomplish more day to day tasks.
Book Covers, CDs, DVDs and more
Last night’s session was dedicated to product wrappers; it’s all about the look! Great stuff was created and I am looking forward to see some of it on Google Top 10 Images. While we have shared with participants some impressive actions, we are preparing two Photoshop Packs containing some interesting stuff I have on my computer and which I find useful for professional use of Photoshop. Here below a gallery of some sample images I did in just a few minutes; hope you enjoy! See you tonight at 7 pm London at Yorgotalk!
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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Website
9 February, 2010 at 4:38 pm in Vouliagmeni / Web Design / Web Site Development / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
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Yorgo Nestoridis New Semiomantics Website
You may wonder why I change my website … again. As my site serves as a prototype and sandbox for new Semiomantics developments, I need to adjust some design features to anticipate WordPress 3.0 features as well as to experiment with advanced media handlers.
Also, and this is not a joke, I am no longer happy with the performance, since I have built into our recent customer sites a device which outperforms my own script and which cannot run on the present framework.
The Look of Semiomantics
The look of my personal site will not change substantially; it will be essentially black and gray on white with some rare and mostly invisible touches of red or blue.
The main change concerns the Home Page which will follow the trend of our recent WP Best developments: short page with just a few highlights and a dominant featured image leading to an important editorial.
From a design point of view, I will keep it minimalistic as usual in order to put the content into the center of the development, as you can see from the screen-shot below, where the image of Vouliagmeni is the visual center of attraction.
The Fonts and Colors
I will play with different font combination and redesign my labels and banners using professional fonts on photoshop. As the site is extensively widgetized, there are about 15 places where labels and banners can be placed, right into the framework. Using different sets of banners and labels, designed in different styles, the site can change face with just a few mouseclicks without the need to touch anything which impacts on the performance.
While the site will remain in the black to white scale with some touches of red or blue, the banners and labels will fit in like skin elements while still being utilities.
For the time being I am still loading script elements. Tomorrow I will take care of the front page content.
See you then.
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How to use Photoshop Actions
8 February, 2010 at 8:51 am in Vouliagmeni / Web Design / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
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How to use Photoshop Actions
Do you know Photoshop Actions and how to use them? If you think that we may be able to share with you some new actions, join tonight’s YORGOO call at 9 pm London Time.
We will show you, how you can quickly and with just one mouse-click transform your images to have the same look as the samples below.
Photoshop Action Scripts to increase productivity
The few samples below show day to day actions you may come across and which can be reduced to just one mouse-click: tonight is the night to learn all about it and to get started with our first small Action Pack.
See you there, tonight at our Web Design Photoshop Workshop.
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Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop
8 February, 2010 at 7:48 am in Vouliagmeni / Web Design / Yogo Nestoridis // (0) Comment
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Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop
Learn how to create Book covers and Jewel Cases with Photoshop at this week’s Ycademy Pro calls.
Additional optional Materials: $10, free for Ycademy Pros, get the coupon from Bianca.
Advanced pack: $30, discount $10 for Ycademy Pros.
(Information about the content of the packs at Monday’s YORGOO call.)
Professional Presentation of your e-products
The presentation is of the utmost importance when you sell a product. Creating clean wrappers and marketing materials is a must. Today’s screens render images with a high resolution. For this reason you won’t get away with images from second zone. The same applies to marketing materials.
Photoshop quality is a must.
At Ycademy we will this week dig into an important application of Photoshop: create Book covers and Jewel cases with Photoshop to present your digital products.
Please find here below two examples of the quality you will be able to produce after this weeks trainings. To keep white clean is the most difficult task; the samples below demonstrate quality, even if you look at them with the magnifier.
The Ycademy Trainings
Sure, we will show you step by step how to create a book cover right from scratch using your Photoshop skills. But there is no reason inventing the wheel; we will focus on learning how to use one of the most popular plugins to create efficiently professional looking wrappers. For this reason we have prepared two packs of commercial action scripts for Photoshop which you may grab for as long as available.
Check it out at the YORGOO Pro Shop.
Ycademy DVDs
Ycademy Books
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