Photoshop a Simple Stack of Photos
Monday, September 15th, 2008A quick tutorial on turning an image into a nice looking stack of pinned up photos.
Archive for September, 2008
Designing for the iPhone: Resources
Monday, September 8th, 200837 Signals once said about designing for the iPhone:
Designing for the iPhone is like a hybrid of print and web design.
The web we all know is rife with uncertainty. We don’t know the viewer’s screen size or resolution, we don’t know the gamma of someone’s screen, we don’t know if they’ve got a certain typeface and/or exactly how that face renders on in their browser, we don’t know the browser they’re going to use, etc.
But paper, on the other hand, is full of controls. Fixed size, fixed faces, fixed colors. What you print is exactly what someone sees (assuming you’ve done your homework on color and paper, etc).
So the iPhone is a weird mix. It’s the web, and things can scroll, and the data is pulled from remote servers, but it’s also a fixed width, a fixed browser, fixed typefaces, etc. It’s pretty cool and a really refreshing design exercise.
It’s very true. Getting to design for the iPhone is just FUN. No worries about cross-browser testing, no worries about having to cater to outdated technologies. What you design is what you get!
Here are some resources to get you going with your iPhone design project.
So You Need A Photo Gallery Website?
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Photo galleries are a incredibly popular feature to add to a website. Depending on the purpose at hand, a website could be purely a photo gallery. There are more options out there for building a photo gallery than you can shake a stick at, so to narrow down your choices, you’ll need to ask yourself a few questions.
What is the purpose of this Photo Gallery?
Are you a professional photographer needing to display your work and hook new clients? Are you just an amateur having fun? Are you primarily interested in the social community around photography?
Maybe photography itself has nothing to do with it. Maybe you need a photo gallery for your site because you are trying to sell your car and want to show people many different pictures of it. Or you are building a website for a broadway show and want to display photos of the stage, show, and cast. On an even more personal level, perhaps you are just looking for a place to upload photos so you can send your in-laws a slideshow of photos from your last vacation.
Knowing WHY you need a photo gallery and WHAT needs you have is important in choosing the technology behind your photo gallery.
