I recently discovered decluttr.
You probably already knew the ‘view on black’ links in a flickr picture description.
Most of the people use the On Black tool from Big Huge Labs.
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Hey there !
Have you ever felt desperate creating a favicon ?
Not the graphical creation process, which should be even fun, but the fact of saving the favicon with .ico format ? The fact that .ico isn’t a format Photoshop supports by default when saving a file ?
Well, I found a pretty nice and handy tool to create a favicon out of a .png/.jpg/.gif/.bmp file: The favicon generator
Just select the file you created (I usually create a 64×64 pixels file, it’s easier than a 16×16 canvas) click on convert and, … that’s it !
The last steps are:
- upload the file to your images folder on your hosting
- call the favicon using the code below:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
As a reminder: most mordern browsers support .png and .gif formats, but our friend Microsoft Internet Explorer is still acting oldschool, and asks for a .ico file. (.ico file format is a raster format used for icons in windows). So the best thing to do, is use this format, until all browsers support .png and .gif
I created a temporary favicon for my website wich looks like this on the 64×64 pixels version:
This will look like this on the tab bar of your browser:
favicon
Nouveau, et plus rapide qu’ils disent …
Firefox 3.5 sortira aujourd’hui, curieux de le voir en action tient.
Personnellement je suis devenu bien accro à Google Chrome pour ma navigation personnelle, mais je ne manquerai pas de tester la nouvelle mouture du renard de feu de la fondation Mozilla.
New and faster they say …
Firefox 3.5 is being released today, and I’m pretty curious about it, see it in action.
Personnally I adopted Google Chrome a while ago for my ozn browsing, but I won’t skip the new version of the fox on fire from the Mozilla foundation !!
Last week, we launched a new website: www.bookanddrive.nl
bookanddrive.nl homepage
What is it ?
Well as the name says it: you book a car, and you drive it !
Car rental site for The Netherlands, at very cheap rates, and all inclusive formula.
If you live in The Netherlands, and need to rent a car, this site is made for you !
Easy, cheap, and fast: book and drive makes your holiday planning easier !
Nothing’s like travelling with infinite freedom !
Nederlanstalig versie:
book and drive is een autoverhuurbroker. Dat houdt in dat book and drive tegen zeer voordelige prijzen auto’s huurt van traditionele verhuurders, en deze auto’s daardoor tegen een lage prijs kan reserveren voor onze klanten. Dat is mogelijk omdat wij een groot aantal auto’s huren bij onze partners zoals onder andere Hertz, Alamo, Budget en Europcar, waardoor we over de prijs kunnen onderhandelen opdat wij onze klanten de auto’s tegen de laagst mogelijke prijs kunnen aanbieden. Bij book and drive krijgt u dus dezelfde kwaliteit als bij een traditionele verhuurder tegen een lagere prijs !!
Some weeks ago, I saw a profile on facebook that had something original: the profile picture was edited in a way that you just couldn’t say when facebook interface was ending and where the the profile picture started.
Here is the result I got after only 30 minutes of editing:
My facebook Profile
So how can you make one of these ?
Very easy !!
1st step: find a picture of you with a white/light background.
Here, I used a picture with a light background, if I had one with a white background/time to shoot one, it would have been better/easier.
So here, you’ll need some editing to get your background white, and keeping nice levels on your face.
Use masks, levels, saturation tools to get your head on a white background.
2nd step: insert your head on the facebook ‘interface’
Some useful info:
- Start putting the grey background, and use masks to hide the white background around your face.
- Then draw the darker line at exactly 68px from top.
- Write your fake menu items, separate them with a ‘dark grey’ line
3rd step: export, upload, and enjoy !
Some things I found out:
I first wanted to make the pic twice the size (400px width, 2px for the dark grey lines etc…) to have it bigger when people click on it.
But then I found out that the resizing of the profile picture to fit it at 200px wide is causing some blur on the lines. I thought about it, but wanted to try it anyway. Don’t waste your time, as you’ll have to redo everything at 1/1 size.
Also, putting a grey stroke around the ‘profile’ pic, gives more consistency to it, you avoid this ‘cut’ body effect.
Do not hesitate to take the pic above to use it as a base for your editing.
If you want to, I can also include a link to the psd, just ask.
I listened to The Trashmen – Surfin’ Birds and other nice things of this period of rock’n'roll while editing my facebook profile picture.
Have fun !!
(version française à venir)
