I’m Jacob Thomas

Well another of my accidental discoveries…or should i call it an invention?

Whatever be it,i’m going to show you how to make denim/jeans material with photoshop 7.

Step 1:Create a blank document with any dimensions and fill it with #2E3233 color.(Layer>>New Fill Layer>>Solid Color).

Step 2:Make a new brush using with the image given below.

Copy the image to a new PSD and select it.Then(Edit>>Define Pattern).Name it Stripes
Step 3:Create a new pattern layer.(Layer>>New Fill Layer>>Pattern) using the pattern we have just created ,”Stripes”;Scale:19%

Step 4:With this new pattern layer,selected open its blending properties.

Apply,”Dissolve” to the General Blending with opacity 100%

That’s it.!your own denim material.Apply it anywhere.

The other day i was simply playing around with PS and discovered this pretty cool trick.

Well nothing much actually.I am going to show how to make a shadow effect of plants from suns’ rays.

First of all prepare a plain document.

Use any simple vector brush depicting any plant like this.

1)Select the entire document .
2)Apply Filter Menu>>Distort>>Polar Coordinates (Polar to Rectangular)

[Optional:Apply a Filter>>Stylize>>Wind for a shimmer effect]
3)Apply Filter Menu>>Distort>>Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar)

It looks like shadows are coming from the plant .Add a sun in the distance to make it look like rays are coming from horizon.You can use this technique to add rays from sun.
in the end I got something like this.

Later!

Well i have been wrestling through a hell lot of PHP,CSS,HTML recently to come up with a decent version of opdyne wordpress theme called ‘halcyon‘.It is not finished yet,but some local testing found it to be good looking and efficient.

Yep,That’s the index page.No scrolling.I have used moo.fx to apply some distinct classification to various sections of the blog thanks to Will’s suggestion.Whether it is a user friendly approach to the site..hmm..I will only know that once i release the official site.Apart from that we adopted a Black-Gold(to be more precise,orange #FFCC33) color code.Duh!That was quite a challenge.

The graphics look cool?.My friend Arun produced such spectacular banners for us in 3 hours.I guess it is not about the time taken but the brilliance of such an art that is to be emphasized here.I don’t know when the theme will be finished but for now enjoy the screenshot.