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FDsign going out of business?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Some people asked me about it due to some chit chat between webmasters in Las Vegas. And the short answer is:

Maybe. At least as you know it.

We’re on the verge of great changes happening very soon, so be sure to check this site the next following days/weeks. For now, we’ll be finishing the already committed projects for our adult website design area, and from there we’ll see how we work things out with the new crew. However, if we feel we can’t provide our usual level of satisfaction, we’d rather close business to new clients to concentrate only on the marketing side of our company and a few mega projects we’re working on. This being said, we’ll continue accepting mainstream design projects.

We think our expertise and results have grown to a level where it would be quite unfair for our clients not to be able to provide the same or even better service, and share our expertise at the ridiculously low prices w’re charging.  At the same time it would be unfair for new clients not to provide them with the best possible service as well. Due to our geometric growth, we’re close to that point. As a matter of fact, we’re working extra hours right now and hiring more people to help us.

This is a time for well thought steps. I’m sure we’ll make the correct decision, one that may leave further clients out of the scoop, but will satisfy our existing clients. Which, as we’re at it, are the biggest companies in adult internet business.

For those of you wondering or anyone who has any doubt, you know how to contact us. We won’t let anyone down. We’re just growing too fast for what I feel we can handle without adding a bunch of highly trained personnel. For that, you’d be thankful, it will be on your own benefit :)


Tutorial: Enhancing Depth with Photoshop

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
paris-hilton-photoshop

This is an extremely simple tutorial that will give a pretty interesting touch to your photos and designs. What we are going to do is to give more depth to photos, in an almost 3D-ish way.

1 – First of all, we’ll get our image. I chose the following one from a Paris Hilton ad (click on images to enlarge):

2 – Now create a new layer (Ctrl+Shift+N). Fill it with black. Adjust opacity to 45/50%.

3 – Using the lasso tool, loosely outline the figure trying to be quite away from the borders. (click below image to enlarge):

4 – Now go to Select > Feather and choose a value as you see fit. In this case, I chose 30px.

5 – With this new feathered selection, simply delete it and you’ll have a new image with great depth. Use a very soft brush to delete certain parts (I used it for the burger, small portions of hair and one of her bracelets)

6 – Done. If you want to go further, simply enhance the image. I used a very little airbrush and a level adjustment layer on top of everything and voilà! here’s the end result:

Alternatives

You may think this is all cool and dandy with dark backgrounds, but what with cleared backgrounds? The short easy answer is “cut the figure and apply it over a dark background”. But check another option you can do:

I took this beautiful hippie girl in a forest picture

and converted it into this:

How did I achieve this? I just did exactly the following I said before, only that this time the feathered layer has its blending mode set to overlay and opacity in 36%.

Experiment, try different settings and the may the force be with you!




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