Rain Rain, Come My Way
A very simple wallpaper representing rain by falling arrows. Inspired by the fact that I haven’t made a wallpaper in Photoshop in over 2 months, and also the unbearable heat here in Delhi. Read more
Illustrator for Beginners
Testing the deep waters of Adobe Illustrator. Find the wallpaper, link to the tutorial and a little help on saving Illustrations in raster (JPEG, GIF and PNG) formats, after the jump. Click “View Complete Article” to view complete article.
Creating JPEG/GIF/PNG in Illustrator. Need not worry!! Just check out the features in the pic above, and they are explained below: 1. All the major controls are on the right. You can see the format selection as a drop-down menu. Choose from JPEG (millions of colors), GIF (256 colors) and PNG. TO solve this issue, open the tab “Image Size” as shown in the figure above. Check-mark the option “Clip to Artboard“. This will make illustrator save only the image inside the artboard. Click Apply, and then Save. Done!! You have successfully saved the vector as a Raster!! You can find the complete tutorial that I followed here. Please comment on how you like the wallpaper. (Original Design by Chris Spooner). And please be kind, as this is my first Illustrator wallpaper and tutorial. Signing off,
Illustrator, by default, is set to save for print. That means the vector-based SVG format which retains the math involved so that the image can be stretched without quality loss.
To save in lossy formats such as JPEG/GIF, there is a nifty feature called as “Save for Web” in the “File” menu. Open that and you something scary like:
2. Quality can be set in a range from 0 to 100. With 100 being the best, but also creating the largest image in terms of memory. This is similar to the Photoshop Save option in case of JPEG.
3. Blur: Blur the image before saving. (duh)
Matte: to matte the image. (duh again) (Look up these terms in Google if needed)
4. Now the most important part that can cause come confusion. (It did for me) If your image is exceeding the size of the artboard (the image size you chose before starting is the artboard. But you can draw anywhere outside it too. This feature is not there in Photoshop). You need to save only the area inside the artboard as the image. But Illustrator tries to create an image of a larger size, including everything you have drawn, even outside the artboard.
The Photoshopper
Wake Up Dude!
A wallpaper based on the posters of the movie “Wake Up Sid!”. The 3D effect of the text is notoriously easy to achieve. Since this design is shown only in the promo videos and trailers, there are no wallpapers of this design out there. And “dude” is more general than “Sid”, so there you go.
Study:
The design is roughly vector based, though I implemented it in Photoshop, and not in Illustrator. Also, the color-scheme is very close to the print colors (it is a movie poster after all). i.e CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, blacK)
The movie poster actually says “Wake up S!d”. It uses an exclamation (!) in place of an “i”.
The movie stars Ranbir Kapoor and Konkana Sen. It is about a guy who is very laidback and lazy in his life. (much like me!)
For more details on the movie, visit IMDB here.
Retro-style Vector Cityscape
Hi there!
I think its about time I tried my hand at Vector drawing. So here is an interesting wallpaper with lots of thought behind it. The quote from ‘The Matrix’ says “Choice. The problem is Choice”. One person says “Everything begins with a choice.” But another contradicts, “Choice is just an illusion.” Mull it over in your mind with this wallpaper on your desktop.
This wallpaper specifically depicts the choice between the dark and bright, the good and the evil, the progressive and degenerative.
1280×1024:
1280×800:
