Potret Typographic

Salam….

Ok hari ni aku nak tulis tutorial pasal Potret typography. Tak pernah dengar? Takpe, tapi kalau korang tengok hasil contoh dibawah ni mesti ko pernah tengok dalam majalah ke hapa. Tutorial ni aku ikut base on website 10 Steps. Tetapi seperti biasa aku akan execute guna GIMP.

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Business and I : Part 2 – Early Cyber Ventures

Beginning of the year 2004, the so call online business started to boom like mushrooms in Malaysia. Business involving e-books, prepaid, clicking and watching advertisement and MLM flooding Malaysia’s world of cyber like hell. During that time, email  was the main media in spreading this kind of information. From small to big amount of investment had been made by people of Malaysia in order to join this great hype, and that does not exclude me.

I had tried so many programs available in the Internet and all was up to the free version only(reading email, watching ads,etc). Non was a success. Later, I decided to try a paid version. The first paid program I’d join was a MLM base ebooks selling program. It was about RM40 in order to join the program. We will be given  our own website in order to promote our e-books. I’d tried so hard to promote my first venture, from classified, email, forums and even flyers(did not materialize). I had manage to get quite a number of downlines, but the not so easy part is to ask them to join as a paid members. Before I manage to make anybody a paid member, the website of this program suddenly disappeared and history. Below is one example of the ads that I used to post which I manage to dig back from the internet

Talking about own website, I remember starting my first website using Geocities free service during my Universty days(2000). My first website was called cerihik.com which a portal for people to submit thier stories to be publish on the Internet. I would say it maybe among the first of its kind in malaysia at that time but unfortunately I did not take it seriously and I stop maintaining the website after about a year in operation.(can believe ka this…up to you).below is a snapshot of my Intro page

From the power of Internet you can view my first website here.

After so many failures, I was then introduced to a forum which full of information on online busines, Digital Point Forum. Here is the place i learn a lot about Internet, website, ecommerce, Graphic design, ebay, paypal,etc. Here is the point were I start to get involved in a real online business. Will be contine……….

Photo Editing: Efek Zoom kabur

Salam and Good Day,
For those who still don’t know, graphic design, photo editing and anything related(actually follow tutorial on the net)  is one of my interest in life. So today I would like to try a new simple tutorial which I found from the net  “Action Zoom Blurring Effect In Photoshop” thanks to good-tutorials.com and photoshopessential.com for the finding and use of this tutorial anyway.

So why I choose this simple tutorial, which even a 7 year old child could do it in a couple of minutes.
The answers…..

1. I just need something to start posting on my blog.

2. I don’t have Photoshop(Just being a good boy for not using a Lanun version)

3. Because of point number 2 I will be using GIMP to follow this tutorial.

Since there are not many GIMP tutorial on the net, one of thins I would to include in this blog is adoption of Photoshop tutorial by using GIMP, so in the future there will be many post similar to this(if I am not so the lazy lah).

Not to bebel some more, I will start the tutorial.

For this tutorial I will be using my second son’s picture Rayyan

First you will need to duplicate this layer of image since we need to use both of them later on. Then select the new layer in order to work on it. The filter we are going to use today is the motion blur filter. Select this filter by going to Filters—->Blurs—->Motion Blur.

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will be using zoom for the blur type. For the blur center, just choose the the coordinate you want the blur to start. You can check the coordinate by moving the the cursor on the imge and you can find the x and y information on the bottom left corner of the window. For me I will choose the coordinate at the center of the head( at least that is what the tutorial did). Lastly for the blur parameters, it is up to you to choose how much blur is required. as for me i find the above is quite ok

Below is the picture after the blur is applied

Next you need to add a layer mask to this duplicated layer. Right click on the layer at the Layer Dialog, choose Add Layer Mask…Then according to the tutorial you need to select the gradient tool and use it as a tool to remove the blur effect from the area of picture which we don’t require to be blur. In GIMP select Blend tool then select radial for the shape option and black foreground to white background for gradient option. Next make sure the layer with layer mask is selected and with the blend tool drag a line on the image and Tadaaaaa the blur effect on the effected area will be gone. You can undo and repeat this step until you satisfied with effect. You can also tweak the opacity of the duplicated layer in order to make it more realistic

For my case, I remove the blur effect on the face area and I changed the opacity of the duplicated layer at about 75% and finally got the result as above. That is all for now and enjoy the tut.

Salam