January 2010

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

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Step 1

Create a new document (600X800px).

Create a new layer called ‘black background’ and fill your entire canvas with black.

Step 2

Paste in this photo of a stone archway. Call this layer ‘arch’.

Photo: Stone Archyway

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Our first monthly edition of our monthly roundup in 2010 when we collect all the best design tutorials,article and design resources. Feel free to leave a comment to share you favourite aspect from the design/web design in January 2010.

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What is Bokeh?

“In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— “good” or “bad” bokeh, respectively.

Bokeh characteristics may be quantified by examining the image’s circle of confusion. In out-of-focus areas, each point of light becomes an image of the aperture, generally a more or less round disc. Depending how a lens is corrected for spherical aberration, the disc may be uniformly illuminated, brighter near the edge, or brighter near the center. Lenses that are poorly corrected for spherical aberration will show one kind of disc for out-of-focus points in front of the plane of focus, and a different kind for points behind.”

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