Disaster happened.

It was a good for a walk with my friend and well, it has dark clouds. So we decided not to walk and instead I went to his house for a cup of coffee (sugar overdrive). True to my prediction, it rained. After drinking coffee, I received a phone call from my mom, saying that my block is on fire (WHAT THE ....). And so true to what I heard, there's smoke (indicating fire duh), I rush to the scene and OMG there is a fire, on the second floor.
*I live at the same block but different floor.

Lots of people is crowding around taking photos and fireman rushing to the scene, putting out the fire (When I got there, it is reduced to smoking but fire exists inside.)

Well it seems that no one got hurt at that time.

*(I concluded that it is a electrical fire, though the whole house is on fire; the main fire source is from one of the rooms.) 

Well that's that.

Signing off, Ankino

New Wallpaper for the blog (Soon?)

Taken that my exams are over (Left Chinese Basic, you can stop laughing now thanks.), I will be releasing some (or few) designs. Nothing else better to do anyway. Look out for PSD raw files. =D

Signing off, Ankino

Track Links:Typing game

> http://somoe.org/typing/ Wow. Quite hard and simillar to DJ Max or O2 Jam. Recommended to play it.

Signing off, Ankino

CSS code: Konakanami 4.0

- This is what Konakanami look like after applying the CSS -

Konakanami is discontinued for a reasons; preferred Neko! over Konakanami.

Although the CSS design is elegant and simple, it is not very "forward looking' like Neko!.

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Another canceled code is Extended2.

- Simple yet effective -

Users who are new to CSS may find it hard to customize it. Can cause some blogs to freeze for awhile as the template uses Javascripts rather then CSS.

That's all~

Signing off, Ankino

Changes in Neko (3.7.3.1)

- Sidebar having gradient style (Link and object)-

- Blog post title having gradient style -

- Wider border for the mimic of a .png image (fits the title gradient) -

- New footer for Articina blog -

Overall it is a subtle change from 3.7.3

Signing off, Ankino

Track Links: Windows 7 Whopper

> Damnnn... Looking at @http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/10/22/only-in-japan-burger-king-offers-a-windows-7-whopper makes me hungry. It's like 2 meals into one. =D Too bad it's in Japan... Pretty cheap too.

Signing off, Ankino

Mini Post: Microsoft homepage

- Agreed~ -

- Hmm... a ball? -

Signing off, Ankino

Sidenotes: Love the design... created by trial and error...

- The gradient... where that come from BTW it is nice. New placement of search bar.-

- The footer design is from the header (Duh), crafted out from trial and error o.O"-

Signing off, Ankino

- Visit http://my-life-at-tpss.blogspot.com for updates -

- 更新-訪問 http://my-life-at-tpss.blogspot.com-

Signing off, Ankino

Photoshop effects-Tutorial 1

Top notes: Combining filters with fx effects. Lets see.

I think this is quite nice, giving a soft tone though it's black and white.

Step 1.

Get a line art, tracing or drawing, as long as there's lines.

I use my traced image, created by Adobe Flash CS4 (Duh, Flash user)

Since mine does not have a background (exported from Adobe Flash), the effects are obvious later on.

Recommended: Remove any background and create a white(or colors that complement) background in a DIFFERENT layer.

Step 2.

Filter gallery. Just add the filters shown in the *picture. No need for advanced tuning or anything else.

*On the bottom right hand corner.

The filter gallery excludes my white background but it's fine for me. Though the effect is (almost) not obvious to screens, well leave it as it is.

Step 3.
-From now on it's individual pictures.

Go to the layer you are authoring on and double click to open the layer style window.

The settings are there as well.

Drop shadow

Inner glow

Satin

 Gradient (Optional)

Step 4.

Finally click Ok and poof~ it's done. Remember to fine tune if you need to.

Without fx effect, only filter.

With both filter and fx effect.

Enjoy~ =D

Looks natural and the tone is soft. This effect is made by accident, after fooling around Photoshop for 2 minutes...

First guide.

Program required: Photoshop 7.0 and above.

Program used: Photoshop CS4 Extended

Fooling with Photoshop since 2004
Self-taught too. =D

Signing off, Ankino