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Facebook cover photos

Since they seem to only show you this notice once instead of giving you a reminder the next time you go to change out the cover photo on facebook, I thought I would post the screenshot here as a reminder:

 

 

Do you think that maybe they are trying to get people to advertise? 🙂

I also hope they are a bit loose on this or at least give warnings. What about a copywriter who wants to use a blown up bit of text artistically or a graphic designer who is going to include sample portfolio pieces (which is what I have done.) It only seems fair since photographers can basically show, guess what, their photographs.

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Flixel iPhone App:
quick & easy cinemagraphs!

I am absolutely in love with this new iphone app called Flixel. It allows you to fairly quickly make animated gifs called Cinemagraphs. It’s a hair buggy still but not bad and it will work best on an iPhone 4 or 4s (I don’t think it will work on anything older than that at this point because it’s a bit memory intensive.)

Here are just a couple that I created today:

Starbucks “red eye” with cream

And “Tea Light” (get it? I have a cheesy sense of humor) 🙂

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LetterMPress ipad app review

I recently purchased LetterMPress for the ipad. It’s a fun little program that functions much like a letterpress would with some exceptions.

You get a fairly large selection of wood type, ornaments, designs and symbols that you can layout. You also get things that are typical to letterpress such as “furniture” (spacers) and “lockup” which allows you to lock in your design.

Where this differs is:

  1. you can’t use two hands to push things around which does in fact get a little frustrating sometimes. I started using furniture to push things around and that helped.
  2. if your real letterpress looked like my screenshots, then your blocks would shift around or fly off when you went to print.

I have not used a letterpress personally so I am just familiar with some of the concepts so I’m probably missing some other key differences.

One nice thing is that you can turn the ipad any direction and the menu follows as you can see above.

Once you’re happy with your design you pick out your paper or pick an existing piece to print over.

… and pull the handle.

… and voila, “printed” piece.

I think it might help some people with creative hurdles and has a very different process.

Definitely a fun little program to play around with.