Welcome to the Web & Graphic Design Department page for the Institute of Technology in Modesto, CA
On this page you will find information about what is going on in the courses, upcoming events and projects, and galleries of recent student work.
Working with a Pinhole camera? Here is a site that helps with exposure settings, a link to a nice windows app that also helps with determining exposure times.
Determining Exposure Times for Pinhole Cameras [pinhole.cz] The pinhole camera - the camera without a lens. Information about the simplest image-creating device, its history, sample photographs and the PinholeDesigner program to help you with the necessary calculations.
29/09/2013
Great little article about cleaning up your Photoshop styles and swatches.
Clean Up Your Photoshop Swatches and Styles | Viget Clean Up Your Photoshop Swatches and StylesInspire // Aug 24, 2010CommentsI can't stand how Photoshop loads your Swatch and Styles palettes with a whole pile of useless defaults. They gunk up a feature that should, by its very nature, be as pared down as possible. I try to keep custom palettes for t...
24/09/2013
Remodeling a figure in Photoshop
Remodelling a Figure in Photoshop From Gry Garness Beauty Retouching Techniques DVD. http://www.grygarness.com/ for info. Professional retoucher Gry uses warp, puppet-warp and transforms to s...
17/09/2013
History of Cameras
Camera: A History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital by Todd Gustavson Eastman House Technology Curator Todd Gustavson takes us behind the scenes of the creation of his book.
17/09/2013
Excellent website for getting started with photography basics.
Photography Basics | Learn Digital Photography Basics Learn everything from the fundamentals of digital photography to basic maintenance techniques and camera lighting accessories.
12/09/2013
From Webappers, a nice tutorial sowing you how to make 3D Social Media buttons with CSS3
How to Create 3D Social Media Buttons with CSS3 | Web Resources | WebAppers How to Create 3D Social Media Buttons with CSS3 - Open Source Resources for Web Developers
06/09/2013
Free course from Lynda.com on Illustrator for just a short time, make sure to claim your spot.
Our course on developing and creating vector graphics is free to lynda.com Facebook fans now through September 13: http://on.fb.me/QNDlQi
Illustrator and designer Von Glitschka shares his experience on sketching, building, and presenting graphics to clients. Watch it and give us your feedback.
30/08/2013
Creative Beacon has a round-up of 30 brown themed websites for your inspiration. There is some amazing designs in here, so head over and check em out.
30 Super Cool Brown Themed Website Designs for Inspiration Brown Themed Website Designs Technological advancement has made it really easy for any individual to connect to web world and thus the number of...
23/08/2013
Here is a great website for getting started with CSS.
CSS Tutorial Beginners CSS Tutorial For Web Designers.
15/08/2013
Check out this Free HTML5 portfolio template from Luis Zuno. Looking at the code of templates is also a great way to learn new html/css tricks.
Vintage – HTML Template | Luis Zuno| Free web resources Ansimuz, you templates are really great, and not only couse they are free for us. It’s a great thing ever, knowing somebody, who is on the top of the I.T.’s world, making perfect today what we had to talk about just yesterday, on different it’s forums:) I wish 2 u the best customers with the most in...
12/08/2013
Great little online book to get started with how browsers and the web works.
http://www.20thingsilearned.com/en-US/home
20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web A fun guidebook from Google on things you've always wanted to know about browsers & the web (but were afraid to ask
06/08/2013
Andy Warhol created many works of art based on the Perrier brand, and now Perrier has released some bottles and cans with designs by Warhol. Check out the site to see pop art inspired product designs; the site is a great example of parallax web design as well.
http://warhol.perrier.com/