Played around with a new pattern making software online called ImageTerrain. It says it’s useful for fine artists, a textile designers, a photographers and commercial artists who want to create the most beautiful geometric shapes, abstracts, medallions, scrolls, ethnics, batiks, ikats, stripes and plaids instantly. Well, with all that being said, the first thing I noticed was “textile” and that means “fabric”, and that has nothing to do with me. I’m glad I went ahead and checked out this product after seeing it’s capabilities. It’s like a kaleidoscope maker for my screen. These are a 2 of the images I made into patterns just to see the range of the software.

Image Terrain Pattern

This one is a cool pattern I made with a pixelated 30×30 jpg I was using on the home page here at BoxedinDesign. Even with such a crap image it still made a cool pattern.

Best part is you can upload a jpeg up to 15 mgs in size and a maximum 4500×4500 pixels! Now that’s clarity in an image! These guys who developed this software were not making a little toy you can get some ideas out of when you get tired of making typography. This is a quality web app that allows you to see your images in so many new ways. There are large amounts of things you can do that I can’t even think of with Image Terrain. Show me what you made in the comments.

Want to get your own patterns? Visit Image Terrain now.

It has to be said – *I wasn’t paid to write anything above. They did turn the account on so I could review it but that didn’t change my opinions.

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MediaLoot is coming people! Are you excited? It’s going to be a quality place to get all those hard to find icons. They didn’t ask me to make icons for them, I guess because they know I’m too busy to learn Photoshop. hmmm Want to score some freebies from our friends Mason and Jon – then keep reading.

Free Icons Pack

Look how freaking nice this Web UI and button pack is:

Don’t you want to rock it on your new site? I’m thinking of taking an 70s retro design from Jan Cavan and add those icons and have become popular. :)

Want to get those icons? Download them now.

*I wasn’t paid to write anything above. It’s not really a review, but I have faith in these guys to make something cool for us. If they fail, I will be the first to throw crap at my monitor while looking at their web site.

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Designer – Giles Dawe
Wallpaper from – freedesktopwallpaper.org

It’s only available in 1280×1024 or smaller.
Click the size you need, and right click the image (win) and “set as desktop background” or “save as”

• 640×480
• 800×600
• 1024×768
• 1280×1024

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Designer – Giles Dawe
Website – gilesdawe.com
Twitter – (Blocked in China!)

1. How much time do you dedicate to learning design every day?
For me art and inspiration is all around me. The internet is a great source of content, but I find it’s so easy to be influenced by other artists and copy their work either consiously or subconsiously so I try stay away from using it too often.

2. What other artists do you have contact with on a regular basis?
I went to UWIC Cardiff Art School for 3 years for my Fine Art degree, so I’m in contact with a few fellow students. Even after all these years I still feel I’m starting out and working my way to get established.

3. Who are the top 2-3 artists that you respect and why?
I love artists like Rembrandt, Picasso and Henry Moore. Rembrandt for his moody pictures and excellent technique which make them seem alive, Picasso for his sheer number of works and influencing Modern Art and Henry Moore for his amazing skills and huge scaled sculptures.

4. What’s your favorite artwork you ever made and why?
My favourite artwork was painted when I started art school at the age of 19 (I’m 32 now) and it was a figure painted in oils on canvas in the centre. At the time I didn’t really grasp the use of painting or using space, but the idea of a man “floating in thin air” whilst at the bottom of his feet is a mirror image of himself made up of a bagette, wine and book. This picture inspired me to start to create something different in my artwork, rather than follow the trend of “paint what you see”.

5. Have you ever been published in a book or magazine? What books or magazines?
As an artist I’ve been mainly featured in Hong Kong where I live. I’ve had two solo exhibitions, been featured in HK Magazine, City Magazine as well as having artwork purchased by famous HK Art Director Wang Jia Wei. I also used to be a pretty good Web Designer when I lived in England and designed sites for Central Government, where I won awards for Best Website and most Accessible Sites from the RNIB and DirectGov.

6. What’s your favorite color in hexadecimal? How often do you find yourself leaning towards it with design projects?
I would have to say any shades of blue. For my University essay I wrote 5000 words+ solely on this colour! *What? – Boxedin

7. What’s your most recent project we can look at?
My most recent artwork is the “Invisible Woman” art piece. It took me about 2 months to paint the hundreds of rocks, based on Zhuhai Ferry Port coastline close to where I live. When I spotted the huge rock in the top left, it looked like a bent knee. So as I traced the leg downwards I thought I could see more of a body shape and face, so I painted this in my picture. It’s not so obvious, but if you look at the man on the far right and look to his left you should see a face and then the outline of the body.

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There are some talented artists out there and they only get praise in their circles. I thought if someone can sit through all that pain and patience, they deserve to have their tattoos shown. The true talents are the people doing the tattoos. You have to be a true artist to do ink to skin. I make mistakes working with a pencil on paper.

Look at the detail in the celtic knot below the cross. Nice work!

Cool Back Tattoos

It’s an odd tattoo, but could be a treasure map. The detail is cool though.

I want to see this tattoo finished! It would be cool if he had Mario Cart racing around his arms as a sleeve.

I really like the expression. His hair looks realistic too.

Cool transitions between the arms and the image. Smooth looking.

I would imagine that flowers are hard to make because you want them all to look so different.

Dragons are cool. This tattoo is cool.

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When I decided to do a review of this product I had the usual skeptisism about the product. I have seen too many of these Photoshop videos and most of them are either too basic or the person doing the video is fresh out of college and doesn’t have the real world design experience that big firms are hungry for yet.

I have to say that Memo is an exception. He speak clearly, confidently and takes you through step by step on how to do the design. His videos are simple, creative and educational. I was impressed and actually learned some things and I consider myself an 8 out of 10 on a knowing Photoshop level.

Photoshop Retouching Video Tutorials

Check out one of his Photoshop video lesson here. You can visit RetouchCreative.com on the web.

Note – I wasn’t paid to do this review of this product, but I did get free access to watch the videos. Everything I wrote here is my honest opinion of the product and I don’t get compensation if you purchase videos from Retouch Creative.

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