Monday, November 07, 2011

How to Draw Apple iCloud Icon – Photoshop Tutorial

How to Draw Apple iCloud Icon – Photoshop Tutorial: iCloud, the newest cloud storage service introduced by the Apple has a pretty simple yet beautiful logo. The icon is made from metallic material and has an extruded cloud icon on top of it. You may not know it, but creating this type of icon is actually very easy, and below is the iCloud icon that we will teach you how to draw in this post, using Photoshop!

There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe - Scott Hanselman

There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe - Scott Hanselman: Of course, there's only so many ways to draw a cloud, right? But somehow this one just nails it and is itself iconic, if you'll excuse the pun.

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Bezier curves - a primer

Bezier curves - a primer: Before we begin I'd like to say that all the graphics on the page, except for the Wolfram Alpha images, are interactive graphics, without requiring any special browser plugins. If your browser supports javascript, and the canvas element (sorry IE8 users, you'll have to upgrade to IE9, which supports - Get it here,) it will be able to let you use this page, thanks to the most excellent Processing.js project. You will also see rather nicely typeset mathematics, thanks to the equally excellent MathJax library.