Wondering now to create a nice and simple Vista alike wallpaper in Photoshop? Here are the steps:

Open a new document in Photoshop with any size you prefer. For this tutorial im using 630 x 430 pixels.

1) Choose any random photo as for your background.

2) Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur
Here you can adjust the blurness for your background, for this tutorial i set 65 pixels.

It will become like this

3) Go to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance or press CTRL + B
Adjust the color tone under the “Color Balance” section until you satisfy with the color then click OK. Don’t bother the “Tone Balance” section.

4) Click on “Elliptical Marquee Tool” and draw a big circle.

5) Change to “Brush Tool” and choose the “soft round 200 pixels” with “Hardness” set to zero.
Remember to set the brush color (foreground color) to white.

6) Slowly color the border of the circle half, just like below:

7) Once done you may need to duplicate few layers of the circle you just color, then just resize
the circles and decorate it.
Also, you could always  play around to adjust the layers “Opacity” to see the effect.

You could put some glossy elements to make it prettier.

That’s all, have fun create your own awesome Vista alike wallpaper

Here is the .Psd file you can download it for reference.

Take care.

Well…another western artist postpone her concert in Malaysia. What’s wrong?! Rihanna we know what happened to her but end up the concert cancelled. I guess this is going to happen to Beyonce’s concert as well. The Media annouced the concert is postpone until further notice, yet there is still no news.

I got to know Beyonce actually went to Dubai to perform rather coming to Malaysia for her own World Tour concert. Who to blame, i live in Malaysia. Restrict this restrict that…bla bla bla

McDonald starting to sell the Coca Cola contour glass today. Starting from 23th of Sept until 4th of Nov.

What you need to do is buy yourself any LARGE McValue Meal togather with a Sundae (Chocolate/Strawberry), then you entitle to get a free Coca Cola contour glass.

There are 7 vibrant colours available for collection, however this is not like daily/weekly/monthly basis for each colour, it base on the stock, once the current colour sold out, the following colour will be on sell.

The first colour of the series is Perky Pink, not too pinky or something bright, sharp or girly pink.

To check out the current on sell colour, you might need to log on to McDonald official website http://mcdonalds.com.my/highlights/cokeglasspromo.asp

Hahahaha hope you like it.

Check out the full resolution of this picture at the Art Work page.

This is the latest invention from WACOM which is selling like a hot cake in the market, most of the entertainment industry, illustrator, designer, 3D artist bla bla bla they are using this!!! It really does improved the overall workflow, thanks to the useful programmable shortcut buttons and a new ring button which let you rotate the canvas, zoom in and zoom out and other functions that you configured.

I bough the small size, 4″x6″, price RM899 from LowYat Plaza – CYCOM.

They do have all sizes of Intuos4 in the shop, you could ask them for details, very friendly.

I’ve captured few pictures while im unboxing it

Cover

Inner Box cover

Where is all begins…i love this tag line

This is to show how small is the tablet, love it. I like it small and it’s portable so that i could bring it with me everyway i go.

It weight only 0.7kg!!

Latest Intuos4 Grip pen with the pressure level of 2048. Compare to Intuos3 which only gives the pressure level of 1024. I do really feel it is more natural while drawing and painting.

In side the box

Tablet Driver, bundled softwares, user manual, 3 replaceable color rings (White, Red and Grey)…

2 USB cables, 1 thick-bodied no hole grip…

1 Pen stand with…

…with 10 extra nibs and a nibs remover!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For Intuos3, you only get 7 nibs which is kinda stingy, is not cheap to get these nibs in Malaysia and is expensive like SHIT!
I really love this pen stand design which you can also keep all nibs in a safer place and will never lost it again.

Now my personal computer look like a really professional artist, well…just to praise myself to shock awhile hohoho v(–)v

The small size really fit well and save lot of space. Previously i was using Intuos3 9″x12″ (A4),  i still love it but it too big, everytime i will have to reorganize the table to find space for it. I can’t keep it on the table as well coz  it occupied almost half of the table’s space, if i wanted to use the keyboard, have to pull the tablet aside… –”‘

I plan to sell off the current Intuos3 9″x12″ (A4), at the price of RM700,  5 years old, no warranty, tablet still in good condition, complete with all 7 nibs. Overall condition 90%

Pictures of the product will be posted soon.

Please drop me an email if your are interested -> joshfong@hotmail.com

ViewSonic!!! Finally!!!
Im a ViewSonic loyalty customer, i do have a ViewSonic 19″ Widescreen LCD  before i bought this awesome 25″.

I quickly unbox and placed it on my computer table…it look big and nice

The LCD control buttons is located at the most right bottom.

There are HDMI port, DVI port, D-SUB port , Audio out port and Audio in port, this is very important if you wanted to use it to play PlayStation 3….

Now you can see how big is a 25″ LCD compare to a 19″ LCD side by side. Well, i sold the 19″ to my friend

Here is my experience, 25″ is actually too big for a personal computer. Because the LCD is too big and you are looking at it few CM away, it easily gets you dizzy for a long period of usages especially watching movie, playing Playstatation 3. So everytime i will have to sit a bit further from the screen…Anyway it still affected me…haha but is a nice product, it just costed RM690, i bought it at LowYat Plaza – SRI Computers.

Not sure this only happened to that restaurant or the whole Malaysia. This is ridiculous!!!

Short Note : The McDonald in front of Tesco, where it gone?

OK, since both of us already standing in front the gate of bankruptcy, why don’t we keep on our enjoy earlier just a little bit, shall we.

PlayStation 3 is for his entertainment enjoyment, for me is about watching Blu-ray movie. Full story about the PlayStation 3 part, you may visit his blog for details, i will show you about my Blu-ray movies collection.

Well, we stay in TTDI which is very convenience to get ourselves broke easily everyday. There are 3 “buki”s built not far from our house, One Utama, The Curve and Cineleisure.

One Utama : Murder you mostly on foods.

The Curve : Murder you mostly on Gadgets.

Cineleisure : Murder you mostly on Movies, Action Figures, and IT Gadgets.

If we want to look for Action Figures, Cineleisure would be place to be our graveyard ;p

My Camera got it in Cineleisure and Dave got this PlayStation 3 in The Curve, actually we are neighbour, barried next to each other.

Time for my Movies collection, I bought 2 Blu-Ray Movies, Twilight (RM159) and Final Fantasy VII Complete (RM259), 2 swaps, killing you softly with your credit card.

Twilight

Front cover.

Back cover.

Come with 2 discs, 1 FFVII Complete movie and FFXIII Demo game.

I’m a FFVII super die hard fans, can’t resist. I was too excited to buy it immediately without asking any questions. Kinda regret bit bit, because the FFVII Complete for this is Japanese version. If you see this front cover, remember is ONLY available in Japanese version. English version only 1 disc for the movie and without the FFXIII demo.

-_-”’

Still Happy!!! Yay!!!

I didn’t manage to Embed the .SWF file like youtube, you will see the whole area of the video, try to ignore it or just resize your browser to cover those massy area.

Please check it out:
The Well

Ok, i don’t get the job, whatever and i’m really happy that i actually could draw like this, im proud of myself hehe

You might want to download the trail version and try it out, trust me, ToonBoom really get you started to keep on drawing, you definitely love it when you watching your own animation.

Today is 15/06/09, Monday morning, 3:35am…One from the other side talking on the phone for more than an hours…One from the other side…half dead and trying to keep himself awake by posting this…zzzzzzzzz