Good News! I’ve quit my day job to get to do the things I enjoy doing very much on the internet! Yes, that means I’ll be spending more time on
ProductiveDreams and taking up freelance projects at the same time. As a first step, I am launching my portfolio –
Indofolio.comIn this post I would like to give you a brief overview on IndoFolio and its design.
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Hello Friends, Happy Halloween!
As you would be aware, I redesigned the PD logo recently and updated my twitter theme based on the new logo. The next thing that sprang in my mind was to design a wallpaper for my readers and here it goes. This one was created from scratch using Photoshop.
Both Standard (1024×768 and 1600×1200) and Wide versions (1280×800 and 1920×1200) has been included in the zip file.
Please do let me know (via the comments section) if you need this wallpaper in a different resolution
1. What is parallax?
If you are looking for a definition of parallax, here it goes. As far as the web (especially design) industry is concerned, parallax is the arrangement/animation of images in a way that lets you feel the distance between them.
For example, imagine that you are looking through the window of a moving vehicle. You will see the objects closer to you moving faster compared to the distant ones. The sun stays still while the trees, buildings and other objects move.
In this post I would like to walk you through different posts, examples and tutorials that would help you achieve this effect.
This technique was initially used in 2d video games and now mostly seen in single page portfolio websites and website headers.
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