[Fernando Mol]

I don’t know about the best way for you, because it will depend on the tools you know and the budget you have.

For me, the way to go would be to create an administrator section to edit the content and upload the videos using PHP and a database. That would give me control over the final design and the security of the page. But that’s for me. Other people would prefer to create a playlist and have an admin section to upload videos and generate an XML file for the playlist.

Usually clients want to have control over content because they want to spend the money only one time in the site. I usually give them two budgets, one showing the CMS option and another with the plain design and a monthly fee for updates.

There are other ways to go, perhaps Contribute, but I haven’t used it so I can’t comment.

[Fernando Mol]

Your site looks OK in my computers.

Firefox, IE8, IE6, Chrome running on Vista and XP

[Fernando Mol]

That’s right, you can select a range of colors and Photoshop will ask for the first and last ones. Then, it will create a gradiente, as you said. You can also select a single color, for example, if you want the first and last ones to be black and white, you can create your gradient and then change the first and last colors. Sorry my post was not 100% clear from the begining, english is not my native language.

This process is, as many others in photoshop, a try and error one, but you can get some funky looks with it until photoshop integrate a similar filter to the Colorama in After Effects.

[Fernando Mol]

Try this

In bridge go to your folder.

In the upper right corner select from the drop down menu “short by dimensions”. If your images have a constant resolution this will short the vertical first and the horizontal second.

Press shift and click on the first and last vertical pictures, this will select them all.

Then go to the menu >Tools >Photoshop >Batch

That will open Photoshop in the batch window. Here you can have two defined actions, one for your 800×600 and another for your 600×800.

Select your destination folder and you’re ready to go. Repeat the process of Batch for the horizontal images.

I hope this helps

[Fernando Mol]

Try this

>Posterize (3 or 4 levels can work, don’t care the horrible colors, you’ll change them later)

>Median (to soften the borders)

Then make the image inexed color and choose the “custom” palette.

Now the trick:

In the palette window, select the colors from the darker to the middle, then the window to select colors will open two times. Select a dark color the first time and a brilliant one the second time. Now, in the palette window again select from your last brilliant color to the last one. The color selection windows will open again. Leave the first color the same and give the second color a very light color or even white.

Click OK.

If you want you can convert the image to RGB again to fine tune the color.

This is an old trick, from the days indexed color was born, but it still has his uses from time to time. I hope this helps.

[Fernando Mol]

What format is your file?

It sounds like it’s corrupted. Try open it with another software.

[Fernando Mol]

You can do it this way:

One layer with your texture. Can be your pictures or some random elements like the pills in the Eminem photo.

Then, in another layer place the image you want to be seen through your texture.

Now just play with the modes and opacity. You can use several layers with your face and different modes and mix them until you like the result. It will depend on your source images.

For the details you may want to have another copy of your face image in normal or luminosity mode and show only some parts of it. I’ll use masks. In your example looks like they did this in the eyes.

I hope this helps.

[Fernando Mol]

A good starting point when somebody is going to send me an image for video is “at least 1000 pixels” (for SD video). But, as you can imagine, for somebody usually working on print that number can make no sense at all (I know it, I used to work on print).

This is a conversation I have had more than one time:

-1000 pixels? Width or eight?

-It doesn’t matter.

-Well, then it can be at 300 dpi?

-It doesn’t matter as long as the image is at least a 1000 px.

-But… can I send you the image at 300 dpi?

-Just don’t send me something you are using on the internet at 72 dpi.

-That’s what I mean, an image at 300 dpi.

-(deep breath) Send me whatever you have.

[Fernando Mol]

Here are my personal comments:

1. Give your text content a little more space around. Some padding to the left. This will make it more readable.

2. Your left menu bar is too long and the actual “sub menu” items have more visual weight than the principal ones. You can try to switch the background colors. Also, you may want to use some spry menu or reduce the size of it.

3. The green monochromatic scheme is nice, but then your pictures are too colorful and the english/spanish flags too. They just call too much attention to themselves. You have more important content than the language options. It’s better to give the contrast, the colors and the attention to the content.

4. The changing pictures are kind of distracting, could be better to have only one, big, beautiful picture and then a photo section.

5. Following the standards placing your logo on the top left wouldn’t hurt.

I hope this helps

[Fernando Mol]

Just with a fast look…

Your site has a nice clean monochrome palette, but the images are too colorful they call too much attention for themselves. This kind of contrast can be good in art or photography sites, but I think it’s better for your site to have a more integrated look.

I have to say the clear monochrome scheme is too peaceful. Maybe that’s what you want, but I guess adding a little more contrast can make the site more “action” like.

White space (Grey space here) is good to keep the clean feeling, but maybe you can reduce it a little in some spots.

I can see a good balance between flash animations and searchable content.

The links section could be a little more descriptive.

The Equipe section is well organized, but suddenly you totally depend on the back button to navigate from character to character.

In general a pleasant site to see.