Martin Dimartino-Marriott » photoshop

Abstract Aircraft in Photoshop

Martin — Fri, 21 May 2010 00:55:46 +0000

I was going for a hi-tech look suggestive of a futuristic user interface on a display.

I made an accompanying iPhone wallpaper too!
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Download it (140kb) (Right-click>Save Link)

Aerial-Force.co.uk Re-design

Martin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:33:08 +0000

At the moment, the website for Nottingham A/V service company, Aerial Force is not well optimised at all…

It doesn’t appear anywhere near the top of Google for relevant keywords…Never fear, I’m re-designing it and I plan to make it a good contender for a similar, bigger company who also use ‘Aerial Force’. Bit of a business faux-pas if you ask me; to steal the name of a smaller company.

I came up with this initial layout, opting for a premium feel with dark grey and deep red. I’ll code this up and hopefully get much better conversion and more enquiries from the site.

A bit of playing

Martin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:15:09 +0000

Here’s a couple of ‘desktop’ style designs I made recently.

I came up with Ornate Apocalypse after seeing a similar design on a WordPress template – mine’s better though!
It’s a good way to use vectors.

The Nebula one is a little abtract, adding to my other Spacescapes I’ve made in the past.

New Web Layout

Martin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:02:58 +0000

I decided over the last couple of days to make some more web layouts.

This is your typical corporate layout for an IT or perhaps a web services company. The second is a web hosting style design.

Office Space fans will get the Innitech Reference…

There’s a bit of a design trend recently around fat footers, and I like them too. I’ve kind of incorporated it here. They help with SEO and usability.

Retro Pipes Design

Martin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:17:12 +0000

A bit of a boring Sunday, but I spent a bit of time playing with Photoshop as ever. Came up with these retro-style lines.

I think they look pretty cool and they go really well with some typographical elements…although I have nothing of note to write there!
These would look good on business cards or something I reckon.

Some bits of work

Martin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:57:00 +0000

…yes, it’s been a bit quiet here recently. This is mostly due to increased hours at work due to a new Web Design job, and so I haven’t had much time to post stuff. I have been doing a little bit of messing about with Photoshop though, as always. I hope to code this layout at some point, (or make a new one and code that!) but there’s kinda a concept layout…oh, and a Nottingham club venue flyer, just for the fun of it. I love the design of club/gig flyers.

I know quite a few people come on this site — let me know what I should blog about! Nothing that really captured me has gone off in the media which I can moan about.

SpaceScapes

Martin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:15:31 +0000

Here’s me experimenting with making stars out of noise generation in Photoshop.
There’s all sorts you could do here, but he’s a couple of ‘space scapes’ which were pretty fun to make. They make great wallpapers.

Pretty boring weekend

Martin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:32:57 +0000

Yep…it’s been a pretty boring weekend – which really annoys me because I feel guilty if I’m not doing something productive in some way, so I end up filling in the time reading stuff for the sake of it. It’s a mental illness! I have also been listening to the CustomPC Podcasts!
Anyway, I spent more time with Photoshop and produced something which I really like. As always, I produced various versions and now I don’t know which I like best, so here’s my faves. I mean really, one could go on and on…

I wanna try this technique again, but with a different image…need something interesting, like a Parrot.