#sandstorm effect

[maggiesims]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv88DSj52JY)

New video tutorial on using the Sandstorm PS action.

[geekyp3rs0na]

[lcuriousity]

Nico Nico Douga's Crazy Video Innovation is not that crazy.

So I've been thinking of what exactly I could innovate socially with this "trend-tracking" platform I will create, and I've visited all corners of the internet to potentially find my inspiration. My questions were: How to people react to news on the internet? How can they voice their comments? 

With comments...of course. But first of all, What is a "comment" online?

We have YouTube comments, Facebook comments, Reddit replies, Blog comments, Yelp reviews, 4Chan anonymous, Email replies, Tweets. All these are stationary bubbles of user feedback with the voice of a real person on the other side of the screen.

But why do they have to be stationary? Why don't they move with the conversation instead of being an afterthought after everything is said and done? The Japanese video sharing platform Nico Nico Douga have taken this idea an taken off with it. 

Nico Nico Douga functions like the American Youtube, but with different user interactions. Instead of displaying comments below the video, the users comments are displayed ontop of the video. Simply enter your comment at a specific time during your viewing of the video, and it will post. It can get pretty ridiculous.

The words can obscure the moving pictures themselves. But as new comments filter in, old ones are filtered out. Is a playful feature, as a video creator you could get raw feedback at any second of your video to know what the public thinks of your creations. My reading via Metagold.

This week, I learned how to make a sandstorm effect on your photos. A tutorial from tumblr surfaced on my dashboard recently and it gives fantastic results.

[ardijey]

Iron Man with Sandstorm Effect. just wanted to try it for the first time