Portfolio Site 2010

New portfolio site has been loaded up for the year 2010. You can access some of my latest work now. You just have to click on the PORTFOLIO link above if you are interested. I know post counts have been seldom the past month and a half, but I have been busy with lots of things unrelated to this site. But I already have loads of tutorial contents prepared as well as some new wallpapers in the works. Hopefully this year will not be crazy and will allow me to do wallpapers as much as last year.

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Sorry for the lack of updates already in the New Year. I have been busy with a load of stuff that’s basically all client side related. However it is important to mention that I have a lot of projects in store this year. First and foremost, a new e-book titled “Hana” will be released in the first quarter of this year. Also in store is a major update for the tutorials section of this website as well as some wallpapers I have been working on for a while. Nocturne Phoenix version will probably reach up to 15.3.5 sometime this year, with some minor to major changes in design and function of the site.

Either way, sorry this post is short, but more news soon as things get revealed and close to final.

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Years back, I believe it was somewhere around 98-99, when I first started droodling with my own websites and graphics I came across Chris and Dream Infinity. I was quite awestruck and he has, since then, been a big inspiration to me. Later on we got in touch, as he spent time frequently on communities on IRC and so on. So it’s an honour for me to be a new author on his blog.

My name is Kjell-Roger and I’m a multimedia designer, photographer and social media & music junkie from Norway. In the spirit of this blog I will be writing about just that. You can find my works and a inspirational blog on my site. In my blog I usually make a mixtape with some, hopefully, great music once a week. I will post these here as well for you all to enjoy!

A photo of mine

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I usually post a load of materials once I update the site, but this time around I just been busy with so many other things it’s been difficult. Either way, I have long been working on new tutorials and those changes will be coming soon. Also I am sure many of you are wondering where web design tutorials are so just want to make it clear that those are coming too, and it’s not something that will take 3 years.

One controversial topic on the internet and any Photoshop user is the idea of using the program as a beauty modification program. Although there are many things done before final product towards models (especially towards females), it is important to highlight that I do not take practice in using Photoshop to make females look skinnier, or someone that they are not. I state this due to the fact that some of the tutorials that are coming soon are strongly based on how to apply virtual make up, dye hair, and add body tattoo’s using strictly Photoshop. Although this does “enhance” the models into a more attractive perspective, I don’t find this to be ethically wrong because everyone applies make up, dyes their hair and gets tattoo’s. What I find to be ethically disturbing are tutorials that cover how to change nose shapes, give models stronger jaw lines, or even as far as enhancing breasts using Photoshop.

This blog post over at Smashing Magazine is stirring quite a controversy among readers based on their list of tutorial round up. Although I don’t particularly agree to MANY of the tutorials listed on that site, I do find the hair dye tutorial to be exactly the same method that I have been using for a while now.

Tutorials that cover other subjects such as text effects and more are also coming soon. Thanks for the patience.

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There is a new wallpaper up for grabs. That makes the total wallpaper releases this year to 4. I am doing good this year although I’ve had a lot more clients this year than last year. Maybe its a motivation thing. Either way, new wallpaper titled “Reticular Formation” is up for grabs.

I told myself I will steer clear from 3D abstract designs (aside from Nocturnal Combustion but there was a special reason for that wallpaper), but I found myself doing another one. It is still considered digital art, even though the time it takes to put these puppies together is by far faster than designing wallpapers that I have been doing (i.e Afterburner, Leviathan, Blossom Storm taking over 30 hours respectively). But either way, I think it came out pretty decent so please check it out when you get a chance.
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