Unraveling the science behind the Photoshop Blend Modes – 1

Whether you are a beginner trying to unravel the mysteries of Photoshop or an established digital artist/photographer (who still needs to unravel the mysteries of Photoshop), you will soon discover the blending modes in your layers palette and wonder what you could have done without them. The blending modes are a mathematical wonder of art. They are nothing but efficient image processing algorithms which transforms the pixels of any image depending... Read More

The Mystical World of Mandelbrot fractals

If you haven’t heard about the Mandelbrot fractals, you are missing one hell of a wonder which is simply unravelling. As I always quote, deep down in the design world, it is always about equations and numbers. As it happens, these, so called fractals, were just a 2 dimensional representation of magical designs until Daniel White and Paul Nylander constructed the 3D Mandelbulb. The 3-D renderings were generated by applying an iterative algorithm... Read More