Updated cheat sheet pdf to version 1.1
I’ve updated the cheat sheet pdf (v1.1) with a few more pages (61 pages now). Updated links are below.
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I was looking through Paper’s support site, and got a bit irrationally annoyed with people complaining about the lack of a zoom function. Thus, this happened…
Ever since I learned to write, that has been my way to vent whenever I got angry or upset. My mother has the embarrassing notes to prove it.
Okay, this is the zoom trick I mentioned, beautifully illustrated by everydaywanders. See FiftyThree’s support site with instructions on how to turn it on. It works quite well. But I agree with everydaywanders: zooming isn’t really that useful.
Until now, I’ve made fifty-three cheat sheets (or how-to’s) for FiftyThree’s Paper. I thought that was kind of funny, so I’ve bundled them in a nice pdf document, which you can download using one of the links below. Be warned though, it’s 53 MB (yes, that’s funny too).
You can view the same drawings (all tagged “cheat sheet”) at http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/cheat-sheet, but maybe some of you like to keep them all together for reference.
I’ve given the pdf a creative common licence, which basically means (in non-legal terms) that you can download and share it as long as you credit me properly (a link to my tumblr blog is okay with me). However, you can’t change the document in any way or use it commercially (like selling it.)
Maybe I’ll add some annotations or revisions, or more drawings, so it’s version 1.0 for now.
Math behind the color mixer in 53's Paper
Interesting article about the math behind the color mixer in 53’s Paper.
Another study of a colored box (sorry if these bore you!), this time trying to apply a bit more advanced use of light and color:
- Direct warm sunlight from the left -> sharp shadows; front surface and bevel are warm
- Cool blue diffuse light -> cool shadow parts; gradients in shadowed parts; top surface is a bit cooler
- Reflected diffuse sunlight from floor -> gradients on front surface; side surface gets a bit of this warm diffuse light too
- Darker areas are (a bit) more saturated than light areas.
- Edges are sharper in the shadowed areas, more detail
- Edges on lit surfaces are more fuzzy, seem to blend with background
Please note that these are not (well, not necessarily) rules that apply in general. They’re just things I tried to accomplish in this sketch. Until my Pogo Connect stopped working :( while doing the last final touches.
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I’m certainly no expert on color theory, so I hope these ‘cheat sheets’ are both correct and useful. And there is much more to say on this subject!
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