Today I have been looking at some Photoshop tutorials about how to make your images look old/retro/vintage. I am confident using Photoshop to produce pieces of work but I know there is a hell of a lot more I could know!
I followed this tutorial but used my own images to create this piece of work below.
The image I decided to use was of me and my friends from Leeds Festival last year. The resemblance of the text used is lyrics from a Blink-182 song, who preformed at the Festival. Leeds Festival was definitely a highlight from last year, first music festival I had been to and it was fantastic! Roll on Leeds 2011...I know its not as good as the image in the tutorial, but I like it and I learned some handy tips along the way. More tutorials can be found here.
Coke Studios was made by the same company called Sulake, that made Habbo Hotel. It was created for Coca-Cola and was primarily used to target US consumers. However, anyone in the world could join the virtual world. Coke Studios was similar to Habbo Hotel, you created your own charactercalled 'V-ego', you created rooms, and could chat and trade with other people. The differences were that the gamewas free to play. The Currency in the game was dB which stands for decibels. You earned decibels by Receiving 'Thumbs Up' votes from other users whilst performing music, Drinking Virtual Coca-Colas found in crates, vending machines, and refrigerators, Playing other games on the Coke Studios website and Filling out surveys. Coke studios was also based around music. Once you created your own virtual character the first piece of furniture you receive are DJ Decks, and you could mix a tune, save it and then go to a public place and play your music and if other people liked it you would get a thumbs up and earn more decibels. Coke studios was very popular, but because it was free it contained alot of bugs and loading issues and very rarely got updated. Coke Studios is no longer 'live' and their is very little information out their about it. If you search for Coke Studios now all you will find is information about 'a Pakistani television series featuring live music performances'.
