{"id":11082,"date":"2006-03-18T17:51:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T17:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/03\/the-best-distress-in-the-west.html"},"modified":"2006-03-18T17:51:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T17:51:52","slug":"the_best_distress_in_the_west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/the_best_distress_in_the_west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Distress in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the shiny, happy, fresh-scrubbed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesignfromscratch.com\/current-style.cfm\">Web 2.0 look<\/a>&#8221; is starting to look a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffhester.net\/archives\/2006\/02\/web_20_logo_mad.php\">little<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uxmag.com\/design\/86\/the-layers-of-design-the-style-layer\">clich\u00e9d<\/a> to you, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uxmag.com\/design\/92\/academics-of-worn\">The Academics of Worn<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/airbagindustries.com\/book\/\" \/>Airbag Industries&#8217;<\/a> Greg Storey.  Greg talks about ways to leverage the shapes, typefaces, and colors of the past, and he links to Cameron Moll&#8217;s popular series of tutorials, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameronmoll.com\/archives\/000024.html\">That Wicked Worn Look<\/a>.  Besides sharing tips &amp; PSD source files, Cameron also links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameronmoll.com\/archives\/000028.html\">additional discussions<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cameronmoll.com\/archives\/000045.html\">a wealth of examples<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor more, see also these:  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keith Bowman offers a great set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designbureauofamerika.com\/howiezine%5Fsite\/\" \/>distressing Photoshop brushes<\/a> &amp; retro color palettes<\/a>.  I used the brushes quite a bit in redesigning this blog.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/misterretro.com\/machine_wash_filters_two.html\">Mr. Retro<\/a> series of filters makes it easy to weather your images.\n<li>FontShop features a tutorial on giving your type <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\/fontfeed\/archives\/2005\/10\/how_to_create_a.cfm\">the beaten-up stamp look<\/a>.  (Going the other direction, they also feature info on those bloopy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fontshop.com\/fontfeed\/archives\/web-20-logos.cfm\">Web 2.0 fonts<\/a>.)\n<li>[Update: CreativePro.com has added a nice, fast tutorial on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/howto\/24140.html?cprose=daily\">aging an image<\/a>, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layersmagazine.com\/\" \/>Layers Magazine.<\/a><\/ul>\n<p>PS&#8211;Hey, no matter what, design these days looks better than ye olde <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complexify.com\/buttons\/\" \/>Web 1.0 logos<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the shiny, happy, fresh-scrubbed &#8220;Web 2.0 look&#8221; is starting to look a little clich\u00e9d to you, check out The Academics of Worn from Airbag Industries&#8217; Greg Storey. Greg talks about ways to leverage the shapes, typefaces, and colors of the past, and he links to Cameron Moll&#8217;s popular series of tutorials, That Wicked Worn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}