BlackMoon Design
Oct 26

Retro cigarettes ads

Category: Inspiration, Retro

40 years ago smoking wasn’t bad - or at least commercials shown it this way. From today’s point of view those ads are simply ridiculous - but in 60s and 70s they were creating the reality.
Besides huge negative impact that goes with somking - those ads have a very nice, retro feel.
Ok - so let’s go with those:

Smoking is good for you - and here is the proof for it.

retro cigarette ads
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Oct 22

Is your blog cool enough?

Category: Websites

There’s a competition going on at wpwebhost.com.
Submit your blog today - there are some great prizes there.

Oct 20

Fantasy illustration in Gimp - tutorial

Category: Goodies, Tutorials

In this post I’ll show how to create a fantasy illustration in Gimp. We’ll design a (rather sexy) fairy.

fantasy illustration - tutorial
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Oct 19

Our site has been featured at weLoveWP.com

Category: About BlackMooon

welovewp.com

Our site has been featured at welovewp.com. (that’s special Wordpress powered websites showcase gallery).
Moreover - it even got the special editor pick badge.
We’re quite proud about that ;)

Oct 13

Blanket Magazine Review

Category: Reviews

Blanket Magazine

Blanket is a online pdf magazine about graphic design, art and photography.
It’s free - avaiable to download form blanketmagazine.com site.
There are 12 past issues so far (it’s coming out quite irregulary).
Each issue has got it’s own theme - the current one is “Travel”.
In general - Blanket is more for viewing than reading.
You’ll find great, inspiring art rather than Photoshop tips&tricks for newbies - I would say I love that kind of attitude.

Oct 1

Separating image with masks - Gimp videoturorial

Category: Tutorials

Here’s short (6 minutes) tutorial showing how to separate a complex object in GIMP. It’s extremely useful for cutting out hair blown in the wind.

Before:
Before

After
After

You can download higher resolution video for that tutorial here.