Upcountry Maui Rental

Posted in: Blog, Maui by MauiHawaiiUpdates on April 8, 2011

Just minutes away from Makawao town is the beautiful Upcountry area of Kula, Maui. Here you’ll find large expanses of rolling pastures sitting high above Maui’s central valley. Very few people take advantage of vacation rentals up in this area. Most people crowd beaches in front of costly resorts and try to relax. At the Kula Cottage, you can truly relax by being high above the hustle and bustle. Read more…

CS5 Photoshop Tutorial

Posted in: Blog, Graphic Design, Hawaii Videos, Web Design by MauiHawaiiUpdates on April 5, 2011

Here we’ve made a tutorial of a new logo Hawaii Web Group built for a new surf/skate shop opening up on Newport Blvd. in Southern California.  The logo will be featured on the homepage of Newport Surf until the new site is completed.

Video Transcription

Aloha and welcome to Hawaii Web Group‘s CS5 Photoshop tutorial.  This is a sped up version of a logo design for a new surf and skate shop on Newport Blvd  in California for Newportsurf.com. Here you can see us using the 3D text tool where we’re tweaking position, perspective, and adding spotlights. To do this, you have to go to 3D, Repousse, and then Text Layer. If it won’t let you because it says you have a faux bold text, go ahead and select the text with your text tool, and then right click and then toggle off the faux bold. When you do finally render the text for spotlighting and shadowing, make sure you have a lot of time because it takes a while.

Here we’re extending the background because we don’t have enough room, and we’re positioning the words to fit better and look like they’re kind of sitting on top of eachother.

What we’re gonna do is fill in each letter, so we’re not really interested in what the front face looks like other than having it be clean and white.  There’s a lot of different ways to do anything in Photoshop.  And here we’re using it for the web so we’re not too concerned about the high high quality you might need to print something. Read more…

Visiting Maui

Posted in: Blog, Maui by MauiHawaiiUpdates on April 1, 2011

The one thing we would encourage visitors to do while visiting Maui is to make an effort to experience the people and land. Luaus are all good fun, but take it a step further by immersing yourselves in the culture. Read more…