ایک دل ہے کہ بسایا نہیں جاتا ہم سے
لوگ صحرائوں کو گلزار بنا دیتے ہیں
Electrifying Pakistan
Hassan Raza Photography and Design
Hamari Mehdood Soch
قسمت سے لڑنا اصل میں خدا سے لڑنا ھے۔قسمت کا لکھا نہیں بدلا جا سکتا مگر صرف دعا سے کہ دعا ھی نا ممکن کو ممکن بناتی اور ھاتھوں کی لکیریں بدل دیتی ھے مگر جو قسمت کے لکھے کو خدا کی مرضی جانتے ھوئے صابر و شاکر رھتے ھیں انہی لوگوں کے لیئے وہ فرماتا ھے “ان اللہ مع الصابرین” ، “ان اللہ مع الشاکرین”۔ ھم اپنے چاھنے والوں یا جن کو ھم چاھتے تھے، چھوڑ جانے والوں ، بچھڑ جانے والوں ، کوچ کر جانے والوں کہ جن پر صور پھونکا جا چُکا ان کو بھُلا نہیں سکتے۔کبھی کبھی اُن کی یاد اس کُونج کی طرح کُرلاتی ھے جو اپنے ڈار سے بچھڑ گئی ھو۔ آنسوؤں کا بہہ نکلنا یا آنکھ کا نم ھونا فطری جذبہ ھوتا ھے لیکن اس میں گِلہ نہیں ھونا چاھئیے کہ “یوں نہ ھوتا تو کیا ھوتا” ۔ ھم محدود ذھنوں سے سوچتے ھیں اور وہ ذات جو لا محدود ھے جو کرتی ھے بہتر کرتی ھے لیکن اُس لا محدود ذات کے فیصلے ھمارا محدود ذھن سمجھ نہیں پاتا اور ھم بچھڑی کُونج کی طرح کُرلاتے ھیں۔
via Bukhari sahab.
TEDx speaker killed in bombing
I still cannot believe that Irfan Ali is no more among us. I met him during networking session at TEDxRawalLake. Such a nice guy and his talk about being Pakistani was truely inspirational. Rest in Peace.
Lost in the Echo
Test my will, test my heart
Let me tell you how the odds gonna stack up
Y’all go hard, I go smart
How’s that working out for y’all in the back, huh?
I’ve seen that frustration
Been crossed and lost and told “No”
And I’ve come back unshaken
Let down and lived and let go
So you can let it be known
I don’t hold back, I hold my own
I can’t be mapped, I can’t be cloned
I can’t C-flat, it ain’t my tone
I can’t fall back, I came too far
Hold myself up and love my scars
Let the bells ring wherever they are
‘Cause I was there saying…
In these promises broken
Deep below
Each word gets lost in the echo
So one last lie I can see through
This time I finally let you go!!!
Go, go, go.
You were that foundation
Never gonna be another one, no.
I followed, so taken
So conditioned I could never let go
Then sorrow, then sickness
Then the shock when you flip it on me
So hollow, so vicious
So afraid I couldn’t let myself see
That I could never be held
Back or up no, I’ll hold myself
Check the rep, yep you know mine well
Forget the rest let them know my hell
There and back yet my soul ain’t sell
Kept respect up,the best they fell,
Let the rest be the tale they tell
That I was there saying…
In these promises broken
Deep below
Each word gets lost in the echo
So one last lie I can see through
This time I finally let you go!!!
Go, go, go.
Six Ways to Refuel Your Energy Every Day
Human beings like Are not Meant to Operate computers - at high speeds, Continuously, for long periods of time. We're designed to be rhythmic, and to intermittently renew. Here are the six Strategies we've found work best:
1. Sufficient sleep Make your highest priority. Far too many of us buy into the myth That One hour less of sleep Allows us one more of productivity.
A very nice article by Khawaja Ali Arshad. Must try it in your life. Will really change your day. And what you can get out of it :)
Electrifying Pakistan is Back!
GO Green!
Hello world!
I started this blog about 4 years ago. And it was pretty amazing to see it in top search entries even I havent updated it since long.
Now I am planning to revive it 
Yeah Yeah. Once again the hopes are high That I would write things on it
About today, The MEGA Battle is going to happen today after 4 hours. The battle between Pakistan and India. Hopes are high and my prayers with Pakistani Team. I still remember the day two years ago when Pakistan was in battle against india. It was a memorable day regarding revival of Patriotism in our nation. I am happy to see the same enthusiasm in nation again.
Whn I started this blog I was noob at web development. Now we will go through alot of things and project stories and tutorial during my up coming posts.
Stay Tuned!
Happy Reading <3
AARZ Logo Project and Corel Draw Tracing Tips
A few days ago I started working on a logo design for an organization named AARZ.
The client provided me with some low resolution watermarked images which were to be manipulated in logo.
I found that removing watermark from images was quite simple in paintshop with clone brush tool to replace pixles and remove the pixels or reform the pixels as you want.
But when I started to trace in in corel I noticed that Low resolution graphic is facing cosiderable amount of problems in being traced with biggest one is pixelation.
And another problem was that a few areas of watermark’s pixels were still in mage and I was unable to remove them.
I traced logo with Detailed logo preset in Corel Draw, it gave quite good results but tweaking made it quite simple.
I suggest you some tips for tracing logo, which may help out to some, and would also welcome feedback if some one could help me out,
1- Never resive the image you import , Trace it as it is being imported to avoid pixelation.
2- Never use high quality or low quality image presets for converting raster to vector, it generates millions of objects of image and Corel either starts crashing or sometimes most of functions get disabled. Plus these presets never work good since they keep the pixelation information along, so when you would resive you would notive that those pixels boxes were vectorized, not smooth curves.
3- Remove the background color to get a transparent output vector art for easy merger, mine artwork was having white background but some of the white color wasnt eliminated because software thought of it as part of image which wasnt the case, so completely eliminating the background color is good idea. instead you waste time afterward.
4- I found that watermark pixels were of gray shades and my artwork was of blach shade and background was of white color. White was eliminated already as being background, now was time to eliminate the un necessary colors. The more you refine your color selection, the more smooth your artwork become.
5- Settings to tweak: Set mazimum value for detail, and minimum possible value for smoothness. Smoothness value of 1 or 2 would work out and remove pixelated vectorization. Detail however makes your vector seem more like the original picture so its better to keep that high, but you may need to sometime lessen the detail and just extract outlines.
The most difficult part of this logo was to adjust the roots under the child and reshape the face of child which was totally disappearing in vector trace. So I placed Images on each other and adjusted the pin points of face and roots. And modified some of the roots as they were merging too much or were too small in size to be even recognized and may be cosidered as noise in final image. However working with roots was too difficult as if you start paying with one root the others were also reforming according to new points of root I was working at.
So here comes another tip:
When using point adjustments and reframing structure, if you want to reform the shape without affecting the other shape, try to place two new points from where you want the change to take place and the other half from those two points would remain same and other half would change.
AARZ logo design was fun and learned alot. Your suggestions are more than welcome. <3
Reards
hasanphd
Cinemagraph Tests
The thread strted by Salman Latif here I executed it.
The idea is capturing a picture which has some moving part in it.
The thing is called cinemagraph. Using my Nikon D5000 I shot some leaves, mom while knitting, and water in glass. And then all set to experiment.
As said in tutorial go to photoshop File> Import> Video as Frames
then set the duration which you want to see in your cinemagraph. Out of my 20 seconds clippings I happened to select only 3 to 4 seconds with importing 3 to 4 frames from each second sample. But file was still heavy. Anyways worked it out and deleted the un necessary frames by concentrating which frames carry the motion in picture i want to add.
Now all set to most tricky part of process of making an alpha channel.
For some of my cinemagraphs it worked good but for some it was pathetic. And it demanded need for captured to exhibit specific motion only and all other static otherwise related motion in frame makes the effect fake.
Saving file is easy goto File> save for web> and then choose GIF format with interlacing and also resize the image to reduce the size considerably. I resized to 30 percent of original images. And file size reduced from 5 mb’s to a few kbs
Here are results.
3 Rock stars- My first After Effects Work
Using Color Key Effect for separating out the center clipping. Fixed the problems of Matte Distortion by re-masking the same footage with a rectangle and feathered it.
Removing the upper part of wall with bricks visible was most difficult because it overlapped in colors with pant colors.
Your feedback is more than welcome to improve it.
I used ROTO brush to crop out the subject one by one but it was working pathetic. The matte was pretty distorted one and wasnt working fine.
And yes the starting animation was made by using particle systems and Lens Flares and 3D Text Effects.
