Friends Layout

[VisualAid]

Hey Guys

My friend has been designing this layout for awhile now as i have seen him fiddling with it on many occasions in school and at home. I was just wondering what you guys though of it. I swear it looks like an interface i have seen somewhere else around the web but i've seen him make it 100% from creting the black & white templates in photosho, down to the grunge brushes and gradient fills.

Does anyone else recognise it from somewhere i just dont know what it is that familiar.
(may just be me)

I think it's pretty cool and will look nice when it's finished.

Here's the attachment for j00 :).

[DDD]

does not ring a bell here. But the style is common. Looks nice tho.

[urbanjackal]

sorry to break it to you but this has been ripped....

http://2methods.com/firstmethod/

[DDD]

yeah dude!!! blatant rip!!! I even matched up the grunge. It is an exact replica. You say you saw him creating it? Or cutting it out? That is just too much the same. He/She had to have the exact same brushes with the exact same setting.......my money is on it is a rip

there are subtle changes but you can tell they were applied to the image that was cut out. Not from scratch

[jay-em]

haha:trout:

Whoever owns that site did d@m good...

[teet]

i suppose they could have both followed the same tutorial or something

or your friend could have just ripped it

-teet

[replode]

wow, good find urban. that's pretty much a mirror image of the original site :/

[VisualAid]

he claims it's on a tutorial in his photoshop book i'll have a look today looks the same i can even tell.

[eilsoe]

TOO much the same.

10$ says he ripped it.

[VisualAid]

s*** man

it is in his book down from the shape to the final product. The brushes are on the cd and event those settings are classed as a brush (the gradient fill is a tool thingy) It' totally shocking that it's in this book could it be a rip? in a book?!?!?

[urbanjackal]

what is the book called.... ?

[VisualAid]

Website Interfaces Remapped v1.2

it's got the cd and everything, it's totally weird this.

[eilsoe]

oki.. then the site we saw above is simply a site made from a book... :sigh:


shame for the owners of THAT site... wankers...

[StylingPaT]

Yah thats a rip :block:

[VisualAid]

Mmmm the site claim "it's original" maybe the book copied the site is that legal??!

my friend still says he's gonna use it because he says

" the design looks cool and when i'm finished with it wont look anything like the original, LCD panels, Cool Wires, Smoke " the lot

thats a quote!!! :D

[Millad]

If your friend did use the interface "rip" what will that site "http://2methods.com/firstmethod/" do to your friend then ?

:h:

[eilsoe]

absolutely nothing, he followed a turotial, they can't bug him... (apparantly), on the other hand, THEY suck for actually using that design for their site...

[DDD]

what is weird that if 4 of us took the same tutorial they would be similar but not the same. If you look at these 2 sites some of the grunge brushes are EXACTLY the same from positioning to stroke. That is **** near amazing. Unless both of these guys used the finished product off of the cd. There is no way 2 people who do not know each other can take a tut and come out with the exact same brush stroke, positioning, size and everything. I must go look for this book. That guys site is good I cannot believe he ripped it from a book.

[DDD]

I cannot find this book. Find out who the press is or publisher.

[VisualAid]

i'm at home now i'll have to wait till tomorrow.

i hope my friend isnt bs to me he showed me the cd and the brushes but not the tut yet or i will be mad!.

[urbanjackal]

I tried to find the book also... and guess what, i couldnt find it either.. (funnie for a guy that works for a publishing organisation)

hmmm....
we will have to wait i guess, but im really interested now...

[DDD]

dude it is a rip.......either both of them ripped it from this book or one of them is an imposter. hahhahah......It is not possible to recreate someting that exact from 2 diff people taking the same tutorial but dont know each other.

[VisualAid]

i swear i'm gonna kill my friend i decided to have a look thru his pc we both have access to eachothers.

what did i see

sothink swf decompiler

and the .swf from firstmethod

he's gonna get soo flamed tomorrow!!!

and to think i actually believed it was in his book he has !!!! how stupid am i!

he has the brushes if thats any consolation.!!!!

[reverendflash]

He's the type of guy who gives decompilers a bad name.

maybe you should "accidentally" delete a few files... see if he can "recreate" them while you watch... just so you can learn his l33t skills...

;)

Revhttp://aulman.com/rev.gif

[VisualAid]

hehe i'll do that

but i cant do it thru our connection we promised we wouldnt abuse eachothers pc with it we just swap homework with it :D

i'll kill him tomorrow because of this he's made me look a fool

he doesnt understand web designers dont rip stuff he claims

" stuff is made to be ripped and made better "

[reverendflash]

Originally posted by VisualAid
hehe i'll do that

but i cant do it thru our connection we promised we wouldnt abuse eachothers pc with it we just swap homework with it :D

i'll kill him tomorrow because of this he's made me look a fool

he doesnt understand web designers dont rip stuff he claims

" stuff is made to be ripped and made better "

He also said it wasn't ripped. So don't delete them, just "move" them so he doesn't know where they are. Then when he gets mad, tell him you'll give them up, if he can repeat any of the tasks needed to create this design, only with a diff texture, or without something...

subtle is always better. Then, if subtle doesn't sink in, use a 25 lb. hammer to the temple (either yours or his works)...

;)

Revhttp://aulman.com/rev.gif

[VisualAid]

agreet files have been moved to a file hidden on his pc called

Timzs3cr3tPawn$ta$h

:D

he still getting flamed for making me look a fool :D

[reverendflash]

keep us appraised...

Revhttp://aulman.com/rev.gif

[VisualAid]

hehe i will

i just had a call from him about work and i couldnt stop giggling!

:azn:

[firstmethod]

hi
i am firstmethod
u have nice talk around here
site visual concept was created by me in a 1 week , it was made only with a use of imagination. no books , tutorials or something.
i say it and i mean it.
shame on that foolish lama who rotate my interface on 180 d. and paste the dirty texture with multiply above. its sux.

hope i fully answer the thread.

btw , if some book ripped my ideas too for their content - let me see the screens or something from it about it. let me dance with them a little.

[DDD]

AAAAAAhhhahaHAHAHAhhaa..... Someone went and got the man himself. I knew it was a rip. What was being proposed was impossible a tut that yielded the exact same results....grunge at that. Well you got some free publicity because I had never heard of your site b4. Hopefully this horse's arse does not release this site rip. ALso dont hold your breath waiting for the book there is not one! BTW nice site man. Your intro is that AE (after effects)?

[urbanjackal]

sorry that was me(who emailed 1stmethed).... ive have bin lookin at this guys work for about a year now... thats how i new the link of the original (its 1 of my favourites).... cant stand to see work get ripped... he needed to no.......
Visual slap your friend in the face with a big Trout for rippin and lying bout it....

[VisualAid]

*he's been slapped* :trout:

[sintax321]

If your friend ever comes to this board tell a mod his name so he can be banned ASAP.

I hope your friend doesn't think he will get away with still using that layout. I would have his *** sued so fast.

[Voetsjoeba]

Hehe, it feels so good knowing that somebody who 'created' something didn't actually create it but just ripped it. So many possibilities of confronting him/her ! :bad:

[APDesign]

That is just REALLY funny (/sad/pathetic/lame) I hope your friend is reading to see all this negative energy being pushed his way, because he should know that it just IS NOT cool to rip people off like that. You can be inspired by something, or say "hey! I like the look" and thats all fine and good, but to decompile someone elses work, rotate it, and a few things here and there... that is just uncalled for and morally wrong. If he actually plans on doing this for a living he will find out VERY soon that he can't get away with that, besides.. originality is key. (well, I'm assuming anyway, I just started college, so I'm not really in any business)