Since the redesign of this site, I’ve been applying a consistent blurred perspective effect to larger images (eg. in posts like this one) that has made a few people curious. It’s fairly simple, but probably not that intuitive to figure out. So here’s an explanation.
There are pretty much only two steps to this effect, the perspective transform and the focal blur, with an optional third, lighting effects.
A Favicon is a little custom icon that appears next to a website's URL in the address bar of a web browser. They also show up in your bookmarked sites, on the tabs in tabbed browsers, and as the icon for Internet shortcuts on your desktop or other folders in Windows. And when I say little, I mean 16 pixels by 16 pixels. So if you like a good design challenge try your hand at this one.