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MySpace adds MySpace Apps - Watch Out Facebook…

Friday, April 11th, 2008

myspaceapps

Good news for all you MySpacers…Myspace.com finally took the big step. I know that im probably late on this news but hey give m a break, I just discovered it myself. Hundreds of applications already added for everyone to add a little more bling, Rss Feeds, Galleries, Flash Friend Galleries, voting systems and much, much more.

That’s all I needed, to get dizzier when I visit other peoples pages >>>LOL…J/K.
Good job on finally catching up to the big FB Tom :)

Layers Magazine Tip of the Day - Can You Scale to a Precise Percentage in the Transform Panel?

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Tip - Can You Scale to a Precise Percentage in the Transform Panel?

Adobe Illustrator CS3 If you open your Transform panel (Window>Transform) and take a long hard look, do you see a way to Scale a selected object to a precise percentage?
I asked this question in an advanced Illustrator class and all of the artists agreed it’s just not possible. There are Rotate and Shear fields in the panel but no Scale field to type in a percentage. One artist added that you could click on the Link icon next the Width and Height field to keep any change in proportion.

Then if want to make the object 50% of it original size, for instance, you just add "/2" after either measurement and press the Return (Enter) key to divide the sizes in half. But there’s no place enter a percentage. I answered, "You got really close, but you’re afraid to try the impossible." With an object selected and the Width linked to the Height in the Transform panel, I highlighted the Width field and replaced the measurement with 50% and pressed my Return (Enter) key. The results got a mixture of oohs and ahhs from my students." What’s the moral of the story? Try the impossible and you could be pleasantly surprised.

Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Adobe® Certified Training Provider.

Quickie Links #5

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

quickielinks5 I know its been a while, here are some links that I came across that I know you will like.

CSS Drive
Tower Time Lapse
CreakTif
Popular URL’s
VConvert
BlockPosters

Zach - 3 Year Old Art Genius

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Pictures made from Adobe Icons

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

I spotted this awesome picture of John Nack Photoshop Product Manager made by Charis Tsevis out of Adobe Icons. Take a look at the pictures and see the creativity in this render, the detailing is very interesting and the idea itself bring a smile to your face knowing that you can have fun by doing things like this in Adobe Photoshop.

Check out Charis Tsevis Flickr Page also…some interesting stuff there :)

Graphic Design Inspiration For The Designer In You. PT2

Friday, June 8th, 2007

If your just coming into this post I suggest you check out .

 

  • Collaborating with other artists and making “ART” happen.

I usually look for a project to get the creative flow going. You can find many of these in several well known websites.
I normally start a well known event called “Photoshop Tennis”.
This is when 2 or more artists/designers get together and make creative results with several pictures (provided by stock image sites), everyone involved will be given a round to create an image from another image then handed down to the next person on the next round then again…create something from the image provided rom the round before. This goes on for 10 rounds…giving the participants the creative flow and getting out of the blocked stage.

This is regularly done for fun, but its great when you need that extra boost when searching for that idea.

[More to come later in the week]

Free Adobe Lightroom Presets

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

I’m not one to pass up free stuff so I thought I’d mention this one. Jack Davis (renowned Photoshop educator, author and Photoshop Hall of Famer) has worked with onOne Software to create one-click photo presets that work specifically with Lightroom. There are over 80 presets that work with the tone, color, as well as many other types of specialized conversions that you can achieve with your photos. As you can imagine, with 80 of them, the possibilities are pretty remarkable. So hat’s off to Jack and the team at onOne Software for jumping into what will be a brand new avenue for creativity with Photoshop Lightroom.

Download the presets here.

Source: LRKT

Back on the Blog Track <–

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Hey guys/gals…sorry for being out for so long, I just got caught up on work and home life..you know how that goes! 

Anyway’s, I know that I have been promising you guys great topics and part 2 of Graphic design Inspirations and more but since I been behind on things in the real world I just haven’t had anytime for any of my sites.

I’ll make a note to self and promise you all that I’ll have some good stuff up for this weekend including part 2.

Thanks for being a part of my blog guys/gals…leave some comments if you feel :)

Quickie Links for all #4

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Here are a couple of links I found useful for everyone that visits B4P they are on a spreaded category, but im sure most of you can find it useful and some entertaining.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Update
Microsoft Unveils ZUNE Today
Problogger - Communication Skills for Bloggers
B4P On Adsense Tips for the newbie
Tabblo - Photo Sharing Community
bLaugh.com - The (UN)Official Comic of the Blogosphere

Photoshop Plugin - Akvis Sketch 1.1

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

AKVIS LLC presents a new plug-in for photo-to-sketch conversion. AKVIS Sketch 1.1 allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.
Surprise your friends and relatives by presenting them their pencil portraits. Make a watercolor drawing out of a photo from your last nature shooting. Convert your own photo into a color sketch to print on a T-shirt.    Read more about AKVIS Sketch