Have you ever tried light painting by moving a light source around while you take a long exposure photo? The results can be very cool, but also very unpredictable and limited. But a small Brooklyn-based group called Bitbanger Labs has developed a device called the Pixelstick that promises to take light painting to a new […]
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You have three printers in your office, and you constantly find yourself changing the same settings in the Print and printer driver dialog boxes? Stop the insanity and get efficient with print presets! First, I want to be clear that we’re all on the same page: When you’re printing from InDesign you have to think […]
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Looking to whip up some quick Halloween fun in Photoshop? Over at the lynda.com blog, you can find a batch of Halloween-themed tutorials from the Deke’s Techniques video series. Some of the videos are for members only, but there are a couple that are free for anyone to watch. The free videos show you how to create […]
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This third installment on metadata goes into greater depth on adding keywords to files. Part 1, covered adding metadata through the Metadata panel, as well as creating templates to add metadata in bulk. Part 2 explored creating a keywords list using the Keywords panel, and touched on applying them. Adding keywords is a chore—there’s no […]
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Here’s a type design that will make both kids and dentists scream (though for opposite reasons). Behold, HelvetiCandy: the font made of, well, candy. Ceated by London-based designer Samuel Carter Mensah “for the sheer love of the typeface and candy,” HelvetiCandy is technically not a real font, but rather a Photoshop file with separate layers […]
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Press release JixiPix Software has released the availability of a whole new power in design and artistic creation. Premium Pack Plugins bundles 15 of the most creative apps into Plugins that will run inside of Adobe Photoshop CS3+, Adobe Photoshop Elements 10+ and Adobe Lightroom 4+. And for a limited time JixiPix Software is giving […]
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“Elemental Photo Manipulations” is a four-part series of amazing tutorials and inspiring artwork combining photography with Photoshop in surreal, mind-bending, and sometimes startling ways. In this final installment of the series you’ll get your feet wet with, make a splash in, dive into—and other cliched actions associated with water and liquid—liquid-based photo manipulation. Infuse your […]
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I’ve been training InDesign users for a decade, but I’ve never had a student like the one I’m working with now: my 9 year old son! He decided (on his own) to start a newspaper for his 4th grade class. He has several other kids writing stories, and he’s enjoying laying out the paper in […]
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