Added a new Tip Tuesday Video to my site for Photoshop, learn the keyboard shortcuts for working with the layers panel and improve your productivity.
Category Archives: Photoshop
I wanted to test my new noise control plugin Dfine 2.0 from Nik Software, so went looking for a really nasty lighting situation that would use ISO800 on my Canon 50D. Here is the results, original working title was DOF OFF 
. Other RAW processing was upon loading in Adobe Photoshop CS4, believe me at the original size the ISO noise was a lot more pronounced. The plugin also works in Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture 2.1
p.s. I hate the crop, but it was the only angle I could find to get just one of the ‘off’ labels sharp and the others blurred.
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After revising the list of Podcasts that I subscribe to in iTunes here they are broken into categories all first rate and well worth a listen. All with links back to the iTunes feed.
Photography
The Art of Adventure Photography
Martin Bailey Photography
Typical Shutterbug Podcast
The Digital Story
Learning Digital Photography
Mac
Apple Quick Tips
The Mac Observer’s MacGeek Gab
Mac Power Users
Mac Roundtable Podcast
MacJury
The Stealth Mac Podcast
Typical Mac user Podcast
Programming & Graphical
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Developer Connection
CocoaCast Talk
Core Intuition
Creative COW Final Cut Help (iPod)
CSS-Tricks Screencast
dekePod
FLOSS Weekly
The Mac Developer Roundtable
The MDN Show
Videomaker Presents
Posted a new Tuesday video tip using Photoshop CS4 for creating animated loops.
Todays tip demonstrates a couple of simple mask and layer techniques to help draw the viewers eye to any spot in a picture.
A new Tuesday Tip has just gone up, this week we look at changing the brightness of images in a non-destructive way so we can go back and change our mind over and over should we wish
3 Shots today, one official and two runner up.
I decided on Friday’s I would have some fun and allow a little Photoshop tweaking to set the scene. To that end todays photo. The hunt for Gerald begins!
Have a Wacom tablet? Then why not control the opacity of your brushes using the pen just like pencil and paper. This video shows you how to set-up Photoshop CS4 brushes to respond to brush pressure on Wacom tablets. The harder you push the more opaque the brush will be. A bonus at the end shows how to set this globally across all the brush presets with one button click rather than setting up on a per brush basis.
Click here to jump to the video page.
I want to give a big thank you to Lisa Sage for pointing me in the right direction on the global brush setting, Lisa is an amazing artist and you should visit her web site at http://www.sagefamilystudios.com.
Have questions or comments? Why not drop by the UIBuzz forums.
In response to the many wonderful questions I am getting from people regarding topics like actionscript, flex and flash I have opened some discussion forums on my web site www.uibuzz.com where you can ask away and we can discuss solutions and share content with the World!
I have set-up some basic categories like Flex, Flash, ActionScript, web development and photography as they cover most of my posts here on my blog.
You can find my forums at this link, I look forward to discussions with you all.
