T.S.A. W.T.F. for Adobe Illustrator

I’ll prob­a­bly end up on some list some where for this, but there you go. I saw this great post on boing boing about the recent hub­bub over frisky and overly aggres­sive TSA screen­ing pro­ce­dures. I loved the  photo of the TSA WTF sign con­tributed to the BB Flickr pool by Sam Ley, (view the full “mak­ing of” set here) and thought I’d try to dupli­cate it in Illus­tra­tor and share it for my Fri­day free­bie. Down­load the TSA WTF in .eps, .ai, .jpg & .png. Enjoy tweak­ing the man.

Photoshop (Really) Quick Tip

It’s Mon­day, so that means that it is time for another episode of Pho­to­Shop (Really) Quick Tips. This week, select­ing sim­i­lar layers.

Say you are work­ing on a project and you have a doc­u­ment with lots of lay­ers, and you want to change the font on a text layer, say from the oft maligned Comic Sans to the respectable and fan­tas­tic font HVD Comic Serif. Instead of click­ing on every layer and high­light­ing the text to change the font, sim­ply select the layer and change the type in the font menu.This trick will work when you have mul­ti­ple lay­ers selected.

A fur­ther trick is,  instead of fid­dling with the alt/option keys to select  mul­ti­ple lay­ers,  just click on a layer and go to “select > select sim­i­lar layer” and, ta da, all the lay­ers of  the same type are selected. From there just change the font and the font on all of these lay­ers will will be changed across all of the layers.

Remem­ber that the “select sim­i­lar layer” com­mand works for all types of lay­ers, includ­ing pixel lay­ers, smart objects, text and adjust­ment lay­ers. Which can be pretty handy on occasion.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-14

• #Retro Poster Good­ness — A flyer and poster design blog http://flyergoodness.blogspot.com/ #
• The Gram­mar Cheat Sheet via Smash­ing Mag­a­zine — Reti­nart http://goo.gl/6FKH #
• New #Tron LEGACY Trailer… end of line http://goo.gl/9pRp5 #
• This is heavy duty: The ‘Fat Elvis’ footage they don’t want you to see http://goo.gl/HqKzA #
• Nice lit­tle web design tuto­r­ial Cre­ate a Folded Paper Side­bar in Pho­to­shop http://t.co/wBAp3AF via @site­point­dot­com #
• Quick Tip: How to Cre­ate a Wax Seal with Adobe Illus­tra­tor | Vec­tor­tuts+ http://goo.gl/cPxSD #
• RT @aman­datin­ney: http://bit.ly/bLZeVr Wasabi Kit Kat Candy Bars!!!! NO JOKE!!!! #
• RT @WDF­Mu­seum: http://bit.ly/bSwTIR — A Reflec­tion of Walt’s ser­vice to his coun­try dur­ing World War I. Happy Veteran’s Day! #
• 20 Sets of Pho­to­shop Brushes for Vin­tage Style Design | Free­bies http://t.co/KFIWLfY via @web­de­sign­ledger #
• File under Nifty! Old Paper Brushes IV by ~lailomeiel on deviantART http://goo.gl/90TMv #
• Sweet fonts, Per­forama is really great. RT @Laughing_Lion: Nine Free Dis­play Fonts To Add Drama To Your Head­ings http://dlvr.it/8PXfb #
• It’s time to but the yel­low pages out to pas­ture… RT @walaau­me­dia: Die, Phone Book, Die, Phone Book, Die http://bit.ly/b6VARD #
• Need a drink too cool down after check­ing out these muy caliente hot sauce lables.. RT @UPrint­ing http://goo.gl/fb/vzXsu #
• Cows kill more Amer­i­cans than sharks do, you’ll never go in the pas­ture again. Full of S#!t Dan­gers The Media Hypes http://goo.gl/fX2zk #
• Nice faux #retro cov­ers Flyer Design Good­ness — A flyer and poster design blog: Reader S.O.W — Ian Per­ci­val http://goo.gl/nAUvB #
• File under: Good to know. Mak­ing Globes — Core77 http://t.co/dLWKhGn #
• A great tuto­r­ial. Quick Tip: Cre­ate High Tech Style HUD Rings in Illus­tra­tor | Vec­tor­tuts+ http://t.co/qlCrbLI #
• bril­liant por­traits Native Amer­i­cans in colour « How to be a Retro­naut http://goo.gl/CV9vn #
• OK GO make the best videos. John Nack on Adobe : Video: OKGO + Geoff McFetridge = Ani­mated toast (really) http://goo.gl/O9j7K #

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Friday Funny

Every once in a while you think every­thing is going to turn out okay, then it doesn’t. A lit­tle Fri­day Funny, for us, not the squir­rel. via John Briggs

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

• #Tiki Archi­tec­ture: Kona Kai, Philadel­phia, PA — Part 1 http://goo.gl/KBMq #
• Star Wars Vin­tage Travel Posters! cool stuff via @theretro­naut http://tinyurl.com/2dlvjvg #
• Kurt Lorenz’s Bee’s to appear in Imo­gen Heap concert/film/dvd project Love the Eart– JOURNAL — Love The Earth Film http://goo.gl/jgzuN #
• A nice col­lec­tion. Mon­sters Attack! 26 Epic Retro Hor­ror Movie Posters : WebUr­ban­ist http://goo.gl/cvhIP #
• We’ve Got Big Type & We’re Not Afraid To Use It http://t.co/twH2xz0 via @site­point­dot­com #
• Down­load the font Neu Tron 10 for FREE and help unlock a desk ref­eree paper­craft at http://veer.com/freeforall #
• I feel a bit like Gol­lum, “WE HATES SERIFS!” good artice: Ten Lovely AND Free Sans Serif Fonts http://t.co/HXpuZbX via @site­point­dot­com #
• Great #tiki blue­prints from the Kona Kai in Philadel­phia http://goo.gl/RoSNs #
• Inter­est­ing, ABBA appar­ently did other songs that the ones on the great­est hits CD, who knew? http://t.co/ACW9MdG via @youtube #

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Great Kinetic Type Version of the Gettysburg Address

Here’s an great kinetic type & ani­ma­tion of Lincoln’s Get­tys­burg address. Plus the speech is pretty good too. via Neatorama.

Get­tys­burg Address from Adam Gault on Vimeo.

Friday Freebie: Barking up the Right Tree

It’s Fri­day, so that means it’s time for a Fri­day free­bie. This week a col­lec­tion of tex­tures of wood bark and one shot of some impos­ing conifers. So nat­u­rally I’ll call this one “bark­ing up the right tree.” Yes, I threw in the image of the trees just so I com­plete the corny joke. As they say in Mary Pop­pins, “there’s noth­ing like a good joke,” though this is really noth­ing like a good joke.

Down­load the files here (18mb)

I took these pic­tures at the beau­ti­ful Larabee State Park in Wash­ing­ton State. If you’re in the Pacific North­west and you’re look­ing for a good place to camp, crab, or kayak I highly rec­om­mend it. You’re free to use these images as you see fit for both com­mer­cial and non-commercial projects free of charge. My gift for putting up with my bad pun.

woods tex­tures by Devlin Don­nelly is licensed under a Cre­ative Com­mons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.