Posts Tagged ‘Photoshop’

Adobe Pho­to­Shop Really Quick Tip Here’s a handy lit­tle key­board short­cut I learned from Deke McClel­land, mas­ter of all things dig­i­tal imag­ing. This lit­tle tip is pretty handy when you want to exper­i­ment with layer blend­ing modes on the fly. As long as you have don’t have the brush, heal­ing, gra­di­ent, blur­ring or dodge/burn tools active […]

Mask­ing an image is one of the most dif­fi­cult things to do con­vinc­ingly in Pho­to­shop. If you are inter­ested in effec­tive mask­ing tech­niques, you need to watch this video! In it you will be guided by Pho­to­Shop guru Deke McClel­land and given the best prin­ci­ples for mask­ing in Pho­to­Shop. It’s almost like an entire lynda.com […]

Another sea­son of Sur­vivor, my favorite tele­vi­sion show, has run its course. In a sur­prise to me and most of the fans of the show, the con­niv­ing and bril­liant tac­ti­cian Rus­sell Hantz won every­thing but the game, being defeated in a lop­sided vote to Natalie White (link). I guess that Sur­vivor can be like chess, […]

The New Yorker Mag­a­zine has a tra­di­tion of excel­lent, chal­leng­ing and often times con­tro­ver­sial cov­ers for its weekly mag­a­zine. This was evi­dent dur­ing the pre­vi­ous Amer­i­can elec­tion, with two cov­ers illus­trat­ing the stereo­types of both can­di­dates (see here and here). The pro­pri­ety and taste­ful­ness of the cov­ers cre­ated some­thing of a polit­i­cal firestorm, or at […]

Twit­ter is all the rage, but how can you make a great look­ing twit­ter page? Twit­ter gives the user lim­ited, yet flex­i­ble design options. As social net­work­ing sites go, this gives you the abil­ity to cre­ate a unique look unlike say, Face­book. But it keeps things much cleaner than the design night­mare that is MySpace. […]

When you visit the Deke Lounge to expe­ri­ence some liq­uid learn­ing make sure you take off your shoes. The incom­pa­ra­ble Deke McClel­land and Colleen Wheeler do another bang up job in the Lounge this week. Join­ing them again are Rus­sell Brown, the Bill Nye of Pho­to­shop (okay it’s just the white lab coats that make […]