Tattoos, Templates and Trees

By TipSquirrel

Was out having fun yesterday taking photographs in the woods. Was a beautiful day and was a lot of fun. Looking round the web for tutorial inspiration drew very little, but there was one that drew our attention, I’ve listed it below.

Weather looks set to be nice again this weekend, so plenty of opportunity to get out there and take some snaps.

Whatever you choose to do this weekend, I hope its better than you expected, have fun.

Out Now

Podcast

DekePod 17 - Photoshop and the Visual Communications Makeover

Layers TV: Episode 89

RC has a tutorial about how to create a quick and easy calendar in Illustrator and take it over to Photoshop. Corey uses Photoshop to create some Windows Vista-esque backgrounds using gradients, masks, vector shapes and the warp command.

Lynda.com Batch Renaming Multiple Files

An excerpt from Bridge CS4: 10 Things Designers Need To Know, hosted by Anne-Marie Concepcion

Magazine

PhotographyBB

You don’t get much better value than this!

A superb magazine chock full of photography and Photoshop stuff. Free!

On The Web

Pics & Kicks GradyBug Designs Giveaway
Natalie Norton, a great photographer and blogger has a giveaway on her site at the moment. All you have to do is leave a comment to be in with a chance of winning a set of Photoshop templates.

Now, what could be simpler?

Natalie on Twitter

Video Tutorial
TutCast - Tattoo Removal

Learn how to remove a tatoo quickly and easily. A good introduction to cloning.

Length : 4min 31sec

Tippy’s Tip: If someone asks you to retouch a photo of them, only remove a tattoo, or partial tattoo if they ask you to. I once removed a small part of a mostly hidden tatoo on a bride and she went mad when she saw the result. “My tattoos are part of me! … Do you mean they are ugly??”

She was right of course, who am I to judge?