Manic (June Already?) Monday

I hope you’ve enjoyed the weekend as much as I have. BBQ season is in full swing now, long may it continue!

Anyhoo. Today’s blog is the usual Monday mish-mash of stuff I’ve come across over the weekend. So, lets get on with it so I can get back to the sun… I mean work… work in the sun..

Out Now

Podcast

Pixel Perfect – Masking Tricks and Reflections

Working with the on going Times Square project Bert Monroy shows us some great techniques.

On The Web

I like it when I hear that my Photoshop ‘skills’ are transferable to other applications. So this really excites me! I’m no coder and honestly, I know I shouldn’t even try because it wont stick in my head, layers and groups, that’s my language.

Flash Catalyst

Here’s the officail blurb;

Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ is a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.

• Transform artwork created in Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® into functional user interfaces.
• Create interactive prototypes with the ability to leverage them in the final product
• Publish a finished project as a SWF file ready for distribution
• Work more efficiently with developers who use Adobe Flash Builder™ 4 to create rich Internet applications (RIAs). Designers use Flash Catalyst to create the functional user experience then provide the project file to developers who use Flash Builder to add functionality and integrate with servers and services.

Sounds cool eh, here’s a bit of an introduction from Edge magazine

Removing Glasses With Photoshop

I’ve not seen a tutorial on removing glasses before so this was a nice way to discover this site. Not just Photoshop tutorials either; Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Fireworks, Bridge and GoLive too.

You can follow TutVid’s Nathaniel on Twitter too.

AdobeTV

AdobeTV goes from strength to strength and has become a regular haunt of mine.

Among the gems I came across is a video that I’d seen before the release of CS4 but had forgotten all about. It’s another ‘will I ever use it?’ type things, but hey, it’s pretty cool!

Check out Russel Brown talking about 3D Mesh From Grayscale.
 

BrushKing
Also added to the Links bar this weekend another cool collection site. As the name suggests, it’s brushes.

PhotoshopDaily posted some cool stock photo’s over the weekend. Great to practice re-colouring or digital ‘pimping’.

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow for Top Tip Tuesday!

Based in the UK, TipSquirrel has what some have described as an 'unnatural obsession' with Photoshop. Although he spends his day either in Photoshop, reading about Photoshop or watching Photoshop Podcasts he's still not able to cobble together a reasonable tutorial himself. Fortunately, he has a talent for persuading very clever and articulate people to do that on his website. An avid Twitter fan TipSquirrel can often be found sharing links from TipSquirrel.com and other sites. This account also has him jibbering away about tea, scones, biscuits and anything else that randomly pops into his tiny little brain. For pure Photoshop links, TipSquirrel has a second Twitter account, Photoshop_nut. TipSquirrel is afraid of crows.

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