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..
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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 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!
Some other posts by TipSquirrel
- Vision and Voice - A Review
- Lightroom 3 Series
- Photoshop Nuts, Lightroom and Thanks
- Photoshop CS5 One-on-One : A Review
- The Navigation Panel
- Photoshop Short Cut Keys
- Photoshop CS5 The Missing Manual : A Review
- July on TipSquirrel.com
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I hope today that thanks to this website I can find hopeful ways in making others feel better. After my cancer last April 2010 my Mom was diagnosed with cancer. Also we both had herniated discs within a few months apart of each other. We live together and give each other hope! I also attend my clubhouse which I adore and today I am going to Art Group. I hope to lift spirits by engaging in active listening there and at home. AND? Just have creative fun at my group today. Sort of like the addage Pay It Forward!