Hong Kong

24 09 2007

Since quite a long time, I’m active on two different digital art communities, Deviantart and SXC. The first is more about creation, the second about the sharing of pictures (comes often to use when I need to spice up a webdesign with some goodlooking pictures). All of my pictures on SXC are released under a CC (Creative Commons) license, so others are free to use them in commercial or non-commercial projects. Of course I’m always interested to see what people do with these pictures. Especially my Tokyo and Hongkong pictures are clearly used a lot in some real-estate and entertainment magazines. But today I was amazed to see what a Deviantart member, FrozenStaRo, has done with this picture of the -breathtaking- Hong Kong skyline (be sure to check out the full view):

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Awesome job! Would love to have a print of this piece on my wall ..


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The Photoshop logo throughout the years - Which one is the best?

20 09 2007

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As I wrote earlier, Photoshop has got a new logo. The critics aren’t really good, and I’m not a big fan either.
Personally I prefered the CS2 logo, but let’s take a look at the other old logo’s: Read the rest of this entry »


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New Photoshop logo

20 09 2007

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John Nack (Product Manager of Photoshop at Adobe) writes about the new logo for the Photoshop family of products (including Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Album, Lightroom, etc.).

“To represent this rich family of products, Adobe is introducing the Photoshop visual logo. This logo will soon appear in all Photoshop-related marketing, so keep an eye out for it. The Photoshop logo on a product, service, or technology, represents the rich legacy, technical quality, and attention to detail that has made Photoshop the gold standard in digital imaging.”

It would be under understatement to say I don’t like the new logo (I think they’re trying a little to hard to be ‘trendy’), but I am honoured John Nack referenced my article about ‘Photoshop branding’ :)

Related:

Originally maestros with certifications like 350-030 and 642-901 to their credit seldom needed to do anything else. However, now professional studies continue with certifications like 70-620 and 70-270. There are even refresher courses like 646-203 now for basic courses like 70-272.


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Tutorial: Web 2.0 Style Button

12 09 2007


Button Tutorials are probably one of the hottest categories in any Photoshop tutorial site and since Web 2.0 is such a hot topic now, lets go about doing a simple button suitable for any Web 2.0 application of websites. Read on! Read the rest of this entry »


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Weekly Linklove

10 09 2007

pslinklove.jpg Let me share some of the most interesting Photoshop/webdesign related articles I’ve read this week:


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Give your photos the Cinema effect

7 09 2007

The Photoshop dudes over at Photojojo collected 11 awesome tutorials to give your photos a cinematic effect, inspired on movies like “300″, “Pirates”, “Scarface” etc. My personal favourite? The tutorial on how to give your pictures the “Scanner Darkly” look. Awesome is indeed the right word!


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Your Daily Colorscheme

4 09 2007

You’re in need for some serious color inspiration? Then add the “Daily Colorscheme” website to your daily reads. Every day, they feature a color scheme based on a famous logo, style, country, ed. It’s still in beta tough, so use with caution ;-)


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