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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):

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

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 »

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’

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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.

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 »

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

• 10 Websites with Great Photography
  Great Photography is an understatement here. We’re talking about Awesome Photography on these sites!
• 9 tutorials » Beautiful lighting FX effect in Photoshop
  Superb tutorial. Actually, I just used a comparable technique to create some nice spacy color effects on my business cards!
• 10 Grunge, Rusty and Dirty Tileable Textures
  Grungy and seamless? Sounds like something difficult to achieve. But they did it for you. So go grab them!
• Lunacore Photoshop Blog » Interesting New Concept in Image Resizing
  Wow, this certainly is an interesting method. They should add this function to Photoshop.
• Top 10 Apple Iphone concepts that didn’t make it
  Great 3D modelling an Photoshop work
  

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!

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