PSDTuts.com has one of the best tutorials I came across the last few months: How to create Advanced Glow Effects (which are very much the hype these days). It’s a little bit advanced, but really a must read. Just sample some of the techniques, you’ll be sure to use them in your next project.
I don’t remember where I found it, but I had this written on a post-it for two months now, waiting to be posted here on the Photoshopblog:
“Sick of the default gray background around your image? Select paint bucket, hold shift and click on the gray background, it will change to whatever color you have in your foreground color box.”
Of course I tried it, and it works. Great trick!
Massimo from the PaintBlog gives a video walktrough on how he speedpainted Adriana Lima (one of my personal favorits when it comes to supermodels …) in Photoshop, using merely a Wacom tablet and a reference picture. Awesome work!
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.
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 
Could you tell which of these two pictures is the original one, and which one the ‘fake’, retouched image? I had to look twice, because it seemed nearly impossible. It’s the right one. But hey, the left one could be on a magazine cover! This is just another amazing accomplishment of master photo retoucher Amy Dresser. I’ve been browsing trough her comple portfolio and it just blows my mind. I should really start experimenting with photo retouching myself. I’ve got quite some experience with graphic design in Photoshop, but I’ve never tried to ‘beautify’ a picture of someone.
If you want to get into this field too, a good place to start seems to be the “How to Beautify a Face” tutorial at Lunacore.
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Professionals who have microsoft certification seldom go for something ass trivial as cisco certification. Once they have mcp training, why would they want to go for ccna certification or even the simpler ccnp? Usually after mcse, such individuals tend to pursue mcdba certification, if any training at all.