What to do when you’re out of Photoshop, the neighbors don’t have it and your in serious need to create.

Well there is always Splashup, an online powerful editing tool and photo manager. Lots of features from Photoshop. From creating separated layers, using blend modes, brushing to even using filters. And top of it all it’s very easy to use and free , works in every browser and you can save your files in progress.

The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.
A great and handy tool for any designer, a must when you’ve got lots of fonts and don’t know which one to pick. Go and check it out!

If you don’t want to spent money on fonts there are always other options like using free fonts.
Dafont.com & 1001 Free Fonts are just two examples where you can find a great amount of free fonts.
But they’re not all that good in quality. So it’s hard to get yourself a decent free font, that’s why smashing magazine picked 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design from all around the net. And they still bring you monthly, Free Fonts Of The Month.

Has the problem occurred to you too that you just can’t find the right icons to spicen up your layout? Well, your problem is over now! IconDrawer offers some great FREE icons, to use on your website/blog. If you are interested, you can buy some icon packs from the same website. To give an example of how much difference these icons can make, I’ve made a little blog layout with and without the icons.  Check it out by “read more”. Read the rest of this entry »

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!

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.

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.