Archive > December 2007

Matt Burton: “Set Your Analysts Free.”

Great post by Matthew Burton on the value of Open Source. He underscores my own inspiration for Project Grey Goose when he writes about the phenomenal but ultimately tragic Jim Gray rescue effort last year:

Freedom: The Jim Gray Rescue Effort
The Web is fast and free: fast, in the sense that you can make things happen […]

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Video Tut #2 - Quickly Create a Post-It Note in Photoshop

There are a a few ways that you can achieve this in Photoshop, but this tutorial will simply go through my personal process of how to create a post-it note pretty quickly. I tried not to use too many shortcut keys when doing this just so those with less Photoshop experience could follow what was […]

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“I’ll let Ron lot in reserves” - Fergie

Manchester United are so determined not to sell Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid that they would let him rot on the sidelines rather than cave in to pressure should the player and the Spanish champions try to force through a move. The hardline stance was spelt out by Sir Alex Ferguson and comes directly from […]

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Champions League Final Preview: Capitalist Pigs!

An all English final. Sounds nice right? At least it will shut those fucks up in Spain. For a little while at least.

That’s kind a weird picture. You’d think communism had prevailed and that was taken somewhere in England. Oh well, capitalism FTW!!!
As you should know, the final will be in Moscow. I can’t […]

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NAPP - Adobe Photoshop Lighroom 2 Learning Center

10 Reasons to upgrade to Lightroom 2.
Scott Kelby and Matt Koslowski detail 10 reasons to upgrade in their free online videos.
1 New feature overview
2 Photoshop Integration
3 Keyword Improvements
4 Adjustment Brush
5 Finding Your Photos
6 Slideshow Improvements
7 […]

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Textless Tuesday: Meet Monkey

Meet Monkey

BBC’s come up with the perfect way to follow the Olympics: an Adobe Air-based desktop application that lets you follow your favorite Olympic sports, set reminders, view the medal table, etc…
You’ll certainly love the art if you like the Gorillaz (same artist).
Plus, everyone loves monkeys so this is the perfect excuse to have one […]

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WordPress PSD Framework

We design Wordpress themes very often and each of them has quite a few standard elements. Because of that, we decided to make a PSD framework for Photoshop that would include these common elements.

We use it as a starting point every time we start to work on a mockup for a new Wordpress theme. Since […]

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Link Roundup 09-27-2008

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Orphan Works Passes SenateJMG-Galleries
Jim Goldstein brings us news that the Orphan Works legislation has passed the Senate and now it’s off to the House of Representatives. Please read this important message.
Computer Tethered Photo CapturePro Photo Life
In this video tutorial, Jim Talkington guides us through the process of shooting tethered to a computer.

5 […]

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