Using the masking tools in Photoshop is more about showing things off than hiding them. They can be a tricky thing to master, but I will use this tutorial to show you how to use effective masking techniques in your work.
To demonstrate the tools, let’s create a space themed application icon. These complex pieces of artwork often incorporate many existing images or textures to represent the software in one single and complete icon.
Adobe has released a plethora of announcements and updates recently. You could be forgiven for missing a few important ones amidst the blaze of AdobeMAX publicity. Here’s a roundup of some of the more practical ones.
InDesign CS5.5 update 7.5.2.
A bug fix addressing a number of problems including: several ePub and XML import and output errors, unexpected quits, layer panel instability and PDF export random quits. Full details here.
End of support for Acrobat 8.
Taken many pictures recently? Twenty, thirty or maybe one hundred or six thousand? Sorting them is a pain. Editing the right ones, making comparisons and separating the wheat from the chaff can take quite some time. But luckily that often overlooked Adobe Application is here to help. Bridge. Go on, open it and let’s delve into your photo library.
In this 2-part tutorial I will show you three things: Ratings and Labels, Collections and Smart Collections. Each can be used on their own or in combination. Once you start using them you will wonder how you ever did without them; I know I do. Here in part 2 I will show you how to use Collections and their ‘Smart’ counterpart.
One of the most common questions I receive about Captivate’s Quiz capabilities is whether it is possible to gather scores from users without the use of a Learning Management System (LMS). Until version 5 of Captivate, I always used to answer “no”. This is because the email option (intended as a solution where an LMS is not available) is unreliable, and is open to learners editing their scores before sending them.
Taken many pictures recently? Twenty, thirty or maybe one hundred or six thousand? Sorting them is a pain. Editing the right ones, making comparisons and separating the wheat from the chaff can take quite some time. But luckily that often overlooked Adobe Application is here to help. Bridge. Go on, open it and let’s delve into your photo library.
In this 2-part tutorial I will show you three things: Ratings and Labels, Collections and Smart Collections. Each can be used on their own or in combination. Once you start using them you will wonder how you ever did without them; I know I do. Here in part 1 I will show you how to use Ratings and Labels.
Just a quick post to show you some of the landscapes that I have been creating in Blender recently. I have been going through the Nature Academy series of courses (which you have to pay for, it is closed now but I believe it will re-open soon), created by Andrew Price (at blenderguru.com).
Andrew Price has created some fantastic tutorials, and I would heartily recommend that you check out his web site. His latest offering, the Nature Academy series, is all about creating natural landscapes – rocks, trees, grass, lakes, mountains, and so on. Each tutorial (and I am only half way through so far) is chock full of interesting techniques. I have found it invaluable going through the process several times in order to create landscapes in Blender – even though each landscape is different.
Last week at Adobe Max, there were a number of exciting announcements, several of which concerned Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite.
If you’re not familiar with the term, DPS is the suite of tools and services Adobe has been developing to allow publishing from InDesign to iPad and Android tablets.
In a flash class recently I was asked which technologies some one needs to be aware of and competent with when dealing with web design. In answer I quickly knocked a simple ideas chart to showcase which web technologies you need to know, and also some notes about where things are/were and where they are going…
Which web technologies
The big thing of course is html5 and Flash. As you can see from the diagram, everything Flash can do (broadly speaking) can be done in HTML5, with the caveat that HTML5 covers CSS3/JavaScript/HTML5 and things like WebGL.
