I created this blog for one reason - to stay abreast of the design contest scene across a variety of disciplines and to learn more about how to use my software to the max. Since I’ve used Photoshop since 1990 (version 1.0!), I’m always interested in tutorials from other Adobe Photoshop CS2 users. Here’s a recent list of a few tutorials that I access once in a while to learn more. Mind you, some of these tutorials may date back as far as Photoshop 5.5 (I don’t think any of them are any earlier), but they are as relevant today as they were five years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe has announced its Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium tour, a seminar series event for creative professionals, print service providers, and graphic and Web designers. Industry experts will demonstrate how to work with Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium, the award-winning unified design environment that now includes the all-new Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software and Dreamweaver 8, the industry-leading Web development tool. The tour covers Chicago, Toronto, Irvine, San Francisco, and New York. Attend this free seminar in a city near you and learn from industry experts how to: Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Upgrade from Photoshop Version 5.5+: I have the Photoshop Upgrade installed on my desktop, and the older version of the same software on my laptop. Granted, a laptop isn’t the best environment to produce graphic images, but I’ve been so spoiled by the upgrade that the laptop’s been neglected. The Filter Gallery alone is enough to convert a die-hard Photoshop 7 fan, but the other toys - like the Advanced Noise Reduction, the Revolutionary Vanishing Point, and the Image Warp - will push that die-hard over the edge. And, the price is right up Santa’s alley…

NOTE: This is the UPGRADE ONLY. Previous installation required.

New online Flash tutorial for beginners available for only $15 US

Meet the Flash is a new Flash-animated E-book designed to teach Flash beginners how to create a Flash movie. This book, recently released by Andrei (Andrew) Doubrovski, a professional photographic restoration artist and technician who previously released the “As Simple As Photoshop” study at home course for Adobe Photoshop users, created a simple and easy-to-use format. Doubrovski also is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Photoshop CS.

Meet The Flash helps to speed up the learning process, as each lesson is packed with a movie clip that shows some practical usage of the lesson. The tutorials cover the program essentials used to create still graphics, animations, and text. Also, Meet The Flash offers several scripting tutorials that show how to add simple interactivity without actually learning ActionScript language. Read the rest of this entry »

Artlandia, Inc., maker of Artlandia SymmetryWorks, a popular pattern design plug-in for Adobe Illustrator, has released Artlandia SymmetryShop, a new plug-in that makes pattern design in Adobe Photoshop easy and fully automatic.

Similar to its Illustrator counterpart, SymmetryShop relieves the designer from the tedium of manually creating repeat patterns, a painstaking task that involves thousands of precise geometric transformations that used to make interactive experimentation with patterns virtually impossible. Artlandia SymmetryWorks, which solved this problem in Adobe Illustrator, is currently widely used for creating surface designs for wallpaper, fabrics, quilting, tilings, web pages, fine arts, and other applications. With the release of the new plug-in, designers are no longer restricted to the use of Illustrator and can chose to create pattern designs in Photoshop, which has clear advantages for working with larger raster images, for example, sophisticated scanned hand-painted compositions or high-resolution photographs. Read the rest of this entry »