Design Techniques

Better Black and White

Improving your black and white photos is anything but black and white. If you’ve tried to find good techniques for doing this you know they are as numerous as the pixels in your image. So add this tutorial to your list, but don’t rush, its a good one and worth learning.

Sean Duggan on Black and White | Layers Magazine.

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Friday, August 15th, 2008 Design Techniques, Photography, Photoshop No Comments

Adobe TV

Adobe TV

Very impressive site with the promise of lots of useful content. Love the interface too.

From their April 9th press release:
“Adobe TV is the online video source for anyone with wants to see how Adobe tools are being used to create stunning work,” said Bob Donlon, executive producer for Adobe TV. “It brings together experts from Adobe and the creative community to inspire and teach how to get the most from the software that is empowering the delivery of high-impact print, online, video and mobile communications. It’s also the perfect showcase for Adobe’s broadcast video technologies in action.”
Adobe TV

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Design Techniques, Design Trends, News No Comments

Borders Under a Minute

Nice little tutorial for creating quick photo edges. A very flexible technique.

Borders Under a Minute | Effects Photography Tutorials Videos | Planet Photoshop

Testing – One, Two, Three

Found this site for testing web pages in multiple browsers. If you design web sites you know how frustrating and time consuming browser testing can be. Though the results can be a bit slow, having all the browser screen results at a glance is pretty handy. And since I design from a Mac I don’t have access to Explorer 6 or 7. This site gives me screenshot results from any browser I choose on any platform.
http://browsershots.org

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Design Techniques, Web Design No Comments

Bring In Some Light

Wow! Almost 2 months since my last post. I can’t let that happen again.

Found this helpful tip on saving underexposed photos in Photoshop. I partially used the technique in the photo below, plus a few tricks of my own.

underexposed trees
Before

Trees after
After

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 Design Techniques, Photography, Photoshop No Comments