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Photoshop 20th Anniversary Event
If you’re into celebrations and benchmarks and think Photoshop is the absolute best program ever, then celebrate you should – Photoshop’s twentieth birthday to be exact. NAPP along with Scott Kelby, his Photoshop User TV mates, Matt Kloskowski, and Dave Cross and members of the Adobe team will join together in a streaming live celebration event tonight at 7:30 to pay homage to the program of programs – Photoshop.
Photoshop 20th Anniversary Event – Celebrate with Adobe and NAPP
Portrait Painting From Your Photos
If you’re looking for a unique gift or a special way to preserve a favorite photo, try a painted portrait from your photo. This is a new service I’m now providing using painting techniques I’ve developed over the years as a professional illustrator. I digitally recreate your favorite photos of family or friends in a painted, simulated media style. This is not a Photoshop filter or software trick like some that claim to instantly convert photos to look like paintings, most of which don’t look like a painting at all. Instead I take your photo (or if you prefer we can arrange a photo shoot if you are local to me) and I prepare and enhance the photo for painting, then using digital painting software I hand paint the entire portrait to simulate a real painting, no automatic software conversions or filter effects.
A painted portrait from Steve Mitchell comes with these features:
- A hand-painted, digital portrait by a professional illustrator with over 25 years experience
- Generally created at a much larger size and at a higher resolution than the original photo making it a great way to preserve and enhance treasured photos
- Choice of various media simulations such as oils or watercolors
- Choose your preferred degree of loose impressionism or tight realism.
- Choose to get just the digital file and make your own prints or order a print of your painting from me printed on a variety of media such as watercolor paper or canvas.
- Choose to customize your photo before its painted with enhancements such as removing unwanted elements, combining people from separate photos, changing colors of particular elements or even have your subject placed over a completely different background.
- Reasonable, competitive pricing usually much lower than a photo studio can provide. Pricing from $120 and up depending on factors such as size, number of subjects, background elements, retouching and prep, etc.
Get in touch today for a free consultation and quote.
Note: Most portrait prints taken by a professional studio cannot be submitted for reproduction due to copyright laws. You must only submit photos that you have complete reproduction rights to.
Full Portrait – click to enlarge
Detail 1 – click to enlarge
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Detail – click to enlarge
Corel Painter Resource Site
I ran across this Corel Painter site today which has a number of nifty brush downloads as well as other resources. Jitter Brush.
Pepsi Packaging
This is not new news but I held off on an opinion about the new Pepsi packaging design to see how they rolled it out and integrated the new look with their marketing. My initial reaction to the design was negative as with most people. But sometimes good design grows on you and takes on a life you didn’t expect. Would the new packaging be a flop or pure genius? Well, personally, I think the pure genius category is out. It looks like the logo of a knock off brand – close but not quite right. After seeing commercials and looking at displays, I like it less now than before. From a “does-it-work” standpoint for their brand continuity, and marketing goals, I can’t imagine that it does except to create a lot of “what-were-they-thinking” buzz. The variations on the so-called “smile” are confusing and the overall look seems to distance them from any previous brand identity and equity they banked. I’m predicting a short shelf life for this “un-logo”.
This video kind of amuses me. I guess they figured it might improve if they kept it in motion.
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Find more videos like this on AdGabber
Pepsi Unveils Packaging to ‘Digital and Social Media Influencers’ – AdGabber.
Logo Design Resources
Wow! The title below speaks for itself. I’ve only just begun to go through this list.
Alltop
So what would you say if I could point you to a site that had all the top news and blogs listed for any subject you’re interested in, say Photoshop or maybe design news?
Check it:
Pretty cool huh?!
Logo Of The Day
If you frequent graphic design blogs, you no doubt have heard of Jeff Fisher or Jacob Cass. Both award-winning designers with informative and inspirational blogs for the professional graphic designer. Well they’ve done it again with this cool site: Logo Of The Day – Logo Design Inspiration – Daily!. Take a look and maybe you’ll want to add it to your blog roll as I did.
Killer Texture Site
[CG Textures] claims to be the worlds largest FREE texture site. Who knows maybe they are. They have a ton of ‘em thats for sure. The “bone” texture category was kind of unexpected. It warrants a visit if you’re looking for a cool texture.
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