This is a great video put together by Mike Kus of him preparing slides for a speech at the “Future of Web Design” Conference in London. It’s an interesting process to watch as it’s all done in Photoshop. Too fast to be educational on technique but definitely inspirational for style.
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard – Slides in 3 Minutes from Carsonified on Vimeo.
onOne Software, creators of such amazing Photoshop CS4 plug-ins as PhotoTools 2 and Genuine Fractals 6, is offering a special discount to Photoshop Lab readers for 20% OFF ALL PRODUCTS. All you have to do is use the coupon code LAB20. Get your onOne Software sweetness soon though, this offer expires May 31.
Not really Photoshop related, but since I’m a web developer by trade, this is very very funny. According to Wikipedia
Auto-Tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies that uses a phase vocoder to correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise inaccuracies and mistakes, and has allowed many artists to produce more precisely tuned recordings.
You’ll probably recognize from popular pop songs.
“Do you wanna go get some Sushi?”
Captured at a live show in Melbourne, Nine Inch Nails seems to be a pretty good subject for showing off the video capability of the 5D Mark II (again).
You can download the official Presidential photo of Barack Obama from the Change.gov website. A quick shot at the EXIF data reveals:
Photo credits appear to go to Pete Souza. I’m just impressed that this type of interesting info is available.
If you haven’t heard already, Adobe has announced the latest progression of their Creative Suite product line with CS4.
One of my favorite places, who always come through with solid information, is the NAPP Learning Center for CS4. Scott, Matt and Dave give you some pretty good insight to the new features.
If you want to expand beyond just Photoshop CS4, Layers Magazine (for all things Adobe), has released a fairly extensive CS4 Learning Center also.
Adobe’s own John Nack has also provided a detailed list of CS4 sweetness that you can check out on his blog here.
We have been delaying the upgrade from WordPress 2.3.3 to 2.5 for a week or so to see how it’s played out in the blogosphere and to test it out on a few other websites. So far, the new admin area upgrades are very welcomed. I’ve been monitoring the 2.5 plugin compatibility list waiting for a few plugins we run to appear on the “compatible” side, but there’s still a few that haven’t. I think we’re going to go ahead with the upgrade and see how we fair.
So, plugins deactiving, files uploading, here we go…
UPDATE Upgrade went well. Looks like there’s a few plugin fixes needed…
UPDATE Seems like the two plugins I tried to use for getting recent comments aren’t working correctly. It’s not important enough of a feature for me to debug myself, so I’ll just disable and keep an eye out if they update.
Fresh on the heels of their Photoshop Express announcement, Adobe releases Lightroom 2.0 Beta to the public. The new version shows just how well Adobe was listening to their users as it presents a great selection of new features for usability and cool-factor. Some of the new features include:
To get the full scoop and to get started with some training, visit the NAPP Lightroom 2.0 Beta Learning Center.
Don’t forget to download the new version at the Adobe Labs website.
If you’ve been here before, then I now welcome you to the new Photoshop Lab. I’ve been wanting to update the design of this site for a very, very long time. I’ve gone through many different design phases. In fact, I have about 14 different mock-ups I’ve done over the past year or so. I finally pushed myself to complete one of the designs and well… here you go. Let’s move on to the new features:
There’s still a fair amount of debugging to do, especially with Internet Explorer 6 (ugh), but it should be good to go for the most part. I hope you enjoy and if there are any glaring issues, please email us.
With such a break-through application, that really puts Photoshop to shame, I could no longer continue supporting something so inferior.
via Macenstein
Not that kind of exploded, the Popular Mechanics kind of exploded.
Watch this, you’re gonna love my…
Why do all of my iPhone photos look like they came from a busted Polaroid?
I have always wondered how they did the yellow line at NFL games.
I agree on most all of these. It’s especially frustrating on a Mac.
