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Thrown together quickly to demonstrate finding images at Creative Commons as well as Photoshop's Clone Stamp tool, layers, and bacon

I was asked some months ago to do a Photoshop workshop for rhetoric students assigned to make a “Visual Argument.” The idea was to produce a composite image that made an argument, but ideally without text. The assumption was that the students would know little or nothing about Photoshop. Taking bits from different images with the Clone Stamp Tool and layering them would introduce not only that tool but working with Brushes, including the Eraser tool, Layers, some blending modes, as well as learning to navigate the notorious Photoshop interface(s). Digging through an older folder to clean out some cruft I came across this demo file, and realized it’s too good not to share.

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March 29, 2011 at 3:32 pm Comments (0)

First wave of PubCampGa Photos

The assembled group meets up for the Unconference
Search for #PubCampGA on flickr to find’em. I’ve already met several people in public broadcasting from Georgia and Alabama, educators from around Georgia, and some students. I look forward to meeting more people from different backgrounds.

Crossposted at TimMerritt.net


August 14, 2010 at 9:28 am Comment (1)

ImageWell Only $10 Today via MacUpdate

I have relied on ImageWell for years. It makes adding images to a blog post easier than through the WordPress interface

This MacUpdate Promotion offers Xtralean’s ImageWell for $10, half its regular price. It’s well worth it – it’s great for screen grabs and annotations, allows dragging and dropping of multiple images for quick composites, it has great text tools, and built-in FTP and (for me, the beauty feature) SFTP as well. You can even drag and drop any other kind of file on the “Send” button to quickly upload to one of your stored server locations. Supports PNG format with transparency… an incredible set of features, and I paid full price for it years ago. I have rarely recommended software more highly, and at $10 it’s a real bargain.

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July 19, 2010 at 9:41 am Comments (0)

Peachpit: Automator for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Working with Actions > Locating Actions to Do What You Want

This cute little robot represents an app that can make your life much easier. It's Automator.

I’m looking for a good batch file renamer for my photo workflow, and bingo here’s a how-to for Automator from the auuthoritative folks at Peachpit Publishing. They publish terrific instructional books on all kinds of applications.

Via Peachpit’s Automator for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Working with Actions Locating Actions to Do What You Want

June 28, 2010 at 10:31 am Comments (2)

Paintbrush, A Free Painting App for Mac

Paintbrush is free and offers a lot

I didn’t know Paintbrush existed. From the site:

Paintbrush can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF. Full support for transparency is available for image formats which support an alpha channel (currently PNGs and GIFs). You can also paste images copied from many common Mac applications, including Microsoft Office and Apple iWork.

June 14, 2010 at 3:52 pm Comments (0)

Macworld | Color Correction in iPhoto

Macworld helps explain valuable features in iPhoto

Ben Long explains histograms and how to correct color problems in iPhoto. Good screengrabs and explanations.

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January 22, 2010 at 1:46 pm Comment (1)

20 Quick Photoshop Tips

Photoshop's latest elemental logo

20 Photoshop Tips & Tricks That You Should Know About from Make Use Of, worth a quick post. The brush-resizing shortcut trick – [ and ] (corner brackets) will decrease or increase the brush size; add shift to change brush hardness – alone is worth following the link.

December 31, 2009 at 5:49 am Comment (1)

Old Versions at OldApps.com

A trove of older applications. It's a trip down memory lane and possibly a way to breathe life into an older computer

The fine community at Macintouch points to the Mac-specific area on Old Version Downloads – OldApps.com. Find old versions of lots of software, for Mac and PC: older email programs, audio editors, picture editors, FTP programs, and more. They even have older versions of Apple’s QuickTime. Looks like a great resource, especially if you’re spiffing up an older machine to save money.

And teachers always want to save money.

November 17, 2009 at 2:49 pm Comments (0)

Make Photoshop Faster

A quick post to this, so I can close the browser tab I’ve kept open for too long: Make Photoshop Faster: 2 little tips to help speed up the tool web designers love to hate. Thanks to John Gruber at Daring Fireball.

October 19, 2009 at 2:35 pm Comments (0)

300+ Free Photoshop Tutorials

Yet another new Photoshop logo

Could this possibly be enough? Probably not….

Ok, here you go! Over 320 free Photoshop tutorials, professional Photoshop Training clips, Photoshop Techniques, Photoshop Downloads, Photoshop Elements Tutorials and Photoshop for Photographers Training and Tutorials! And all free!

via Wow! 300+ Free Photoshop Tutorials, Training Videos & Downloads!

March 31, 2009 at 8:50 am Comments (0)

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