Photoshop and RAM
I was reading Jim Edelen’s post on running Sharepoint on a notebook and freeing up memory and decided to see where my 512MB of memory was being spent at the moment. I went through and shut down...
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Another Graphic Design book for the shelf
Before coming to the great company I work for now (since 1999), I was an Intranet Manager at a real Dilbertville with 1500 suit-wearing, meeting-driven cogs in a slow-moving machine. I was completely...
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The wacky stuff graphic designers do for a living
I was asked to put a diagram on a website yesterday. Usually I have to recreate from scratch to duplicate what I receive, but this particular image was close enough that I could save time editing it...
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I do faces: Lense Glare
One of the areas where I have some Photoshop chops is “doing faces.” That is, taking the headshots of a company or group and making each individual look as good as possible. One thing to always...
View Articleistockphoto.com. Where have ya been all my life?
For years I have gone through periods when I needed a mass of original photos. I just put a new public site online so I’m just coming out of one. Since intellectual copyright of photos must be...
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Masking image data
One of the requirements of the brochure I put together this morning was to mask the data, a very common issue. There are various ways of doing this. I used to blur out info, but I now use Photoshop’s...
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Paint.NET First Impressions
I’ve been hearing a lot about Paint.NETand thought I’d give the new Paint.NET 2.0 a test run. I’ve been using Photoshop for years, so its my point of reference for comparing Paint.NET. The standard is...
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Illustrator find
Before my latenight geek sessions became consumed with .NET coding in one form or another I would invest time improving my Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop chops. I use Photoshop nearly every day for...
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Photoshop Chops for Agile .NET Development
I market myself as a Freelance .NET Developer specializing in Community Server, but sometimes you wouldn’t know it by the amount of time I spend in Photoshop. Photoshop chops are very valuable for...
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Roll your own Community Server Rating Stars
I’m working with a Community Server site theme that has a blue background and concluded that the out-of-the-box rating stars, while looking fine on a white background, looked downright crappy over the...
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