There Will Be No News Today

This is what could happen if present trends continue.  There won’t be any news to turn to.

Cool Links #1

Sometimes I come across a bunch of unrelated, but cool links and I don’t like to have to come up with a long title every time, so today I’m starting Cool Links.
First I found an interesting page with lots of photoshop tutorial videos – very cool.
Second, I found a creepy Orwell vision of the future [...]

What’ The Vector, Victor – Not A Raster Roger!

As you  know, I love Photoshop.  But sometimes there are things good old Photoshop just can’t do or isn’t very good at.  One of those things is a Vector Image.  Usually Vector Art is created in an application such as Illustrator.  Vector art is really great for creating scalable images with sharp edges.  Usually it [...]

Express Yourself – Through Photosphop

Adobe finally released in public beta the long rumored Adobe Photoshop Express.  This is a free online version of Adobe Photoshop.  It is not Photoshop, but I was actually impressed with how much it can do for the average user.  It does do a lot of basic editing functions and it is FREE!
The other cool [...]

Oh, The Horror!

Photoshop is a great tool and for student publications a must have tool.  But we all know that the photoshopping of magazine covers and other celebrity pictures has gotten out of hand.  And what is even worse is that some people who are using photoshop don’t really know that they are making horrible errors.  Here’s [...]

Hacking Up Old Tripods

After a lot of internal debate, I have decided to replace the two “Aggie pods” in my studio with cut down tripods. What I did was this:
For the cameras, we are going to mount them right on top of the monitor. To do this costs about $4 for two mounts. What you need are [...]

What’s Wrong With That Picture?

Photoshopped is a great blog with examples from magazine covers to ads with photoshop mistakes.  For a program that is supposed to make pictures look better, we seem to end up with so many looking worse.

First Person Photos

MSNBC.com has a great multimedia slide show of pictures of soldiers and their families taken by soldiers and their families.  Not only are the photos touching and sometimes horrific, but the multimedia is well done too.

Get A Grip

Here’s a great new podcast from Brent Bye at PixelCorps.tv called The Grip Guide.  So far there are only a few episodes, but they are really full featured and delve deeply into the topic, such as cable rolling and checking A/C voltage.

Lotsa Links

Here’s another roundup of links from all over the web.
ABC News Doctored Photos web slide show.  From Britney to OJ, the most well known altered magazine covers and photos.
Is Seeing Believing?  A multimedia resource for photo fakes and hoaxes.  Great site.
FLICKSCHOOL video and multimedia gallery.  The back door to their how to videos.
101 Five Minute [...]