If you use use the Save for Web & Devices export in Photoshop, you’ve likely seen this “error”:
Some names of the files being saved contain non-Lain characters. These file names will be incompatible with some Web browsers and servers.
Photoshop is trying to be helpful and tell you that you are saving a file that uses […]
What is up with that?
There might be a better way, but my current solutions is just to do the dang text in Illustrator, rotate it there, and copy and paste it in as a smart object to retain it’s editablility.
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LazyMask is a service for graphic arts professionals who need a quick and cost effective way to cut clipping paths on images. They have a 24-hour turnaround, so simply upload files to them (using the very simple YouSendIt service) and you’ll have them back within 24 hours all clipped out. Check out the before and […]
Someone called psychochild on the North American Subaru Impreza Owners Club, Inc. Forums (randomly) has posted a tutorial on photoshopping up your own car like a car from the Disney movie “Cars.”
A bunch of people followed up and did up their own cars, it’s worth a look!
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Now how am I supposed to troubleshoot that?! =)
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Motion blur is one of the cool specialized blurring filters available in Adobe Photoshop. You can find it under Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. You are able to specify a direction for this type of blur, so look what kind of technique that feature makes possible:
Grab a portion of an image that you would […]
In Adobe Illustrator, there is only one place to set the corner radius for your rounded rectangles, and it’s not as obvious as you might think. You access this elusive option by selecting the rounded rectangle tool the single-clicking on your illustration to bring up this dialog box:
Changing it here will not only change […]
I just got my hands on a Wacom Bamboo tablet, and I’m loving it! Right now I have mine set up for clipping paths, check it out:
The lower left button is set up to be the Space Bar, for easy panning around. You do a lot of panning when cutting clipping paths because you need […]
A common technique in Illustrator is to place images on a layer and lower the opacity so you can use trace shapes. Illustrator has a built-in feature to help you with this.
Place and arrange all the images you wish to trace on a single layer in Illustrator.
Select the layer in the Layers palette, open the […]
Say that 10 times fast.
From Dr. WooHoo comes this awesome new color inspiration widget for Adobe Illustrator. It’s just a little script that you drop into the Preset > Scripts directory of your Adobe Illustrator application folder. Then, with an illustration open, you go to File > Scripts > InTheMod_beta to run it. […]
