stapledesign.com The TWiT Podcast Network with Leo Laporte Design Inspiration Design Inspiration DesignWannabe in association with Ingimage presents ‘Two’s Company‘ … an exciting opportunity to show off your Photoshop skills and win prizes! Your task is simply to create a piece of digital art using one of the 15 images below as a base. Step 1: Sign up for a free trial at ingimage.com – which gives you one week to download any 35 high-res images on their site for free.Step 2: Choose and download one of the images below to use as the base for your Photoshop creation. Each of these “Subject Photos” have two human subjects.Step 2: Combine your Subejct Photo with any of the millions of other images/graphics available on ingimage using your free trial. You can create any type of compilation, collage, poster or any other graphic design concept you can visualize. Read More→ To find our next retoucher we’re heading north to Sweden (of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ series and ‘Volvo fame’) … it’s Scandinavia’s finest photo-shopper Erik Johansson. Observe carefully.
Good Morning Silicon Valley Pixelovely Blog do Dvorak A bill proposed this week by Assemblywoman Pamela R. Lampitt (D., Camden) would impose a fine of up to $50 and possibly 15 days in jail for pedestrians caught using their cellphones without hands-free devices while walking on public sidewalks and along roadways.If the bill becomes law, “petextrians” – people who text while walking – would face the same penalties as jaywalkers in New Jersey.“I see it every single day,” Lampitt said Friday. Another study, from Safe Kids Worldwide, a Washington-based nonprofit, found that 40 percent of teens said they had been hit or nearly hit by a car, bike, or motorcycle while walking.The survey of more than 1,000 children between ages 13 and 18 found that 47 percent of those who said they were hit or almost hit were listening to music, 20 percent were talking on the phone, and 18 percent were texting, researchers said. In a world populated with idiots, the banning of risky behavior has its downside.
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