Photoshop and Illustrator cheat sheets for designers For many creatives, it can often feel like there's never enough hours in the day. With ever-demanding clients and constantly looming deadlines, applying time-saving techniques to your workflow is essential, and these helpful cheat sheets for Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 can help you do just that. Whether you're following a new Photoshop tutorial, or simply practising how to draw something in Illustrator, these cheat sheets will help creatives at all skill levels – and most of the CS6 shortcuts are applicable to Creative Cloud versions of the software, too. The team at Zerolag created the sheets specifically with graphic designers in mind, providing code below the graphic so it can be shared and help improve the productivity of fellow creatives. They've also made printer-friendly versions available for quick referencing. So what are you waiting for? Like this?
How To Restore Your Privacy On Facebook - Flock How to Make an Animated GIF in Photoshop [Tutorial] If you've spent any time on the internet at all, you've probably come in contact with an animated GIF. It's an image file that allows you to feature animated images that makes it seem like the image is moving. Think of them as a hybrid between a still image and a video. Why are GIFs great additions to your marketing? They're easy to consume, provide a new way to capture your viewers' attention, and can have a serious emotional impact. Considering content that makes us feel something encourages us to share, these tiny animations are worth experimenting with. The best part about GIFs is that they aren't too hard to make. Click here to download our free guide to learn how to design high-quality graphics. In the following tutorial on making animated GIFs, I'm using the Creative Cloud 2015 version of Photoshop, but the steps should be similar in other versions. How to Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop Here's an example of an animated GIF you might make using this tutorial: 1) On social media.
Top 25 Posts About Facebook f8 Open Graph & Social Plugins - Flo Sign up | Login with → The world's best thinkers on social media Posted by: Chad Richards Posts Profile Comments Follow Please login or register to follow this user. Top 25 Posts About Facebook f8 Open Graph & Social Plugins Like it? comment Posted April 23, 2010 Keywords: facebook, news, plugin The big news dominating blog and news headlines this week came from Facebook's f8 conference which announced the Open Graph and Social Plugins (among other exciting things). Building the Social Web Together by Mark Zuckerberg The Next Evolution of Facebook Platform by Bret Taylor How Facebook won the web by Pete Cashmore Facebook Takes on the World by Lance Ulanoff What Facebook's New Platform Means for your Business By Mia Dand Facebook: The Entire Web Will Be Social by Liz Gannes I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet by MG Siegler Facebook Open Graph: What it Means for Privacy by Christina Warren Microsoft Taps Into Facebook's Open Graph To Launch Docs.com by Erick Schonfeld Related Posts Comments
How To Create Wet Plate Collodion Styled Images In Photoshop (My Tutorial) I’m sure this will cause a bit of stir in the photography community, but retouching images is my kind of art creating something original. This is the first of hopefully many retouching and photography tutorials that I will be doing over the next months. This tutorial is about wet plate collodion images which I’ve been trying to find a way to emulate in post production. For me, the basic photograph is the starting point and I try to capture people as they are. More info: anttikarppinen.com
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Wait, We Still Like Paper!: How to Screen Print on an Inkjet When designer Briana Bolger-Schuth took a break from advertising work, she wanted to make art. She had no art studio, but she did have access to a new Epson inkjet. Working on a project one night, she had a revelation: “I suddenly thought, ‘Hey, I wonder what would happen if I set these up as separations and ran the paper through each time for different colors?'” The results are pretty wonderful. She calls the project Let’s Put the Black on Last, and the setup is really simple. After creating a design, she runs her paper through the printer twice. “The idea of getting something different out of the printer other than just what I expect is so exciting to me,” says Bolger-Schuth, “Where is the fun in knowing exactly what’s going to happen when you press the print button?” When Walter Benjamin penned The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he bemoaned the loss of authenticity and aura in mass-produced printed works. With Let’s Put the Black on Last, I have my answer.
10 Reasons Not To Ignore Your Blog For Facebook | Small Business Brace yourself: Facebook is trying to take over the world. Or, if not the world, at least the entire Internet. With Facebook partnering up with popular sites like Yelp, many SMB owners may feel as if their load got lighter. I mean, why waste time worrying about your building your blog or your own site when you can grow your Facebook presence instead? Wrong! It doesn’t matter how hot Facebook or any of the other social media sites are looking right now. Here are ten reasons. You Don’t Own Facebook: Today, Facebook stands as a great marketing channel for small business owners looking to extend relationships or bridge social capital via Payvment . Though it can be attractive as a SMB owner to let social sites like Facebook or Twitter become your dominant Web presence, it comes with a high cost.
untitled Watch the above video tutorial on how to setup your PSD file and in depth layer customization techniques. Jump to 25:00 of the video tutorial for how to create a 3D pop out sketch effect! You may also like: Scroll down for the full list of over 95 photo effect Actions! Sketch Photoshop Action (With 3D pop out sketch effect) Create realistic sketch artwork from your photos in only a few clicks. The action has been tested and working on Photoshop CS3,CS4,CS5,CS6,CC,CC 2015.5+ The action will ONLY WORK IN THE ENGLISH VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP . Need help? If you need assistance with this Action or any other Sevenstyles Action, please visit the help page here. Tested Each action is thoroughly tested across between 50 – 150 different photos to ensure there are no errors. The Best Results For the best results, it is recommended to use high resolution photos in the range of 1500px – 3500px. Organised After each action has finished playing, it creates a well organised layer structure. Time Saving Earn Money