Photoshop
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009I was getting very frustrated yesterday. One of the reviewers for our Interact paper asked us to add images of the software we used to collect our data. A fair request, I thought, since we go into some detail describing some of the screens and since we include the order of the screen presentation in […]
You suck at Photoshop
Friday, September 26th, 2008Looking through the timeline of internet memes (and can I just point out that I’m flabbergasted by how many of those I missed the first time around), I came across one meme called You suck at Photoshop, a video series purported to teach you Photoshop tricks, but which really reflects the creator’s ongoing marital problems. […]
Photoshop tip: Removing backgrounds quickly
Friday, August 24th, 2007Thembid.com explains how to remove backgrounds quickly using Photoshop. The trick? Using “Filter->Extract…”. You then highlight the section you want to keep, use the fill tool, click OK, and voilà! Quick’n’easy extraction.
Via Lifehacker.
Snipshot
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007Now this is a useful web-based tool: Snipshot lets you do some basic editing of your images and it even lets you save directly to Flickr. I’ve had a few situations where I wanted to upload a picture but it was too big for the website and I didn’t have anything like Photoshop on the […]
Photoshop tip: Adding an outline to letters
Monday, May 14th, 2007I was trying to create my own image macro - for which, according to Anil Dash, the lettering has to be in a sans serif like Impact or Arial Black and has to be white surrounded by black. But I had no idea how to create an outline for letters in Photoshop.
A quick look through […]
Photoshop tutorials
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006I have no talent in drawing whatsoever (I’m still at the stick figure level), but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to become good at it.
In the hopes of one day curing this deficit, I enjoy learning new tricks with imaging software. Which is why I’m pointing to this site pointing towards literally hundreds of […]
Grabbing colour from anywhere with Photoshop
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006Now this is a handy little Photoshop tip: when you click down on the eyedrop tool (the one that lets you grab a specific colour), you can then drag the tool outside of the Photoshop window and pick up colours from anywhere in your screen.
I just checked it and it works.
Via LifeHacker.
