Saturday, January 28, 2012

Today’s Visions

Photography that captures today’s visions for tomorrow’s memories

Photoshop Tips

Custom Gradients Made Easy

When you are making a new color gradient and you want to use the same color more than once, don’t recreate it. Just hold down the Option/Alt key and drag a copy of the slider.

Photoshop Tips

Straight Lines with Brushes

To draw a straight line with any of the brush tools, just click, hold the Shift key, and click again where you want the line to end. Photoshop will draw a straight line between the two points! This trick also works with most tools, including erasers and even the highlight tool in the Extract filter.

Photoshop Tips

Reset Preferences

A lot of Photoshop problems can be fixed by dumping the Preferences file. While launching Photoshop, hold down Alt+Ctrl+Shift on the PC or Cmd+Option+Shift on the Mac. When asked to reset the preferences, choose Yes. But before you do this, save your custom Patterns, actions, styles, brushes, gradients, shapes, and color palettes. These will also [...]

WordPress Plugins

StatPress

For as long as I have been working with WordPress, I have pushed WP-Blog Stats as the visitor statistical plugin of choice.  I was wrong.  There!  I said it – I found a better plugin than the old tried and true.  Blog Stats had an outage with their system that sent me looking and reviewing [...]

Photoshop Tips

Close Multiple Windows

You’ve got a zillion Photoshop windows open, and now you want them all to go away. How long would it take you to close them manually? No need — just hold down the shift key when you go File> Close and Photoshop will close all the open documents.

Photoshop Tips

NUDGING NUMBERS

You can incrementally adjust a highlighted option box value in just about any dialog box by pressing an arrow key. Press the Up or Down Arrow key to raise or lower the value by 1. Press Shift-Up Arrow or Shift-Down Arrow to raise or lower the value by 10.

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Red Carpet

Typically, when a person thinks on death they think of – darkness, dust and worms. The thoughts provoke fear and discomfort. While in Middle Island, New York I saw this tombstone and just knew I had to take the shot.

Discipline’s Domination

Anna walked out of the office barely holding back her tears. She had just been fired again. And it was so unjust! She simply had to paint her nails for her party tonight. What if she didn’t get to the phone quick enough? After all, the company had a great voice mail system. What difference [...]

New York City Mandalas

If you have read my blog on ‘Futures’ then you know that my time spent in New York City trying to capture the feel of that great city in pictures was a bust — besides the picture Futures. So, I was left with a great many pictures that seemed to have no purpose – may [...]

A Diet of Worms

I must have got up on the wrong side of the bed today. My day started bad and went downhill from there. Here are a few of the ‘wrongs’ that I was feeling: • I just knew all my recent decisions were wrong • My hair looked horrible – I just could not get it [...]

Futures

This photograph was taken on the streets of Soho, New York, New York. I tried to take pictures of the city to expand my portfolio but could not seem to pickup the emotion I felt there. The excitement, the stress, the never-stop rush that I always feel when I am there. Unfortunately, when I tried [...]

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