My biggest Christmas present this year was the arrival of my son to New York. My son, Jonathan, is a search and rescue medic in the United States Navy and for the past 8 months he has been stationed in Kuwait.
To simply say that I am proud of him would be a major understatement — but I also have been very worried.
I picked him up from the airport right before Christmas and enjoyed a quick two week vacation with him. Read the rest of this entry »
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.
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.
Although PhotoShop’s Image Size and Canvas Size dialog boxes are fairly straightforward, there is a hidden feature of which you may not be aware. While the Image Size or Canvas Size dialog boxes are open, you can match the image or canvas size and resolution of another open image. To do so, select the image [...]
The role of websites in today’s businesses is growing with each day: more and more customers search for information about products by browsing the Web, more and more companies create special departments to promote and sell their services in the Internet. By making regular website backups you can always feel [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Long Island Museum and King Kullen teamed up for a Family Fun Day to celebrate the fall and Halloween on October 26th, 2008. The Long Island Museum staff worked hard to setup a safe fun place for families to gather and enjoy the day. And the weather could not have been better! Sunny - [...]
The October 24th issue of the Long Island Newsday recently wrote an article about the Midnight Oils Exhibition in which I had a piece of my work. During the reception, several of the artists were interviewed — including myself. I anxiously awaited for the article to run hoping that I might have received a small [...]
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It is never easy to keep reaching for dreams. Strength and courage can sometimes be lonely friends. but those who reach, walk in stardust.
