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Question by kayatii: Should I buy the total training tutorial for Adobe Photoshop CS4 or just a visual quick start manual?
I’m in an internet design class. We have to use photoshop a lot.
My knowledge of photoshop isn’t very advanced. I’d like it to be.
The teacher recommended a visual quickstart book. I think I’d be able to learn better from a DVD that trains the artist with on-screen lessons and exercises. The down side to this is that the visual quickstart costs 15 bucks and the training software costs around 250 dollars and I don’t know if it’s even going to be helpful!

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Answer by HandShandee
Best way: Learn from the Photoshop master.
Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy:

http://revision3.com/pixelperfect/

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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Photoshop tutorial. See more at www.photoshopmama.net. Part 3b continuation and final part of tutorial. One method to produce an artistic watercolor effect from a photo. Instruction also incudes tip for “actionizing” this method, in Photoshop

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Just showing off some of the new features included in Photoshop CS5 (+Extended)
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I apologize for the low volume. Title is basically self-explanatory. Have fun and BE CREATIVE!
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www.1stoptutorials.com – Learn how to make a selection by using the quick mask in photoshop cs3. Remember you can paint the selection with black as foreground color and you take away the selection by painting with white as foreground color. Use Q on your keyboard to flick between quick mask mode. Beginners tutorial
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This took me all of twenty minutes of absentmindedness. I was truly just playing around until I got something that I liked. It is sped up about 4x the orginal speed. Tell me what you think. This uses a picture of Christina Milian. If you have any questions leave comments or if you want to know how to do anything let me know. I’ll try my best to get it done. Enough with my ramblings…enjoy. **This is not intended for tutorial purposes. If a tutorial is desired one can be done in real time with instructions**
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by MACSD

3 Quick Logo Design Tips

You named your company. Now it is time to create a logo. Rather than approach the creation of your logo as a graphic arts project, take a pure business approach. We would all like our logo to tell everyone what we do and why we do it as well as why we are the best at what we do, but the reality is, our logo will only do one thing—quickly and visually connect the name of our company with someone’s feelings about our company.

I get excited when I see the Apple logo. What does an apple have to do with computers? I feel my adrenaline increase when I see the Nike logo. What does the famous swish have to do with athletics? Does anyone care? What matters is I make a quick, emotional connection to a company or products when I see the logo. On the other hand, I get a pit in my gut when I see a certain insurance company’s logo. It’s all about connecting emotion with the company or product. And, doing it quickly.

Here are my rules for logo design. As in all of my “rules”, learn them, understand them, and then break them with your eyes wide open.

Keep your logo to one or two colors including black.
Keep your logo simple in design.
Don’t try to tell your company story with your logo, instead focus on one simple thing.

Here are a few examples of logos from my life and my critique of them:

Simple and very descriptive. QMS was originally known as Quality Micro Systems. As the company moved to laser and color printer products they shortened their name. The downside of the name (not the logo) is when they were listed on the stock market they had to change their initials. Companies that were flagged for any reason have a “Q” inserted at the beginning of their initials. Other positive aspects of this logo include the ability to print or display on any medium without any loss of visual appeal and the ability to add color. It also tells a bit about the company with the piece of paper folding up.

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Adobe (PostScript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc.) originally used this logo. I heard a rumor this was designed by John Warnock’s mother. John was one of the two founders of Adobe Systems.

Although its use of color and design was simple, it tried to do too much by conveying the entire name of the company. You could argue that it is quickly recognized but the complexity of each letter causes your eye to spend too much time sorting through the logo, delaying the emotional attachments to the brand.

Adobe spent a significant amount of money to have their new logo designed. The logo is one of the best in my experience. The bold red color grabs your eyes and can easily be changed to black for applications when color can’t be used. The letter “A” in the logo allows the use of the logo without the word “Adobe” attached and the reader still has immediate recognition. The red also draws out a powerful emotional reaction with a power statement. The logo can easily be adapted to newer styles and various applications. It can even be rendered in 3-D.

Here are a few examples of other applications of this logo. I might mention that once you choose a color for your logo, be uncompromising in change. I apologize that two of the three logos displayed below are using different shades of the Adobe red. This detracts from the power of a consistent logo and caused the viewer to question if this is the same Adobe. Coca Cola went so far as to trademark their color of red in logo usage!

Also, one of my favorites, the Efficient Networks logo can be used with or without the company name. It is quickly recognized. We had some fun with this logo displaying it in 3-D and spinning it. We also put a globe behind it and spun the globe. It works on black and white applications such as embossing into plastics products.

Other applications of this logo included putting a clear bubble on top of it to give it a 3-D look when applied as a sticker onto products. The color creates a warm feeling while the angle and opening pointing slightly up generates energy. The logo also implies a smile, again playing on the emotions of the viewer.

When asking for a logo design, resist the temptation to over design your logo. Keep it simple. Remember your fancy, multi-color, detailed logo telling the life story of your company full of blends and design details might look awesome on your computer screen, but when you try creating a version that would look great on your building or on a black and white fax it just won’t work. A great logo design can be applied to just about any surface and still look great. Above I gave a “good” example with QMS and two “great” examples with Adobe and Efficient Networks.

If you need more great examples of great logo design look no further than the social media logos from LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Skype is another great example. When designing logos, remember KISS — keep it simple stupid!

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by FlickrDelusions

Clip in Hair Extensions: Quick Transformation

Hair extensions have become a universal phenomenon. If you look at any celebrity on TV, or in the movies, or magazines, or even the music videos, they are constantly styling their hair differently. Thanks to clip on hair extensions they are able to achieve this instantaneous transformation. Clip on hair extensions can give an absolute fabulous make over in a matter of a few minutes. Afro Care is famous in UK for their clip on hair extensions and is the right place to buy one.

The advantages of using clip in hair extensions are numerous. These hair extensions are very convenient as you can fix them in a flash and also remove them in no time. The best part is that you don’t need to visit any expensive stylist, as they can be fitted at home in a few minutes, hence they cost a lot less than permanent extensions. Since you are not going to wear them permanently, like sleep in them, they will certainly last longer.

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The most important fact is that using these extensions will not damage your hair as they just use micro-clips that can be easily fastened and removed. No treatment is needed to attach these clips so your natural hair is safe. So the best way to experiment with hair extensions is to try clip on hair extensions as they give you a lot of flexibility in terms of style, length, and colour.

The next time you want a bouncy curl or lengthen you short hair, you can pick a clip on hair extension to get any style you want. In the beginning attaching the clips could take a few extra minutes, but as you get familiar with the way it works you change your hair style in a jiffy. To maintain these you can do the same that you do to keep your natural hair clean and in good health.

Afro Care has a wide range of clip in hair extensions. They have different colours, styles, lengths, and prices. They experts say, in a few minutes you can transform your hairstyle into long hair, or get bangs, or may be a fringe if you fancy one. They also have full head sets that are clip on hair extensions that can be used extensively to give your hair an overall thick and lustrous look. They have single 6-clip pieces or 2-piece and 3-piece packs with unique ‘temple hair enhancements for framing the face.’ They also sell fringes and bangs in off the wall colours like purple and pink. So in case you feel like looking whacky for a party, you can go ahead and buy one of these from Afro Care.

Afro Care has famous brands like Sleek, Top Model, I &K, 1st Lady which are extremely popular for clip on hair extensions.

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Los Angeles Film Festival- A Quick Review

If visiting a film festival is on your wish list – the place should undoubtedly be the Los Angeles Film Festival.  Touted as the most happening film festivals amongst the others in the circuit, the LA Film Festival is here again to make you drool over it!

This year the film festival begins from June 17th to 27th of the same month. Passes will be on sale from 1st of June, 2010. You can also find the passes at the Official Website of the festival. It is a one-of-its kind film festival in the world where the best films belonging to each genre are screened. Moreover, you will find only that kind of film buffs here that you always wanted.

Films shown are segregated into the following:

Premiers

Classics

Musicals

Spanish movies under the heading “En Espanol”

Ford Screenings

Summer Screenings

Documentary

Narrative

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Foreign

Short Films

The world has never seen such a celebrated extravaganza of films. Each year from the past 16 years, the festival has created a record of sorts. This year it is not too different and 200 movies are being screened at the famed film festival. The film festival is special because it promotes originality and promotes new directors who have it in them to make to the very best of the film world. To celebrate the art that is film-making, the LA film festival 2010, brings to you the critically acclaimed Pat Tillman documentary – The Tillman Story.

Year after year this film festival has been the testimonial to smash world-wide hits delivered by the film fraternity. For example, it was here that the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” was premiered which went on to become a super-hit world-wide.

The very famed and names of the most acclaimed directors of the world will surely make you understand the kind of response and cheers the festival is met with. This is perhaps the only film festival in the world where the height of anticipation exceeds the film-makers enthusiasm! No wonder that this place is considered as the Mecca of launching new and bold directors and filmmakers.

You can log on to the official site to have a glimpse of what the film festival has in store for you. The magnum opus would surely be the film made by the 10 independent filmmakers of Mexico – together!

Needless, to say, this year it has all the fanfare to already be a history in the making. The participation has seen a record turnout and if the marketing gurus are to be believed, the ticket sales would fly through the roof on the opening day.

If you’re looking for a welcome change from the films that bore you and overly criticized, this is the place to be.

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Quick and Easy Basic Manipulations Steps in Photoshop CS3 Effects

One image can yield a wide array of manipulations in Photoshop CS3. Using only filters already built in to the program, users can render the same file into different images for a variety of applications. This tutorial highlights some basic effects which can be achieved in just a few steps.

Open Photoshop CS3; and then open any image which you own, have permission to use, or is in the public domain. Save a copy of the image and then close the original to use again. You may choose to save multiple copies to avoid numerous undo steps.

Textures applied to the whole image can render different appearances. To make an image appear to be under mottled glass, click on Filter, scroll down to Distort, and then click on Glass. In this menu choose Canvas, leave the Scaling at 100%, and then adjust the Distortion and Smoothness to your liking. Give the image a cross-stitch look by clicking on Filter, scrolling down to Texture, and then clicking on Patchwork. A Square Size and Relief of 5 seem to work well for many images.

Change a photo into a painting or drawing by applying basic filters. To convert to a painting, click on Filter, scroll down to Brush Strokes, and then click on Angled Strokes. Make adjustments to the Direction Balance, Stroke Length, and Sharpness until you are satisfied with the preview. Render a quick cartoon drawing by first making a duplicate layer of your image. Click on Layers, and then click on Duplicate Layer. With the Background Copy layer active, click on Filter, scroll down to Artistic, and then click on Poster Edges. The default settings should be sufficient, though you can make adjustments as you choose. Click OK to exit the Poster Edges menu. Go back to Filter, down to Artistic, and click on Cutout. In this menu, Number of Levels and Edge Simplicity set at 4, with Edge Fidelity set at 2 appear to give a great effect.

Converting an image to grayscale in Photoshop used to mean simply using the Desaturate option. Photoshop CS3 has introduced the Black and White adjustment, allowing for more control. Click on Image, scroll to Adjustments, and then click on Black & White. Explore the Presets and move the sliders around to get a feel for the customization available. Place a check in the Tint box to give the image a sepia or monotone appearance.

Basic manipulations can be quick and easy in Photoshop CS3. A few simple steps allow users to alter images for graphic and web design, scrapbooking, or any other application. Apply one effect or several for a variety of results.

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A Photoshop CS3 tutorial that shows 3 methods for creating a vignette.
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