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Tips & Tricks
Down and Dirty Tricks for Photoshop CS5 Seminar
Sep 19th
Having recently upgraded to the CS5 suite of Adobe products, I decided to attend the Kelby training for Down & Dirty Tricks for Adobe Photoshop CS5. It was an “All Day” seminar with classes beginning at 10 am and ending at 5pm. The seminar was conducted Corey Barker a instructor part of the NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals).
They covered designing and working with photos in Photoshop including layers and compositing effects, designing with type, and several sessions on tips and tricks with Photoshop CS5. They showed the tricks on how movie poster effects and magazine ads are made with using your photos and Photoshop.
For $100 for Non NAPP members, it was a great deal. I learned quite a bit and further honed my Photoshop skills. I also decided to join NAPP. With membership, you get discounts to places like B&H photo, Apple and others as well as free access to training, technical support for Photoshop and a great Photoshop magazine that has 8 issues a year. By signing up at the conference, I also got free DVD tutorials and book valued much more that the price of the two -year membership.
If you are interested in learning more about how to use Photoshop, I highly recommend taking one of these seminars. You can find more about them at www.kelbytraininglive.com.
MonoPrice.com – A great place to buy cables
Aug 29th
As an owner of a Canon 7D, you will most likely need to buy additional cables for your setup. What you will find is that there is a huge difference in price for cables. Especially the mini HDMI cable. Originally, I looked at local dealers for cables with no luck. The cabled where the wrong length, wrong color and way expensive.
A quick look online and I discovered www.monoprice.com. For about ten bucks, including shipping I got exactly what I wanted. In fact, the price was so right that I also got a short 1/8″ mini cable.
If you are looking for good cables at great prices, www.monoprice.com is a recommended first stop.
How to embed Flickr Slide Shows Easily
May 24th
Sharing pictures on your website can be a pain. Fortunately, there is a free tool called flickrSLiDR. This tool makes embedding a slideshow a snap. Beware that this is a flash generated slide show and will not work on a iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.
The directions are very simple. All you need is the URL of the set, groups or user. Then set the width and height in pixels. There are some other option choices then click “Create Slideshow”.
The flickrSLiDR will generate code for you to copy and paste into your website or blog. When posting to a blog, make sure that you insert the code in an html format. Here is a link to the tool. http://flickrslidr.com/