Photoshop CS4 Tips

I just learned 2 new Photoshop CS4 tips that just made me smile. As many of you know, I am a short cut, keyboard junkie! If there is a way to make my life faster and or easier while using Photoshop, I am up for it.

One of my favorite short cuts is the the left and right bracet keys when you want to increase or decrease the size of a brush tool. Well in PS CS4 if you hold down the Control + Option keys and then click and hold the mouse down while draging the mouse to the left or right to change the size of your brush. This is great!

Also another way to Zoom in and out in PS CS4. If you click and hold while using the Zoom tool you will zoom continuous until you get to the zoom you want, then let go to stop.

Try these tips today.

Spec work in the real world

Every graphic designer, especially freelancers should see this. This is perfect, I don't know how many time we run into some thing like this. Enjoy!

CreativeTechs offers free InDesign, Illustrator & Flash courses

CreativeTechs are offering free 10-week training courses on Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Flash.

You can view the schedule and sign up here. The courses are extremely popular, so if you're interested, you should sign-up now. I've managed to catch a few of them in the past and found them quite informative!

2009 Logo Trends

Logo Lounge has posted its 2009 logo trends that are a great insight to what is in Color wise, shapes, dots and lines, text and much more. There is some great inspiration here, very much worth the look.

See them here

Acrobat.com

Adobe has created a site that you can go to and create PDF's sending and sharing files, and it is all free. Terry White has a post on his Tech Blog that explains the whole site and how it works. It is really nice and if you already have an Adobe sign in, you are already more than half way there. Try it today.

More on The Photo Walk

I just wanted to give you all a link to the Binghamton Photo Walk on Flickr. You will be able to see from the pictures a little about what was shot that day. Visit this link

It’s Official: Announcing My 2nd Annual Worldwide PhotoWalk!

As of yesterday it’s official, as we announce the date for Scott Kelby’s 2nd Annual Worldwide PhotoWalk™ to celebrate the upcoming release of “The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3,” and you’re invited to be a part of this global, social photography event.

Go to Scott's site to find out all the details.

We did one here in Binghamton last year and we had a BLAST! I unfortunately will not be able to attend this years walk, but I am sure some one will step up to the plate and lead the walk. If you have not done a photo walk this is a great time and you will learn form others.