40 Photoshopped Images

Sometimes they can be funny, sometimes thought provoking, other times they just mess with your mind. They’ll always take your breath away though and make you wonder at the skills of the people that created them. Take a Look at them here.

Business Card Ideas

In the digital age of the world wide web, email and multimedia, one would think that the basic old school business card might fall to the way side. The business card is still being used and is very important. Here are some great business card design ideas that show you don't have to have a traditional card to hand out your contact information. Check them out here, Cool business card designs and Creative business card designs.

These were both sent to me by one of my students, Jeremy Sabacek a talented artist. (who by the way is available for hire!)

Dingbats Roundup

OK I am not asking you to gather up some of the programmers at Microsoft, or invite any of the I players from the Dallas Cowboys to join you in a meeting of the minds. I am talking about typeface dingbats.

This is something fun, not too many people think about using Dingbats but they can be very useful!

16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Graphic SIG!

Yes it is true the Graphic SIG is back. After a long break in the action I am going to try to start up the Graphic SIG's again. I will start out the SIG with Adobe Photoshop CS3. Come see what CS3 has to offer and what new features are in this upgrade.

Tuesday March 18th, 2008
6:30 p.m. at Security Mutual's Training room 2nd floor
100 Court Street Binghamton NY

Any one is welcome to join us . I hope to see you there.

New Adobe Tutorials

Learn how to use and integrate Adobe products with step-by-step tutorials on new features, key workflows, and advanced techniques. Use the navigation below to visit product design centers, where you can find and search for tutorials.

Hatch Show Print Gallery

Poster Design for some of the biggest names in the music industry. There is some great typography in these. See them here.

225 Illustrator Tutorials

Many Illustrator tutorials covering everything from the basics to advanced, many have sample files and/or short videos. From the ordinary to the extraordinary, easy to understand too.
Here is the link.

Top 10 Design Questions: Student Edition

I get a lot of questions from some of my students about the field or design in general. I found this link the other day and I thought that it would be great to share. As a designer, I found some of these questions very interesting. Here is the Link.

Happy Birthday Photoshop!

Photoshop 1.0 shipped on February 19, 1990 (and Lightroom shipped on the same day of February 2007). If you want to see more on the history of the time line of Photoshop and other great stories from Thomas Knoll and some of the other digital greats that had a hand in on creating some of the world most used and loved software, take a look here.

Wow, I was working for Electro-Ad Sign Systems at the time and was still using press type and a scale ruler. My Wife (engaged at the time) had a Mac SE30. We had Aldus PageMaker 1.0 on it, and Mac Paint and Mac Draw. It wasn't until I had started at Security Mutual when I finally got them to purchase Adobe Photoshop version 2.5. I remember driving to Florida that Christmas and bringing the manual to read down and back. Layers were not part of the program until version 3.0, so creating images in 2.5 was real fun.

I remember going to a Graphic SIG with Eric Hards, and seeing Photoshop 3.0 with layers for the first time. As soon as the people in the room saw how you put things on there own layers, (after the huge gasp) you could of heard a pin drop! Every one had to pick there jaws up off the floor.

Inspiration from Vintage Ads

I love old vintage ads, they are a time when text and basic images were all you had to work with. There is some thing about them that you can learn a lot about. Here are a bunch of vintage ads that will give you some inspiration. Take a look.

Valentines Tutorial

I thought that on this Valentines Day I should throw out a tutorial that would be some thing to do with Valentines Day. Heres how to make a Winged Love Tattoo.

Great Photo Blog

Jeff Revell has a very nice photo blog, show casing his work and has a few very nice tutorials. He has a great eye and also has some very nice resources. Check it out here.

Rocker goes Photographer

Who remembers rocker Brian Adams? Well it turns out that he is a decent photographer. Check out his work here.

The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos

You’ve seen these tech logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered how they came to be? Did you know that Apple’s original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree? Or that Nokia’s original logo was a fish?

Let’s take a look at the origin of tech companies’ logos and how they evolved over time:

Adobe Acrobat

One software package that I think is not talked about is Adobe Acrobat. A lot of people know about it, use and think about it, but don't know all that it can do. I have a good friend Tim Plumer at Adobe Systems Inc. and he just sent me a few link to share with all of you. He has his own blog that he tries to update as much as he can, and you can visit his blog here

Check out some of his tutorials
Created using Acrobat Connect Professional.
How to create a PDF Quiz
How to create a Save As button in Acrobat
How to create a Calculating form

AcroCast Series for Educators

Also here is a blog from Steve Adler from Adobe, he has a bunch of very nice tutorials on Acrobat that I have found helpful. Here is a link to his site

2008 Digital Wizard Contest

Do you work magic with image-editing software? Think you can spin photographic dross into pure gold using Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Picture It!, or other programs? Here's your chance to put your creativity to the test with Pop Photo's 2008 Digital Wizard Contest. You could win the $1,000 grand prize and have your work published in the magazine -- and there are cash prizes for runners-up, too! But hurry up -- the contest ends March 31!

To learn more and get the images to enter, go to PopPhoto.com

Photoshop User Awards Winners

The Winners in 12 different categories are posted from this years Photoshop Users Awards. There is always some great work here and this year is no exception.

Phantom High-Speed Imaging 1 Million Images Per Second

Time is valuable. Successful organizations learn to make the most effective use of time.

Consider a device with the ability to literally make every second count. A device that can divide just one second into thousands of visible sections for critical study and inspection of the normally unseen. This same device also has the power to save days, weeks, and possibly months of time in almost any rapidly paced activity that involves movement.

You have to check this out. They have video on their site showing what this device can do.

Mondrianum is a Powerful Plug-in That Works With Adobe Kuler

Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum is a powerful plug-in that enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork™ and iLife® suites, Google Sketchup™, Adobe® Photoshop®, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more, all work well with Mondrianum.

You can download this plug-in and use it. My good friend and colleague Paul Marinaro from One on One Design sent me this link.