What is New in Adobe Bridge

I found this nice video tutorial by Julieanne Kost on Adobe Bridge and what it can do to help you. I run into a lot of people who didn't even know that they have it. They don't know what it does. Bridge is one of those programs that is growing up in front of our eyes. This version of CS4 s going to be the best yet.

See Julieanne's video right here.

You suck at Photoshop!

The 17th installment of Donny and You Suck at Photoshop have been posted. This stuff is on the bizarre side but very funny. They do show how do do things in Photoshop and make it easy. Check this episode out here.

Adobe Announcement Tuesday!

Today Adobe is making the announcement of what is to come in the Creative Suite CS4. You can sign up if you have not already to see the web cast. The announcement takes place today at 9 am EST, if you missed it, make sure to come back and I will try to keep you up todate.

The great people over at NAPP have set up a CS4 learning center for free. Make sure to see what the Photoshop Guys think are some of the best new features in Photoshop CS4.

Video Clip: Sending HTML Emails

This short 7-minute segment comes from CreativeTechs' Marketing with HTML Email Newsletters webinar on August 20, 2008. This webinar covered the practical how-to's for developing an effective, ongoing marketing strategy with HTML Email Newsletters. Take a look at it here!

Soccer Season

Yes there is a chill in the air, there is frost on the pumpkin. This can only mean one thing? Yes it is soccer season, and what does this have to do with Graphics you might ask? There is a site that has some real nice wallpaper art.

If you are not just a soccer fan, and would love to get your hands on some of your favorite teams logos Chris's Sports is a site full of almost every sports logo going. IF any thing it is a lot of fun to see.

30 Brilliant Vector Logo Designs, Deconstructed

A kick-butt logo design is of great importance to any business. Often seen as the first impression of a company, its logo must be tailored to communicate specific values and ideals in an instant.

However, logos not only have the look good, they should also be thoughtfully designed and capable of taking on a variety of uses. This could include being scaled to a range of sizes, being reproduced in flat color and being printable on paper stock. In this post we look at 30 contemporary examples of great vector logo design and find out what makes them work.

Check them out here.

20 Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers

Color plays a huge part in your designs, well these ads take the use of color to a whole new level. See how these designers take advantage of the spectrum vibrancy available to on their palettes. These are some fun and eye catching creations that a fun to look at.

Reduce Noise in Photoshop CS3

I get asked this question a lot, how do I get rid of noise in my images? Digital cameras are common place these days, but people think that they will get perfect pictures every time. We didn't get perfect pictures every time with film.

In this tutorial, Mike Rodriguez uses Photoshop's reduce noise filter to clean up one of his photographs. Visit Layers.com to see how Mike takes care of this problem.

Guru Awards Winners

If you are a member of NAPP the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and you attend Photoshop World you can enter the Guru Awards. There are several different categories to enter and then they pick a winner from those entries.

There were some great winners in this competition and you can see them here.

30 Beautiful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Every one has a Photoshop tutorial, but not ever one has a Text tutorial for photoshop. Here are some very nice ideas for creating some different text effects that you can do in Photoshop. Take a look and try them out. As you know I love typography and love photoshop, so what is not to like?

Take a look here

Vector Landscapes

I have students that tell me all the time I can do every thing in Photoshop, I don't need Illustrator. I tell them learn Illustrator you will see how important it is, and how well the two work together. I will get students that come back to me and tell me that, wow Illustrator is Great! I am glad I learned it and now use it.

Take a look at some of these illustrations and see some of the work that can be done with a vector art program.

Photoshop Keynote

For those of you that might have seen that Photoshop World was last week in LosVegas and could not make it. Terry White from Adobe posted the Keynote speech from Johnny L Adobe's SVP and John Nack. They show some of the new features of Photoshop CS4.

20 Comic Book Style Photoshop Effects

Comic books and graphic novels combine two things every designer aspires to meld: real meaning and pure, unadulterated eye candy. Here we introduce 20 of the best ever tuts on using Photoshop to create stunning comic-book style art.

Take a look here.

Adobe is at it Again!

Mark your calendars today, Adobe has announced that they are going to announce the Adobe Creative Suite CS4. Yes you read that right, CS4. Why are they announcing the announcement? That is because they are doing a web cast to show some of the newest features of the programs. If you are lucky enough to attend Photoshop World this week in LasVagas you will get to see a keynote presentation from Adobe, and they are going to show some of the new features of Photoshop CS4.

If you would like to register to see the web cast visit this link.

Negative Space Exhibition Contest

Theme: It is not always the subject, but the Negative Space around the subject that truly makes a photogragraph truly stunning. This exhibition will highlight the artistic compositional element that makes up the space not commonly seen.

Eligibility: The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur, photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Visit their site to see how you can enter.

World wide photowalk Group Photos

Yesterday on Scott Kelby's Blog he had some group photos from the photowalk up. Well the Binghamton group was second on the list. I am hiding behind my good buddy Clare. Take a look over at Scott's Blog.

Vector Freebie: Fingerprints

The nice people over at Go Media are giving away free vector art again. Pick up your free Finger prints in vector format right here.

PDF Tutorial for Graphic files

Use a PDF to do more than just share a document. Share images and Graphics. PDF's are much more than a small web file that you can send to any one with Acrobat Reader. See what Taz Tally teaches you over at Layers.